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Theatre: Map of My Kingdom
March 4, 2015
Who's going to get the farm? And what are they going to do with it? Will your future plans for your land create harmony or strife for your family? Or have you even started to think that far ahead? THe critical issue of land transition...One of two plays by Mary Swander, Iowa's Poet Laureate. Open to the public, $8 advance/$10 at the door. Students are free.
Bowker Auditorium, UMASS Amherst
8:00 pm

Maple tree tapping at MacLeish
March 7, 2015
Sugaring season is about to start! This is your chance to experience the traditional tapping of maple trees and the process of making maple syrup that New England is known for. Be sure to wear gloves and warm layers and be prepared to walk in some snow! No experience necessary. Vans will leave from the Chapin loading dock at 1pm. Please sign up using the link below:
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MacLeish Field Station (leave from Chapin loading dock)
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Commercial Drones in our Backyards and Communities
March 4, 2015
Presented by Paul Voss, Associate Professor of Engineering, Smith College. Jon Caris Director, Spatial Analysis Lab, Smith College. Robert Newton Professor of Geosciences, Smith College. Drones for good: environmental science, infrastructure inspection, agriculture, archaeology, and the arts. Concern in the air: nuisance, surveillance, and the commercialization of everywhere. Calvin Coolidge and the great compromise that created our federal aviation system. Who owns the sky: public airspace, private property, and the need for community control. The FAA’s new proposed rules, public input, and 50 days that really count. Free and open to the public! - Sponsored by the Kahn Institute and the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College -
John M. Green Hall
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Community Garden meeting
March 4, 2015
PLANT LABELS... laid-back painting. (Button-making will be another week!) And org. introductions for those who couldn’t come to the meeting last week. All are welcome!
Campus Center 103/104
7:00 pm

Info Table: SEA Semester
March 6, 2015
Looking for adventure? Want to study abroad? Come learn about SEA Semester! SEA Semester offers field-based study abroad programs for all majors during the summer or semester in the Caribbean, Europe, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Students spend half the semester in Woods Hole, MA in preparation for the second half voyage as a full-working crew member aboard one of two tall sailing ships. Email edorr@sea.edu with questions.
Campus Center downstairs
11:00 am to 2:00 pm

Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) project meetings
March 7, 2015
Everyone is welcome- you do NOT have to be an engineering major, just bring an active mind and excitement! This semester ESW will focus on a compost proposal for the Office of Sustainability, a solar charging station for central campus, and Smith Hackathon! ESW will also be planning trips- possibly to a fish elevator, a passive solar house, to see UMass aquaponics, and a national conference.
Campus Center 102
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Field Station Saturdays
March 7, 2015
Want to get off campus? Come visit MacLeish Field Station! You can explore the five miles of trails (rent snowshoes or skis from the Outing Club) or stay cozy in the building with a cup of tea. It's a great place to study or relax—and there's a collection of board games! The van will leave from the Chapin loading dock at 1pm and return to campus by 4:30pm. Space is limited, please sign up here: http://goo.gl/nhrVZF. For more information, contact ewald@smith.edu.
Chapin loading dock
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Lecture: Rurban and Peri-Urban Water Planning in India: A Landscape Approach
March 9, 2015
with James Wescoat, Department of Architecture, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by the Mitia Sawhill Lecture Fund, this is an Annual Lecture in Honor of John Burk-Emeritus Biological Sciences and part of the LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment series. Free and open to the public.
Weinstein Auditorium
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Lecture: Radical Listening: A doctor’s experience saving lives and rain forest in Indonesian Borneo
March 9, 2015
with Kinari Webb, physician and founder of Health in Harmony. Dr. Kinari Webb went to Borneo as a young researcher, with the intent of learning about the orangutan and the dwindling environment that endangers the species' survival. She discovered there the intimate connections among poverty, logging, poor health, substandard education, unsustainable farming practices, and, of course, the orangutan. She returned to the U.S., became a physician, and returned to Borneo, where she has established a community project that -- amazingly -- addresses every aspect of this spiral of poverty and erosion of life. Her story is inspirational (see links below
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Sabin-Reed 220
4:30 pm

SGA Sustainability Dinner
March 10, 2015
This is an informal dinner for all members of the Smith community to discuss the events and activities addressing issues of sustainability on campus. Come late and/or leave early. There will be desserts from La Fiorentina! For more information, email cpowell05 at smith.edu.
Duckett Dining Room A & B
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies symposium
March 5, 2015
March 6, 2015
Contested Legal Realities:Different Approaches to the Law in Indian Country. March 5 (Reception); March 6 (Symposium Roundtables and Breakout Discussions). Free and open to all. Organizing Committee: Kathleen Brown-Perez, Honors College, UMASS Amherst; Christine Delucia, Mount Holyoke; Kiara Vigil, Amherst College
Amherst College TBD

The Social Value of Heritage: Towards People-Centered Approaches to Conservation
March 5, 2015
Montenegro- Menzes is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst and co-directs the graduate certificate program in cultural Landscape Management. Formerly, as an architect and urban planner in Brazil, Montenegro-Menzes developed and managed projects dealing with community engagement, indigenous development, and regional environment issues. Investigation and research in the field of cultural landscapes is needed now more than ever as landscape architects and regional planners are asked to expand and change their practices to address the issues of climate change, global urbanization, and economic inequality. Practitioners engaged in the field of cultural landscapes today are building a vital and necessary dimension of continued and innovative success in their professions. This lecture series will provide insight into the past, present and future of cultural landscape research and practice.
School of Management 137, UMass
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Lecture: Think Climate Change is Bad? How about Nuclear War?
March 5, 2015
by Dr. Elaine Scarry, award-winning social theorist, Harvard professor, and author of the most recent book “Thermonuclear Monarchy”. In this incisive new book, Elaine demonstrates that the power of one leader to obliterate millions of people with a nuclear weapon—a possibility that remains very real even in the wake of the Cold War—deeply violates our constitutional rights, undermines the social contract, and is fundamentally at odds with the deliberative principles of democracy. Sponsored by: Nuclear and Carbon Free Future Coalition, The Green Amherst Project, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the American Friends Service Committee, Massachusetts Peace Action and the UMass Political Science Department.
Amherst College, Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski
4:30 pm

Senior Architecture Exhibit
March 5, 2015
Opening reception for this exhibit will be held on Thursday, March 5th at 7 pm. Works will be on exhibit until the 27th of March. Featuring design studio work by the graduating class of architecture majors and minors over their four years at Smith. Light refreshments and snacks will be served at the reception.
Jannotta Gallery
7:00 pm

Symposium: Climate Change and the Future of Life
March 6, 2015
The symposium feature ​will feature ecologists, botanists, and conservation speakers who will discuss climate-induced adaptation, migration, and loss; and strategies for conserving and managing plant species and natural communities in the face of climate change. The Symposium is open to everyone and​ discounted tickets are available to students (student identification required). Lunch and continental breakfast will be provided. Follow the link below to register or learn more.
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Microsoft New England R&D Center, Cambridge, MA

Lecture: Sea Level and Climate Variability During the Last 2,000 Years
March 6, 2015
with Dr. Andrew Kemp, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Tufts University. Fresh coffee and cookies will be provided.
UMASS, Morrill II 129
3:30 pm

Lecture: Growing Multi-Use Trail Network - The projects, the plans, and the region
March 10, 2015
with Wayne Feiden, Director of the City of Northampton's Office of Planning and Sustainability. Northampton's rail and multi-use trail network continues to grow, with two projects planned for 2015, one for 2016, three more in design, and two in planning. Come hear where we are going on building a strong bicycle infrastructure. The event, sponsored by Friends of Northampton Trails and Greenways is free and open to the public.
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Northampton Friends Meetinghouse, 43 Center Street
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

Food Recovery Network
March 11, 2015
Help us collect leftover dining hall food to donate to people who need it! We recover food twice a week and donate it to a local shelter in Holyoke. We meet Wednesdays & Sundays at 6:45p.m. in the lower level Campus Center (by the colored couches). Join Us! Questions? Email Allison and/or Pam: acwu at smith.edu or pmatcho at smith.edu
Campus Center lower level
6:45 pm

Events Off Campus

It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood
March 11, 2015
The Hampshire College Spiritual Life Office and The Five College Program in Peace & World Security Studies Present: A Conversation with Frida Berrigan, Hampshire College alum, author, peace activist, daughter of noted peace activists Phil Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister, mother and stepmother. Lunch Will Be Provided.
Hampshire College, Merrill Living Room
12:00 pm

FISHTAIL: A Decision Support Mapper for Conserving Stream Fish Habitats
March 11, 2015
Comprehensive understanding of both current and future condition of stream habitats is essential for conserving and managing fishes and their habitats, and managers require the ability to integrate such information in a spatially-continuous and scalable format to aid management decisions.
University of Massachusetts, Morrill Science Center, 134
3:30 pm

Food Justice: past, present and future
March 11, 2015
Who can buy healthy fresh vegetables in our region and who can't? Why and why not? How has institutional racism shaped access to healthy food in our region and beyond? What is needed to build a resilient food system that provides for all? The PV Grows Racial Equity in the Food System Working Group invites you to a conversation in which we will trace the practices of modern agriculture and food production back to plantation agriculture, examine some of the policies that have shaped food chain worker conditions, and together build tools for action in this region and beyond. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP using the link below:
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Holyoke Senior Center 291 Pine Street, Holyoke, MA
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Interactive Bodies, Spaces, and Voices: BaAka Music and Dance and the Central African Rainforest
March 11, 2015
Ethnomusicologist Michelle Kisliuk, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Virginia, has been researching the music, dance, daily life, and cultural politics of forest people (BaAka) in the Central African Republic since 1986. Dr. Kisliuk’s talk will detail these circumstances and includes a participatory element whereby audience members learn BaAka ensemble singing with a focus on how voices and spaces shape performance.
Music Recital Hall, Music and Dance Building, Hampshire College
7:30 pm

Project Native's 5th annual environmental Film Festival
March 15, 2015
10:00am DamNation - 53 minutes; 11:30am Plastic Paradise - 57 minutes; 1:00pm The Starfish Throwers - 82 minutes; 2:50pm Resistance - 72 minutes; 4:30pm Groundswell Rising - 71 minutes. This festival is free and open to the public, and would not be possible without funding from the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation and official sponsors: Berkshire Coop Market, GoodWorks Insurance, Kenver Ltd., and Bobbie Hallig.
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Tower Theaters, South Hadley, MA

Featured Event

Lecture: Plant Conservation and Climate Change
March 23, 2015
Jesse Bellemare, assistant professor of biological sciences and CEEDS fellow, will present 'Plant Conservation and Climate Change: Insights from Biogeography, Ecological Experimentation and Horticulture." Part of the Spring 2015 Mary Elizabeth Dickason King M.D. Annual Lecture Series in the Life Sciences in Memory of Professor Howard Parshley. Coffee, tea and light snacks will be served at 4 p.m.; talk to begin at 4:30 p.m. Open to the public.
McConnell 103
4:30 pm

Events at Smith

Lecture: Cultivating Novel Urban Ecosystems to Build Resilience Capacity
March 23, 2015
with Jack Ahern, Landscape Architecture, UMass-Amherst. Sponsored by the Mitia Sawhill Lecture Fund, this lecture is part of the LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment series and is free and open to the public.
Weinstein Auditorium
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Lecture: Creatures Who Create: Should We Bring Back Lost Species?
March 24, 2015
with Bruce Jennings, Director of the Bioethics Center for Humans and Nature. Human activities now fundamentally shape the world we live in, and advances in biotechnology enable humans to manipulate the conditions of life in unprecedented ways. This talk will address what is "natural" and what is "artificial," asking, what should humans accommodate and what should we enhance? Jennings will explore the relationship between humans and nature through the lens of "de-extinction," or bringing back extinct species through genetic engineering. Do science and technology teach us to see ourselves as trustees of a fragile web of life or instead as engineers of a world that serves only human interests and needs? For more information, visit
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Seelye 201
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Grow Food Northampton Organic Community Gardens Garden Plot Registration
March 21, 2015
Cost: $30 for a 10'x20' or 20'x20' garden plot ($40 non-resident) Discounts for seniors (20%) and valid SNAP card recipients (80%). Garden plots will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, with 46 new plots opening in 2015. They will also be accepting orders for finished compost that gardeners can apply to their garden plots. sign up starts at 9 a.m. and goes through 11:30 a.m.; an all-gardener meeting follows at Noon. Follow the link below for more information:
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Smith Vocational & Agric. School (80 Locust St, Northampton)
9:00 am to 11:30 am

Lecture: Racialized Viruses/ Militarized Biomedicine: Armed Interventions Made in the Name of Health
March 24, 2015
with Jennifer Terry, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine as part of the Race and Science series presented by the Five College Science and Technology Students Initiative in collaboration with the Five College Women's Studies Research Center.
Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm