Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EDXfAMyATsOvhnBhYKP6tw Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#oct30 This lecture examines the paradoxes of care and control in campus landscapes. Mark Bomford traces the tension between the ordered care of campus master planning and the improvisational care of grassroots agroecological experiment, showing how each constrained the futures that could be imagined. Using metaphors from Anna Karenina to Claude Shannon’s concept of informational entropy, he argues that sustainability emerges not from perfection but from surprise, multiplicity, and relational responsiveness. Case studies from the University of British Columbia and Yale demonstrate that when shared labor, student-centered pedagogy, and ecological complexity are foregrounded over metrics-driven control and efficiency, campuses can serve as laboratories for more just and adaptive futures. To “lose control” is not to embrace chaos but to resist foreclosure—to vivify the ecological and social futures of the university as open, relational, and delightfully, surprisingly weird.  

Online Location Details: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2h6V3bWPf2kqr2K Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Cabot 702 Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: The Fletcher School Link: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2h6V3bWPf2kqr2K Join us for an engaging presentation on The African Human Rights System: Institutions, Jurisprudence, and the Future of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, led by Dr. Robert Eno, Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The session opens with an overview of the African human rights system—its origins, normative and institutional frameworks, and the key reasons for developing a distinct, homegrown mechanism for the continent. Participants will gain insight into the system’s unique features and its principal institutions, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. A special focus will be given to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, established in 1998, exploring how individuals and entities can access and litigate before the Court. Dr. Eno will highlight the Court’s most influential jurisprudence, its growing impact on human rights protection and the rule of law in Africa and beyond, and discuss future developments—particularly in light of the African Union’s initiative to expand the Court’s mandate to include criminal jurisdiction. The presentation will conclude with reflections on the Court’s contributions to accountability and access to justice, while acknowledging persistent challenges such as limited state compliance and political resistance. Ultimately, the session underscores the African Court’s essential role in advancing Africa’s capacity to promote and protect human and peoples’ rights through its own regional mechanisms. About the Speaker: Dr. Robert Eno, a national of Cameroon, is an accomplished jurist with over 25 years of experience promoting and protecting human rights in Africa. Since 2011, he has served as Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, following prior roles at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the South African Human Rights Commission. Dr. Eno has also taught law at several universities across Africa and currently serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he holds degrees from the University of Yaoundé II, the University of Zambia, the University of South Africa, and a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: This event will be held in the Austin Room (room 226) in Tisch Library on the main level (second floor) and online (register for link). Open to Public: No Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities Speaker Name: Ben Chrisinger and Sean Smith Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/15219006 The Digital Scholarship Conversations series is a monthly brown bag hosted by Tisch Library. Each conversation will focus on a different topic, helping us share ideas and build community around the intersection of digital technology and our research and teaching. In this session, Ben Chrisinger and Sean Smith will talk about their current project focused on the American Medical Directories (AMDs), periodically published by the American Medical Association from 1906, which present an immense opportunity to illuminate the organizational dynamics of professional medicine in the early 20th century. In addition to physicians’ names and practice locations, these volumes also contain valuable information about individuals’ training histories and medical specializations, demographic characteristics, and membership in state and local societies. Because AMDs were published triennially, they also present an opportunity to link individuals over time, exploring physicians’ movement between regions, as well as how and where training pipelines for the medical workforce developed. No other data source offers such nuanced, individual-level information about the early medical workforce, yet the AMDs remain underexplored archival sources, largely due to the difficulties of extracting large quantities of data from original archival sources. By extracting, formatting, and geolocating data from these sources, this project will put AMD data into the hands of social science researchers, demonstrate its utility by exploring a set of sociological hypotheses, and sustainably archive them for future generations. Additionally, public-facing outputs and activities will bring this project to a broader audience, enabling still further kinds of non-academic inquiries and applications. Ben Chrisinger is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health at Tufts, and PI of the NSF-funded American Medical Directories Project. His research broadly focuses on the relationship between health and place, and uses quantitative and qualitative methodologies. He is on research leave during the 2025–2026 academic year, based out of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. Sean Smith serves as the data services specialist at Rice University's Fondren Library and is the co-PI of the American Medical Directories Project. He earned a Ph.D. in history after a career in software engineering, and his research examines the role of health in constructing race.

Location Details: Zoom link will be sent to registrants Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Interns and Residents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7-uuxWvYu3f0KTlIkzTMGX_-JaMfeYrfKid4XGiID1-oNnA/viewform?usp=dialog Event Contact Email: diversity@tufts.edu Link: https://diversity.tufts.edu/elevator-program/ Calling all Tufts community members! Students, staff, and faculty are invited to join us for ELEVATORs. ELEVATORs (part of the ELEVATE initiative) is a learning community that focuses on daily practices to create a culture of inclusion. Participants can earn a micro-credential badge from Tufts, Inclusion Skills for Institutional Change, following completion of at least eight sessions throughout the year. Otherwise, come for one, or stay for all! Learn more about ELEVATE.

Building: Aidekman Arts Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Alumnae Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Alumnae Lounge, room 106 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: Public Service/Government,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT) Event Sponsor Details: Center for Humanities at Tufts, University Ecologies Speaker Name: Mark Bomford (Yale Sustainable Food Program), Nick Dorian (ecologist), Erin Woodbrey (artist), and Leslie Rogers (artist, SMFA at Tufts) 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/university-ecologies-event-past-and-future-tufts-pollinator-initiative-1030 The University Ecologies team invites the Tufts community to a special event, "The Past and Future of the Tufts Pollinator(+) Initiative." Tufts community members of any age are welcome to come learn more about the history of the Tufts Pollinator Initiative and its potential future. Speakers at this event include Mark Bomford (Yale Sustainable Food Program), Nick Dorian (ecologist), Erin Woodbrey (artist), and Leslie Rogers (artist, SMFA at Tufts). This event will start at 3:30 p.m. in the CLIC Gardens, with a discussion to follow in Alumnae Lounge starting at 4:30 p.m. This event is sponsored by University Ecologies, SMFA at Tufts, and the Center for the Humanities at Tufts.

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: ASEAN Auditorium, Rm. 302 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Anthropology department,Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT),English department,History department,International Literary and Cultural Studies department,Political Science department,Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora department RSVP Information: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9KU6yqcllvSB3Tg Event Contact Email: rcd@tufts.edu A panel event featuring: Ammiel Alcalay (CUNY), Amahl Bishara (Tufts), Amal Eqeiq (Williams), Khaled Fahmy (Tufts), and Awad Mansour (Al-Quds University, joining virtually). The current genocide in Gaza is the continuation of the brutal logics of settler colonialism that have persisted for centuries in the Middle East, the Americas, Africa, Asia and all parts of the globe. This panel will think through the links between what has happened and is happening to indigenous peoples in North and South America and what has happened and is happening to Palestinians in the years during and since the Nakba but also examine modes of resistance and the possibilities for major shifts in the geopolitical world order after Gaza.

Building: Barnum Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Barnum LL26 Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Film and Media Studies program Speaker Name: Natalie Minik, FMS Senior Thesis Students Event Contact Name: Gina O'Connor Event Contact Email: gina.o_connor@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 6176273574 Learn about upcoming production opportunities Meet fellow students and potential collaborators Hear Senior Thesis students pitch their film projects and recruit crew Open to all majors and levels of experience and interests (film production, costumes, hair and makeup, etc!)