Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus Location Details: OVPR conference room Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty Event Type: Community Engagement Event Sponsor: Office of the Provost Link: https://provost.tufts.edu/faculty-engagement/ Faculty are invited to drop-in coffee hours to engage with Provost Genco.

Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar,Training/Workshop Event Subject: Education Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-D1VpCg4LzAJM9TKj-5WG6hroe1bdyifCQcG1nPcHR6iojA/viewform?usp=header Event Contact Name: Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) Event Contact Email: CELT@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-4000 This Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) workshop will give you practical strategies to make small group work more effective, engaging, and transformative for your students.

Building: Eaton Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Eaton 201 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Politics/Policy/Law,Public Service/Government Event Sponsor: Office of the President Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education RSVP Information: expandingviewpoints@tufts.edu Event Contact Name: Arik Burakovsky Event Contact Email: Arik.Burakovsky@tufts.edu Link: https://cevihe.org/fall2025lunchseries Has liberalism failed to live up to its promise?  Hosted by the newly established Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education (CEVIHE) at Tufts University, this weekly series explores politics and culture through three different formats: book conversations, timely current affairs discussions, and guest lectures by heterodox thinkers. Each week, participants will encounter sophisticated arguments associated with a diversity of ideological, religious, and cultural worldviews. Lunch will be provided. Please see the workshop schedule here for more details, and please contact us if you want to participate so we can add you to the Canvas site. Reading: Patrick Deneen. Why Liberalism Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Discussant: Professor Vickie Sullivan, Department of Political Science

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1 Building: Pearson Chemical Laboratory City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room P-106 Open to Public: No Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Chemistry department Speaker Name: Prof. Peter Dedon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649 Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series Title: "Revisiting the Central Dogma in the Age of Epigenomes and Epitranscriptomes"

Building: Dowling Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Dowling Hall 710 Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Students interested in planning a semester or year abroad for Academic Year 2026-2027 are welcome to walk-in without an appointment for guidance and assistance from Tufts Global Education.

Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: We will be located at tables in front of the leisure reading area just beyond the lobby on the main floor (second floor) of Tisch Library. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Training/Workshop Event Subject: Research Event Contact Name: User Experience and Student Success Department Event Contact Email: tischuess@elist.tufts.edu Link: https://tischlibrary.tufts.edu/node/3565 Starting on October 1 and continuing every Wednesday through December 10, librarians at Tisch Library will be hosting weekly drop-in research consultations. You can stop by for research help, including but not limited to: Developing keywords and search strategies Identifying and searching for sources Evaluating information types Planning and organizing your research On the following dates, StAAR writing consultants will also be joining us to offer drop-in writing support: October 22 November 12 December 3 No appointment necessary! Stop by whenever you can.

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,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral) Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Arts,Humanities,Music,Working at Tufts Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT) RSVP Information: No RSVP required Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Amanda Gary Pepper Event Contact Email: amanda.pepper@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 203-763-9353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/chat-mid-semester-open-house-1029 Join the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) on October 29 for our mid-semester open house. All Tufts faculty, staff, grad students, post doctoral fellows, administrators, and members of our community are welcome. No agenda—feel free to stop by and enjoy some snacks and mingle with faculty in the humanities. Please contact humanities@tufts.edu with questions.

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Center Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Health/Wellness,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: Tisch College of Civic Life RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solomont-speaker-series-alexis-nikole-nelson-tickets-1708507374549?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl Admission/Cost: Free Register (In-Person Only) Meet chef, foraging TikTok star and outdoor educator Alexis Nikole Nelson, better known as the "Black Forager" on social media! With over 5 million followers joining her viral adventures of foraging and cooking, Nelson reframes the worlds of food, botany and nature, helping people make environmentally sustainable food choices while also celebrating the outdoors and changing fraught relationships with food. Nelson's videos shine a light on the historical and cultural roots of foraging in African American and Indigenous food traditions that have traditionally been repressed. Nelson's work has been featured in places like the New York Times, Bon Appetit, NPR, the Kelly Clarkson Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and she hosted a 15-episode series on botany for YouTube's educational channel, Crash Course. Nelson received the James Beard Award for “Best Social Media” in 2022, and she was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, 2025 TIME100 Creators and as a TikTok Tastemaker. Registration required. All are welcome. This event is cosponsored by the Tufts Pollinator Initiative.   

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.

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: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Tisch Special Collections, room 103 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Exhibition Event Subject: Arts,Humanities,Music Event Contact Name: Patrick Quinn Event Contact Email: patrick.quinn@tufts.edu Link: https://tischlibrary.tufts.edu/node/3590 The exhibit will be on view from October 30, 2025 until the end of the semester. This exhibit brings together a selection of music materials from Tisch Library Special Collections, including scores and texts from the Frédéric Louis Ritter Collection. Items on display range from a handwritten illuminated manuscript with early neume notation to scientific music treatises to a Requiem Mass (also known as Mass for the dead)—all representing changes in printing technology and music notation over several hundred years. The materials illustrate music printing practices in use in Europe from the early modern period through the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, including manuscripts written and decorated by hand, letterpress printing with woodblocks, and printing with engraved copper or metal plates. Print your own images on the letterpress using woodblock plates of illustrations and examples from texts featured in the exhibit: Zarlino’s Le istitutioni harmoniche (1558), Lasso’s Selectissimæ cantiones, quas vulgo motetas vocant (1568), or Kircher’s Musurgia universalis, sive, Ars magna consoni et dissoni in decem libros digesta (1650). Join the Digital Design Studio for a brief demonstration of how we produced the printing plates used during this exhibition. From sourcing high quality digital images, creating a vector file and then engraving with a laser cutter, we’ll talk through the process, challenges, and decision making that went into making the final plates. We’ll also share some upcoming opportunities for you to learn more about laser engraving your own designs! Demonstrations are 20 minutes and run every 30 minutes at 4:30 and 5 p.m.

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!)

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Seventh floor of the Cabot Intercultural Center, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Students (Graduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Education,Humanities,Israel-Hamas war,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP); the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora; The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies; Tisch College of Civic Life; and the World Peace Foundation RSVP Information: https://tinyurl.com/TuftsAFConference Event Contact Name: Amaia Elorza Arregi Event Contact Email: Amaia.Elorza_Arregi@tufts.edu The conference will provide a space to discuss academic freedom on the American campus. Speakers will discuss the history of academic freedom, current interpretations, recent developments, challenges, and reactions to these infringements. In order to provide a broad perspective on the issue, the conference will cover five topic areas or disciplines, as well as a keynote lecture. The panels will focus on academic freedoms as it pertains to the fields of climate and environmental policy studies, Israel/Palestine, humanitarianism, and race and colonialism studies.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Wicca/Paganism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. The New Year and the final harvest festival, celebrating the last gifts of the Earth before winter and the return of the spirits of the dead.