April 14-22, 2014

Tufts Hillel invites you to celebrate Passover. For more information, visit http://tuftshillel.org/jl-passover2014.htm.

Tuesday, April 15, 12:10 pm, Tufts Dental School Alumni Lounge, 15th Floor (1 Kneeland Street, Boston)

The Tufts university chaplains and the deans of the health sciences schools invite all to a program of music, prayer, and reflection to remember those who suffered and responded, and to offer support to those who will be running, volunteering, and cheering this year. For more information please contact chaplaincy@tufts.edu.

Wednesday, April 16, Noon, Academic Quad

Anyone interested in helping to hide eggs should meet at the cannon at 11:30 am; otherwise, just come during open block and see if you can find some candy-filled eggs. Tell your friends.

Wednesday, April 16, 12-1:00 pm, LGBT Center

This workshop focuses on providing the tools to intervene when you see an act of sexual misconduct occurring. The workshop will provide background information about sexual misconduct which includes: sexual assault, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence, sexual exploitation, etc. The main goal of this workshop is to help individuals become comfortable and feel well prepared when they see an act of sexual misconduct occurring with queer individuals. Participants will also learn about the unique needs of LGBTQ survivors and how to respond. Please RSVP here:https://www.facebook.com/events/1457641021136109/ Food will be provided.

April 16-18, 2014

Tufts' Center for the Study of Race and Democracy is pleased to once again be hosting the annual "Barack Obama and American Democracy Conference," held on campus this year. This national conference features three days of keynote addresses and panel discussions that will probe the meanings of race and democracy throughout Barack Obama's presidency.  This year will feature the keynote speaker Michael Eric Dyson. Panel discussions highlight a broad variety of topics, including education, gender, social media, foreign policy, mass incarceration, criminal justice, public health, and digital media.  There is a place for everyone at this conference, and all are welcome. The full schedule and the conference poster are below.  Information will also soon be available on our website.  Please feel free to bring your classes, friends, and colleagues. Please contact Theresa Sullivan with any questions. 

Wednesday, April 16, 7 pm, Interfaith Center

Keynote: Michael Eric Dyson "Why It's Right to Be Seen as Wrong by the Right: Barack Obama and the Vast and Verifiable Right Wing Conspiracy"

Thursday, April 17,  10:00-11:30 am, Packard Conference Room

Opening Roundtable

Facilitator: Peniel Joseph

Panelists: Matthew Whitaker, Yohuru Williams, Max Rodriguez, Diane McWhorter

12:30-2:00 pm, Interfaith Center

Pursuit of Radical Democracy in the Age of Obama

Facilitator: Lisa Lowe

Panelists: Diane McWhorter, Peniel Joseph, Matthew Whitaker

2:15-3:45 pm, Interfaith Center

Politics of Disparity: Power & Inequality

Facilitator: Yohuru Williams

Panelists: Patrick Sylvain, Vince Brown, Linda Sprague Martinez

4:15-4:45 pm, Interfaith Center

Keynote: D. Fox Harrell "The Politics of Phantasmal Media: How Ideology Is Built into Digital Media" 

 

Friday, April 18, CHAT House

10:00-11:30 am: Hope and Change?: Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice Reform

Facilitator: Erin Kelly

Panelists: Michael Curry, Barbara Dougan

12:30-2:00 pm: 'I Am Trayvon Martin': Democratic Organizing in the Age of Social Media

Facilitator: Philip Martin

Panelists: Aura Bogado, Zerlina Maxwell

2:15-3:45 pm: Politics & Policy: Local, National, and Global

Facilitator: Peniel Joseph

Panelists: Jeremi Suri, Jeremy Levitt, Michael Ralph, Ricky Jones

4:00-4:45 pm: Ruha Benjamin-keynote

"I Have a Nightmare: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Punishment"


Thursday, April 17, 4:30 pm, Lane 100


On April 15, 2013 medical volunteers, emergency medical services providers, and Boston’s hospitals accomplished an unprecedented feat of trauma care. Join us for a panel discussion featuring experts from the front lines of healthcare system preparedness in Boston to learn about how a system of care, and prepared people, helped save lives. Sponsored by Tufts Emergency Preparedness.

Thursday, April 17

There will not be a Holy Thursday service on campus, but there are plenty of local options available. St. Clement's has a Mass at 7:30 pm, as does St. Joseph's on High Street in Medford. There will also be a small group traveling to the Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Episcopal monastery in Harvard square, for their 7:30 pm service (email Megan Berkowitz if you are interested).

Dinner and a Movie: Jurassic Park

Thursday, April 17, 6:30 pm

Food and space are limited, so arrive early to get a seat! 

In typical early-90s fashion, Jurassic Park features an independent female character who challenges the "damsel in distress" trope even as she reflects American cultural anxieties about the deterioration of the nuclear family. What do these anxieties have to do with technological advances in birth control and reproduction in the wake of the feminist backlash of the 1980s? The fantasy of women "turning into men" produced a nightmarish dystopia that has become one of the most iconic and successful thrillers of all time. Join us for a conversation about gender, technology, family and, of course, velociraptors. Discussion led by Steph Gauchel, Director of the Women's Center, and special guest facilitators, recent Tufts alums: Anne Moore, Ph.D. graduate, 2013; Terhys Persad, Class of 2011; and Lucy Nunn, Class of 2011.

Friday, April 18, 12:10 pm, Goddard Chapel
As an Easter people, we must not forget that the brightness of morning only comes by way of the night. Like Christians all over the world, we will gather on Good Friday to sit with the darkness and listen to God’s word. As a community, we come together so that we might be truly present to one another and to ourselves, in all of our beauty and brokenness. Join us on Good Friday as begin in prayer, keeping vigil and staying awake to the tombs in our world and the tombs in our hearts. Let by Catholic Chaplain Lynn Cooper and Protestant Chaplain Rachael Pettengill-Rasure. Sponsored by the University Chaplaincy. For more information please contact chaplaincy@tufts.edu.

Friday, April 18, Immediately Following the Ecumenical Service, Beginning at Goddard Chapel
Each year, we encounter Holy Week anew. The story of Jesus’ Passion remains the same but we change. We have lived a whole twelve months–with joys and hurts–hearing news of daily crucifixions and gracious births and merciful rebirths. We bring these stories with us through Holy Week with the hope that they help us to understand how it is that Jesus and the Gospel speak to us. Join us this year for Stations of the Cross. We will begin at Goddard Chapel and make our way through campus in prayer and song, stopping along to witness to the Passion. For more information please contact Catholic Chaplain Lynn Cooper at Lynn.Cooper@tufts.edu

Friday, April 18, 6 pm, Interfath Center

On Good Friday we will hold our final Lenten Simple Supper for the year, commemoration of the Last Supper inspred by the Passover Seder and thinking about links between the Passover narrative, the Passion story, and modern slavery and oppression. We use a modified Passover haggadah (created with help from Lynn Cooper and Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, formerly of Tufts Hillel) to talk about the history of Passover, its ties to the Jesus story, and links between these two things and modern circumstances of slavery and liberation. Email Megan Berkowitz (megan.berkowitz@tufts.edu) with questions or if you are interested in taking part.

Protestant Students Association: Join the Protestant Student Association for our annual Easter trip to Grace Church in Medford. We plan to meet at 8:45 am on Easter Sunday morning, April 20 in the Carm Dining Hall lobby (not the upstairs dorm lobby). We’ll walk as a group to Grace Episcopal in Medford.

Catholic Community at Tufts: Catholic Mass, 11 am, Goddard Chapel

After the services, both communities will be hosting an Ecumenical Easter Lunch together in the Interfaith Center at 12:15 pm. There will be mountains of Greek food and baklava, so this is the one event you don’t want to miss.

Tuesday, April 29, 12-1 pm, Austin Conference Room, Tisch Library

Samip Mallick, Executive Director of SAADA, will be speaking about his work and the importance of South Asian American narratives. Lunch will be served.

Tuesday, April 29, 1:30 pm, Copper Beech Tree, President's Lawn

The dedication of a new shimenawa to the beech tree on the President's lawn will continue a tradition that began last year at this time. Join Professor Inouye in venerating this tree with a shimenawa, a large rope, shide, papers attached to the rope, and tassels in a tradition that evolved from Shinto spiritual practices.

Sunday, May 4, 8 am

Interested in walking the Walk for Hunger to support Project Bread? Want to walk with an interfaith team of people of all beliefs and backgrounds? For more information contact Walker.Bristol@tufts.edu.

May 8-9

Register for Episcopal Divinity School's Almuni/ae Days and Kellogg Lectures. The theme of these days is: What is Justice? Dr. Phyllis Trible will be lecturing on The Justice of Storytelling. http://eds.edu/alumdays

 

Saturday, May 17, 3 pm, Gantcher Center

The traditional Baccalaureate Service for graduating seniors at Tufts began in 1865. "Baccalaureate" means a sermon to a graduating class, and for most of Tufts' history the inspirational message has been delivered by the University President. The address is the President¹s final opportunity to exhort and enlighten members of the senior class before they receive their bachelor¹s degrees and leave campus as alumni/ae. The senior student who has won the Wendell Phillips Award also speaks. In recent years, Baccalaureate has become an interfaith celebration, with all of the university chaplains and students from Tufts' main religious and philosophical communities participating. Hymns and music are also offered by soloists and instrumentalists. Graduating seniors process in caps and gowns, and family and friends are invited to attend. The Baccalaureate Service lasts about one hour and no tickets are necessary for admission. Seniors should align for the processional with caps and gowns at 2:30 p.m. inside the Gantcher Center.

Saturday, May 17, 5:30 pm, Goddard Chapel

Please join us for liturgy as we send forth our graduates and welcome home alumni and families. All are welcome and, as always, come as you are. Followed by a reception with light refreshments. For more information, please contact Catholic Chaplain Lynn Cooper at Lynn.Cooper@tufts.edu.