The Center for the Humanities hosts over a dozen events each semester, including fellow seminars, writing workshops, lectures by distinguished guest speakers, faculty book talks, and more. Many of these events are open to the public. The Center sends a weekly newsletter that includes listings of events that we sponsor. If you would like to be added to our email list, click here. To see our recent past events, click here. To see our archive of events prior to Fall 2024, click here.
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CHAT Mid-Semester Open House, 10/29
All Faculty, Staff, and Fellows at Tufts are welcome to join us on October 29 for an Open House event here at the Fung House. Join us for refreshments and a chance to mingle with faculty & staff from other departments. All are welcome.
October 29 | 4:00 pm ET
University Ecologies Event: “Losing Control of Campus Landscapes,” 10/30
Join us October 30 to hear a special presentation by Mark Bomford (Director Yale Sustainable Food Program, Yale)
October 30 | 12:00 pm ET
Faculty Book Talk with Dr. Miranda Spieler, 10/30
Miranda Spieler is an historian of France and the French overseas empire. Her areas of expertise include European legal history, slavery and emancipation, the history of French Guiana and the Caribbean, policing and carceral systems, human rights, and the history of Paris. She is joining us to discuss her new book, Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories (Harvard, May 2025), a biographical study of enslaved people who lived in France's capital city between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. She pieces together vivid, granular portraits of men, women and children who came
October 30 | 12:00 pm ET
