Building: Aidekman Arts Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Performance Event Subject: Theater/Dance Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Spiritual Diasporas: A Performance Ceremony + Symposium is a series of week-long embodied gatherings that draw on performance ritual and spiritual ceremony to cultivate care, agency, and worldbuilding through which we experience wholeness. How might we tend to the spirits of this land and of our kin through ceremony? How do we invoke and reckon with entangled colonial histories and their continuations through communal stories, songs, and rituals?  By framing these gatherings as “spiritual diasporas,” we gesture towards the fragmentations and frictions across multiple experiences of migration, not as lack but as a productive portal for creation. By activating the body as an instrument to reclaim and reconnect with spirituality, we cultivate life-affirming power to come together to be in embodied presence with one another and our ancestors. These intimate gatherings include artist workshops, performance ceremony, devised performance workshop, talking circle, and dance party across Wednesday December 3 through Friday December 5 on the Medford campus. All events are open to anyone. Artist Workshop with Artist-in-Residence Dohee Lee Wednesday December 3 10:30-11:45am Alumnae Hall, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155. Opening Reception (Lunch provided)  Wednesday December 3 12-1:15pm Remis Sculpture Court, 15 Lower Campus Road, Medford, MA 02155  Artist Workshop with Artist-in-Residence mica rose Wednesday December 3 1:30-2:45pm Sophia Gordon Hall, 15 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA 02144 Devised Performance Workshop with Zoe Haralambidis (SMFA Performance Club)  Wednesday December 3 4:30-5:45pm  Alumnae Hall, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155 In this workshop, participants will engage writing and movement based practices to produce an informal group performance. The workshop will examine time, language, and spirituality through embodied practice. All levels of experience with movement and performance are welcome. No RSVP needed. 

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Caught in the Act of Breathing.  Tufts Composers explore writing for wind instruments--specifically the trombone--and what breath means for musical shape and pace. Featuring works by Michael Batkin, Jeannette Chechile, John McDonald, Sarah Moeller, Roxanne Oh, Jimmy Wang, guest composer David Yudis, and others. With guest soloists Mikayla Frank-Martin, trombone and Yuseok Seol, piano.

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: Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Social Justice/Human Rights 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 How does politics shape sex and desire? 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: Amia Srinivasan. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Picador Paper, 2022. Discussant: Professor Nancy Bauer, Department of Philosophy

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. Chuck Henry, Colorado State University 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: TBA

Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Austin Room Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Subject: Education,Global Engagement Event Sponsor Details: Tufts European Center Event Contact Name: Kimberlee DeCrescenzo Event Contact Email: kimberlee.decrescenzo@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-3290 Link: https://europeancenter.tufts.edu/scholarships/ Join us to learn more about scholarship opportunities directly from the Tufts European Center and from external sources.

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: 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_ejDLULjYTF2Tbd0o-9Jutg Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#dec4 This lecture explores Henry David Thoreau’s engagement with time as an environmental, personal, and political dimension of experience. While Thoreau is often celebrated for his environmental imagination, this talk focuses on his temporal imagination—his effort to resist the thin, linear time of industrial capitalism and reclaim a richer, cyclical sense of duration rooted in the natural world. At the heart of this inquiry is Thoreau’s late-life project, the Kalendar, a series of charts tracking seasonal phenomena across years, designed to reveal patterns of recurrence and change in the more-than-human world. The speaker argues that Thoreau’s attention to time and seasonality offers a powerful model for rethinking our relationship to the worlds we occupy and create.

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: Balch Arena Theater Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Performance Event Subject: Theater/Dance Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Featuring solo and collaborative performances from Artists in Residence Dohee Lee and mica rose.  6pm pre-show community installation 6:30pm doors open 7pm performance begins 8:30pm post-performance conversation “Ritual on the Road”  Dohee Lee Chilseong Saenamgut (Duringut): Ritual for Sickness is a performance ritual inspired by the sacred rituals originating in the artist’s hometown of Jeju Island, Korea. The ceremony, which features Lee performing along with three musicians, and a ritual altar, continues the exploration of ritual performances she began in 2004 PURI Art.  “My motivation for creating rituals is to address needs...community needs, nature needs, ancestors needs and our own needs for healing and reconciliation,” said Lee. “I want to call upon this ritual to name the sicknesses which are challenging our community, our country and our world. This ritual is a way to use the body, mind and spirit to encounter and heal and transform.” This ritual allows participants to identify and confront challenges, purge destructive and monstrous spirits (Heomaengyee-허맹이), and invite vital spirits (Chilseong-칠성신) back to humanity and land. The altar installation and ritual performance are by DoheeLee. Music composition is by Adria Otte and Dohee Lee, Garments by Dana Kawano and Dohee Lee we and other queer goddexxes mica rose we and other queer goddexxes is a communal exploration of queer and diasporic identity through storytelling, poetry, movement, and audience interaction. mica rose (they/them) carves queer divinity through breath, word, and movement. They are a mestize Tagala memory artist who honors oral & embodied traditions—like theatre, story circles, biomimicry, spoken word, and more—as paths for communal care. mica is a co-director at the Arts Connect International and organizes with Liyang Network. 

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/98588259736?pwd=eyVDk8l4rQGcpRZopWf3ZPsoiE4I9M.1&from=addon Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/98588259736?pwd=eyVDk8l4rQGcpRZopWf3ZPsoiE4I9M.1&from=addon Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Subject: Education,Global Engagement Event Sponsor Details: Tufts European Center Event Contact Name: Kim DeCrescenzo Event Contact Email: kimberlee.decrescenzo@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-3290 Link: https://europeancenter.tufts.edu/scholarships/ Join us on Zoom to learn more about scholarship opportunities directly from the Tufts European Center and from external sources.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences From Handel to Hamlisch. The Tufts Opera Ensemble, directed by Carol Mastrodomenico and Thomas Stumpf, presents scenes of love and laughter from the worlds of opera, operetta, and musical theater.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Attah Poku leads Kiniwe in a performance of music and dance from Ghana featuring Mohammed Alidu, Agbekor Drum and Dance Society, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute African Drumming Ensemble. 

Building: 51 Winthrop Street City: Medford, MA 02155 Location Details: Breed Memorial Hall 51 Winthrop St. Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Arts Event Sponsor Details: ArtsMedford RSVP Information: rita.o.dioguardi@gmail.com Event Contact Name: Sarah Beardslee Event Contact Email: info@beadsbybeardslee.com Event Contact Phone: 781-393-5663 Come to the Winter Holiday Market for arts, crafts, and music! There will be 20+ vendors, and all are invited.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Wind Ensemble. TUWE performs a concert for children and families. Ray Daniels, director

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences TSO performs César Franck's Symphony in D Minor and William Grant Still's Poem for Orchestra under the direction of John Page.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Fisher Performance Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Uyon-Uyon Mat-Matan. Gamelan Laras Tentrem and the Tufts gamelan ensemble, Rinengga Sih Tentrem, perform a concert of Javanese gamelan music with special guest artists I.M. Harjito and Peni Candra Rini. Barry Drummond, director.

Building: Olin Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: 011 Wheelchair Accessible: No Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Film Screening Event Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence,Global Engagement,Humanities Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Romance Studies department Event Sponsor Details: Department of Romance Studies Event Contact Name: Magdalena Malinowska Event Contact Email: magdalena.malinowska@tufts.edu Mexican Films in Spanish, movie #3: Crimen de; padro amaro. This is the third of three movie series events.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Buddhism) Day of commemoration for the Buddha having achieved enlightenment. 

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Christianity-Catholic) A feast day that celebrates the belief that Mary, mother of Jesus, was born without sin.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Varis Lecture Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Music department Event Contact Name: Anna Griffis Event Contact Email: anna.griffis@tufts.edu Dana Westover presents a colloquium in the Varis Lecture Hall.