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. 

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kXP43sitRGSSvloIswUBmA#/registration Building: Tufts Center for Medical Education City: Boston, MA 02111 Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus Location Details: Medical Education Building, Room 114 (145 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111) and on Zoom 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,Health/Wellness,Medicine Event Sponsor: School of Medicine Event Sponsor Details: The TUSM Global Health Faculty Council and the Tufts Center for Global Public Health Speaker Name: Jonathan Runstadler, DVM, Ph.D., professor, Departments of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine; and Jon Gass, PhD, MPH, assistant professor, Departments of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kXP43sitRGSSvloIswUBmA#/registration Event Contact Name: Kim Burke Event Contact Email: kimberly.burke@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kXP43sitRGSSvloIswUBmA#/registration Since 2021, there has been an unprecedented outbreak of the H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in North America and globally, affecting wild birds, domestic poultry, and marine and terrestrial mammals, including dairy cows in the U.S. This widescale outbreak has also resulted in numerous transmission events to people—from 2024 to January 6, 2025, 66 people in the U.S. were infected with HPAI, including one person who died from the infection. More recently, Massachusetts officials have communicated that HPAI is now “widespread” in the state, affecting both wild and domestic birds. In this seminar, Runstadler and Gass will provide background and context of the current epizootic global HPAI epidemic, including current understandings of potential risks to public health. They will also discuss the development of interventions in countries where HPAI has been endemic.

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,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Arts,Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence,Education,Humanities Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Center for Humanities at Tufts Speaker Name: Omid Bagherli RSVP Information: No RSVP needed 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-omid-bagherli-212 The Center for the Humanities at Tufts invites the Tufts community to join us on February 12 for a special presentation by Dissertation Fellow Omid Bagherli, entitled "Contemporary Literature's Dispute with the Archive." Omid Bagherli is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Tufts University. His dissertation, “Lost Histories: Contemporary Literature’s Dispute with the Archive,” studies how, from the late-twentieth century to the present moment, writers and filmmakers have incorporated archival documents into their work to complicate narratives of social reclamation. More generally, he is interested in the literary dimension of historical transmission and recovery, as well as the use of psychoanalytic theory in social and cultural analysis. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in ASAP/J, Chicago Review, Postmodern Culture, C21 Literature, and Annulet. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Contact us at humanities@tufts.edu with any questions.