Building: Eaton Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Eaton 171 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence,Global Engagement,Humanities,Religion/Spirituality,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor Details: Department of Anthropology; Center for the Humanites at Tufts; Department of Religion; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaker Name: Lara Deeb, Scripps College Event Contact Email: anthropology@tufts.edu Intersectarian and interreligious marriages often provoke strong opposition from Lebanese of all sects and faiths. In this talk, Lara Deeb will introduce her new book, Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon. Through mixed couples’ stories and the innovative ways many of them think about social difference and confront patriarchy, Deeb highlights the role of family and close social relationships in reproducing sectarianism and explores its impact on people at the personal level, outside the formal realms of law and politics. Lara Deeb is Laura Vausbinder Hockett Endowed Chair, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and the Program in MENA Studies at Scripps College. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, Deeb is the author or co-author of four books. Her latest, Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon, was published by Stanford University Press in October 2024.

Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus 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: Global Engagement,Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Public Service/Government,Science,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor Details: Center for Humanities at Tufts Speaker Name: Caleb Scoville RSVP Information: no rsvp needed Admission/Cost: free Event Contact Name: Amanda Pepper Event Contact Email: amanda.pepper@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 2037639353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/stupid-little-fish-extraction-conservation-and-politics-environmental-decline-caleb-scoville Join us April 2 for a conversation with Caleb Scoville from the Department of Sociology about the Delta Smelt, and the controversies surrounding this small fish. The Delta Smelt is an endangered fish found only in the heart of California’s water distribution system. Legal protections of the species have contributed to the curtailment of water delivered to farms and cities. Rocketing onto the national political stage, it was dubbed a “stupid little fish” on the floor of the United States House and was falsely blamed for Los Angeles’ disastrous wildfires by President Trump. Following the fish from California’s water wars to America’s culture wars and back again, this project considers how thorny environmental problems emerge when attempts to control and define nature overflow into other domains of social life, and why they often only seem to multiply with every attempt to resolve them. Caleb Scoville is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tufts University and a recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship. His research centers on the politics of environmental knowledge and the dynamics of environmental controversies. Caleb’s published work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Science, and Theory and Society, among other venues. His book project on the case of the Delta Smelt is under advance contract with Columbia University Press. This event is open to the entire Tufts Community. For questions contact humanities@tufts.edu.

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: ASEAN Auditorium Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Contact Name: Sara Rosales Laverty Link: https://forms.monday.com/forms/d60d793a14b6e771ee999b3709e0b1f3?r=use1 David Grann is an award-winning New Yorker writer and the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager. In his talks, Grann explores his creative process—from what initially inspires him to investigate a story to his painstaking research and then links the (often) forgotten histories to their relevance to today.

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room 703 Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor Details: Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies Speaker Name: Mou Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison) RSVP Information: No Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Tom Guan Event Contact Email: yguan02@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 5126456416 Link: https://tufts.box.com/s/52yex0zb8q38w3rr4leypiupluc4xo5q Mou Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will discuss her latest book, The Disinherited (Harvard University Press, 2025) in this Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies lecture chaired by Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History.

Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Tisch Library Room 223 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Students (Graduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Education,Humanities Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/14062082 Digital mapping assignments engage classrooms in critical discussions of space and place. With easy-to-use mapping tools, classes such as literature; history; film and media; and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies are visualizing archives, telling spatial stories, creating engaging exhibits, contributing to crowdsourced projects, and developing geospatial datasets. This workshop will discuss the essentials of developing mapping assignments for humanities classrooms—from bite-size to final project. We will look at examples of mapping projects and break them down to understand the tools, skills, elements, and steps to mapping with your students. We welcome you to reach out to Kaylen Dwyer (kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu) at any time to discuss your classroom needs. Please bring a laptop.

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA) Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Education,Politics/Policy/Law,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor Details: Environmental Studies Program RSVP Information: RSVP only needed for virtual attendants Event Contact Name: Sinet Kroch Event Contact Email: sinet.kroch@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZW_a8YqbRAmzRtVDSD7P2A Adivasi (Indigenous) food systems in Eastern India exemplify this fragility, with climate change, market shifts, forest displacement, migration, and intergenerational disconnect contributing to the erosion of food culture, knowledge, and security. This talk explores the evolution of Adivasi food systems as a response to political, environmental, and economic changes. It centers on the voices of Adivasi people and their perspectives and reflections on food as culture, food as self-medication, food as sustenance, food as sustainability, and importantly, food as conversation with nature. The talk advocates for recognizing and valuing Indigenous knowledge to decolonize food systems and promote sustainability, cultural identity, and resilience amidst global challenges.