Fall 2026 Events: University Ecologies and the Question of the Commons

September 10
Proposals for Commoning a Campus Ecology 
w/ Mary Mattingly (Tufts University Ecologies Visiting Artist)
Hoch-Cunningham Lecture Series, Curtis Multipurpose Room.
12:00-1:00pm
 
After the event, join us for a hands-on design charrette imagining the future of the campus as a commons. Together, we’ll explore how the space might support food, outdoor learning, gathering, and shared stewardship while remaining flexible for the many ways the campus already uses it.
w/ Mary Mattingly (Tufts University Ecologies Visiting Artist)
Bromfield Pearson Lawn
1.15PM and 2.30PM
 
September 17
Design charrette with University Ecologies Visiting Artist Mary Mattingly
Bromfield Pearson Lawn
Light refreshments
1.15PM to 2.30PM
 
University Ecologies Open House
Center for the Humanities at Tufts (48 Professors Row)
Food and refreshments provided
4:00-5:30pm
 
September 24 (Two Talks w/ Giovanni Aloi)
From Lawn to Garden: Artistic Forms of Vegetal Resistance
w/Giovanni Aloi (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Hoch-Cunningham Lecture Series, Curtis Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Ave)
12:00-1:00pm
 
Against Animal Objectification 
w/ Giovanni Aloi (SAIC) and Emily Gephart (SMFA)
4:00-6:00pm
Curtis Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Ave)
 
October 1
Infrastructures of University Militarism (Book Chapter Workshop)
w/ Arlo Fosburg (Tufts University Ecologies Postdoctoral Scholar)
Center for Humanities, 48 Professors Row
1:30-3:00pm
 
October 8
More Bugs, Less Drugs: Veterinary Interventions in the Multispecies Health Issues of Antibiotic Resistance
w/ Mira Guth (PhD Candidate, Brown University + University Ecologies Doctoral Fellow)
1:00-2:30pm
Center for the Humanities, 48 Professors Row
 
October 8
Connecting to Campus (Itinerant Walk) 
w/ Renata Celichowska (TDPS, Tufts University)
Meet at the Center for the Humanities (48 Professors Row), Outdoor Event
3:00-4:00pm
 
October 15
Pipeline Pedagogy: Prioritizing American Indian Peoples in Addressing Environmental Crisis
w/ David Shane Lowry (University of Southern Maine)
Hoch-Cunningham Lecture Series, Curtis Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Ave)
12:00-1:00pm
 
October 21
The Biology of Dignity: Labor Solidarity and Animal Life
w/ Alex Blanchette (Tufts University)
Center for the Humanities Fellows Lecture Series (48 Professors Row)
4:00-5:30pm
 
October 22
Did the University Create the Factory Farm? Reflections on State Science
w/ Dawn Coppin (San Jose Public Library Foundation) + Oliver Lazarus (University of Wisconsin)
Crane Room, Paige Hall (12 Upper Campus Rd)
4:30-6:30pm
 
October 29 
After the Flush: Rethinking the Future of Human Waste
w/ Nick Kawa (The Ohio State University)
Hoch-Cunningham Lecture Series, Curtis Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Ave)
12:00-1:00pm
 
November 5
Forests in the Desert (Dissertation Chapter Workshop)
w/ Zach LaRock (University Ecologies Doctoral Fellow)
Center for the Humanities (48 Professors Row)
1:30-3:00pm
 
November 12
Art and Multispecies Politics
w/ Terike Haapoja (University Ecologies Visiting Artist)
Crane Room, Paige Hall (12 Upper Campus Rd)
4:30-6:30pm
 
November 16
Beyond Factory Farming: A Contemplative-Prophetic Approach to Food
w/ James Robinson (Iona University) / Organized by the Tufts University Chaplaincy
Goddard Chapel (3 The Green)
12:00-1:30pm
 
November 17 
Universities, Meatpacking, and Worker Justice
w/ Magaly Licolli (Venceremos)
Goddard Chapel (3 The Green)
4:30-6:30pm
 
December 3
Agribusiness, Finance, and Pandemics
w/ Rob Wallace (Pandemic Research for the People, Author of “Big Farms Make Big Flu”)
Crane Room, Paige Hall (12 Upper Campus Rd)
5:00-7:00pm