Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Zoroastrianism) Celebrates the creation of plants, the sowing of the winter crop, and the return of herds from pasture.

Building: Aidekman Arts Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Alumnae Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room 106 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities,Research,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: Paul Robbins RSVP Information: No RSVP required Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Alex Blanchette Event Contact Email: alex.blanchette@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 203-763-9353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/university-ecologies-event-lawn-people-retrospective-paul-robbins-1016 The University Ecologies team invites the Tufts community to a special talk on Thursday, October 16 with Paul Robbins, dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paul Robbins’ 2007 book, Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Human, opened up new ways of thinking about the American lawn. Almost 20 years later, the book is still widely read as an entryway into the politics of everyday environments. As the first event of the 2025–2026 University Ecologies series at Tufts University, please join us as we revisit the book and trouble our attachments to mundane monocultures. If you require assistance in order to attend, please contact alex.blanchette@tufts.edu. Sponsored by the departments and programs of anthropology; biology; English; environmental studies; race, colonialism, and diaspora; sociology; science and technology studies; urban and environmental policy and planning; and the Office of Sustainability.

Campus: Off-campus Location Details: K&L Gates DC Office Conference Room 1A 1601 K St NW Washington, DC 20006 Open to Public: Yes Link: https://emailcc.com/rv/ff00f5021f4ed2f9c734bd078f45ba5379c5e7ae Please join us for a panel discussion featuring Bhaskar Chakravorti and Chris Miller from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and members of K&L Gates Policy & Regulatory practice examining the evolving intersection of U.S. trade policy, legal developments, and emerging technologies, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. This program will bring together experienced practitioners and policy experts to provide insights into how current U.S. legal and regulatory trends are shaping trade and investment in technology sectors, and what these developments may mean for foreign governments and multinational companies. Topics will include: U.S. trade priorities and their implications for technology and AI Regulatory and legal frameworks affecting AI innovation and cross-border collaboration Policy considerations for foreign governments engaging with U.S. technology markets Speakers: Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, Executive Director, Institute for Business in the Global Context, The Fletcher School at Tufts University and former Partner at McKinsey & Company. Steven Hill, Partner, K&L Gates LLP Chris Miller, Professor of International History, The Fletcher School at Tufts University and author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology. 

Building: Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Sciences City: Boston, MA 02111 Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus Location Details: Behrakis Auditorium (first floor) Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Sponsor Details: Tufts University School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience RSVP Information: Registration is free but required. Please RSVP via the Eventbrite website by October 9. Event Contact Name: Shelley Scheier Event Contact Email: shelley.antonio@tufts.edu Link: https://tuftsneurosciencesymposium2025.eventbrite.com The day-long Tufts Neuroscience Symposium features diverse speakers from around the country, and consistently brings together many from neuroscience disciplines in the Boston area for a day of educational talks and discussions. It is concluded by a lecture that honors William Shucart, former professor and chair of neurosurgery at Tufts School of Medicine. This year's symposium will center around the theme: "Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Processing: From Synapses to Circuits."

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 Subject: Global Engagement Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jj27sWB2QI6uwFK8lPwAcA Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#oct16 It’s clear that the climate crisis is dire, dramatic changes inevitable and already underway, and action inadequate despite decades of increasingly urgent warnings by climate scientists. Culture plays a critical role in shaping how we receive and respond to information, guiding action on the micro and macro scales. How can stories help us to navigate this changing planet? In this talk, Emily will explore the possibilities that interdisciplinary nonfiction storytelling can offer when just the facts fall short. How can braiding journalism, science, history, memory, and imagination create space for discovering or remembering other ways of being and acting in relationship to the earth? She will draw on her own writing on environmental contamination from nuclear weapons production and emerging work on responses to climate change, as well as examples from other boundary-crossing nonfiction writers.

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Alumnae Lounge (40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA 02155) Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Interns and Residents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7-uuxWvYu3f0KTlIkzTMGX_-JaMfeYrfKid4XGiID1-oNnA/viewform?usp=dialog Link: https://diversity.tufts.edu/elevator-program/ Calling all Tufts community members! Students, staff, and faculty are invited to join us for the ELEVATORs Opening Reception on October 16 from 1–2:30 p.m. in Alumnae Lounge. ELEVATORs (part of the ELEVATE initiative) is a learning community that focuses on daily practices to create a culture of inclusion. Participants can earn a micro-credential badge from Tufts, Inclusion Skills for Institutional Change, following completion of at least eight sessions throughout the year. Otherwise, come for one, or stay for all!

Building: Aidekman Arts Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Sponsor: Tufts University Art Galleries Speaker Name: Jennifer Minniti, Michelle Finamore, and Beverly Semmes, moderated by Lynne Cooney RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-fashion-forward-tickets-1461675925039?aff=oddtdtcreator Link: https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/events/229-panel-fashion-forward Since the early 1990s, Beverly Semmes has created installations and sculptures of enormous dresses—some reaching over three-stories high, others taking over entire gallery spaces.  Since those early days, her relationship with fashion has grown and deepened—from sculptures and installations to an ongoing collaboration with fashion designer Jennifer Minniti—CarWash Collective—that creates wearable garments cut and patterned with Semmes’s images.  Join us for an open conversation with Semmes, Jennifer Minniti, and fashion curator Michelle Finamore, moderated by Lynne Cooney about the intersection of fashion and art. 

Building: Barnum Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Tufts University Barnum Hall, LL08 163 Packard Ave Medford Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Interns and Residents,Parents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Film Screening Event Subject: Arts,Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Film and Media Studies program Event Sponsor Details: FMS 10th Anniversary Celebration Event Speaker Name: Khary Jones and Kyle Petty RSVP Information: RSVP not required Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Gina O'Connor Event Contact Email: gina.o_connor@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 6176273574 Featuring two faculty films and a post-screening Q+A with Khary Jones and Kyle Petty about the filmmaking process and their film festival experiences. About the films Night Fight  a new feature-length documentary Directed by Khary Saeed Jones It's been seven years since I was followed by a racist vigilante down back roads in rural Canada. During that time, I have sought to document — at first, unwittingly — the emergence of the versions of myself that were born on that day and in the weeks, months, and years afterward. As I return to Canada to find answers, I begin to question whether it is only me who has returned, and if "we" only want answers or something else? NIGHT FIGHT is a hybrid documentary—nonfiction wrapped in fiction—which charts my attempt to find answers to those questions and, ultimately, how to communicate these experiences and their meaning to my children. Night Fight details and trailer monolithic tenderness HD Video, 16mm to digital, ultrasound photographs - 07:18 - 4:3 - Stereo - United States - 2024 Directed by Kyle Petty A tessellating flicker film that seeks to undo the cold, impersonal architecture of the city by dousing it in organic and domestic forms. Featuring a collaged soundtrack of spam phone calls, pulsing synth chords, bagpipe drones, and a lullaby sung to my daughter while in-utero. Kyle Petty website and film details