Center for the Humanities.
The Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT) promotes critical reflection on and exploration of the significance of the humanities and the arts for Tufts and its surrounding communities, encouraging discourse between humanists and artists, on the one hand, and other Tufts academics, on the other.
Each year CHAT selects a theme around which to organize its central activities: a year long faculty, post-doctoral fellow and graduate student seminar, a lecture series, and a fall or spring symposium. CHAT also supports innovative research and creative work through events with other departments and centers on campus. In addition CHAT plays an important role in supporting graduate education: CHAT grants two Graduate Dissertation Fellowships each year via the office of the Graduate Dean and the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
All of CHAT’s events are free and open to members of the Tufts community. In addition, some events are also open to the public. Through all of its programs, CHAT works to promote inter-departmental and cross-campus dialogue, to raise the profile of the arts and humanities at Tufts and in our surrounding communities, and to build support for scholarship and creative activity.