Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus,Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Participate on Zoom or join the Medford watch party location at the 226 Austin Conference Room, Tisch Library, OR the Boston watch party location in Room 773, Tufts School of Dental Medicine, 1 Kneeland Street Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Interns and Residents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Global Engagement,Health/Wellness Event Sponsor Details: Office of the Vice Provost for Education Speaker Name: Este Geraghty RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOaLL_MFimxSZlH-IpmF-KaKaXwQ4-do2Hogh0VOQlvhuVTg/viewform?usp=send_form Event Contact Name: Laurel Fahey Event Contact Email: laurel.fahey@tufts.edu The Public Health Speaker Series welcomes Este Geraghty as the first speaker in the series. This event will take place via Zoom with watch parties in two locations on the Medford/Somerville and Boston campuses, and refreshments are included. Please register to RSVP. Este Geraghty is the chief medical officer at Esri, the makers of ArcGIS software. She is also a former deputy director of the Center for Health Statistics and Informatics with the California Department of Public Health and an associate professor of clinical internal medicine at the University of California at Davis. At Esri since 2014, she leads business and solution development and has helped organizations around the world use location intelligence to meet a range of health challenges, including enhancing strategic planning and optimizing health-care access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Geraghty holds advanced degrees in medicine, medical informatics, and public health and is also a board-certified public health (CPH) professional and a geographic information systems professional (GISP).

Building: Alumnae Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty Event Type: Community Engagement,Training/Workshop Event Sponsor: Office of the Provost Event Sponsor Department / Area: Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaJ99sGslxTAATnluH1Bj403BADIboky-3Az86pL0esXx9Ig/viewform The goal of the monthly Roundtable Discussions for Faculty Researching and/or Teaching Topics Related to Inclusive Excellence, Accessibility, and/or Climate/Environmental Justice Content discussions is to build a supportive community where you are in conversation with fellow colleagues to discuss concerns, share resources, and explore strategies for your work. We seek to build a supportive community and identify actionable next steps to enhance our collective efforts in this area. These monthly discussions are being convened by the Office of the Vice Provosts for Institutional Inclusive Excellence, Faculty, Education, and Research, and the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching.

Online Location Details: Zoom Webinar Open to Public: Yes Link: https://www.fletcherexeced.com/event-details/webinar-spheres-of-power-competition-for-influence Today’s great power competition unfolds across three interconnected domains—politics, economics, and technology—and that prevailing across all three is essential to securing and sustaining global leadership. While geography once anchored the boundaries of influence, the 21st century’s contest is no longer tethered to territory in the same way. Ideas, innovation, and the control of critical technologies now rival physical space and terms of trade as decisive factors shaping power and geopolitical risk. Drawing on historical precedents, contemporary case studies, and a new analytical framework— “open” and “closed” hegemony —"Spheres of Power" shows how states wishing to maintain their own independence or rise to a position of global leadership must adapt to this transformed landscape, balancing stability, justice, and strategic advantage in an era where the competition for influence extends far beyond borders.  

Building: Olin Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Lecture in Room 011Reception in Laminan Lounge Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence,Global Engagement,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Romance Studies department Speaker Name: Tony Haouam Drawing Power, Reading Images: Why Comics Matter Framed as the “ninth art,” comics and graphic novels occupy a central place in the Francophone cultural scene—widely read across age groups, frequently adapted into prize-winning films, and often a catalyst for public debate and controversy over representation. In this context, the talk first historicizes the medium’s role in circulating colonial, sexist, and orientalist narratives, while also examining its cross-generational readership. Through close visual reading—attending to framing, sequencing, page layout, color design, and narrative structure—we will show how bandes dessinées can make meaning, shape affect, and carry ideology. We then turn to the political economy of the comics and graphic novel industry, and to the shift toward platform distribution, where social media such as Instagram is reshaping publics, careers, and visual forms. The conclusion highlights how contemporary cartoonists leverage visual storytelling to contest entrenched visual conventions and iconographies, articulate new experiences of identity and belonging, and redraw who appears—and how—on the page.

Building: Joyce Cummings Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: 250 Joyce Cummings Center  Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Interns and Residents,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Politics/Policy/Law,Public Service/Government,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Political Science department,Sociology department Event Sponsor Details: Event is sponsored by the Sociology Department and the Office of the Deans Join us for our Annual Constitution Day Event on Friday, 9/26. This year’s panel is titled focus on Trump’s government and will feature three Tufts alumni: Sophie Laing (A’ 19 and Yale Law School’ 22), Kira Hessekiel (A’13 and Harvard Law School ’21), Sharif Hamidi (J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School). The discussion will be facilitated by Political Science Chair, Professor Jeffrey Taliaferro, and the Chair of the Sociology Department, Professor Jill Weinberg. There will be a Q&A at the end of the lecture.

Building: 51 Winthrop Street City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus,Off-campus Location Details: Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop Street Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Parents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Community Engagement Event Sponsor: Tisch College of Civic Life Event Sponsor Details: This event is proudly sponsored by the Tisch College of Civic Life, the Office of Government and Community Relations, and the Leonard Carmichael Society. RSVP Information: https://givepul.se/o49yig Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Jessica Byrnes Event Contact Email: jessica.byrnes@tufts.edu Link: https://givepul.se/o49yig Register to Volunteer  Kick off this academic year right and join Tufts University's 3rd annual Day of Service! Volunteers will meet promptly at 51 Winthrop Street/Breed Memorial Hall by 1:00 p.m. for check-in, a brief speaking program and a group photo. All supplies and instructions will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a refillable water bottle and wear sneakers and Tufts gear. There will be snacks, water and fun raffle prizes from local businesses, and free t-shirts are available for the first 200 volunteers. Tufts students, staff, faculty, alumni, friends and community members are encouraged to participate - bring your friends! Volunteers will walk between 10 - 20 minutes from Breed Hall to assigned service sites. The event will proceed rain or shine. Please dress accordingly. Interested in being a Team Leader at this event? Learn more and sign up. Parking is available at 419 Boston Avenue/Dowling Hall Garage. Registration required. All are welcome.