The Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents Toni Shapiro-Phim of the Philadelphia Folklore Project on the topic “Expressive Culture and Social Justice.”

Shapiro-Phim oversees the Folklore Project’s public programs including exhibitions, performances, humanities forums and other collaborative endeavors with community partners. She received a Ph.D from Cornell University in cultural anthropology, exploring the relationship between war, migration and the arts, and worked in refugee camps in Indonesia and Thailand with people who had come from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. She will also be on hand at Tufts for the showing of her documentary film, “Because of the War,” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

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.