News: CHAT Highlights

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts will host several events in the spring of 2025 designed for those who are looking for guidance on getting published and writing for a broader audience.

Tutfs Now has written an article on the display in Tisch Library created for the "Slavery, Colonialism, and their Legacies" Initiative.

Tufts doctoral students: apply by March 1 for a dissertation fellowship for 2025-2026.

Join us March 28 and 29 for a dialogue between communities of practice and communities of learning--an interface between orality and literacy-- in the context of African music and its research.

SMFA at Tufts is teaming up with the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Corporate and Foundation Relations to host a spring event featuring wide-ranging, interdisciplinary dialogues across the arts and contemporary society.

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, in partnership with the Mellon Foundation-funded project University Ecologies and the Question of the Commons, invites applications for a residential postdoctoral fellowship beginning July 1, 2025. Open now!

ILCS is currently looking for poster presentations given by undergraduate students at Tufts. Prizes up to $100 (in the form of gift cards from the Tufts Bookstore) available. The deadline for submission of proposals is January 22, 2025.

The Half the History Initiative has recently completed some new filming at the Old Manse, in Concord. See some of their "behind the scenes" photos of their filming.

The Greater Boston Digital Humanities is hosting a symposium in April 2025. The Program Committee welcomes submissions covering a wide variety of topics. Deadline is February 3. Learn more at their site.

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts is currently accepting applications for Faculty Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year. Apply by December 15.

What do you see as themes or trends in research? Let us know.

As part of the Center's effort to support scholars in the Humanities, CHAT is piloting a program to offer small grants to graduate students in humanities fields who may require supplemental funding for their degree activities.