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- Oct 16:15 PMChange, Curation, CollectingBuilding: Barnum Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: 104 Barnum Dana complex(Food provided) Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Staff,Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Arts,Humanities Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University Event Contact Email: salonsoireetufts@gmail.com Salon Soiree & Tufts Association of Latin AmericanStudents (ALAS) Museum of Fine Arts Panel of Women Art Historians with a focus on Latinx Art
- Oct 2All dayDusserah (Vijaya Dashami)Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Hinduism) A celebration of the triumph(s) of good over evil.
- Oct 210:00 AMCivilian Response to Active Shooter TrainingOpen to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Training/Workshop Event Subject: Health/Wellness Event Sponsor: Tufts University Event Sponsor Details: Office of Emergency Management RSVP Information: Register through Zoom Event Contact Name: Andre Watson Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DFWg8s5PQTCmg_eYjgeqSQ#/registration Tufts Public Safety will be offering Civilian Response to Active Shooter Training this semester to all members of the Tufts University community. In these 60-minute sessions, participants will learn strategies if confronted with an active shooter situation. The training expands on the tools and techniques found in the Tufts University Emergency Response Guide found at emergency.tufts.edu/response-guide/.
- Oct 212:00 PMCorporate Responsibility & Risks in the Race to Secure Critical MineralsBuilding: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Mugar 200 Open to Public: Yes Professor Erika George of Boston University delivers a guest lecture on the adverse human rights impacts of decarbonization strategies that rely on the extraction of critical rare earth minerals in the DRC and Chile. After offering an overview of how the logic of racial capitalism operates in the context of extractive industries, it will explain environmental human rights and review relevant domestic mining regulations and selected global policy standards on responsible corporate conduct and mineral supply chain management to detect ways the logic of racial capitalism is replicated. It will consider how international investment law and trade law are implicated and the potential for progress. In conclusion, it will argue that the right to a healthy environment can provide a foundation for ensuring mineral extraction is done in a way that ensures the transition to a green economy is racially just and respects, protects and fulfills human rights.
- Oct 212:00 PM[ENVS] Flow Like Water: Non-Profit Work in the Environmental FieldBuilding: 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_-8Ys5YFoTnKa9hqIXEr6zQ Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#oct2 Environmental work is like any other work, except it faces a lot more impediments, given the makeup of our economy. It will feel like swimming against the current. Have you noticed how water finds its way? What can we learn from water? As examples, Kannan will explain the impediments and resolutions in some Eastie Farm projects, whether it's about acquiring land as a grassroots community organization or building a greenhouse powered by an energy source unfamiliar to us, i.e. geothermal. The impediments faced range from the mundane (e.g.: permitting) to systemic and cultural ones (e.g.: hyper-individualism vs collectivism). How to go after low-hanging fruit: Train the mind away from focusing on what’s hard How to move in multiple directions simultaneously: Bust silos How to start small: Fight that attraction to big How to deal with the current system while changing it: Start where you are How to sustain the work, through thick and thin: Shrink, don’t disappear
- Oct 212:00 PMFletcher Reads the Newspaper: Does the U.S. Need a Department of War or a Department of Defense?Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegpC7jEBp3NmPyPLWjrElTpftZQVURE-BUyNP750YX-mI_bQ/viewform The Institute for Business in the Global Context team is excited to invite you to the IBGC Open House. We combine this event with this semester's installment of Fletcher Reads the Newspaper—a beloved event series where we explore a current topic from the news and discuss it with experts. You can access past FRTN articles here. Please join us for the upcoming Fletcher Reads the Newspaper: Does the U.S. Need a Department of War or a Department of Defense? What’s Best for World Peace? Discussants Elliot Ackerman F03 – New York Times bestselling author and Marine Veteran Prof. Monica Toft – Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, the Fletcher School Prof. Bhaskar Chakravorti – Dean of Global Business at the Fletcher School Prof. Alex de Waal - Research Professor, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation