Visiting the Hill this week

Monday

"CEEO Seminar: Jere Confrey"

Details: Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University's College of Education Jere Confrey will be speaking as part of the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach's STEM Lecture Series.

When and Where: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Halligan Hall Room 102

Sponsor: Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

Tuesday

"Diagnosing the Italian Disease"

Details: Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, will deliver a lecture on his research as part of the Department of Economics Seminar Series.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m., Braker Hall Room 118

Sponsor: Department of Economics

"Tufts Against Genocide Presents: Survivors Speak"

Details: Survivors of genocides including the Holocaust and those in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur will join the Tufts community in an evening of remembrance to honor survivors' narratives and work towards preventing further atrocities.

When and Where: 7:00 p.m., Tufts Hillel

Sponsor: The Cummings/Hillel Holocaust and Genocide Education Program

Wednesday

"Jill Lepore Lecture: The Secret History of Wonder Woman"

Details: Jill Lepore (J '87), a professor of history at Harvard University, will deliver a lecture on her New York Times bestselling book, "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (2014). The book chronicles both the history of famed superhero Wonder Woman and her creator, William Moulton Marston, as well as both figures' relationships to the feminist movements of the 20th century.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Ballou Hall Coolidge Room

Sponsors: Office of the Provost, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of History, American Studies Program, Department of Psychology

"Desires for the Global"

Details: Caroline Jones, professor of art history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak as part of the Art History Lecture Series.

When and Where: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m., Tisch Library Room 304

Sponsors: Hope and Mel Barkan

"Book Talk with Julian Zelizer"

Details: Author Julian Zelizer will discuss his recent book, "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society" (2015), which examines Johnson's Great Society and the forces that shaped it.

When and Where: 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Paige Hall Terrace Room

Sponsor: Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

Thursday

"EPIIC Symposium Keynote: Russian Identity"

Details: Gregory Carleton, associate professor of Russian at Tufts, will deliver the keynote address for the 2015 Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) Symposium on Russia in the 21st century. The keynote will be followed by a five-speaker panel titled "Religion, Politics and Identity."

When and Where: 7:00 p.m., Cabot Intercultural Center ASEAN Hall

Sponsor: Institute for Global Leadership

Friday

"Mythos/Melos—The Intertwining Threads of Music and Narrative"

Details: Pianists Lois Shapiro and Randall Hodgkinson will perform new transcriptions for two pianos of Igor Stravinsky's "Petrouchka" (1911) and "Firebird" (1910) ballets. Tufts student pianists will join Shapiro and Hodgkinson for a special arrangement of "Firebird," and the concert will also feature a performance by professional mime Colin Gee. The performance will be an exploration of the relationship between music and narrative.

When and Where: 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Perry and Marty Granoff Center Distler Performance Hall

Sponsor: Department of Music