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Oxfam Talk Back Time
January 25, 2012
Join us for an Oxfam Talk Back event! "Talk back times" are informal conversations moderated by Smith faculty and staff following lectures and presentations that CEEDS feels merit further discussion. Lisa Armstrong from SWAG will be moderating this discussion following the Oxfam Advocacy Institute which focuses on world hunger and intervention strategies.
Neilson Browsing Room
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events at Smith

Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series
January 30, 2012
Introductory lecture by Reid Bertone-Johnson (subject TBA) This Spring semester 2 credit course will meet Mondays from 2:40-4:00pm, in Weinstein Auditorium in Wright Hall. It is offered as S/NConly and may be taken twice for credit. 3 short papers and weekly readings related to the speakers' topics are required. For more information please contact: Ann Leone aleone@smith.edu or Reid Bertone-Johnson rbertone@smith.edu.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series
February 6, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Keith Zaltzberg titled, "Permaculture: Design for Social Change and Community (re)Development." Keith Zaltzberg works with the Regenerative Design Group in Greenfield, MA. This is part of the Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series 2012.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Innovators in Sustainability: Josh Goldman, 81
February 6, 2012
The first lecture in this semester's "President's Alumni Speaker Series" which will bring Hampshire College alums involved in different aspects of sustainability back to campus so that students can see what it "means" to actually do this type of work. Josh Goldman has done spectacular work on sustainable aquaculture and will be a very interesting speaker. (FPH is a 2 min walk from the bus stop and you can park anywhere on campus.)
Hampshire College, Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
12:00 am

Argument and Political Action: Considering Environmental Ethics-
February 7, 2012
a lecture by Chris Cuomo of the University of Georgia. This event is one in the series "Climate, Nature and the Frontiers of Ethics" funded by the Forry and Micken Fund in Philosophy and Science and sponsored by The Department of Philosophy at Amherst College.
Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski Building, Amherst College
4:30 pm

Featured Event

Five College Blue Sky Initiative meeting
February 8, 2012
The presidents of the Five College’s and Neal Abraham, executive director of Five Colleges, Inc. recently issued a call for ideas for new initiatives and programs in academic, co-curricular, and operational aspects of sustainability. In response to this call, CEEDS would like to invite you to participate in one of the Smith blue sky meetings. This call and these meetings are an opportunity for us all to think broadly about how we engage with sustainability issues on many levels, to dust off ideas that have been put on the back burner for one reason or another, to bring forward ideas for innovative solutions related to our daily work, to think creatively about how we learn or teach, or just come together with enthusiasm to brainstorm. Ideas generated on each campus will then be pooled together as part of the larger Five College Blue Sky Initiative. Smith campus members unable to attend the February blue sky meetings can submit ideas for sustainability projects and programs online (see link below)or by email to jbenkley@smith.edu.
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Neilson Library Browsing Room
9:00 am to 10:20 am

Five College Blue Sky Initiative meeting
February 8, 2012
...an opportunity for us all to think broadly about how we engage with sustainability issues on many levels, to dust off ideas that have been put on the back burner for one reason or another, to bring forward ideas for innovative solutions related to our daily work, to think creatively about how we learn or teach, or just come together with enthusiasm to brainstorm. Smith campus members unable to attend the February blue sky meetings can submit ideas for sustainability projects and programs online (see link below)or by email to jbenkley@smith.edu.
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Neilson Library Browsing Room
11:00 am to 12:10 pm

Five College Blue Sky Initiative meeting
February 9, 2012
...an opportunity for us all to think broadly about how we engage with sustainability issues on many levels, to dust off ideas that have been put on the back burner for one reason or another, to bring forward ideas for innovative solutions related to our daily work, to think creatively about how we learn or teach, or just come together with enthusiasm to brainstorm. Smith campus members unable to attend the February blue sky meetings can submit ideas for sustainability projects and programs online (see link below)or by email to jbenkley@smith.edu.
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Campus Center 205
9:00 am to 10:20 am

Five College Blue Sky Initiative meeting
February 9, 2012
...an opportunity for us all to think broadly about how we engage with sustainability issues on many levels, to dust off ideas that have been put on the back burner for one reason or another, to bring forward ideas for innovative solutions related to our daily work, to think creatively about how we learn or teach, or just come together with enthusiasm to brainstorm. Smith campus members unable to attend the February blue sky meetings can submit ideas for sustainability projects and programs online (see link below)or by email to jbenkley@smith.edu.
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Campus Center room 205
10:30 am to 11:50 am

Evelyn Fox-Keller, "Rationality and Fear"
February 14, 2012
Smith College hosts Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor Emeritus of the History and Philosophy of Science at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology, as the 2011-12 William Allen Neilson Professor. Beginning in February, Professor Keller will present a series of three lectures, "Reflections on Contemporary Scientific Problems." Please join us for the first lecture titled "Rationality and Fear."
Neilson Browsing Room
4:30 pm

Events at Smith

Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series
February 13, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber, proprietors of "osteria pane e salute/la garagista" in Woodstock, Vermont. They will be giving at talk titled, "Prosperina's Vine: A Portrait of a Natural Vineyard and the Quest for Terroir. This is part of the Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series 2012.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

War Fever: Iran, the U.S. and the Middle East
February 8, 2012
A Five College Faculty Panel with: Prof. Michael Klare (Five College Peace & World Security Studies, Prof. Laura Reed (UMass Political Science Dept.), Prof. Sayres Rudy (Hampshire College School of Critical Social Inquiry) Sponsored by: UMass Political Science Dept., Five College Program in Peace & World Security Studies. This event is free and open to the public.
Thompson Hall Room 106, U Mass, Amherst
7:30 pm

Ervin Zube Lecture Series
February 9, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Sharon Rooney, AICP, RLA--Chief Planner, Cape Cod Commission. The topic will be, "The Development of Visual Impact Assessment Methodology for Wind Turbines in Cape Cod's Ocean Waters." This is part of the Ervin Zube Spring Lecture Series 2012.
Procopio Room, 105 Hills North, UMass Amherst
4:00 pm