Building: Barnum Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Rabb Room (100) Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Sponsor Details: Tisch College RSVP Information: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/tisch-scholars-information-session Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Jenna Logue Event Contact Email: Jenna.Logue@tufts.edu Link: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/tisch-scholars-information-session Join the 2025–2026 Tisch Scholars cohort! Applications are due by Monday, February 17 at 11:59 p.m. Tisch Scholars is a unique leadership development program that combines academic coursework, community-based learning, and critical reflection. Scholars acquire the knowledge, skills, and values needed to address pressing social issues and affect meaningful change—all while building a supportive community to strengthen civic engagement at Tufts University and beyond.

Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Tisch Library 223 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities Speaker Name: Kaylen Dwyer Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/14020959 If you need to transcribe handwritten documents such as letters or manuscripts so you can search, analyze, or publish them, we can help get you started. This workshop will provide a gentle introduction for automating the transcription process with Transkribus, a multilingual, customizable AI-powered text-recognition tool. You will need a laptop. No programming experience required.

Campus: Off-campus Location Details: Old South Meeting House, Downtown Boston  Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Parents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Public Service/Government Event Sponsor Details: WGBH in partnership with Revolutionary Spaces and with support from The Lowell Institute RSVP Information: https://www.wgbh.org/forum-network/lectures/humanities-workshop-on-democracy Admission/Cost: Free Link: https://www.wgbh.org/forum-network/lectures/humanities-workshop-on-democracy Join an opportunity to hear from humanists whose daily work considers and shapes the state of our local and global democracies. Panelists will interpret the current political moment and discover new pathways to citizen leadership. Panelists include Dayna Cunningham, dean of Tisch College; Noorya Hayat, researcher at CIRCLE; Chawky Frenn, artist and associate professor at George Mason University; Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of the National Trust for Local News; and Sophia Hall, deputy litigation director at Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR). The conversation will be moderated by Simón Rios, WBUR reporter.

Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Literally meaning "New Year of the Trees," it is an agricultural new year. 

Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Tisch Library 223 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities Speaker Name: Anna Kijas, Kaylen Dwyer Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/14020990 Instructors: Anna Kijas, assistant director, digital scholarship and of Lilly Music Library; Kaylen Dwyer, digital humanities librarian Are you interested in analyzing historical or primary source materials using digital methods but don’t know where to start? In this workshop, we will use hands-on document analysis and minimal markup as an approach to exploring historical materials before moving to light tagging using the TEI XML. We will provide sample material for participants to work with. You are welcome to bring your own material (copy or transcription) if you are already working with historical or primary sources. You will need a laptop. We will provide materials and writing utensils.

Building: Olin Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Olin 106 180 Packard Ave., Medford, MA 02155 Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Subject: Education Event Sponsor Details: Experimental College Event Contact Name: Oluwatobi Pitan Event Contact Email: opitan01@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 6176273384 Current sophomores and juniors—are you interested in designing and teaching your own course? Attend this info session hosted by the Experimental College and learn how to become a Fall Explorations leader.