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For this upcoming 2020-2021 academic year, the Center for the Humanites is accepting applications for a new faculty public research mini-grant. These grants will be accepted on a rolling deadline and funds are limited. All Tufts faculty (including part-time faculty) in the humanities and social sciences are eligible to apply. […]
We are sorry to announce that all events at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts have been cancelled until further notice due to the University’s guidance on COVID-19. Please check back in April for an update.
Three faculty members of Tufts’ Department of Religion will discuss their recent books during a lunchtime panel on Monday, April 6. The panelists include: Jennifer Eyl, author of Signs, Wonders, and Gifts: Divination in the Letters of Paul (Oxford, 2019) Brian Hatcher, author of Hinduism Before Reform (Harvard, 2020) Joseph […]
Jennifer Eyl, Assistant Professor of Religion and Faculty Fellow at the Center, will discuss her research in a talk entitled, “Fidelity or Faith? The Virtue of Loyalty in Christian Origins.” This is a brown bag lunch seminar. Details of the event can be found in our calendar.
Freeden Blume Oeur, Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, will be presenting on his research during a brown bag lunch seminar. Read more about his talk, “The Scholar Desired: Racial Trauma in Du Bois’s Black Flame Trilogy “ on our events […]
We will be resheduling James (JT) Thomas’s talk, “The Souls of Jews: Du Bois, Double Consciousness, and the Jewish Question,” for fall 2020. Check back in the summer for more details, or sign up for our mailing list to learn about upcoming events.
On February 6 at 6 pm, Amber Musser (George Washington University) will be at Tufts to discuss Mikalene Thomas’ “Origin of the Universe”. Additional details about this talk can be found on our calendar.
Richard Bell (University of Maryland) will be at Tufts University on Wednesday, February 5 at 12 pm to discuss his latest book, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home. “A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled […]
Postdoctoral Fellow Olivia Michiko Gagnon will present on her research during a brown bag lunch seminar on Monday, February 3. She will discuss Krista Belle Stewart’s Potato Gardens Band. More details about the event are here.