The Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents UC Santa Barbara Professor of Music Timothy Cooley speaking on his recently published book, “Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy.” The work focuses on the connection between environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability, and examines the potential for reversal of negative human impact on the environment from a cultural perspective, particularly at the local level. Cooley curated a collection of 23 essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists that each explore the topic by asking a particular question or presenting a local case study.

Free; no tickets required. Guest parking passes can be purchased at the Tufts University Police Department, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford.

This colloquium is made possible by the Granoff Music Fund.