Building: Tufts Center for Medical Education City: Boston, MA 02111 Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus Location Details: Medical Education Building, Tufts University School of Medicine 145 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA, 02111 Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Global Engagement,Health/Wellness Event Sponsor Department/Area: Public Health & Community Medicine department Event Sponsor: School of Medicine Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Global Health Interest Group, Center for Global Public Health, Tufts One Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the Office of the Provost RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgKhZphuUIoFR7V9ppmcputRsHuB5LZCPTcnwEaJAVLnJXMw/viewform Event Contact Name: Dan Nguyen Event Contact Email: nguyen.dan@tufts.edu Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgKhZphuUIoFR7V9ppmcputRsHuB5LZCPTcnwEaJAVLnJXMw/viewform The theme for this year's Global Tufts Month is "Global Health Equity." This symposium aims to highlight the global health work done in the Boston area, shed light on how to enter a career in global health, and further educate student attendees about global health issues.  9:00–9:30 a.m. Breakfast, coffee, and check-in 9:30–10:30 a.m. Keynote speaker 10:40–11:30 a.m. Breakout Panels 11:30–12:30 p.m. Panel on USAID stop-work order and NIH funding cuts 12:30 p.m.–onwards Lunch and networking

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.