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Tufts Events
- Nov 1712:00 AMLunch and Faculty Book Talk with Brandon TerryBuilding: Fung House 48 Professors Row City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Conference room Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Public Service/Government,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for the Study of Race and Democracy Event Sponsor Details: Departments of History and Philosophy Speaker Name: Brandon Terry RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSceEamB8eO8d7-uOoccZDrAxehbaXW0kD58PIf8Ql5FIFlIWQ/viewform?usp=dialog Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Amanda Pepper Event Contact Email: amanada.pepper@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 203-763-9353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/faculty-book-talk-dr-brandon-terry-1117 On Monday, November 17, the Center for Public History is delighted to welcome Brandon Terry to Tufts. Brandon M. Terry is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and the co-director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Born in Baltimore, Terry earned a PhD with distinction in political science and African American studies from Yale University, an MSc in political theory research at the University of Oxford, and an AB, magna cum laude, in government and African and African American studies from Harvard College. An award-winning scholar of African American political thought, political theory, and the politics of race and inequality, Terry is the author of Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement (Harvard University Press). He is also the editor, with Tommie Shelby, of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harvard University Press, 2018) and the editor of Fifty Years Since MLK (Boston Review/MIT, 2018). This event is cosponsored by the Departments of History and Philosophy.
- Nov 1712:00 PMGranoff Music Center Colloquium: "100 Years Later, Ballet mécanique Becomes a Ballet" -Paul Lehrman (Tufts University)Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Varis Lecture Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Music department Event Contact Name: Anna Griffis Event Contact Email: anna.griffis@tufts.edu One hundred years after its composition, the most outrageous piece of the early 20th century is danced to by the Ballett Zurich. A look at the many incarnations of George Antheil's Ballet mécanique for percussion ensemble, siren, bells, airplane propellers, and 16 player pianos.
- Nov 173:00 PMCommuniTEA with IIEBuilding: Dowling Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Milmore Room (room 740P) Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Staff Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Community Celebration,Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence Event Sponsor Details: Office of Institutional Inclusive Excellence (IIE) RSVP Information: https://forms.gle/ezsCeAuyYktt3CT98 Event Contact Name: Deborah Donahue-Keegan Event Contact Email: deborah.donahue_keegan@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-448-1949 Link: https://diversity.tufts.edu/events/ Tufts staff and administrators are invited to join the Office of Institutional Inclusive Excellence (IIE) for monthly gatherings of community, connection, and joy. Drop-in for a quick visit or stay the whole time! Coffee, tea, and dessert will be provided. Mondays, 3–4 p.m. on the Medford/Somerville campus November 17 | Milmore Room, Dowling Hall (room 740P) January 26 | Alumnae Lounge, Alumnae Hall (room 106), 40 Talbot Avenue February 23 | Milmore Room, Dowling Hall (room 740P) March 23 | Alumnae Lounge, Alumnae Hall (room 106), 40 Talbot Avenue April 27 | Chase Center, Carmichael Hall







