Online Location Details: The Fares Center Building: Mugar Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: The Fares Center conference room Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience(s): Faculty,Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk Event Subject: International Affairs,Politics/Policy/Law Speaker Name: Marwa Daoudy RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdKk3gskrmoNgAohvfTYdBDH2psgWSQ0eH95J3fG2fUeZITA/viewform Please join the Fares Center for a lecture and Q&A on Syria at the Crossroads: Hopes and Challenges with Marwa Daoudy, associate professor of international relations and the Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS). Prior to Georgetown University, Daoudy was a lecturer at Oxford University (UK) in the Department of Politics and International Relations, a fellow of Oxford’s Middle East Center at St. Antony’s College and a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2023–2024, she was awarded a Global Fellowship by the Wilson Center for International Scholars and was affiliated with the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) and the Middle East Program (MEP). Daoudy’s research and teaching focus on critical and human security studies, environmental and climate security, climate justice, water politics, negotiation theory, peace negotiations, and Middle East politics. Daoudy's second book, The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security (Cambridge University Press, 2020), won the 2020 Harold and Margaret Sprout Prize by the International Studies Association, awarded for the best books in the field of environmental studies. Her first book, The Water Divide between Syria, Turkey and Iraq: Negotiation, Security and Power Asymmetry (CNRS Editions, 2005), received the Ernest Lémonon Prize by the Institute of France at the French Academy (Académie Française). Her third book, Climate Justice in the Middle East and North Africa: Rethinking Security and Vulnerability, is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Online Location Details: Zoom Building: Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Sciences City: Boston, MA 02111 Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus Location Details: Jaharis Building, Meeting Room 118   Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk Event Contact Name: Andrew Vinard Event Contact Email: Andrew.Vinard@tufts.edu Link: https://viceprovost.tufts.edu/tufts-cores-seminar-advancing-multiomics-next-generation-sequencing-solutions-comprehensive This engaging session will highlight how next-generation sequencing can address your complex research questions. Refreshments will be provided. Attendance is free, but registration is required.

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(s): Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk Event Subject: Science,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Environmental Studies Program RSVP Information: RSVP only needed for virtual attendants, can be done at attached web link Event Contact Name: Sinet Kroch Event Contact Email: sinet.kroch@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7_3Xe2zBReK0F9fWUvzCYg Our climate and environment are changing, and so is how academics are approaching environmental science. In this talk, Jon illustrates this shift by reflecting on his own academic journey: from growing up in rural Maine with a fascination for the New England coast and an interest in how science can address regional issues, to pursuing internationally oriented research for successful graduate studies and tenure, and ultimately returning his science to his New England roots. Along the way, he has witnessed, and participated in, the shifting priorities of Earth and environmental sciences: once favoring broad, globally oriented studies, they now increasingly recognize the urgent need for regional and community-engaged approaches. He will discuss how his current roles, such as serving as co-University Director of the USGS Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and participating in the NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science leadership circle, embody the growing demand for localized, collaborative work. Like many earth and environmental scientists of his generation, he was never formally trained in community- and place-based methods, and he is by no means perfect at applying them. Still, he has already seen how centering local needs and partnerships not only strengthens the impact of his work for the communities he serves but also enriches his own growth as a researcher.