Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Center Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Health/Wellness,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: Tisch College of Civic Life RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solomont-speaker-series-alexis-nikole-nelson-tickets-1708507374549?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl Admission/Cost: Free Register (In-Person Only) Meet chef, foraging TikTok star and outdoor educator Alexis Nikole Nelson, better known as the "Black Forager" on social media! With over 5 million followers joining her viral adventures of foraging and cooking, Nelson reframes the worlds of food, botany and nature, helping people make environmentally sustainable food choices while also celebrating the outdoors and changing fraught relationships with food. Nelson's videos shine a light on the historical and cultural roots of foraging in African American and Indigenous food traditions that have traditionally been repressed. Nelson's work has been featured in places like the New York Times, Bon Appetit, NPR, the Kelly Clarkson Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and she hosted a 15-episode series on botany for YouTube's educational channel, Crash Course. Nelson received the James Beard Award for “Best Social Media” in 2022, and she was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, 2025 TIME100 Creators and as a TikTok Tastemaker. Registration required. All are welcome. This event is cosponsored by the Tufts Pollinator Initiative.   

Building: Agnes Varis Campus Center City: North Grafton, MA 01536 Room: Agnes Varis CC - Agnes Varis Auditorium (AVA) - Room 107L Campus: Grafton campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Interns and Residents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy, Office of Continuing Education, Tufts Elephant Conservation Alliance, and Office of Continuing Education Programs at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Speaker Name: Stacy LeBaron, founder and host of the "Community Cats" podcast RSVP Information: For joining remotely or in person: https://forms.gle/6wcTuNecoHX6gzro9 Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Center for Animals and Public Policy Event Contact Email: capp@tufts.edu Link: https://forms.gle/6wcTuNecoHX6gzro9 This seminar is part of the Animal Matters Seminar Series presented by Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy and Office of Continuing Education Programs. Joining in person? After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with parking pass and location details. Joining remotely? After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Register here to join remotely or in person. In this casual session, Stacy LeBaron will walk the audience through the journey of a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) project conducted in July of 2024 at a dairy farm in Waitsfield, VT. Learn how to turn your passion for cats into action with mass trapping. LeBaron has been involved in animal welfare for over 30 years and considers herself a feline entrepreneur. She currently hosts a weekly podcast called the Community Cats podcast where she interviews nationally and internationally renowned experts helping with the problem of cat overpopulation and cat welfare. She has recorded over 600 episodes. In addition to the podcast, Stacy is committed to the model of virtual education by holding over 30 educational online events a year. She is currently a co-owner of the Community Cat Clinic in Duluth, GA and Woodstock, GA. She also serves on the board of the United Spay Alliance, Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society, PAWSitive Pantry, and the Vermont Humane Federation. Members of the public are invited to attend this seminar at no charge. The event is made possible by the generous support of the Elizabeth A. Lawrence Endowed Fund. The event is good for one non-medical interactive CEU in all states that recognize AVMA-approved continuing education providers. A registration QR code will be posted for in-person attendance.

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EDXfAMyATsOvhnBhYKP6tw Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#oct30 This lecture examines the paradoxes of care and control in campus landscapes. Mark Bomford traces the tension between the ordered care of campus master planning and the improvisational care of grassroots agroecological experiment, showing how each constrained the futures that could be imagined. Using metaphors from Anna Karenina to Claude Shannon’s concept of informational entropy, he argues that sustainability emerges not from perfection but from surprise, multiplicity, and relational responsiveness. Case studies from the University of British Columbia and Yale demonstrate that when shared labor, student-centered pedagogy, and ecological complexity are foregrounded over metrics-driven control and efficiency, campuses can serve as laboratories for more just and adaptive futures. To “lose control” is not to embrace chaos but to resist foreclosure—to vivify the ecological and social futures of the university as open, relational, and delightfully, surprisingly weird.  

Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: First floor conference room Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Public Service/Government,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for the Study of Race and Democracy Speaker Name: Miranda Spieler RSVP Information: No RSVP required Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Amanda Pepper Event Contact Email: amanda.pepper@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 203-763-9353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/faculty-book-talk-dr-miranda-spieler-1030 Join the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), the Center for Public History, and the Department of History on October 30 at noon to hear Miranda Spieler discuss her latest scholarship, Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories. All are welcome. Please contact cph@tufts.edu with questions.

Online Location Details: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2h6V3bWPf2kqr2K Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Cabot 702 Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: The Fletcher School Link: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2h6V3bWPf2kqr2K Join us for an engaging presentation on The African Human Rights System: Institutions, Jurisprudence, and the Future of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, led by Dr. Robert Eno, Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The session opens with an overview of the African human rights system—its origins, normative and institutional frameworks, and the key reasons for developing a distinct, homegrown mechanism for the continent. Participants will gain insight into the system’s unique features and its principal institutions, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. A special focus will be given to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, established in 1998, exploring how individuals and entities can access and litigate before the Court. Dr. Eno will highlight the Court’s most influential jurisprudence, its growing impact on human rights protection and the rule of law in Africa and beyond, and discuss future developments—particularly in light of the African Union’s initiative to expand the Court’s mandate to include criminal jurisdiction. The presentation will conclude with reflections on the Court’s contributions to accountability and access to justice, while acknowledging persistent challenges such as limited state compliance and political resistance. Ultimately, the session underscores the African Court’s essential role in advancing Africa’s capacity to promote and protect human and peoples’ rights through its own regional mechanisms. About the Speaker: Dr. Robert Eno, a national of Cameroon, is an accomplished jurist with over 25 years of experience promoting and protecting human rights in Africa. Since 2011, he has served as Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, following prior roles at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the South African Human Rights Commission. Dr. Eno has also taught law at several universities across Africa and currently serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he holds degrees from the University of Yaoundé II, the University of Zambia, the University of South Africa, and a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: This event will be held in the Austin Room (room 226) in Tisch Library on the main level (second floor) and online (register for link). Open to Public: No Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities Speaker Name: Ben Chrisinger and Sean Smith Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/15219006 The Digital Scholarship Conversations series is a monthly brown bag hosted by Tisch Library. Each conversation will focus on a different topic, helping us share ideas and build community around the intersection of digital technology and our research and teaching. In this session, Ben Chrisinger and Sean Smith will talk about their current project focused on the American Medical Directories (AMDs), periodically published by the American Medical Association from 1906, which present an immense opportunity to illuminate the organizational dynamics of professional medicine in the early 20th century. In addition to physicians’ names and practice locations, these volumes also contain valuable information about individuals’ training histories and medical specializations, demographic characteristics, and membership in state and local societies. Because AMDs were published triennially, they also present an opportunity to link individuals over time, exploring physicians’ movement between regions, as well as how and where training pipelines for the medical workforce developed. No other data source offers such nuanced, individual-level information about the early medical workforce, yet the AMDs remain underexplored archival sources, largely due to the difficulties of extracting large quantities of data from original archival sources. By extracting, formatting, and geolocating data from these sources, this project will put AMD data into the hands of social science researchers, demonstrate its utility by exploring a set of sociological hypotheses, and sustainably archive them for future generations. Additionally, public-facing outputs and activities will bring this project to a broader audience, enabling still further kinds of non-academic inquiries and applications. Ben Chrisinger is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health at Tufts, and PI of the NSF-funded American Medical Directories Project. His research broadly focuses on the relationship between health and place, and uses quantitative and qualitative methodologies. He is on research leave during the 2025–2026 academic year, based out of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. Sean Smith serves as the data services specialist at Rice University's Fondren Library and is the co-PI of the American Medical Directories Project. He earned a Ph.D. in history after a career in software engineering, and his research examines the role of health in constructing race.