Visiting the Hill this week

MONDAY

"STEM Lecture Series -- Allan Collins"

Details: Alan Collins, professor emeritus at Northwestern University, will present as part of the Tufts Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Lecture Series.

When and Where: 3 - 4 p.m., Halligan Hall, Room 102

Sponsors: Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Department of Education

"Implications of the Bubble Economy"

Details: Robert Ayres, economist and physicist, will discuss his new book on the relationship between economic instability and the economics of energy. 

When and Where: 4 - 5:30 p.m., Mugar Hall, Room 231

Sponsors: Global Development and Environment Institute

TUESDAY

"The Local Welfare Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing"

Details: Christopher Knittel, William Barton Rogers Professor of energy economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, will present as part of the Department of Economics Seminar Series. 

When and Where: 4:30 - 5:45 p.m., Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room 

Sponsor: Department of Economics

"Gandhi and Islam"

Details: Ramin Jahanbegloo, researcher at the French Institute for Iranian Studies and fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, will present as part of the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies Fall program. 

When and Where: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 205

Sponsor: Tufts Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies

"Poet Ariana Reines"

Details: Ariana Reines, poet and artist, will speak.

When and Where: 4 p.m., Fung House

Sponsor: Center for the Humanities at Tufts

"Human Space Travel: Where Have We Been? Where are We Going?"

Details: Frederick Hauck (LA '62), a former astronaut, will discuss travel in space.

When and Where: 8 - 9:30 p.m., Ballou Hall, Coolidge Room

Sponsor: Experimental College

WEDNESDAY

"Tales from Timbuktu: Architectural Destruction and Iconoclastic Power in Modern Africa"

Details: Michelle Apotsos (LA '06), assistant professor of art history at Williams College, will speak as part of the Art History Lecture Series.

When and Where: 5:30 - 7 p.m., Fine Arts House

Sponsor: Department of Art and Art History

"Scientific Imperialism, British India and the Origins of the Moroccan Protectorate"

Details: Edmund Burke III, research professor of history at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will speak.

When and Where: 6 - 8 p.m., Barnum Hall, Room 104

Sponsor: Middle Eastern Studies Program

"South Asian Religions Panel"

Details: Damanpreet Pelia, a senior, will talk about Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism, while peer leaders from each faith will share their experiences.

When and Where: 6:30 p.m, Start House

Sponsors: Tufts Asian American Center, University Chaplaincy

THURSDAY

"If Not Now, When: A Checklist for Change"

Details: Robert Zemsky, author and researcher, will present the inaugural Rosemary Johnson Lecture.

When and Where: 3 - 4:30 p.m., Ballou Hall, Coolidge Room

Sponsor: Associate Provost Boris Hasselblatt

"Panel event on Contemporary Algeria & Tunisia"

Details: A panel of experts will discuss contemporary issues in Algeria and Tunisia.

When and Where: 6 - 9 p.m., Barnum Hall, Room 104

Sponsor: Middle Eastern Studies Program

"Ferguson Teach-In"

Details: Tufts Center for the Study of Race and Democracy will host a series of discussions about racial and social justice and the relevance of the recent events in Ferguson, Mo. to local issues of poverty, unemployment and mass incarceration.

When and Where: 1 - 6 p.m., Terrace Room

Sponsor: Tufts Center for the Study of Race and Democracy