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,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Politics/Policy/Law,Science,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT) Speaker Name: Jessica Remedios RSVP Information: No RSVP required Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Amanda Pepper Event Contact Email: amanda.pepper@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 203-763-9353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/chat-fellow-presentation-jessica-remedios-114 Join us on January 14 to hear Jessica Remedios discuss the historical and political foundations of contemporary research practices in the field of psychology.  Jessica Remedios is an associate professor of psychology and director of the Social Identity and Stigma (SIS) lab at Tufts University. She received her PhD in experimental social psychology from the University of Toronto in 2012. All are welcome. Please contact humanities@tufts.edu with questions.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Islam) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Commemorates the ascension (al-Mi'raj) of the Prophet to heaven following his night journey (al Isra') from Mecca to Jerusalem and his ascent to heaven and return the same night. 

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program Speaker Name: Dr. Fern Thompsett, University Ecologies Project, Tufts University RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KFbg7ww1TV2wrLrnd9H2FQ Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#jan15 In a time marked by climate crisis and growing political frustration, it can be easy to feel like the possibilities for environmentally just ways of living together are narrowing. And yet, human beings' capacities to imagine and actualize better worlds persist, in subtle and spectacular ways. In this talk, Dr. Fern Thompsett will draw the idea of Ecotopia (eco + utopia) from speculative fiction into the real world, tracing key examples of ecological world-building from the historical Brook Farm in the Northeast, to her own research with present-day Anti-Civilization communities in the Pacific Northwest. By looking at how these experiments have pushed the limits of possibility into the realm of radical imagination and back again, Dr. Thompsett will show how opportunities for change can be found in the here-and-now, sometimes in unexpected places.