Building: 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. 

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_-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

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

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Cabot 702 Open to Public: Yes The Institute for Business in the Global Context is excited to invite visitors to the IBGC Open House. Come and join us for lunch and learn more about our services and student experiential learning opportunities. 

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,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Community Engagement,Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT) Event Sponsor Details: University Ecologies RSVP Information: No RSVP required Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Alex Blanchette Event Contact Phone: 203-763-9353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/second-meeting-commons-and-commoning-study-group-102 The University Ecologies team invites you to join us for the second session of the Commons and Commoning study group on Thursday, October 2 from 1–3 p.m. at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (48 Professors Row). Attached to the Mellon Foundation project, University Ecologies, and the Question of the Commons, this group will meet every 2–3 weeks to discuss some readings and host open discussions on how we might nurture university environments. Readings are brief, snacks are plentiful, conversation is welcoming and generous. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome. For copies of the readings, or for more information, please contact Modhumita Roy (modhumita.roy@tufts.edu) or Alex Blanchette (alex.blanchette@tufts.edu).

Building: Mugar Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: The Fares Center Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Film Screening,Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Global Engagement,International Affairs,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor Details: The Fares Center and International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (INCR) Speaker Name: Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoude This event will feature a screening of the film The Soil and the Sea, with introductory remarks from Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoude.