The Center for the Humanities at Tufts fosters interdisciplinary humanities work in comparative literature, comparative religion, world history, philosophy, anthropology, and the arts, to innovate new research and reflection.
The Center hosts public lectures, seminars, conferences and colloquia by visiting artists, writers, and scholars, and brings together faculty, postdoctoral, and dissertation fellows. Fellows participate in a research seminar and attend monthly public events with distinguished visiting scholars.
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CHAT Fellow Presentation with Heather Nathans, 10/22
Join us October 22 at 4:30 pm to hear original research by Faculty Fellow, Heather Nathans.
October 22 | 4:30 pm ET
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
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
