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 […]
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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.
The Center for the Humanities is accepting applications for Tufts faculty fellows, postdoctoral fellows, and Tufts’ graduate dissertation fellows. The deadline for all applications is February 28, 2020. Questions? Email humanities@tufts.edu.
Tufts faculty will share stories of success and strategies for applying for academic grants during a panel on Thursday, January 30 at 12 pm. The panel will be followed by a Q&A and a light lunch will be served. This panel is intended for faculty, postdocs, and dissertation-level graduate students. […]
Rachel Applebaum (Assistant Professor, History) will give a talk over her first book, Empire of Friends (Cornell) on Tuesday, January 28 at 12 pm in the Center for the Humanities. A light lunch will be served and copies of her book will be available for purchase. See additional details on […]
Dr. Anny Gaul, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Humanities, has recently published an essay on the academic blog The Maydan. “Bastila and the Archives of Unwritten Things” explores the archive of a recipe for bastila, a Moroccan pastry. An explanation for why she wrote this article can […]
Man Xu, Associate Professor of History at Tufts and one of this year’s faculty fellows at the Center for the Humanities, will be giving a talk during a brown bag lunch seminar on Monday, December 9 at noon at the Center. The title of his talk is “China’s Local Elites […]
On Tuesday, November 19, Joan Naviyuk Kane, an Inupiaq American poet, visits Tufts to give a poetry and nonfiction reading. She is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Joan Naviyuk Kane has authored seven books and chapbooks of poetry and prose, most recently Another Bright Departure (CutBank, […]
Hossein Ayazi, one of this year’s postdoctoral fellows at the Center for the Humanities, will be giving a talk during a brown bag lunch seminar on Tuesday, November 19 at noon at the Center. The title of his talk is “Banking on Liberty: Debt and Diplomacy in Firestone’s Liberia.” Additional […]
Alain Badiou will visit Tufts on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7 pm, to speak on “Philosophy and Cinema.” The event is free and open to the public. Additional details can be found on the events calendar. Read more about Badiou’s philosophy and biography here.