IIE Open House
The Office for Institutional Inclusive Excellence (IIE) would like to invite all of our friends and partners to come and visit our new office space at Barnum Hall in room 238 (second floor).
Please use the sign up sheet to let us know your availability. The open houses will be held on:
September 16 from 9–11 a.m.
September 17 from 2–4 p.m.
September 24 from 1–3 p.m.
There is no formal program for the open house event. You and your teams can drop by for drinks and snacks or to just say hello!
If there are conflicts with the open house dates, please contact jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu to schedule a 30-minute meeting with the IIE team, or if you would like to discuss a possible training or collaboration complete a consultation form which can be found on our website.
We look forward to seeing you all in September!
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: 163 Packard, Barnum Hall
Room 238. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Event Type: Community Engagement. Event Subject: Community Celebration. Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence. RSVP Information: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/73d51baf-ba8f-4b18-9318-f1ba8c45495b/select. Event Contact Name: Jasmine Raynor. Event Contact Email: jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 857-293-8048.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit doodle.com. Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Entrepreneurial Taco Social
Join us for a taco, meet and mingle with Tufts innovators and entrepreneurs, and learn how Derby Entrepreneurship Center can support your entrepreneurial journey. Faculty and staff will be available to answer questions on academics, business plan competitions, and co-curricular events. Learn about ventures founded by Tufts students.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: TTC Patio. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation. Event Subject: Innovation. RSVP Information: https://derbyecenter.tufts.edu/event/tacos-fall25/. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Name: Carol Denning. Event Contact Email: carol.denning@tufts.edu.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit derbyecenter.tufts.edu. Tufts University Retirement Plans Information Session
Starting November 1, 2025, Fidelity Investments will be the sole provider of administrative services for both the Tufts University-Funded Retirement Plan – 401(a) and the Self-Funded Retirement Plan – 403(b). Dan Shea and Matt Greeke from Fidelity will be hosting this virtual information session to review what the transition to Fidelity means and how it may affect you.
Online Location Details: https://www.myfidelitysite.com/TuftsUniversity/tufts-university/8222. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation. Event Subject: Financial Health. RSVP Information: https://fmr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Apq0vA2qTzKgKqYEC5Tl0g#/registration.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit fmr.zoom.us. TUSM Global Health Seminar Series: Department of Defense Overseas Research Laboratories: Supporting Global Health, Bio Preparedness, and Force Health Protection
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) operates several overseas medical research laboratories in partnership with host countries, and these laboratories play a critical role in conducting global health disease surveillance and develop diagnostics, therapeutics, and preventive measures. In this talk, Andrew Letizia will describe the unique global health research niche of the U.S. DoD overseas laboratories; discuss examples of specific DoD emerging infectious disease surveillance and product development studies; and explain the key role of the DoD in informing public health mitigation strategies.
Speaker: Captain Andrew Letizia, MD, MTM&H, FIDSA, is a practicing U.S. Navy infectious disease physician, a professor at the Uniformed Services University, and faculty at The National University of Singapore and Wake Forest University. Since 2021, he has served as the science director for the Naval Medical Research Unit Indo-Pacific, where he leads a team conducting over $9 million of research annually in 11 countries…
Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus. Location Details: Posner Auditorium (200 Harrison Ave. Boston, MA 02111) and on Zoom. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Interns and Residents. Postdoctoral Fellows. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium. Event Subject: Global Engagement. Health/Wellness. Medicine. Speaker Name: Captain Andrew Letizia, MD, MTM&H, FIDSA. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uYs8dFFkT1KAWbowNw0pLA#/registration. Event Contact Name: Kim Burke. Event Contact Email: kimberly.burke@tufts.edu.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.zoom.us. Seminar Series: Prof. Nan Jiang (Host: Prof. Arthur Utz)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Title: "Probing Chemistry at the Angstrom-Scale via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Combined with Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy".
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Speaker Name: Prof. Nan Jiang, University of Illinois Chicago. Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell. Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
IIE Open House
The Office for Institutional Inclusive Excellence (IIE) would like to invite all of our friends and partners to come and visit our new office space at Barnum Hall in room 238 (second floor).
Please use the sign up sheet to let us know your availability. The open houses will be held on:
September 16 from 9–11 a.m.
September 17 from 2–4 p.m.
September 24 from 1–3 p.m.
There is no formal program for the open house event. You and your teams can drop by for drinks and snacks or to just say hello!
If there are conflicts with the open house dates, please contact jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu to schedule a 30-minute meeting with the IIE team, or if you would like to discuss a possible training or collaboration complete a consultation form which can be found on our website.
We look forward to seeing you all in September!
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: 163 Packard, Barnum Hall
Room 238. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Event Type: Community Engagement. Event Subject: Community Celebration. Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence. RSVP Information: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/73d51baf-ba8f-4b18-9318-f1ba8c45495b/select. Event Contact Name: Jasmine Raynor. Event Contact Email: jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 857-293-8048.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit doodle.com. Arts and Society: Dialogues: Collective Inquiry
This salon focuses on the idea of collective inquiry as we engage the exhibition “How do you throw a brick through the window…”. The exhibition explores how individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate protest in the face of ableism despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces. Works in the exhibit reimagine embodied dissent informed by disabled, sick, mad, and healing frameworks. The exhibition will be introduced by Laurel V. McLaughlin, curator and director of the Collective Futures Fund for Tufts University Art Galleries.
Campus: Boston SMFA campus. Location Details: Anderson Gallery
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA)
230 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Event Subject: Arts. RSVP Information: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cNCGBK8ZkRvSl4q. Event Contact Name: Anna Dalby. Event Contact Email: anna.dalby@tufts.edu.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
For more info visit viceprovost.tufts.edu. Tufts Constitution Day
Join us as we commemorate Constitution Day, a national observance recognizing the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. Constitution Day at Tufts is hosted by The Career Center, the Department of Sociology, and the Department of Political Science. We are proud to welcome Tufts alumni attorneys and Professor Michael Glennon to share their insights on how constitutional principles guide real-world decisions in the courtroom and beyond. The event will also feature a Q&A session, and discussions on how the Constitution continues to inform civil liberties, governance, and life today.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room 260. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends. Faculty. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium. Event Subject: Career Development. Politics/Policy/Law. Public Service/Government.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.joinhandshake.com. Climate Policy Lab Symposium
Please join us for our inaugural symposium: "Mind the Gaps: Climate Policy Integration and Implementation" from September 18–19.
Bringing together leaders in climate policy research, practice, and implementation, participants will gain insights into how specific structural barriers in their countries could be addressed through integration of national agendas and through enhanced policy implementation. Speakers will exchange knowledge and experiences regarding what policies and strategies have proven effective and which have not in decarbonizing economies in their countries.
Please see our full agenda here. We look forward to seeing you there!
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends. Faculty. Postdoctoral Fellows. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium. Event Subject: Sustainability/Climate. Global Engagement. RSVP Information: https://www.climatepolicylab.org/symposium. Event Contact Name: Alyssa Scheiner. Event Contact Email: alyssa.scheiner@tufts.edu.
Thursday, September 18, 2025 – Friday, September 19, 2025.
For more info visit www.climatepolicylab.org. Postdoc Appreciation Week Career Development Event
Contact the OVPR for more information!
Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus. Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes. Event Contact Name: Phil Hinds. Event Contact Email: phil.hinds@tufts.edu.
Thursday, September 18, 2025.
For more info visit viceprovost.tufts.edu. TUSDM Faculty Awards Luncheon
Event Type: Deadline/Reminder.
Thursday, September 18, 2025.
Climate Policy Lab Symposium
The international symposium will highlight the importance of multistakeholder engagement and cooperation in climate policy implementation. Bringing together leaders in climate policy research, practice, and implementation, participants will gain insights into how specific structural barriers in their countries could be addressed through the integration of national agendas and enhanced policy implementation.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Thursday, September 18, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.climatepolicylab.org. AI, Warfare and the Law
Earlier this year, Bill Boothby published his new book about AI, Warfare and the Law. One of the purposes of the text is to identify what artificial intelligence in the form of autonomous weapons and support to human decision-making must reliably do if it is to be legally acceptable. A second purpose is to work out who can be held legally responsible if things go wrong. Bill will explain some of the issues he grappled with when writing the book and will probably pose as many questions as he answers.
Air Commodore Bill Boothby retired as Deputy Director of Royal Air Force Legal Services in July 2011. He took a Doctorate at the Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany and has published books, inter alia, on Weapons Law, Targeting Law, the law relating to conflict and on new and emerging technologies. More recently with Professor Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, he published a Commentary on the US DoD Law of War Manual and ‘Nuclear Weapons Law’ both with CUP. His book on AI, Warfare and the Law w…
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Mugar 200. Open to Public: Yes.
Thursday, September 18, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit forms.office.com. [ENVS] Flow or Blow?: Volcanic Eruptions and Their Hazards
Each volcano has a signature behavior based on the magma in its system, tending to erupt either explosively (rock fall) or effusively (lava flows). The Cascade Volcanoes on the west coast of the United States include active volcanoes that erupt explosively; past eruptions have produced volcanic bombs the size of cars and widespread clouds of hot ash and rock. Fallout from these clouds have been found hundreds of miles from the originating volcano. While explosive eruptions produce more obvious hazards, effusive eruptions can nonetheless have catastrophic consequences for those living nearby. Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano has produced lava flows that level houses and gases that render the air noxious (aka “vog” – volcanic smog). This talk will explore volcanoes, their hazards, and what they mean for humans living near them.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zIjaFGXFSRaVwlVf-uUNVg#/registration.
Thursday, September 18, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Digital Scholarship Conversations: Digital Mapping Tools and Maps!
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, Ian Spangler will talk about the digital mapping tools supported by the Levanthal Map and Education Center, Boston Public Library, including Atlascope, Allmaps, as well as their extensive digital map collections. He will touch on some of the technical aspects of these tools, such as georeferencing workflows, APIs for querying collections, and use of IIIF for digital image collections.
Spangler is a cultural and economic geographer with interests in digital mapping, housing studies, and race and landscape in the U.S. He earned his B.A. in English and geography from the University of Mary Washington, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in geography from the University of Kentucky. At Tufts, Spangler teaches "Introduction to Geospatial Humanities,…
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: Ian Spangler. Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer. Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu.
Thursday, September 18, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.libcal.com. Monthly Drop-Ins: IIE, OUC and OEO
Monthly Drop-Ins with IIE, OUC and OEO
The Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence will also be partnering with the Office of University Counsel and the Office of Equal Opportunity to offer joint office hours through the summer. These 60 minute virtual office hours can serve as drop-ins for questions or consultations to faculty, staff, and students who have questions about how federal actions may impact their research, teaching, programs, or scholarship at Tufts.
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/SsoieI6LTb6-rE-IhpSBlA#/registration. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation. Event Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence. Education. Global Engagement. Politics/Policy/Law. Research. Event Contact Name: Jasmine Raynor. Event Contact Email: jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 8572938048.
Thursday, September 18, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit diversity.tufts.edu. Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick Artist Conversation + Reception
Join us for a public conversation at 6PM at TUAG / Medford (Aidekman Arts Center) with exhibiting artist Beverly Semmes, exhibition curator TUAG Director Dina Deitsch, and Camilo Alvarez followed by a reception celebrating the exhibition Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick. .
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes. Speaker Name: Beverly Semmes, Dina Deitsch, Camilo Alvarez. RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beverly-semmes-boulders-flag-flip-kick-public-reception-tickets-1393137193849?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl.
Thursday, September 18, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Climate Policy Lab Symposium
The international symposium will highlight the importance of multistakeholder engagement and cooperation in climate policy implementation. Bringing together leaders in climate policy research, practice, and implementation, participants will gain insights into how specific structural barriers in their countries could be addressed through the integration of national agendas and enhanced policy implementation.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Friday, September 19, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.climatepolicylab.org. Cross University Student Mixer
Connect with other innovators eager to change the world, meet potential cofounders or team members, and chat with people who understand #startuplife. Aspiring innovators, founders, and entrepreneurs from Babson, Olin, Wellesley, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, UMass Amherst, UMass Lowell, and more will be there!
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: JCC first floor lobby. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Community Engagement. Information Session/Open House/Orientation. Event Subject: Innovation. RSVP Information: https://markitai.com/e/EON-YZFQs. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Name: Carol Denning. Event Contact Email: carol.denning@tufts.edu.
Friday, September 19, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit derbyecenter.tufts.edu. Sunday Concert Series: OPUS
Graduate student Jimmy Wang hosts a concert in memory of Ryuichi Sakamoto, as inspiration for his thesis on musical nonviolence.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Performance.
Sunday, September 21, 2025, 3:00 PM.
Mabon
Multifaith Observances
(Wicca/Paganism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Autumnal equinox and the second harvest festival, celebrating the equivalence of light and dark, the arrival of Autumn, and thanksgiving for the Earth's bounty.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, September 22, 2025.
Navaratri
Multifaith Observances
(Hinduism) A nine-night (nav-rat) celebration of nine auspicious forms of Shakti/Devi (feminine divine power/the Goddess). Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work and may include fasting.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, September 22, 2025 – Thursday, October 2, 2025.
Rosh Hashanah
Multifaith Observances
(Judaism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. The Jewish New Year and the anniversary of the creation of humankind, Rosh Hashanah is the first of the Ten Days of Awe (also known as the Ten Days of Repentance) that conclude on Yom Kippur. It marks the beginning of the holiest time of the year for Jews. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, September 22, 2025 – Wednesday, September 24, 2025.
Monthly Drop-Ins: IIE, OUC and OEO
Monthly Drop-Ins with IIE, OUC and OEO
The Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence will also be partnering with the Office of University Counsel and the Office of Equal Opportunity to offer joint office hours through the summer. These 60 minute virtual office hours can serve as drop-ins for questions or consultations to faculty, staff, and students who have questions about how federal actions may impact their research, teaching, programs, or scholarship at Tufts.
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/odp5KDh_RDGrwdYCMg-blA#/registration. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation. Event Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence. Education. Global Engagement. Politics/Policy/Law. Research. Event Contact Name: Jasmine Raynor. Event Contact Email: jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 8572938048.
Monday, September 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit diversity.tufts.edu. Intro to Adobe InDesign: A DDS Community Skillshare
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and page layout application used for making books, magazines, reports, and more, and is available on the computers at Tisch Library's Digital Design Studio (DDS).
In this workshop, taught by Lili Newberry, A26, participants will learn the key features of InDesign and get hands-on practice, as well as learn ways to continue learning after the workshop! All are welcome to attend.
This workshop is part of the DDS Community Skillshare series. For this series, students from across Tufts University are invited to teach a digital media skill to the campus, with support provided by DDS staff to design the workshop. For more information, or to apply to teach a DDS Community Skillshare workshop in a future semester, please reach out to Kylie Burnham at kylie.burnham@tufts.edu.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Digital Design Studio, Tisch Library, room 303. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Students (Graduate). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Arts. Education. RSVP Information: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/15235973. Event Contact Name: Kylie Burnham. Event Contact Email: kylie.burnham@tufts.edu.
Monday, September 22, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.libcal.com. Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Seminar Series: Prof. Yinsheng Wang (Host: Prof. Kevin Clark)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
"Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acid-Binding Proteins".
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Speaker Name: Prof. Yinsheng Wang, University of California, Riverside. Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell. Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Civic Life Lunch: Growing Communities with the Tufts Pollinator Initiative
How do we recognize and promote the importance of native species on campus and in other urban spaces? The Tufts Pollinator Initiative (TPI) is a group on campus cultivating native plant gardens that encourage pollinators, while also advocating pollinator outreach and education off campus, too. Hear from TPI President Blythe Elderd about the history of the organization and how their work offers a model for cultivating civic responsibility at Tufts and beyond. You’ll also take home a seed medley grown in our very own Tufts gardens to keep the momentum growing. All are welcome. Lunch provided.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: 216F, Barnum Hall (second floor). Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Event Subject: Sustainability/Climate. RSVP Information: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/civic-life-lunch-growing-communities-tufts-pollinator-initiative. Admission/Cost: Free.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tischcollege.tufts.edu. IIE Open House
The Office for Institutional Inclusive Excellence (IIE) would like to invite all of our friends and partners to come and visit our new office space at Barnum Hall in room 238 (second floor).
Please use the sign up sheet to let us know your availability. The open houses will be held on:
September 16 from 9–11 a.m.
September 17 from 2–4 p.m.
September 24 from 1–3 p.m.
There is no formal program for the open house event. You and your teams can drop by for drinks and snacks or to just say hello!
If there are conflicts with the open house dates, please contact jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu to schedule a 30-minute meeting with the IIE team, or if you would like to discuss a possible training or collaboration complete a consultation form which can be found on our website.
We look forward to seeing you all in September!
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: 163 Packard, Barnum Hall
Room 238. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Event Type: Community Engagement. Event Subject: Community Celebration. Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence. RSVP Information: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/73d51baf-ba8f-4b18-9318-f1ba8c45495b/select. Event Contact Name: Jasmine Raynor. Event Contact Email: jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 857-293-8048.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit doodle.com. Faculty Book Talk and Celebration: "Critical Dreaming" with Lilian Mengesha
Please join us on September 24 to hear Lily Mengesha discuss her newest monograph, Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances Across Indigenous Americas.
Critical Dreaming offers a resonant framework for understanding Indigenous embodied ways of knowing that work against colonial attempts to discredit or disappear forms of imagination, relationality, and resistance connecting disparate Indigenous communities. This powerful book urges readers to recognize how Indigenous artists contribute to ongoing struggles against multiple forms of colonialism.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, and the Theatre, Dance and Performance department. Please contact humanities@tufts.edu with any questions.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends. Faculty. Postdoctoral Fellows. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Event Type: Community Engagement. Event Subject: Arts. Humanities. Religion/Spirituality. Research. Social Justice/Human Rights. Theater/Dance. 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.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
For more info visit humanities.tufts.edu. The Heist: How the Tech Industry Exploits the History of Art and What We Can Do to Stop It
Barkan Lecture with Sonja Drimmer, associate professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University Massachusetts Amherst.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room 316. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Event Subject: Arts. Engineering/Technology.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Fast of Gedaliah
Multifaith Observances
(Judaism) Begins at dawn. A minor Jewish fast. Observances during this time may include fasting.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Thursday, September 25, 2025.
[ENVS] Resilient Mass Plan: How Massachusetts is Preparing for Climate Change
The ResilientMass Plan was released in 2023 as an update to the federally mandated state’s hazards mitigation and climate adaptation plan. The Plan outlines the most urgent climate change impacts in Massachusetts and establishes cross-government and state agency actions to address them. The actions include the creation of the Office of Climate Science, which the speaker is a member of. The speaker will share how this office serves to empower state and municipal agencies in their climate resilience planning/projects. Some examples include providing high-resolution climate data and offering technical assistances. Finally, the speaker will reflect on how those with STEM and non-STEM backgrounds alike can contribute to climate resilience in Massachusetts.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mVrZeq2dQOKZibPv-wIUPg.
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Langsam Barsam Simches Lecture
Drawing Power, Reading Images: Why Comics Matter
Framed as the “ninth art,” comics and graphic novels occupy a central place in the Francophone cultural scene—widely read across age groups, frequently adapted into prize-winning films, and often a catalyst for public debate and controversy over representation. In this context, the talk first historicizes the medium’s role in circulating colonial, sexist, and orientalist narratives, while also examining its cross-generational readership. Through close visual reading—attending to framing, sequencing, page layout, color design, and narrative structure—we will show how bandes dessinées can make meaning, shape affect, and carry ideology. We then turn to the political economy of the comics and graphic novel industry, and to the shift toward platform distribution, where social media such as Instagram is reshaping publics, careers, and visual forms. The conclusion highlights how contemporary cartoonists leverage visual storytelling to contest entrenched visual…
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Lecture in Room 011
Reception in Laminan Lounge. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Event Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence. Global Engagement. Social Justice/Human Rights. Speaker Name: Tony Haouam.
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Tufts Day of Service 2025
Kick off this academic year right and join Tufts University's 3rd annual Day of Service! Volunteers will meet promptly at 51 Winthrop Street/Breed Memorial Hall by 1 p.m. for check-in, a brief speaking program, and a group photo. All supplies and instructions will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a refillable water bottle and wear sneakers and Tufts gear. There will be snacks, water, and fun raffle prizes from local businesses. Tufts students, staff, faculty, alumni, friends, and community members are encouraged to participate in this volunteer opportunity. Bring your friends!
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Off-campus. Location Details: Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop Street. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends. Faculty. Parents. Postdoctoral Fellows. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Community Engagement. RSVP Information: https://givepul.se/o49yig. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Name: Jessica Byrnes. Event Contact Email: jessica.byrnes@tufts.edu.
Friday, September 26, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit givepul.se. Sunday Concert Series: Anticipation
Graduate student Jimmy Wang plays OPUS, a memoir of Ryuichi Sakamoto's compositions, as inspiration for his thesis on musical nonviolence.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Music by Jacob Kremberg, Johann Schenk, and J.P. Rameau with Pamela Dellal, voice, Catherine Liddell, Baroque lute and theorbo, Frances Conover Fitch, harpsichord, and Jane Hershey, viola da gamba. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Performance.
Sunday, September 28, 2025, 3:00 PM.
Can I Delete This? File Management for Creative Media Projects
Do you hesitate to delete files from your video or audio project? Is your desktop cluttered with files? Join this workshop from Tisch Library's Digital Design Studio to learn more about project files vs. media files, media format types (.jpeg, .mov, .mp4, and more), and file management best practices for creative media projects!
Online Location Details: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/15235878. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Students (Graduate). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Arts. Career Development.
Monday, September 29, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.libcal.com. Tufts University Retirement Plans Information Session
Starting November 1, 2025, Fidelity Investments will be the sole provider of administrative services for both the Tufts University-Funded Retirement Plan – 401(a) and the Self-Funded Retirement Plan – 403(b). Dan Shea and Matt Greeke from Fidelity will be hosting this virtual information session to review what the transition to Fidelity means and how it may affect you.
Online Location Details: https://www.myfidelitysite.com/TuftsUniversity/tufts-university/8222. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation. Event Subject: Financial Health. RSVP Information: https://fmr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Apq0vA2qTzKgKqYEC5Tl0g#/registration.
Monday, September 29, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit fmr.zoom.us. Tufts Consumer Product Fair
Come learn about the retail businesses that Tufts students, faculty, staff and alumni are building. Become a customer and support a Jumbo!
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: JCC first floor lobby. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation. Event Subject: Innovation. RSVP Information: No RSVP required. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Name: Carol Denning. Event Contact Email: carol.denning@tufts.edu.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit derbyecenter.tufts.edu. Developing Digital Project Assignments: Foundations
Are you interested in developing creative, alternative assignments for your classes? Whether you’re dreaming of a podcast, map, digital archive, exhibit, or multimodal publication, this workshop will walk through the basics of designing a digital project for your course. We will discuss a range of activities and projects, tools and technologies, how to match digital projects to your course objectives, scaffolding, and creative assessment.
We welcome you to reach out to Kaylen Dwyer (kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu) or Kylie Burnham (Kylie.Burnham@tufts.edu) at any time to discuss your classroom needs.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Digital Design Studio (DDS), third floor. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Students (Graduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Humanities. Speaker Name: Kylie Burnham and Kaylen Dwyer. Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer. Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.libcal.com. Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Yom Kippur
Multifaith Observances
(Judaism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Day of Atonement, the conclusion of the Ten Days of Awe, Yom Kippur is the holiest and most solemn of all days in the Jewish year. It is characterized by repentance, fasting, and forgiveness. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work and may include fasting.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 – Thursday, October 2, 2025.
Civilian Response to Active Shooter Training
Tufts Public Safety will be offering Civilian Response to Active Shooter Training this semester to all members of the Tufts University community. In these 60-minute sessions, participants will learn strategies if confronted with an active shooter situation. The training expands on the tools and techniques found in the Tufts University Emergency Response Guide found at https://emergency.tufts.edu/guide/.
NOTE: Session locations will be emailed upon registration.
Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Health/Wellness. RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center. Event Contact Name: Andre Watson. Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit tufts.myabsorb.com. Seminar Series: Prof. Jianhan Chen (Host: Prof. Xinqiang Ding)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Title: TBA.
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Speaker Name: Prof. Jianhan Chen, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell. Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-624-2649.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Dusserah (Vijaya Dashami)
Multifaith Observances
(Hinduism) A celebration of the triumph(s) of good over evil.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Thursday, October 2, 2025.
Civilian Response to Active Shooter Training
Tufts Public Safety will be offering Civilian Response to Active Shooter Training this semester to all members of the Tufts University community. In these 60-minute sessions, participants will learn strategies if confronted with an active shooter situation. The training expands on the tools and techniques found in the Tufts University Emergency Response Guide found at emergency.tufts.edu/response-guide/.
Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Health/Wellness. RSVP Information: Register through Zoom. Event Contact Name: Andre Watson. Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu.
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit tufts.zoom.us. [ENVS] Flow Like Water
Have you noticed how water often finds its way? Why is it that we have gotten so comfortable explaining why we're stuck, rather than find a way, like water does? Let's talk about some junctures in some Eastie Farm projects where we got stuck and what it took to get unstuck, whether it's acquiring land as a grassroots community organization or building a structure with an unfamiliar energy infrastructure without much support. Let's hear about a situation where you felt stuck and discuss it as a class. Hopefully that will help you move forward and keep moving forward.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-8Ys5YFoTnKa9hqIXEr6zQ.
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Poetry Reading and Conversation with Mark Irwin and Stephen Haven
The English department and the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) invite the entire community to a special event with two visiting poets, Mark Irwin and Stephen Haven.
Mark Irwin is the author of Once When Green, and also the winner of the Juniper Prize in Poetry. Stephen Haven, author of Flight From Meaning, is a finalist for England's International Beverly Prize for Literature. These poets will read from and discuss their new books with the Tufts audience. Irwin's and Haven's new collections explore the enduring spirit of life, imagination, and nature in a world bound by capitalism, technology, and violence—reminding us of what we still have that's worth living for.
All are welcome. Please contact sara.akant@tufts.edu with questions.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Eaton Hall room 260
5 The Green
Medford, MA. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Postdoctoral Fellows. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Event Subject: Arts. Humanities. Religion/Spirituality. Speaker Name: Mark Irwin and Stephen Haven. RSVP Information: Tufts University. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Name: Amanda Pepper. Event Contact Email: amanda.pepper@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 203-763-9353.
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
For more info visit humanities.tufts.edu. 9th Annual ADAPT Community Health Symposium, “Rooted in Resilience: Looking Back to Look Forward.”
Register now to join Tufts CTSI and the ADAPT Coalition for the 9th Annual ADAPT Community Health Symposium, “Rooted in Resilience: Looking Back to Look Forward.”
This half-day, in-person only event will be held on Friday, October 3, 2025, from 8:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. EST, at the Emerson College Bill Bordy Theater (216 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02116).
The symposium convenes researchers, community-based leaders and organizations, students, and representatives across sectors to discuss local community-prioritized health issues and solutions. Together, we will explore lessons learned from grassroots efforts to further the health of our local communities, as well as learn about innovative strategies local scholars and community-based organizations are implementing to advance their work across sectors.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) language interpretation will also be available for attendees.
Campus: Off-campus. Location Details: Emerson College Bill Bordy Theater
216 Tremont St.
Boston, MA 02116. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends. Faculty. Interns and Residents. Postdoctoral Fellows. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium. Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Event Subject: Clinical Care. Health/Wellness. Innovation. Medicine. Research. Science. RSVP Information: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eQVyHZ7ePPxaT6m. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Name: Chloe Yang. Event Contact Email: Chloe.Yang@tuftsmedicine.org.
Friday, October 3, 2025, 8:30 AM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.tuftsctsi.org. OVPR Forum
Join us to learn about our units, explore our programs and initiatives, and engage in a Q&A session with our senior leadership.
Online Location Details: Zoom (Link to be posted). Open to Public: Yes. Event Contact Email: ovpr@tufts.edu.
Friday, October 3, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit viceprovost.tufts.edu. Civic Studies Community Social!
Are you currently co-majoring in civic studies (CVS), minoring in peace and justice studies (PJS) or entrepreneurship for social impact (ESI), or are interested in doing so? Join the civic studies program's first-ever community social to meet fellow CVS students, learn more about the program, enjoy snacks and treats, enter to win a raffle, and have fun with your CVS cohort. Undeclared students interested in co-majoring in CVS and/or minoring in PJS or ESI are welcome.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Rabb Room (100), Barnum Hall. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate). RSVP Information: https://forms.gle/kp4tNnxpU3Z9g8ex5. Admission/Cost: Free.
Friday, October 3, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit tischcollege.tufts.edu. Tufts Community Day
Tufts Community Day is an annual Tufts tradition, celebrating arts, innovation and community. Our campus neighbors are invited to join us on our Medford/Somerville campus, along with community partners, students, staff, and faculty for a day of live entertainment, family friendly activities, and free food.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Community Engagement. Event Subject: Community Celebration. Event Contact Name: Leah Boudreau. Event Contact Email: leah.boudreau@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-3780.
Sunday, October 5, 2025, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit cday.tufts.edu. Boston Festival of New Jewish Music
The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music presents its first concert of the 2025-26 season at the Multicultural Arts Center on Sunday, October 5th, featuring three genre-defining acts representing decades at the top of klezmer music: Veretski Pass, Adrianne Greenbaum's Fleytmusik, and Jake Shulman-Ment and Abigale Reisman's Two Strings. In the afternoon before the concert, the artists offer a series of workshops on klezmer music for students and community members at the Granoff Music Center. Free for Tufts community members; students: $15; General Public: $50.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Sunday, October 5, 2025, 1:00 PM.
Sunday Concert Series: A Celebration with Emmanuel Feldman and Friends
Cellist Emmanuel Feldman and guests perform music by Feldman, Gershwin, Mozart, and Piazzolla.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Sunday, October 5, 2025, 3:00 PM.
Sukkot
Multifaith Observances
(Judaism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Also known as Feast of Booths. An eight-day Jewish festival of booths (or tabernacles) and the fall harvest. The name refers to the booths (sukkot) used by Israelites during desert wanderings and constructed in the fields during the harvest season. It is a time of thanksgiving for God's presence in creation and among the Jewish people. The Eighth Day (Shmini 'Atzeret) is considered both the end of Sukkot and a distinct festival. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, October 6, 2025 – Monday, October 13, 2025.
Tufts University Retirement Plans Information Session
Starting November 1, 2025, Fidelity Investments will be the sole provider of administrative services for both the Tufts University-Funded Retirement Plan – 401(a) and the Self-Funded Retirement Plan – 403(b). Dan Shea and Matt Greeke from Fidelity will be hosting this virtual information session to review what the transition to Fidelity means and how it may affect you.
Online Location Details: https://www.myfidelitysite.com/TuftsUniversity/tufts-university/8222. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation. Event Subject: Financial Health. RSVP Information: https://fmr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Apq0vA2qTzKgKqYEC5Tl0g#/registration.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit fmr.zoom.us. Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
3rd Annual Food is Medicine National Summit
The 3rd Annual Food is Medicine National Summit brings together healthcare leaders, clinicians, community and advocacy organizers, investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and patients with lived experience to share and highlight advances, best practices, challenges, and next directions in food is medicine. Open to registered participants only. Registration opens in spring 2025.
Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus. Open to Public: No. Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium. Event Contact Name: Food is Medicine Institute. Event Contact Email: foodismedicine@tufts.edu.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 – Thursday, October 9, 2025.
Stuart Weitzman
Join this event to learn about Stuart Weitzman’s successful journey in footwear design and entrepreneurship!
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: JCC first floor lobby. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Event Subject: Innovation. RSVP Information: https://markitai.com/e/SQNV2Ul6x1. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Name: Carol Denning. Event Contact Email: carol.denning@tufts.edu.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
For more info visit derbyecenter.tufts.edu. Mental Health and Wellbeing Fair
On Wednesday, October 8 from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Counseling and Mental Health Service (CMHS) is hosting a Mental Health and Wellbeing Fair. Different departments will be hosting interactive and engaging booths that aim to help attendees learn about skills and resources to benefit their mental and emotional health. There will also be free food, therapy dogs, and prizes for attending!
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: First Floor Atrium. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Community Engagement. Event Subject: Health/Wellness. Event Contact Name: Erica Schonman. Event Contact Email: erica.schonman@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-3360.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 11:30 PM – Thursday, October 9, 2025, 1:30 AM.
For more info visit students.tufts.edu. HONK! U Symposium: Celebrating 20 Years of Street Music Activism
Twenty years ago, the first HONK! Festival was held in Davis Square, Somerville, as a celebratory public dissent. Today, street music—as practiced by brass bands to promote community-building, art, and activism—is more important than ever. This one-day event, which includes presentations, hands-on workshops, and skill-sharing, aims to bring together a community of scholars, band leaders, artists, activists, and others to explore and engage in innovative and practical applications of brass band and other forms of street music.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 9:00 AM.
For more info visit honkfest.org. Media, Compression, and Algorithms: Understanding File Formats by Breaking Them
Confused about the differences between various export options? Through low-stakes creative activities, we’ll learn about how algorithms in media formats like jpeg, mp3 and gif work by stretching their properties to their limits, revealing artifacts that showcase underlying processes. We'll then talk through selecting the right export options for your creative media projects and answer any questions you might have for your own personal projects.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Digital Design Studio, Tisch Library, room 303. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Students (Graduate). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Arts. Education. RSVP Information: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/15236410. Event Contact Name: Kimberly Forero-Arnias. Event Contact Email: kimberly.forero@tufts.edu.
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.libcal.com. [ENVS] How Much Sun is Enough? Renewable Electricity Strategies for Higher Ed—and The Science Behind Them
Tufts recently entered into an agreement with a solar farm in Texas, marking a significant step in the university’s path toward carbon neutrality. But what are the real climate and financial benefits of buying solar power from across the country—and how do we know? In this talk, sustainability director Tina Woolston and physics professor Roger Tobin explore the renewable electricity options available to universities, how energy markets and carbon accounting shape decision-making, and what the science behind solar energy generation reveals about where and how these projects deliver. Together, they’ll unpack the strategy, assumptions, and implications of Tufts’ solar farm agreement—and what it means for institutions striving to meet climate goals.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_txYYZK4WT2SBQ4-t0rjWpg.
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Beckwith Lecture: Johanna Hedva
Join Tufts University Art Galleries and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA at Tufts) for the 2025 Leo and Betty Beckwith Lecture with Johanna Hedva, And The Human, Stuck in a Permanent State of Smelling Like Dirt.
Campus: Boston SMFA campus. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Speaker Name: Johanna Hedva. RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beckwith-lecture-johanna-hedva-tickets-1645475454379?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit artgalleries.tufts.edu. Ghambar Ayatherm
Multifaith Observances
(Zoroastrianism) Celebrates the creation of plants, the sowing of the winter crop, and the return of herds from pasture.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Sunday, October 12, 2025 – Thursday, October 16, 2025.
Shemini Atzeret
Multifaith Observances
(Judaism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Translates as "Eighth Day of the Assembly;" unclear purpose in the bible and has had many forms of celebration. Comes at the end of Sukkot and almost coincides with Simchat Torah. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, October 13, 2025 – Wednesday, October 15, 2025.
Indigenous Peoples' Day
University Holidays
The university observes a holiday on this day.
Event Type: University Holiday.
Monday, October 13, 2025.
Simchat Torah
Multifaith Observances
(Judaism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Translates as "Rejoicing of the Law." Joyous festival in which the annual cycle of the reading of the Torah in the synagogue is completed and its first book begun again. The celebration typically includes singing, dancing, and marching with Torah scrolls. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 – Wednesday, October 15, 2025.
Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Civilian Response to Active Shooter Training
Tufts Public Safety will be offering Civilian Response to Active Shooter Training this semester to all members of the Tufts University community. In these 60-minute sessions, participants will learn strategies if confronted with an active shooter situation. The training expands on the tools and techniques found in the Tufts University Emergency Response Guide found at https://emergency.tufts.edu/guide/.
NOTE: Session locations will be emailed upon registration.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Health/Wellness. RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center. Event Contact Name: Andre Watson. Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit tufts.myabsorb.com. Tufts Composers: New Sounds Now #1
Time Gaps. From earliest possible historical models, Tufts Composers enter ancient structures through new doors. Past+Future=Present.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 11:00 AM.
Seminar Series: Prof. Petra Reinke (Host: Prof. Charlie Sykes)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Title: TBA.
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Speaker Name: Prof. Petra Reinke, University of Virginia. Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell. Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Tufts University Retirement Plans Information Session
Starting November 1, 2025, Fidelity Investments will be the sole provider of administrative services for both the Tufts University-Funded Retirement Plan – 401(a) and the Self-Funded Retirement Plan – 403(b). Dan Shea and Matt Greeke from Fidelity will be hosting this virtual information session to review what the transition to Fidelity means and how it may affect you.
Online Location Details: https://www.myfidelitysite.com/TuftsUniversity/tufts-university/8222. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation. Event Subject: Financial Health. RSVP Information: https://fmr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Apq0vA2qTzKgKqYEC5Tl0g#/registration.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit fmr.zoom.us. FletcherFest: Explore Global Affairs and Business at The Fletcher School
Join us for an exciting evening where you’ll learn how a Fletcher education can accelerate your career and expand your opportunities. FletcherFest spotlights our new Graduate Business Certificate—open to all Tufts undergraduates—and showcases Fletcher’s broader programs in global affairs and business.
This year’s theme, “Emerging Trends in Business, Employment, and the Future of Work,” will feature engaging conversations with faculty, alumni, and leaders who know how to navigate today’s fast-changing job market.
What’s happening at FletcherFest:
· Hear from Dean Kelly Sims Gallagher and Dean of Global Business Bhaskar Chakravorti
· Connect with outstanding Tufts alumni: Vivek Shah (A94) and Candace Lun Plotkin (F96)
· Get a professional headshot (drop-in)
· Stop by the Office of Professional Development for quick career guidance
· Pick up Fletcher merchandise and enter a raffle for prizes
· Enjoy some delicious food and drink
Come for the insights, connections, and career inspiration—and leave with tools,…
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit fletcher.admissions.tufts.edu. 14th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium and Shucart Lecture
The day-long Tufts Neuroscience Symposium features diverse speakers from around the country, and consistently brings together many from neuroscience disciplines in the Boston area for a day of educational talks and discussions. It is concluded by a lecture that honors William Shucart, former professor and chair of neurosurgery at Tufts School of Medicine.
This year's symposium will center around the theme: "Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Processing: From Synapses to Circuits.".
Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus. Location Details: Behrakis Auditorium (first floor). Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium. RSVP Information: Registration is free but required. Please RSVP via the Eventbrite website by October 9. Event Contact Name: Shelley Scheier. Event Contact Email: shelley.antonio@tufts.edu.
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit tuftsneurosciencesymposium2025.eventbrite.com. [ENVS] Environmental Storytelling for a Changing Planet
It’s clear that the climate crisis is dire, dramatic changes inevitable and already underway, and action inadequate despite decades of increasingly urgent warnings by climate scientists. Culture plays a critical role in shaping how we receive and respond to information, guiding action on the micro and macro scales. How can stories help us to navigate this changing planet? In this talk, Emily will explore the possibilities that interdisciplinary nonfiction storytelling can offer when just the facts fall short. How can braiding journalism, science, history, memory, and imagination create space for discovering or remembering other ways of being and acting in relationship to the earth? She will draw on her own writing on environmental contamination from nuclear weapons production and emerging work on responses to climate change, as well as examples from other boundary-crossing nonfiction writers.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jj27sWB2QI6uwFK8lPwAcA.
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Panel: Fashion Forward
Since the early 1990s, Beverly Semmes has created installations and sculptures of enormous dresses—some reaching over three-stories high, others taking over entire gallery spaces. Since those early days, her relationship with fashion has grown and deepened—from sculptures and installations to an ongoing collaboration with fashion designer Jennifer Minniti—CarWash Collective—that creates wearable garments cut and patterned with Semmes’s images.
Join us for an open conversation with Semmes, Jennifer Minniti, and fashion curator Michelle Finamore, moderated by Lynne Cooney about the intersection of fashion and art.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium. Speaker Name: Jennifer Minniti, Michelle Finamore, and Beverly Semmes, moderated by Lynne Cooney. RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-fashion-forward-tickets-1461675925039?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
For more info visit artgalleries.tufts.edu. Planning for New Towns: An International Symposium on Abundant Housing and Adaptive Zoning
This symposium will explore the potential of ‘new towns’ to address a range of housing affordability and community planning challenges, as well as new research methods and techniques for using adaptive zoning techniques in urban planning.
Most cities and towns in North America are zoned almost entirely as “single-family residential.” This means that when they are fully built-out every farm, field, and forest is developed. These communities will always be car-oriented, sprawling, and too low-density to support public transit.
However, this is not the only way: abundant housing advocates are increasingly coalescing around the need for “new towns,” large master-planned communities that can happen through adaptive zoning innovation. These new towns consider the range of transportation, water/sewer, electricity, waste, safety, education, and other infrastructures while allowing for the creation of places that are mixed-use, walkable, bikeable, and dense enough to support public transit.
This symposium will bri…
Room: Sophia Gordon Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Sophia Gordon Hall room 100. Open to Public: Yes. Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends. Faculty. Interns and Residents. Postdoctoral Fellows. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium. Event Subject: Research. Sustainability/Climate. RSVP Information: https://www.linkedin.com/events/aninternationalsymposiumonabund7351295658781237251/. Admission/Cost: $0. Event Contact Name: Justin Hollander. Event Contact Email: justin.hollander@tufts.edu.
Friday, October 17, 2025, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit sites.tufts.edu. Family and Children's Concert: Pep Band
The Tufts Pep Band performs a concert for children and families. Michel Muller, director.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Saturday, October 18, 2025, 1:00 PM.
Diwali (Dipavali)
Multifaith Observances
(Hinduism) Perhaps the most popular of all Hindu festivals, also known as the Festival of Lights, it is dedicated to the goddess Kali in Bengal and to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, in the rest of India. As with several other festivals, Diwali is associated with one of the stories about the destruction of evil by Vishnu in one of his many manifestations. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, October 20, 2025 – Tuesday, October 21, 2025.
Installation of Granth Sahib Ji as Guru
Multifaith Observances
(Sikhism) This day celebrates Gobind Singh Ji's passing on guruship to Scripture, henceforth known as the Guru Granth Sahib.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, October 20, 2025.
Diwali (Mahavir Nirvana)
Multifaith Observances
(Jainism) This "Festival of Lamps" celebrates the attainment of Moksa by Lord Mahavira. A burning lamp symbolizes the "light of knowledge," which dispels the darkness of delusion and ignorance.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025.
Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Innovate2Impact Innovation Expo
Do you have an idea or solution to a health or healthcare problem?
Accelerate your drug, device, biologic, behavioral health intervention, or other innovation to the next level!
Innovate2Impact is designed to propel your health-related innovation or idea through the next steps. Join us to showcase your early-stage concept or well-tested design, receive input from innovation experts, industry leaders, and clinical specialists, build collaborations, and explore funding opportunities.
This four-part program is open to both emerging and experienced investigators working on health-related innovations.
The series kicks off on Tuesday, October 21 with an Innovation Expo. The expo will showcase a variety of health-related innovations grounded in research, and teams developing innovations, investors, and anyone interested in improving health and healthcare are encouraged to attend.
Emerging and experienced researchers may also submit abstracts via the registration link to participate in the lightning talks or pos…
Online Location Details: Tufts University School of Medicine. Location Details: 145 Harrison Ave. first floor
Boston, MA 02111. 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: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium. Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Event Subject: Business. Clinical Care. Engineering/Technology. Health/Wellness. Innovation. Medicine. Research. Science. RSVP Information: https://airtable.com/appWk1nJxJp9lKvfc/pagTct0TqzwabynIS/form. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Name: Erin Gibson. Event Contact Email: erin.gibson@tuftsmedicine.org.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.tuftsctsi.org. Birth of the Bab
Multifaith Observances
(Baha'i) The anniversary of the birth of the Bab, the herald of the new age for Baha'is. The Shrine of the Bab in Haifa, Israel, is part of the World Center of the Baha'i faith.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025.
Seminar Series: Prof. Pietro Strobbia (Host: Prof. Charlie Mace)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Title: TBA.
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Speaker Name: Prof. Pietro Strobbia, University of Cincinnati. Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell. Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Birth of Baha'u'llah
Multifaith Observances
(Baha'i) The anniversary of the birth of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i faith. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Thursday, October 23, 2025.
[ENVS] TBD
TBD.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Diy8I2qzRSGyj2DQG85PSQ.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Parents and Family Weekend
Join us on campus for Parents and Family Weekend 2025 on Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, to celebrate all things Tufts, hosted by the Parents Giving Program.
Step into your Jumbo’s world and experience Tufts through their eyes!
Over the course of the weekend, you’ll: Hear from university leadership and senior administrators , Attend engaging lectures from our world-renowned faculty , Visit open houses across campus, including the Jumbo Life Fair , Join in a lively round of Bingo Bonanza with the Office of Student Life , Cheer on our athletic teams , Explore campus with our Jumbo Scavenger Hunt , Enjoy music, dance, and performances by student groups at the Avenue of the Arts Festival on Talbot Ave. , Browse the pop-up market of student artists at the SMFA Sidewalk Sale during the festival, …and much more!
It’s a weekend full of inspiration, connection, and Jumbo spirit—we can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Room: Sophia Gordon Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Weekend registration will take place at the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Parents. RSVP Information: https://rsvp.tufts.edu/PM87KO. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Email: parentsgiving@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-3798.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit rsvp.tufts.edu. Tufts Composers: New at Noon #1
Sonic Geo-Identification. Tufts Composers investigate their own geographic lineages and influences—sometimes difficult to detect—in new chamber works informed by unique personal experiences.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 12:00 PM.
Tufts University Wind Ensemble
TUWE performs a concert under the direction of Ray Daniels.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 7:30 PM.
Parents and Family Weekend
Join us on campus for Parents and Family Weekend 2025 on Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, to celebrate all things Tufts, hosted by the Parents Giving Program.
Step into your Jumbo’s world and experience Tufts through their eyes!
Over the course of the weekend, you’ll: Hear from university leadership and senior administrators , Attend engaging lectures from our world-renowned faculty , Visit open houses across campus, including the Jumbo Life Fair , Join in a lively round of Bingo Bonanza with the Office of Student Life , Cheer on our athletic teams , Explore campus with our Jumbo Scavenger Hunt , Enjoy music, dance, and performances by student groups at the Avenue of the Arts Festival on Talbot Ave. , Browse the pop-up market of student artists at the SMFA Sidewalk Sale during the festival, …and much more!
It’s a weekend full of inspiration, connection, and Jumbo spirit—we can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Room: Sophia Gordon Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Weekend registration will take place at the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Parents. RSVP Information: https://rsvp.tufts.edu/PM87KO. Admission/Cost: Free. Event Contact Email: parentsgiving@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-3798.
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit rsvp.tufts.edu. Parents Weekend Avenue of the Arts Festival
For information on this and all other Parents Weekend activities, visit https://rsvp.tufts.edu/PM87KO.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Disability Culture Now: A Panel with Emily Watlington & Jeff Kasper
Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG), critic, curator, and senior editor at Art in America, Emily Watlington, artist Jeff Kasper, and co-curators of How do you throw a brick through the window… Laurel V. McLaughlin, TUAG, and Tanya Gayer, John Michael Kohler Arts Center for a conversation engaging disability culture in our contemporary moment.
Campus: Boston SMFA campus. Location Details: Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG), critic, curator, and senior editor at Art in America, Emily Watlington, artist Jeff Kasper, and co-curators of How do you throw a brick through the window… Laurel V. McLaughlin, TUAG, and Tanya Gayer, John Michael Kohler Arts Center for a conversation engaging disability culture in our contemporary moment. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disability-culture-now-a-panel-with-emily-watlington-jeff-kasper-tickets-1660421217559?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit artgalleries.tufts.edu. Seminar Series: Prof. Peter Dedon (Host: Prof. Kevin Clark)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Title: "Revisiting the Central Dogma in the Age of Epigenomes and Epitranscriptomes".
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. 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.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
[ENVS] Losing Control of Campus Landscapes
This lecture examines the paradoxes of care and control in campus landscapes. I trace 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, I argue 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.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EDXfAMyATsOvhnBhYKP6tw.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Digital Scholarship Conversations: Building a Longitudinal, Physician-Level Dataset from the American Medical Directories (1906–1938)
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 whe…
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.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.libcal.com. Samhain
Multifaith Observances
(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.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Friday, October 31, 2025 – Saturday, November 1, 2025.
All Saints’ Day
Multifaith Observances
(Christianity-Catholic and Protestant) All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honor of all the saints of the church, whether they are known or unknown. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Saturday, November 1, 2025.
All Souls' Day
Multifaith Observances
(Christianity-Catholic) All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by certain Christian denominations on 2 November. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Sunday, November 2, 2025.
Sunday Concert Series: Round Midnight
Round Midnight. A late night gallery of gems by William Tisdall, Ravel, Webern, Brahms, Stefan Wolpe, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Bach, played with whispered commentary by pianist Andrew Rangell.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Sunday, November 2, 2025, 3:00 PM.
Developing Digital Project Assignments: Storytelling with Maps
Digital mapping assignments engage classrooms in critical discussions of space and place. With easy-to-use mapping tools, classes such as literature; history; film and media; and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies are visualizing archives, telling spatial stories, creating engaging exhibits, contributing to crowdsourced projects, and developing geospatial datasets.
This workshop will discuss the essentials of developing mapping assignments for humanities classrooms—from bite-size to final project. We will look at examples of mapping projects and break them down to understand the tools, skills, elements, and steps to mapping with your students.
We welcome you to reach out to Kaylen Dwyer (kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu) at any time to discuss your classroom needs.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Digital Design Studio (DDS), third floor. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Students (Graduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Humanities. Speaker Name: Kaylen Dwyer. Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer. Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.libcal.com. Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Guru Nanak's Birthday
Multifaith Observances
(Sikhism) Guru Nanak's Birthday. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025.
Seminar Series: Prof Jeffrey Hartgerink (Host: Prof. Joshua Kritzer)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Title: TBA.
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Speaker Name: Prof. Jeffrey Hartgerink, Rice Unversity. Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell. Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
[ENVS] Our Probable Futures: Risk, Resiliency and Decision-Making in a Changing Climate
Climate change is here, and communities, industries, and businesses are confronted with more frequent and intense heat waves, volatile winter weather, and unfamiliar patterns of precipitation. These risks are exacerbated by the fact that everything in our society, from the built environment to cultural practices around the world, emerged and were designed around a past climate that no longer exists. As the global atmosphere rapidly approaches 1.5°C of warming and carbon emissions continue to rise, how can we navigate this reality, manage growing physical risks, and create systems, practices, and structures that are prepared for the future? In this session, Alison will explore these questions, learn how to apply world-class climate model data and maps, and build the climate literacy that is essential for everyone living and working in our society today.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yBg0rmjlTmyWfYuvduzOtw.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Tufts Choruses
The Tufts Concert Choir and Chamber Singers perform under the direction of Jamie Kirsch.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Tufts/NEC Dual Degree Concert
Students studying in this program present a unique evening of classical, jazz, and original compositions.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Saturday, November 8, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Veterans’ Day
University Holidays
The university observes a holiday on this day.
Event Type: University Holiday.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
[ENVS] From Magmas to Metals: The Geologic Origin of Lithium and Critical Minerals in New England
Critical minerals containing concentrations of lithium and rare earth elements are essential for the Green Energy Transition, and recently have become the subject of a lot of geopolitical news. In this lecture, Dr. Vantongeren will review what defines a “critical mineral” and what geologic processes concentrate them into extractable quantities. She will also discuss ongoing research in her group to characterize large deposits of lithium that were formed right here in New England during the uplift of the Appalachian Mountains and the opening of the Atlantic Ocean.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iZKBJ35ZRBWu6REcROcQDw.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Digital Scholarship Conversations: Piloting AI-Assisted Captioning for Tufts Digital Library Collections
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.
Tisch Library’s Digital Initiatives department has been experimenting with workflows using OpenAI’s Whisper to create captions and transcripts for audio and video materials in Tufts Digital Library. While many A/V items have commercially prepared captions, many of our older items do not, making them less accessible. We will describe our methodology and the benefits and drawbacks to using Whisper, as well as ideas for future improvements.
Nicholas (Nick) Homenda is head of digital initiatives at Tisch Library, where he manages digitization and digital repository services. He formerly worked in librarian positions at Indiana University Bloomington and the University of South Carolina. In a prior career, Nick was an orchestral clarinetist.
Hayley Cur…
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: Nick Homenda and Haley Curtis. Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer. Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.libcal.com. Tufts Chamber Music
Students present works for strings, winds, brass, and piano.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir
Join the 220-voice Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir as they present their fall concert under the direction of David Coleman.
Room: Cohen Auditorium. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 5:00 PM.
Tufts Jazz Orchestra
Four On Six – A Tribute to Wes Montgomery. An evening celebrating the legendary guitarist Wes Montgomery’s groundbreaking work in jazz. Featuring big band arrangements of Montgomery’s classics as well as new interpretations that highlight his enduring influence on jazz and guitarists worldwide. Joel LaRue Smith, director.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Saturday, November 15, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Artist Tour of Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick
Join Tufts University Art Galleries to celebrate the closing of the exhibition Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick with a tour with the artist, Beverly Semmes, in conversation with Jennie Jieun Lee, SMFA Professor of the Practice in Ceramics.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes. RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-tour-of-beverly-semmes-boulders-flag-flip-kick-tickets-1601871654239?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Sunday, November 16, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit artgalleries.tufts.edu. Sunday Concert Series: Tufts Chamber Orchestra
TCO performs their fall concert under the direction of John Page.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Sunday, November 16, 2025, 3:00 PM.
CPR/AED Training
This training course for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillators (AED) is designed to teach the lifesaving skills necessary to help a friend, family member, neighbor, and all community members in need. This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult, child, and infant CPR. Additionally, the course will teach the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED).
This class is open to Tufts University students, faculty, and staff and is limited to 20 students per session.
Campus: Grafton campus. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Health/Wellness. RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center. Event Contact Name: Vanak Huot. Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.myabsorb.com. Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Early Music Ensemble
The Genius of Josquin. EME explores Josquin’s secular songs and ingenious and beautiful mass movements based on them, as well as music of his contemporaries, including Mouton and Isaac. For violas da gamba, lute, sackbut, recorders, harp, flute, harpsichord, krummhorn, and voices. Jane Hershey, director.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Sigd
Multifaith Observances
(Judaism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Celebrated 50 days after Yom Kippur, especially in Ethiopian Jewish communities.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 – Thursday, November 20, 2025.
CPR/AED Training
This training course for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillators (AED) is designed to teach the lifesaving skills necessary to help a friend, family member, neighbor, and all community members in need. This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult, child, and infant CPR. Additionally, the course will teach the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED).
This class is open to Tufts University students, faculty, and staff and is limited to 20 students per session.
Campus: Boston SMFA campus. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Health/Wellness. RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center. Event Contact Name: Vanak Huot. Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.myabsorb.com. Seminar Series: Prof. Wengong Jin (Host: Prof. Xinqiang Ding)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Title: TBA.
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. Speaker Name: Prof. Wengong Jin, Northeastern University. Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell. Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
CPR/AED Training
This training course for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillators (AED) is designed to teach the lifesaving skills necessary to help a friend, family member, neighbor, and all community members in need. This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult, child, and infant CPR. Additionally, the course will teach the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED).
This class is open to Tufts University students, faculty, and staff and is limited to 20 students per session.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Health/Wellness. RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center. Event Contact Name: Vanak Huot. Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.myabsorb.com. New Music Ensemble
Mozart. NME uses the works of Mozart as a springboard for its avant garde programming in music by Arvo Pärt, Peter Ablinger, Kamran Ince, and Pamela Z. Donald Berman, director.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 8:00 PM.
CPR/AED Training
This training course for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillators (AED) is designed to teach the lifesaving skills necessary to help a friend, family member, neighbor, and all community members in need. This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult, child, and infant CPR. Additionally, the course will teach the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED).
This class is open to Tufts University students, faculty, and staff and is limited to 20 students per session.
Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Staff. Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Training/Workshop. Event Subject: Health/Wellness. RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center. Event Contact Name: Vanak Huot. Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tufts.myabsorb.com. Tufts Composers: New at Noon #2
Afghan Memory Leaves: Sounding With Sola. Afghan author and performer Sola Mahfouz joins Tufts Composers for an exploration of her quantum literary, educational, and artistic leaps from Kandahar to Caltech to New England. Featuring music by Liam Arnold, Julia Cavallaro, Griffen Collins, Hudson Fagan, John McDonald, Chloe Nemes, Matthew Winkler, and more.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 12:00 PM.
Tufts Youth Philharmonic
TYP presents their fall concert under the direction of John Page.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 6:30 PM.
Sunday Concert Series: Tufts Flute Ensemble
The Flute Ensemble presents a fun, intriguing, and varied program of music from the 17th to the 21st century featuring bass, alto, C-flute, and piccolo. Nina Barwell, director.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Sunday, November 23, 2025, 3:00 PM.
Small Jazz Ensemble Concert
Paul Ahlstrand and Nando Michelin ensembles.
Room: Fisher Performance Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Sunday, November 23, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Day of the Covenant
Multifaith Observances
(Baha'i) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Celebrates the anniversary of the appointment of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the son of Baha'u'llah, as the Center of the Covenant.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, November 24, 2025 – Tuesday, November 25, 2025.
Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji
Multifaith Observances
(Sikhism) This day commemorates the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji (1621-1675), the ninth of the Ten Sikh Gurus. He is remembered not only for his defense of the Sikh faith, but also of Hinduism and of religious liberty.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, November 24, 2025.
Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha
Multifaith Observances
(Baha'i) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Commemorates 'Abdu'l-Baha's death.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 – Thursday, November 27, 2025.
Thanksgiving Day
University Holidays
The university observes a holiday on this day.
Event Type: University Holiday.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
Day after Thanksgiving
University Holidays
The university observes a holiday on this day.
Event Type: University Holiday.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
Advent
Multifaith Observances
(Christianity-Catholic and Protestant) Period of four weeks in which Christians prepare for Christmas and meditate on the end of all time. In Western churches, the first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of the Christian liturgical year.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Sunday, November 30, 2025 – Wednesday, December 24, 2025.
Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Tufts Composers: New Sounds Now #2
Caught in the Act of Breathing. Tufts Composers explore writing for wind instruments—and what breath means for musical shape and pace. Featuring works by Christopher Walton, Jimmy Wang, guest composer David Yudis, and others.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 11:00 AM.
Seminar Series: Prof. Chuck Henry (Host: Prof. Charlie Mace)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Title: TBA.
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. 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.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
[ENVS] In Thoreau's Time: Temporal Imagination as Collective Resource
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.
Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar. RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ejDLULjYTF2Tbd0o-9Jutg.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit as.tufts.edu. Tufts Table
Tufts Table is a community dinner that is free and open to students, faculty, and staff from across all four campuses (Boston, Grafton, Medford/Somerville, and SMFA at Tufts). Sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence in collaboration with faculty, staff, and student leaders across our four campuses, Tufts Table provides community members, who might not otherwise cross paths, with the opportunity to make connections and share perspectives on a variety of subjects impacting our community. These subjects include: exploring our intersectional identities, finding a sense of belonging at Tufts, and creating a more inclusive community.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Primary Audience: Faculty. Postdoctoral Fellows. Staff. Students (Graduate). Students (Postdoctoral). Students (Undergraduate). Event Type: Community Engagement. Event Contact Email: diversity@tufts.edu.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Opera Ensemble
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.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Kiniwe
Attah Poku leads Kiniwe in a performance of music and dance from Ghana featuring Mohammed Alidu, Agbekor Drum and Dance Society, and New England Conservatory’s Mile Norvisi ensemble.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Friday, December 5, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Winter Holiday Market
Come to the Winter Holiday Market for arts, crafts, and music! There will be 20+ vendors, and all are invited.
Location Details: Breed Memorial Hall
51 Winthrop St. Open to Public: Yes. Event Type: Community Engagement. Event Subject: Arts. RSVP Information: rita.o.dioguardi@gmail.com. Event Contact Name: Sarah Beardslee. Event Contact Email: info@beadsbybeardslee.com. Event Contact Phone: 781-393-5663.
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Family and Children's Concert: Wind Ensemble
Wind Ensemble. TUWE performs a concert for children and families. Ray Daniels, director.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 1:00 PM.
Tufts Symphony Orchestra
TSO presents their fall concert under the direction of John Page.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 7:00 PM.
Sunday Concert Series: Uyon-Uyon Mat-Matan
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.
Room: Fisher Performance Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Sunday, December 7, 2025, 3:00 PM.
Bodhi Day
Multifaith Observances
(Buddhism) Day of commemoration for the Buddha having achieved enlightenment.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, December 8, 2025.
Immaculate Conception
Multifaith Observances
(Christianity-Catholic) A feast day that celebrates the belief that Mary, mother of Jesus, was born without sin.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Monday, December 8, 2025.
Tufts Arab Music Ensemble
Tufts Arab Music Ensemble performs a selection of instrumental and vocal music that represents a wide range of genres within the Arab world. Tareq Rantisi, director.
Room: Distler Performance Hall. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Monday, December 8, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Drop-In Journaling at Goddard Chapel
Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes. Open to Public: No. Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality. RSVP Information: Tufts University.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Seminar Series: Prof. Sara Buhrlage (Host: Prof. Joshua Kritzer)
Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Title: TBA.
Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Location Details: Room P-106. Open to Public: No. Speaker Name: Prof. Sara Buhrlage, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell. Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu. Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Jumbo Knish Factory
The Tufts Klezmer Ensemble performs under director Michael McLaughlin.
Room: Fisher Performance Room. Campus: Medford/Somerville campus. Open to Public: Yes.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 8:00 PM.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Multifaith Observances
(Christianity-Catholic) Lady of Guadalupe Day commemorates the appearance of the Virgin Mary, Mexico’s patron saint, in Mexico City on December 12, 1531.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Friday, December 12, 2025.
Hanukkah
Multifaith Observances
(Judaism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. The Feast of Lights (Feast of Dedication) is celebrated for eight days to commemorate the rededication of the Temple following the Jews' victory over occupying forces in 165 BCE, which re-established for a time their religious and political freedom.
Event Type: Multifaith Observance.
Sunday, December 14, 2025 – Monday, December 22, 2025.