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Lunch & Learn Talks
The new membership year is here! Renew your membership or join Tufts OLLI today.
Join Us for OLLI Lunch & Learn Talks
Thank you to our Lunch and Learn Committee for their hard work planning and organizing our speakers each term! Our Lunch & Learn talks are open to all members at every membership tier.
Be sure to keep an eye on the weekly newsletter (sent to all current Tufts OLLI members every Tuesday) for subsequent Zoom links and location details. A printable talk schedule can be found here.
Questions? Please do not hesitate to reach out to our office either by phone at (617) 627-5699 or via email at osherlli@tufts.edu.
Missed a talk? Links to recorded talks are shared with current members via the weekly newsletter.
Fall 2025 Talks
All talks will be 12:15 - 1:15pm ET.
Wednesday talks will be exclusively on Zoom. Friday talks will be in-person at Tufts University as well as streamed on Zoom for our members at home. If you are joining us in person, feel free to bring your lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided.
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Date & Modality |
Presenter & Talk Title |
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September 17 
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Lucilia Prates-Ramos, Statewide, Director, Massachusetts Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) Program Cost & Consequences of Healthcare Errors, Fraud, and Abuse |
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September 19 
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Joseph Bagley, Archeologist, City of Boston Archeological Discoveries from the Boston of 1776 |
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September 24
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Kenneth Roth, Former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022), Visiting Professor at Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments |
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September 26 
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Elizabeth Race, Associate Professor, Psychology, Tufts University Memory Malleability & the Aging Brain |
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October 1
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Rachel Jamison Webster, Author, Professor, Connecting to our Ancestors and Revisiting our Histories |
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October 3 
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Melissa McCracken, Assistant Professor, International Environmental Policy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Transboundary Water Issues Globally: Challenges and Opportunities for Collaboration |
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October 8
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Leonard Marcus, Children’s Golden Legacy—How Golden Books Changed Children’s Books Forever |
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October 10 
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Hilary Binda, Founder, Executive Director, Tufts University Prison Initiative (TUPIT) College Behind Bars |
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October 15
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Anthony Sammarco, Historian, Author Classic Maya Boston History—The Other Red Line: Washington Street, From Scollay Square to the Combat Zone |
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October 17 
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Michael Veit, Retired Teacher, Bee Enthusiast Massachusetts Bees—Diversity through Structure |
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October 22
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Dr. William Thierfelder, Retired Professor, Arts and Humanities, Docent Emeritus, American Museum of Natural History Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance |
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October 24 
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Dr. Marcus Nemitz, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University Design. Print. Deploy. Enabling Swarm Robots via Additive Manufacturing |
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October 29
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Carol “Krill” Carson, Marine Superpowers of the Horseshoe Crab—Why We Need Them in Our World! |
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October 31 
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J.L. Bell, Historian, Author,
Lost Holiday: How Colonial Boston Celebrated the Fifth of November |
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November 5
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Diane McKay, Assistant Professor, Diet and Healthy Aging: Exploring the What. Why, and How |
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November 7 |
End of Term Lunch, In-Person at Tufts |