Arts and Culture

The School of Arts and Sciences houses an extremely vibrant artistic and cultural community that offers a wealth of opportunities in which the Tufts and local communities can participate. You can explore the newest exhibit at the Tufts University Art Gallery, watch a cutting-edge production at Balch Arena, listen to a spectacular musical performance at the Granoff Music Center or Aidekman Arts Center, seek out the latest performance of one of our six a capella groups, engage in a thought-provoking dialogue following a foreign film, cheer on your favorite band at Brown and Brew, attend an intimate reading by a local writer/author at Tisch Library, laugh with your friends as you watch one of our creative comedy troupes, take lessons to learn how to play the Javanese Gamelan, or host your own show on TUTV, among other activities.

Thanks to our affiliation with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) and the New England Conservatory (NEC), Tufts students enjoy an even more extensive range of opportunities. Tufts students receive an institutional membership to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), are able to take classes at the SMFA and NEC, and can attend performances and exhibits at these distinguished institutions.

Located 5 miles from downtown Boston, the Medford/Somerville campus is a gateway to the extraordinary artistic and cultural wealth of the city while the School of Arts and Sciences boasts its own cultural resources. For a list of some of these resources, please see below.

Art

Architectural Society

Knitting Club

Tufts University Art Gallery

Music

Applied Music Study

Brown and Brew Unplugged

Jumbo Marching Band

New England Conservatory

Pep Band

Tufts Flute Ensemble

Tufts Symphony Orchestra

Tufts Wind Ensemble

Singing Groups

Chamber Singers

Tufts University Chorale

Drama

Bare Bodkin Theater

Black Theatre Company

HYPE!

Pen, Paint, and Pretzels (3Ps)

Torn Ticket II

Traveling Treasure Trunk

Tufts Opera Ensemble

Dance

BEATS (Bangin' Everything at Tufts - percussive performance group)

Bhangra

BlackOut

Envy

Explosion Latina Dance Troupe

Garba

Irish Step Dancing

Kiniwe

La Salsa

Sarabande Repertory Dance Ensemble

Spirit of Color (SOC)

Tufts Ballroom Dancing

Tufts Capoeira

Tufts Dance Collective

TURBO

Film, Radio and TV

Society for Better Anime

TUTV

WMFO 91.5FM

16mm Productions

Cultural and Religious Student Groups at Tufts

African Student Organization

Anthropology Collective

Arab Students Association

Asian Community at Tufts

Association of Latin American Students

Buddhist Sangha

Caribbean Club

Catholic Community at Tufts

Chinese Students Association

European Club

Filipino Culture Society

Hindu Student Council

Hong Kong Students Association

Indian Students at Tufts

Indonesian Club

International Club

Japanese Culture Club

Korean Students Association

Lashon-Tufts Hebrew Language Club

Latin American Society at Tufts

Leonard Carmichael Society

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center at Tufts

Middle Eastern Student Society

Multiracial Organization of Students at Tufts

Muslim Students' Association at Tufts

Pan-African Alliance

Pan-Asian Council

PANGEA

Protestant Student Fellowship

Puerto Rican Association

Queer Straight Alliance

Russian Circle

Singapore Students Association

Taiwanese Association of Student at Tufts

Thai Club

Tufts Armenian Club

Tufts Association of South Asians (TASA)

Tufts Chinese Students and Scholars Association

Tufts Christian Fellowship

Tufts Secular Student Association

Tufts Transgendered Lesbian Gay Bisexual Collective

Turkish Student Association at Tufts

Vietnamese Students Club

Comedy Troupes

Cheap Sox

Major: Undecided

Literature

E-News

English Department Events

Fletcher Ledger

Hemispheres

Helicon (Literary Arts Magazine)

Tufts English Grad Organization (TEGO)

Tufts Journal

Tufts Observer

Tufts Traveler

Tufts University Book Store

Zamboni

Libraries

Digital Collections and Archives

Tufts Digital Library

Historical

Ayn Rand Interest Society

History Society

Past & Present: The History and Classics Graduate Society

Lecture Series

Art & Art History Lecture Series

Balmuth Lecture Series

Barkan Lecture

Dean's Faculty Forum

Lecture Series

Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lecture

Snyder Lecture Series

The Pearson Prentice Hall Seminars in Global History

Tomasso Lecture

Venues

Aidekman Arts Center

Balch Arena Theater

Cohen Auditorium

Granoff Music Center

Miscellaneous

Entertainment Board

Programming Board

Tufts Culinary Society

Tufts University Spirit Coalition

Event Calendars

University Events Calendar

<p><strong>Acting As Judge and Jury</strong>

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<p>Tufts faculty members, Sam Sommers and Kent Portney, share a devotion to innovative research and teaching about the roles race and gender play in the criminal justice system.</p>

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<p><strong>At Your Service</strong>

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<p>Through Tufts' Leonard Carmichael Society - the largest student-run organization on campus - students are giving back to communities in need.</p>

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<p><strong>Breaking Down Barriers</strong>

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<p>Tufts literacy expert Maryanne Wolf has pioneered ground-breaking research that has led to advances in dyslexia testing and treatment.</p>

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<br/>(A'07)

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<p>Working as an intern for MTV Hong Kong helped prepare Tufts junior Erin Yeh for the real world.</p>

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<p><strong>Everything Counts</strong>

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<p>At Tufts, students are a key part of continuing climate change and environmental awareness efforts. </p>

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<p><strong>Expanding Their Horizons</strong>

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<p>This summer was action-packed for Tufts students who undertook a variety of projects across the world and in their own backyards.</p>

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<p>Webcasting technology is giving Tufts students a real-time view of life in the Middle East. </p>

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<h4>Student Life</h4>

<p><strong>Four Years, Infinite Possibilities</strong>

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<p>Follow the evolution of an undergraduate through the journeys of six students. </p>

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<p><strong>Great Wide Open</strong>

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<p>Through the OpenCourseWare initiative, Tufts is using the power of the Internet to share its greatest resource - knowledge - across the globe.</p>

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<p><strong>Green Behind The Scenes</strong>

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<p>Committed staff, institutional partnerships and innovative technologies are helping Tufts continue to be an environmental leader.</p>

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<p><strong>Hot Stuff</strong>

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<p>When the semester starts to cool down, student performance groups at Tufts begin heating up. </p>

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<p><strong>International Appeal</strong>

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<p><i>Kaplan/Newsweek College Resource Guide</i> ranked Tufts as the "Hottest School for Study Abroad" in 2004, celebrating the university's international approach to learning.</p>

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<p><strong>Jay Cantor  </strong>

<br/><em>Professor, English</em>

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<p><strong>BACKGROUND:</strong> Raised in Great Neck, NY; Ph.D., University of California-Santa Cruz; at Tufts since 1977.</p>

<p><strong>PUBLISHED WORK:</strong> Five books, including three novels; latest work is Great Neck. Working on next novel, titled The Reborn.</p>

<p><strong>ABOUT WRITING:</strong> "It starts with just a love of putting words together and a certain physical feeling that comes with that. Beyond that, without story-telling, I wouldn't know what to do with all the lives that I hear about everyday."</p>

<p><strong>WHY TUFTS:</strong> "Tufts is a place very open to a person teaching what they are most interested in.</p>

<p>I think graduate students come to Tufts for the strength of the faculty, its accessibility, and its range of interests. They won't be disappointed by the other students, who, from my experience are a very self-directed, independent minded group."</p>
<p><strong>AFTER-HOURS:</strong> "I don't have free time. I say that because I'm either working on classes or I'm researching things for class, or for my novels or essays. But those are all things that I want to do. So you could say that the good thing about my work for Tufts is that it is what I would want to do in my free time. I also write screenplays, as work for hire for studios."</p>

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<p><strong>Jeffrey Taliaferro</strong>

<br/><em>Asking Why</em>

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<p>Taking an approach that blends political science and psychology, Tufts faculty member, Jeff Taliaferro, sheds new light on the reasons why states become embroiled in counterproductive military situations.</p>

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<p><strong>John D. McDonald  </strong>

<br/><em>Professor, music</em>

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<p><strong>Background:</strong> Born in Norfolk, Va., doctorate from Yale;
composer/pianist in residence in Mongolia via the U.S. Information
Agency; at Tufts since 1990.</p>

<p><strong>Compositions:</strong> More than 800, including commissions for the Havana
Festival 2000, St. Petersburg Spring Festival 2002, Duke University,
Wellesley College, Vienna Saxophone Quartet, Boston Celebrity
Series, Worcester Chorus, and Florestan Recital Project.</p>

<p><strong>Current work:</strong> Annual piano albums (collections of short solo
keyboard pieces); "Peace Process," a work for basset horn and piano
for Tufts Merrin Professor (and clarinetist) Ray Jackendoff; an
evening-long song cycle about animals for voice and piano; a choral
work for the Worcester Chorus.</p>

<p><strong>Goal in music:</strong> "I like to confront people, to mark events in our
lives, to capture in music something I've observed that would be
difficult to express in words-something about a person, something
political, or something completely abstract. All my acts of
composing are inherently pacifist."</p>

<p><strong>Why Tufts:</strong> "I don't feel I can meet the needs of more than
eight graduate composers at a time, so the smallness of our graduate
music program is important. I also appreciate all the contact I have
at Tufts with people from other departments and disciplines, as well
as the very high quality of our undergraduate students."</p>

<p><strong>After-Hours:</strong> Compose, practice, read, and then do those things some
more. What little free time I have, I spend with my wife and children. I also like to run in the woods."</p>

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<p><strong>Jonathan Wilson  </strong>

<br/><em>Professor and Chair, English; Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate </em>

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<p><strong>BACKGROUND:</strong> Born in London, England; educated at the University of Essex, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; with a dissertation on the novels of Saul Bellow; Guggenheim fellowship in fiction; at Tufts since 1982. </p>

<p><strong>PUBLISHED WORK:</strong> Seven books, including two novels, two collections of stories, two critical works and a biography of Chagall.</p>

<p><strong>ABOUT WRITING:</strong> "Writing is a lifetime of unfolding your imagination. It remains a mysterious activity."</p>

<p><strong>WHY TUFTS:</strong> "Teaching at Tufts is an undiminished pleasure. It's a pleasant atmosphere fo