Building: Agnes Varis Campus Center City: North Grafton, MA 01536 Room: Agnes Varis CC - Agnes Varis Auditorium (AVA) - Room 107L Campus: Grafton campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Interns and Residents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy, Office of Continuing Education, Tufts Elephant Conservation Alliance, and Office of Continuing Education Programs at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Speaker Name: Stacy LeBaron, founder and host of the "Community Cats" podcast RSVP Information: For joining remotely or in person: https://forms.gle/6wcTuNecoHX6gzro9 Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Center for Animals and Public Policy Event Contact Email: capp@tufts.edu Link: https://forms.gle/6wcTuNecoHX6gzro9 This seminar is part of the Animal Matters Seminar Series presented by Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy and Office of Continuing Education Programs. Joining in person? After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with parking pass and location details. Joining remotely? After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Register here to join remotely or in person. In this casual session, Stacy LeBaron will walk the audience through the journey of a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) project conducted in July of 2024 at a dairy farm in Waitsfield, VT. Learn how to turn your passion for cats into action with mass trapping. LeBaron has been involved in animal welfare for over 30 years and considers herself a feline entrepreneur. She currently hosts a weekly podcast called the Community Cats podcast where she interviews nationally and internationally renowned experts helping with the problem of cat overpopulation and cat welfare. She has recorded over 600 episodes. In addition to the podcast, Stacy is committed to the model of virtual education by holding over 30 educational online events a year. She is currently a co-owner of the Community Cat Clinic in Duluth, GA and Woodstock, GA. She also serves on the board of the United Spay Alliance, Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society, PAWSitive Pantry, and the Vermont Humane Federation. Members of the public are invited to attend this seminar at no charge. The event is made possible by the generous support of the Elizabeth A. Lawrence Endowed Fund. The event is good for one non-medical interactive CEU in all states that recognize AVMA-approved continuing education providers. A registration QR code will be posted for in-person attendance.

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.  

Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: First floor conference room 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: Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Public Service/Government,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for the Study of Race and Democracy Speaker Name: Miranda Spieler 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/faculty-book-talk-dr-miranda-spieler-1030 Join the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), the Center for Public History, and the Department of History on October 30 at noon to hear Miranda Spieler discuss her latest scholarship, Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories. All are welcome. Please contact cph@tufts.edu with questions.