Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/96667611092?pwd=qcr7aDTmY3ncsY3pMz7IYMDrMUPTuN.1 Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Interns and Residents,Parents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence Event Sponsor Details: Office of Institutional Inclusive Excellence Speaker Name: Alaina Macaulay, Assistant Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Leadership and Tiffany Enos, Associate Provost for Inclusive Staff and Administrative Excellence RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1LM1LAFVTIEVUQPuNeEDgFVokxNDqmj4VOGOC0jZnt4MoZA/viewform Event Contact Name: Lisa Bloom Event Contact Email: diversity@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-4815 Join The Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence for the ELEVATE Year 2 in Review virtual update as we reflect on progress, share key outcomes, and look ahead to what’s next. Your presence and perspective are an important part of this ongoing work. Please RSVP to receive the event link.   *You'll need to use your Tufts email address to register for this event.*

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program Speaker Name: Emily Vogler, Associate Professor, Rhode Island School of Design RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qOictOcSSA-kD9M1j-Dj5A Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#apr23 Landscape architecture brings together art and science to address ecological and cultural challenges shaping our environment— from regional scale projects that address issues of climate change, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity loss to small-scale urban projects that interject an artful awareness of ecology and civic vibrancy into the urban fabric. In this lecture, Emily Vogler will discuss how designers navigate complex environmental issues, focusing on her framework of the Hydro Commons to examine how design can strengthen stewardship, resilience, and a sense of place around shared water resources. She will highlight the distinctive approach at RISD, where landscape architecture exists alongside other art and design disciplines with deep relationships to craft and material practices. This material knowledge and culture of critical making inform how the department addresses regional ecological, social, and infrastructural issues at the site and material scale. She will discuss the importance of working across scales, collaborating on interdisciplinary teams, and integrating research and design to meet today’s interconnected social–ecological challenges. 

Building: Mugar Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: The Fares Center Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Arts,Humanities,International Affairs,Politics/Policy/Law,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor Details: The Fares Center Speaker Name: Iman Humaydan and Michelle Hartman RSVP Information: https://forms.gle/zHvLNs8PDtKyKEWE9 Please join the Fares Center for a book talk with Iman Humaydan, a Lebanese novelist, creative writing teacher, editor, and freelance journalist. Humaydan will discuss her latest novel, Songs for Darkness, which has been translated from Arabic by Michelle Hartman.  The event, commemorating World Book Day, will be the Fares Center's last event of the year. Summary of Songs of Darkness: Iman Humaydan’s saga recalls the voices of four generations of women from one family in the imaginary village of Kasura in Mount Lebanon. Its narrator, Asmahan, named after the beloved Syrian singer, has devoted her adult life to recovering the stories of her ancestors, who persisted in the shadows of male supremacy, war, military occupation, and impoverishment. Her mother, Layla, disappeared when Asmahan was still a teenager. Her grandmother, Yasmine, died giving birth. And her great-grandmother, Shahira, struggled through two world wars, famine, and suffocating gender norms to win an education for her children and eke out a better life for her family. Asmahan is determined to protect her daughter and break out of the cycle of intergenerational violence and wounds that the women who came before her suffered. She packs up her daughter to emigrate after a divorce, when her husband takes their son away from her on his seventh birthday, during the darkest days of the 1982 Israeli invasion. These women’s legacies span and echo the scarred history of an abused homeland, from the eve of the first World War to the 1982 Lebanon War. In honoring their unfulfilled lives, Iman Humaydan insistently preserves intimate stories of abundant tenacity, generosity, sacrifice—and songs, provisions sorely needed for dark times.