Building: Campus Center City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Campus Center, Rm 218 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality Event Sponsor: Office of Religious and Philosophical Life Event Contact Name: Daniel Bell Event Contact Email: Daniel.bell@tufts.edu Daily Devotionals are officially back and better than ever! We’re meeting in CC 218 at 12:00 PM every weekday. Don't forget to bring a friend, bring a friend, and bring another friend! ALL are welcome here.

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program Speaker Name: Dr. Giovanni Aloi, Adjunct Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_78EXisrHTMOXfRG9dolDpQ Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#sep24 At the intersection of the research developed in two of his books, Lawn, published last year by Bloomsbury, and Avant-gardeners, forthcoming with Prestel, the lawn and the garden emerge as cultural forms through which to rethink the relationship between art and nature. As a monoculture, the lawn suppresses biodiversity, demands water, fertilizers, pesticides, and repeated mowing, while offering no hospitality to animals and other forms of life. A rooted manifestation of outdated colonial and patriarchal ideals of order and normativity, the lawn conceals histories of exclusion and extraction, making the garden’s unrulier, more relational forms of cultivation all the more politically significant. The recent interest in gardening as an artistic practice constitutes a form of dissent against the extractive logics that have impoverished soils and reduced the living world to resource or passive backdrop. Many contemporary artists are now working with the vegetal world, unsettling the categories of artwork and process, authorship and collaboration. In their practices, cultivation becomes a way of unlearning modernity’s distance from the earth and of imagining new forms of situated belonging, more attuned to the relations of care that make all life thrive.

Building: Goddard Chapel City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality Event Sponsor: Office of Religious and Philosophical Life Event Contact Name: Nora Bond Event Contact Email: nora.bond@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 6176273427 Voices for Peace and Light Rehearsal Thursdays, 12:10 PM- 1:10 PM at Goddard Chapel Do you love to sing? Spend your Thursday lunch hours singing with colleagues in Voices for Peace and Light, an interfaith, intergenerational choir whose membership is drawn from the entire Tufts community – graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, alumni/ae, and neighbors. We welcome experienced choral singers and people who are brand new to choral music. Supported by 4 strong choral scholars, we rehearse weekly and perform a few times each semester for a variety of events and services. Director Suzie Cartreine is the Director of Music for the Office of Religious and Philosophical Life, and has years of experience conducting choirs of all ages and abilities. Bring your friends and colleagues! For more information, or to sign up please contact Suzie: chaplaincymusic@tufts.edu.