Formerly the Tufts Presidential Symposium on Community Partnerships
The Tufts Community Symposium, Co-Creating Knowledge: Exploring possibilities for community-based research partnerships, is a signature event that convenes university colleagues with local communities. Continuing our valued tradition of an annual symposium with community partners, this year’s gathering will be convened by the Office of the President, the Tisch College of Civic Life and the Office of Government & Community Relations. Our program will offer expanded opportunities to learn from each other, network, and explore new connections.
Join Tufts professors Kendra Field and Kerri Greenidge, alongside scholar and museum director Kyera Singleton (Royall House and Slave Quarters) in a conversation about their collective work as public historians of slavery, freedom, and African-American communities. Their public projects, including their latest work as scholars for the City of Boston’s Reparations Task Force, helps to shape the future of civic life and multiracial democracy within and beyond Boston. They will discuss the past, present, and future of community-engaged research, and what it means to engage the public history and collective memory of slavery as both historian and descendant.
At Tisch College we are guided by our North Star vision: building robust, inclusive democracy for an increasingly multiracial society. Your voices, insights and leadership are essential to our work.
Kindly RSVP to let us know that you will join us. Please review the Concurrent Breakout Sessions options before you register.
Schedule
8:15 a.m. Networking Breakfast with Poster Session
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Plenary with Keynote Panel, Roundtable Discussions
11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions
12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Tisch College Community Research Center Student Research Presentations (with lunch)
*Participants are encouraged to come to any portion of the day*
Who should attend: Students of all levels and disciplines, faculty, staff, alumni, community partners and leaders.
Breakout Sessions
Please review the Concurrent Breakout Sessions options before you register.
Session 1: Empowering Youth Voices in Community Health Research
Session 2: Art and Social Engagement: Community Practices and Advocacy
Session 3: Researching the History of Enslavement in the Heart of DeWolf Territory (Rhode Island)
Session 4: Linking Social Connectedness and Extreme Weather Resilience in Chinatown and Roxbury
Session 5: Workshop: Making Web-Maps with ArcGIS Online
If you have community events or programs that you would like to share, feel free to bring up to 25 copies to put on a literature table. When you depart, please take the extra copies with you.
The symposium is cosponsored by the Office of the President, Government and Community Relations, and the Tisch College of Civic Life.
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ACCESSIBILITY: 51 Winthrop St is equipped with accessible bathrooms and entrances. If you need a handicapped parking spot, please email Samara Jones as soon as you register. Spots are limited. Please visit this interactive map to locate our handicap parking spots and other campus accessibility information.
PARKING INFORMATION: Visitor parking is limited to visitor parking areas such as Dowling Hall Garage (closest to 51 Winthrop) and Cousens Lot.
Community members can park for free and register their vehicle at this link or by using QR codes available at the registration table on the day of the event. Please note that this permit needs to be scanned on the day of your event when you get to campus and not prior to. It is only good on the day it is scanned.
Tufts students/faculty/staff must pay for parking as normal using the SentryMobile App or this link.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: The Tufts Medford campus is easily accessible via public transportation. Find directions here. 51 Winthrop is approximately a 20-minute walk from Davis Square, close to the Tufts University Green Line stop, and on the 94 and 96 MBTA bus lines!
Questions: please email Samara Jones