Building: Goddard Chapel City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality Event Sponsor: Tufts University RSVP Information: Tufts University Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Fletcher Russia & Eurasia Program 114 Curtis Street, Somerville MA Open to Public: Yes Stanislav Stanskikh: Political Repression in Russia—From Forced Mobilization to the Persecution of Navalny’s Supporters and Jehovah’s Witnesses Stanskikh will frame the conversation around the current state of political repression in Russia and how the country’s system of political control has evolved during the war—from forced mobilization and the criminalization of Navalny’s supporters to the ongoing persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He will examine the tools of repression used by the Russian government to suppress dissent and enforce ideological conformity. In addition, Stanskikh will share his experience as an expert witness in U.S. immigration courts, offering insight into how U.S. adjudicators approach Russian country conditions in asylum proceedings. He will also discuss the current position of the U.S. Department of State on human rights practices in Russia, situating his analysis within the broader international understanding of the country’s political climate. Stanislav Stanskikh is an expert on Russia’s constitutional system, human rights practices, and political repression. Affiliated with Harvard’s Davis Center and the University of North Carolina Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, he has combined his academic work with expert testimony on Russian country conditions in asylum cases before USCIS and U.S. immigration courts. Over the years, his research has focused on the mechanism of political repression in the USSR and contemporary Russia; evolution of Russia’s constitutional system, including its origins, model of justice, separation of powers, and federalism; as well as on the assessment of Russian legislation and practice of its implementation by international organizations, such as the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission and the European Court of Human Rights.

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/99479722728?pwd=BMNfjX7pBmDpHJhMtwHMedte4v7ync.1 Open to Public: No Learn about Tufts in Paris from the program director and Tufts Global Education staff.

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Cabot 702 Open to Public: Yes Link: https://forms.office.com/r/1DA2DnC1rz Today, social scientists increasingly rely on automated tools—like supervised machine learning and, more recently, large language models (LLMs)—to analyze vast amounts of text. For example, these tools can help classify whether a political speech promotes nationalism or detect misinformation in international news. But there is a catch: even when these automated methods are “highly accurate” (e.g., accuracy is more than 90%), the small share of mistakes can distort the final research findings if we treat the machine-generated outputs as error-free. In this talk, Naoki Egami introduces a framework called design-based supervised learning (DSL) that addresses this problem. DSL combines the power of automated annotation with a modest amount of careful human coding by experts. The method uses a doubly robust strategy, ensuring that even when prediction errors are not random, the overall statistical conclusions remain valid. In sum, DSL lets researchers take advantage of cutting-edge tools like LLMs while still producing reliable evidence for policymaking and social science. Egami illustrates the framework with two examples where both the key outcome and the main explanatory variables come from text data. Naoki Egami is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. Egami specializes in political methodology and developing statistical methods for questions in political science and the social sciences. Specifically, he works on causal inference and machine learning methods.

Online Location Details: Tufts University School of Medicine Building: Tufts Center for Medical Education City: Boston, MA 02111 Location Details: 145 Harrison Ave., first floor Boston, MA 02111 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: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium,Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Business,Clinical Care,Engineering/Technology,Health/Wellness,Innovation,Medicine,Research,Science Event Sponsor Details: Tufts CTSI RSVP Information: https://airtable.com/appWk1nJxJp9lKvfc/pagTct0TqzwabynIS/form Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Erin Gibson Event Contact Email: erin.gibson@tuftsmedicine.org Link: https://www.tuftsctsi.org/innovate2impact/ Do you have an idea or solution to a health or healthcare problem? Accelerate your drug, device, biologic, behavioral health intervention, or other innovation to the next level! Innovate2Impact is designed to propel your health-related innovation or idea through the next steps. Join us to showcase your early-stage concept or well-tested design, receive input from innovation experts, industry leaders, and clinical specialists, build collaborations, and explore funding opportunities. This four-part program is open to both emerging and experienced investigators working on health-related innovations. The series kicks off on Tuesday, October 21 with an Innovation Expo. The expo will showcase a variety of health-related innovations grounded in research, and teams developing innovations, investors, and anyone interested in improving health and healthcare are encouraged to attend. Emerging and experienced researchers may also submit abstracts via the registration link to participate in the lightning talks or poster session to gain valuable connections and potential funding opportunities.

Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Meet at the Fung House; 48 Professors Row-- group will move from there 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: Arts,Humanities,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT) Event Sponsor Details: Center for Humanities at Tufts, University Ecologies Speaker Name: Patte Loper RSVP Information: no rsvp needed Admission/Cost: free Event Contact Name: Amanda Gary Pepper Event Contact Email: amanda.pepper@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 2037639353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/university-ecologies-event-observational-drawing-session-campus-ecologies-patte-loper-1021 Join us on Tuesday, October 21 for an event with Patte Loper, in which participants will tour various parts of the Tufts campus and draw our environment. All are welcome. No experience required. The group will be meeting at The Fung House (48 Professors Row) at 1 p.m. and then departing to visit various parts of Medford. All are welcome. No experience necessary. For questions, contact humanities@tufts.edu.