Building: Campus Center City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room 203 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence Speaker Name: Burhan Muhammad RSVP Information: RSVP on Eventbrite Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Lucinda Garcia Event Contact Email: lucinda.garcia@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 5417402912 Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ishq-identity-and-intersectionality-lessons-through-storytelling-tickets-1249565436859?aff=oddtdtcreator Part TikTok, part teach-in, part revolution—this workshop is a call to action. In an era of deepening division and backlash, how do we fully embrace our identities as catalysts for joy and sustainable change? How do we build intersectional, cross-sector movements that amplify voices of the mainstream silences—especially from the Global South? This session goes beyond discussion—it’s about strategy, solidarity, and reshaping the future while addressing the harms of identity politics being weaponized against marginalized communities.

Location Details: Zoom link will be sent to those who register Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Community Engagement,Conference/Panel Event/Symposium,Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor Details: Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence, University Chaplaincy Speaker Name: Project Shema RSVP Information: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1A3kXCWWctnfBDo Event Contact Email: diversity@tufts.edu Please register for the workshop "Understanding Antisemitism in the Current Political Climate" and the dialogue following this session. Educational Session on Zoom: March 27th, 6-7pm ET Follow Up Dialogue Session in person (Medford Campus, food will be served) : April 6th, 2-4pm ET - location will be sent out to all registrants This two-part program highly empowers participants to support inclusion and belonging efforts for the Jewish community. During the initial virtual session, we'll explore who Jews are, what antisemitism is, and how it operates. During the subsequent in-person session, we'll unpack how anti-Jewish harm shows up in the current political climate, including inside discourse around Israel & Palestine. Through small group discussion, pair shares, and Q&A there is ample time for unpacking difficult questions and challenging scenarios. Participants leave with a greater understanding of the Jewish community’s identities, lived experiences, and traumas, better prepared to be allies to the Jewish community, and how antisemitism ultimately undermines democratic, pluralistic societies and institutions

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Barnum LL08 Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor Details: Sponsored by The Tufts Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and Tufts Film and Media Studies Event Contact Name: Gina O'Connor Event Contact Email: gina.o_connor@tufts.edu Link: https://www.fms-narratives.blog/event-details-registration/the-projections-of-anna-may-wong Join this discussion of live cinema theater with lead artists Cinthia Chen, Annie Jin Wang, and Tufts Professor of the Practice Jennifer Burton, also featuring a sneak peak of scenes from Women of the Old Manse, the most recent film of the Half the History project. Presented as part of the Women Take the Reel Film Festival. This event is free and open to the community. RSVP is recommended to receive event updates and reminders.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Distler Performance Hall Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Music Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Music Admission/Cost: Free; no tickets required Event Contact Name: Anna Griffis Event Contact Email: anna.griffis@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2253 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/international-symposium-musical-arts-africa-coit-phelps-lecture-2025 The story of the kora, one of Africa’s most iconic instruments, featuring kora player Ballaké Sissoko. Co-written and co-directed by Lucy Durán and Laurent Benhamou, this screening is part of the International Symposium on the Musical Arts of Africa (ISMAA) taking place at the Granoff Music Center March 28–29, 2025.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Distler Performance Hall Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Arts,Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence,Global Engagement,Humanities,Music,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor Details: Center for Humanities at Tufts, Department of Music RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdF91ogr6RejKaMuUfkJaVwpNO_qa3x6Rz8SfQCmnjfvBY2Qw/viewform Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Amanda Pepper Event Contact Email: amanada.pepper@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 2037639353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/international-symposium-musical-arts-africa-coit-phelps-lecture-2025 Join us March 28 and 29 for a dialogue between communities of practice and communities of learning—an interface between orality and literacy—in the context of African music and its research. African musical arts on the continent are as vibrant and diverse as the societies and communities whose creativity and performances enliven life in both temporal and non-temporal domains. As a form of communication, African musical arts operate within a larger framework of orality where musical sounds and expressions constitute symbolic and living curricula, which consistently generate knowledge systems about the African worldview. Orality, however, does not imply lack of literacy, as songs, instrumental accompaniment, storytelling, epic poems, instrumental music, and the physical body of musical instruments indexes literacy in subtle and intricate ways. Ultimately, the International Symposium on the Musical Arts of Africa (ISMAA) will foster crucial dialogues on critical issues, including the imbalanced power dynamics between researchers and African communities, the persistent challenge for African societies to access scholarship produced in the West, and “research fatigue” among African communities, which occurs when Africans become uncomfortable and less receptive toward Western academics.

Campus: Boston SMFA campus Location Details: 160 St. Alphonsus Street, Boston, MA (SMFA studio building, second floor) Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor Details: Thanks to Robert Nagel, Tufts University Art Galleries, the MFA Graduate Program, and the Department of Graphic Arts for their continued support of the visiting artist series. Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Sophie Cloherty Event Contact Email: sophie.cloherty@tufts.edu Please join us at the SMFA for a talk and Q&A by visiting artist Chitra Ganesh! Across a twenty-year practice, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings, collages, computer generated imagery, video, and sculpture. Through studies in literature, semiotics, social theory, science fiction, and historical and mythic texts, Ganesh attempts to reconcile representations of femininity, sexuality, and power absent from the artistic and literary canons. She often draws on Hindu and Buddhist iconography and South Asian forms such as Kalighat and Madhubani, and is currently negotiating her relationship to these images with the rise of right wing fundamentalism in India. Open to Tufts university students, faculty, and staff.