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Get news and upcoming event updates on our blog. 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 also hosts public lectures, seminars, and conferences.
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Book Launch On Thursday, September 22 at 4:30 pm on Tufts campus, Lorgia García Peña (Mellon Professor, Dept. of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts) will discuss her latest book, Translating Blackness with Robin Kelley (Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History, UCLA) and SA Smythe (Assistant Professor of Black Studies and the Archive, University of Toronto). The panel ..read more
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The Center for the Humanities at Tufts has named Heather D. Curtis the next Director of CHAT. Professor Curtis is the Warren S. Woodbridge Professor in the Department of Religion, and was previously Interim Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. Read a welcome letter from our new director below. Welcome from the next ..read more
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We are pleased to welcome seven new faculty fellows, two dissertation fellows, three postdoctoral fellows, and three visiting scholars and affiliates to CHAT for the upcoming 2022-2023 academic year. This is a dynamic group and we look forward to having a full house at 48 Professors Row. Read more about our incoming fellows on the ..read more
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The Spring semester has ended, but you can still watch recordings of the many talks we hosted this year on the Videos page ..read more
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Join us for our last fellow seminar with CHAT Translating Race Postdoctoral Fellow heidi andrea restrepo rhodes on Zoom at 1:30 pm on Friday, April 29. Her talk is entitled, “In Light of the Future Past: Nation-Building and Settler Colonial Fantasies of a New World Geography.” Register for a Zoom link or read more about ..read more
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Join Professor Amahl Bishara (Anthropology) in conversation with Leila H. Farsakh about her new book Rethinking Statehood in Palestine:Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition. This is a hybrid event. It will be in person at CHAT, 48 Professors Row, Medford, MA 02155. Or register for a Zoom link. Read more on our events page ..read more
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On Friday, April 22 at 1:30 pm, join us for another CHAT Fellow Seminar with Dr. Mona Kareem (Postdocotral Fellow). Her talk is entitled, “What to the Slave is the Arabic Novel?” Register for a Zoom link or find more information on our events calendar ..read more
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This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for September 2022. Photographer Matika Wilbur will join us on campus as part of the Resurgent Futures: Indigenous Art, Theory and Practice Speaker Series on Thursday, April 21 at 6:00 pm in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room. This event will be followed by a reception at ..read more
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On April 19 at 12:30 pm, join us for a virtual event with Jokha Alharthi, winner of the 2019 International Booker Prize. She will be in conversation with Dr. Mona Kareem, CHAT Postdoctoral Fellow, discussing the Arabic novel. Learn more details about this event on our calendar or register for a Zoom link ..read more
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On April 15 at 4:00 pm in the Balch Arena Theatre, there will be a staged reading of Randy Reinholz‘s newest play, Under a Big Sky. Followed by a Q&A with Courtney Mohler, theatre scholar. Learn more details about this event on our calendar ..read more