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Exclusive Smith College Film screening: CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
November 4, 2015
What would society gain if more women and minorities coded? How do we get there? CODE documentary exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap. CODE raises the question: what would society gain from having more women and minorities code? Complimentary pizza and movie candy. Space is limited. RSVP in E-Access by Friday, October 30. This film is intended for all students from Smith. View the trailer: vimeo.com/123004482
Ford Hall 240
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

What Makes a Sustainable Library? A Campus Conversation.
November 5, 2015
Bring your ideas and help frame our thinking about library programming as it relates to sustainability. Join students, faculty and staff in a conversation about sustainability and the Neilson Library with members of the library programming sustainability subcommittee, the design firm Shepley Bulfinch, and the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability. Lunch provided for the first 50 participants.
Neilson Library Browsing Room
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Events at Smith

A Conversation with Robin Nagle,
October 30, 2015
Clinical Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at New York University. Nagle is the author of Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City. She is the been anthropologist-in-residence with the NYC Department of Sanitation. Her research focuses on the category of material culture known variously as garbage, rubbish, refuse, trash, or waste. She is particularly interested in its labor and infrastructural requirements in urban contexts. Pizza lunch provided for the first 25 participants.
Dewey House Common Room

Queer Students’ Experiences in the Sciences at Smith
October 30, 2015
Join us for the First AEMES Grounded Knowledge Panel. The AEMES Grounded Knowledge Panel (GKP) is composed of students talking about important issues from their personal perspectives related to Smith and the greater community in the context of STEM. Next Friday's panel is the first of what will be an interesting set of grounded explorations important to students on the Smith campus. Pizza will be provided.
McConnell 103
12:15 pm

Lunchbag: Rainforest Conservation: Practical Approaches from Chucanti, A Cloud Forest in Panama
November 2, 2015
with Guido C. Berguido. A native of Panama, Guido Berguidohas a degree in biology from the University of Panama and is a Certified Interpretive Guide through the National Association for Interpretation (NAI) in the U.S. Leading nature and bird watching tours for the most important tour operators of the region for over 15 years, he has been committed to environmental education and conservation activities with the Smithsonian Institute and the Panama Audubon Society. Lunch provided.
CEEDS Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

Lecture: Why Local Food Matters
November 2, 2015
Come hear Andy Pressman, Agricultural Specialist, National Center for Appropriate Technology, speak about the importance of local food. This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Lunchbag: Eco-Feminism in Latin America
November 4, 2015
Join Lucia Delbene, a feminist biologist from Uruguay, visiting Smith as part of the State Department’s Professional Fellows Environmental Sustainability Program. In Uruguay Delbene runs a Gender, Ecology and Sustainability program that aims to explore how women are linked to the environment and why they are so affected by its destruction. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

Divest Meeting
November 5, 2015
Divest Smith College (DSC) is a network of students and community members dedicated to continuing Smith College’s history of empowering women of all backgrounds to make a positive impact on the world by creating an environment that is both fiscally and morally responsible. If you're interested in making a change come to a meeting!
CC 204
12:00 am to 12:00 am

Engineering Forum
November 5, 2015
Dr. Cara E. Stepp ’04 and Defne Abur ’14 will present on their research at the STEPP LAB for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering at Boston University. Food will be served at this event, students are invited to bring their own beverage.
Ford Hall - Room 240
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Smith Built Environment Club- Senior Q&A Roundtable
November 5, 2015
Question and Answer with the seniors of the architecture major/LSS minor about study abroad and internships. Pizza provided.
Arch Studio/Hillyer 106
12:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Why Are We Not Surprised By Everything? Structures and Patterns
November 3, 2015
with Sigrid Miller Polling FAIA, Principal Miller Pollin Architecture, Amherst, MA. Part of the "Women in Design" architectural lecture series sponsored by the UMASS architecture department
Room S211 Integrated Learning Center, UMass
5:30 pm

Writing about Health, Medicine and the Body
November 4, 2015
The event, a reading and Q&A, will feature journalist and Smith College lecturer Nell Lake (author of The Caregivers: A Support Group's Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love),UMass faculty member Norman Johnson (author of Darwinian Detectives: Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes), and Suzanne Koven, MD and writer in residence for the Mass General Hospital internal medicine division.
Coolidge Museum at the Forbes
7:00 pm

Featured Event

Lecture: Rio de Janeiro: Mega-events and the Dynamics of Urban Change
November 9, 2015
After decades of stagnation, by 2010 Rio de Janeiro was one of the fastest growing cities in the Americas. Pricier than New York and receiving double the international investment of São Paulo, Rio was eager to take advantage of its selection as host of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics to constitute itself as a “global city.” How is this boom unfolding on the ground in Rio? How are the mega-events intersecting with the city’s infamous levels of inequality, historic segregation, and disparities in access to housing and public services? What is happening in the city’s 600-plus favelas? How might the city transform the current situation into one promoting inclusion, sustainability, and reductions in inequality? Theresa Williamson is Founder and Director of Catalytic Communities, an NGO that provides capacity building, media exposure, and networks of support to leaders from low-income communities across Rio de Janeiro.
Seelye 106
4:30 pm

COP21 Paris Climate Negotiations: Essential Information
November 12, 2015
Hearing about the COP21 Paris Climate Negotiations meeting and not sure what it is all about? Environmental Science and Policy (ES&P) is sponsoring a faculty panel and question and answer discussion about COP21 and the United Nations efforts to address Global Climate Change. ES&P Professors Camille Washington-Ottombre and Alexander Barron will highlight key events leading up to the COP21 meeting, review the goals and expectations for COP21, outline US environmental policy and participation at UN Climate Change meetings, and note next steps after COP21. Come learn the essential information about the history, expectations, and promise of COP21 and bring your questions! Lunch provided.
Neilson Browsing Room
12:00 pm

Events at Smith

Tire fixing workshop
November 6, 2015
Flat tires are one of the main issues that arise when it comes to bike problems. We are leading a workshop on flat tire fixing at the fall fest. Come swing by and learn how to patch or change a tire!
Bike Kitchen, Talbot Basement
11:00 am to 3:00 pm

Lecture: Horticultural Insights into Plant Conservation and Climate Change
November 6, 2015
with faculty Jesse Bellemare (Biology). Climate change is predicted to be a major threat to biodiversity in coming years. It is unclear how species will respond: native plant horticulture provides an untapped trove of data on these pressing questions, as many species have been grown outside their native ranges, and some have even escaped to colonize new areas. These data are helping to recalibrate ecological models and guide the development of new conservation approaches. Followed by a reception in the Lyman Plant House and a preview of the fall Mum Show.
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CC Carroll Room
7:30 pm

Poetry Reading: Jenifer Browne Lawrence & Markie Babbott
November 6, 2015
The 2016 Perugia Press Prize winner, Jenifer Browne Lawrence, will read with local poet, Markie Babbott, for an evening of poems that draw from the landscape—the Atlantic to the Pacific—to describe interpersonal relationships. Jenifer Browne Lawrence’s awards include the Orlando Poetry Prize, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Potomac Review Poetry Prize, and a Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant. Jenifer lives in a small seaside community on Puget Sound, where she works as a civil engineering technician and edits Crab Creek Review. Markie Babbott’s book, Into the Great Swamp, is a poetry and photography collaboration with her 93-year-old father, Edward Babbott. Together they explored the Great Swamp nature refuge in New Jersey. Markie Babbott’s poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies. Her chapbook, Sus Scrofa, won the 2008 Poets Corner Press competition. She is a psychologist who lives with her partner and two children in Northampton, and in her free time, she volunteers with the Connecticut River Watershed chapter of River of Words, a place-based program that integrates poetry, visual art, and the environment. For the Northampton community, this reading will bring together two poets from two watery landscapes who are paying close attention to their physical and emotional worlds, describing keenly how the two intersect. The reading, book signing, and reception is free, open to the public, and accessible. It is co-sponsored by Perugia Press and the Poetry Center at Smith College.
Poetry Center, Wright Hall
7:30 pm

Fall Chrysanthemum Show
November 7 - 22, 2015
Featuring Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) by Smith College Students. This reception is kicked off with a lecture by Smith faculty Jesse Bellemare in the CC Carroll Room on November 6.
Lyman Plant House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

MacLeish Campfire Trip
November 8, 2015
A sunset drive to the field station, to enjoy the cozy eco-building with board games and hot cocoa, and if weather permits, watch stars while making s'mores at the campfire. Reserve your spot at:
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Meet at Chapin loading dock
6:30 pm

Lecture: People, Planet and Profits
November 9, 2015
Ross Hackerman, Gray Dog's Farm Meat CSA, will talk about making a difference and making ends meet on a small sustainable animal farm. This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Biodiversity Studies and Building the Tree of Life
November 10, 2015
with Pamela Soltis. After the lecture join Pamela and Douglas for a discussion on graduate school for biology students.
McConnell 103
12:10 pm

Engineering Forum- Design Building: High-Tech Timber
November 12, 2015
Peggi Clouston, Associate Professor in Environmental Conservation at UMass, Amherst will present her research on emerging technologies in timber engineering as it relates to the construction of a new state-of-the-art wood-frame structure at UMass - the Design Building. She will speak to the technological novelty of the structure and the sustainability of wood in construction. All are welcome! Food will be served but we encourage you to bring your own beverage. Learn more about the (Integrated) Design Building, BCT's new home starting 2017 here. - See more at the link below:
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Ford Hall 240
12:00 pm

Divest Meeting
November 12, 2015
Divest Smith College (DSC) is a network of students and community members dedicated to continuing Smith College’s history of empowering women of all backgrounds to make a positive impact on the world by creating an environment that is both fiscally and morally responsible. If you're interested in making a change come to a meeting!
CC 102
8:00 pm

Events Off Campus

MA Interfaith Legislative Climate Action Day
November 10, 2015
The MA Interfaith Coalition for Climate Action will gather at the State House (2nd floor, Grand Staircase) to demonstrate our commitment to a clean and just energy future in Massachusetts! Co-op Power members are strongly encouraged to attend! Go to tbewellesley.org/Climate and click the sign-up link.
Grand Staircase on 2nd floor of the State House

Countdown to the Paris Climate Summit: What's at Stake
November 10, 2015
The international community will gather on Nov. 30th at a climate summit in Paris - officially the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (or COP-21) - which will no doubt prove the most significant climate negotiations of modern times. In light of all this, Hampshire College will devote an afternoon and evening to consider the scientific, political, and ethical issues raised by COP-21, as well as the opportunities for actions. The program will consist of a series of panels led by Hampshire College and Five College faculty, students, and community members.
Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College, Main Lecture Hall
4:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Hierba Mala o Mala Hierba? The Many Reproductive Lives of Weeds
November 10, 2015
What is a weed? Ralph Waldo Emerson described a weed as a "plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." 19th century botanist Asa Gray wrote "Even the most useful plants may become weeds if they appear out of their proper place." In W.S. Blatchley's "The Indiana Weed Book", he wrote "Many weeds, like misery, love company." Using Susan Leigh Star's theory of boundary objects as a point of departure, this presentation by Sam Smiley, Independent Scholar and Artist, will start with a video that analyzes the multiple definitions and uses of weeds by humans within the United States, and within the context of the English language. The video and research includes a social constructionist and performative approach (Gergen and Gergen). It will also engage with the idea of the weed as a material-semiotic object within a shifting network of meanings, descriptions, and plant and human actors. The presentation will continue with the introduction of a "Plant Anthropologist" who visits a "huerto" in Mexico City, and a provocation about the definitions of weeds outside of the English language, and within different locations in Latin America. How does the weed change when it is "translated" into Spanish or Portuguese? What translations remain stable and which ones shift?
Faculty Lounge, FPH, Hampshire College
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Featured Event

Workshop: Media Advocacy for Campaigns
November 16, 2015
Aly Johnson-Kurts '17 is the Media Lead for the SustainUS U.S. Youth delegation to COP21 and the Communications Director for Rights & Democracy, a Vermont-based organization organizing to address climate change and promote workers' rights. Join Aly Monday evening to learn how to use strategic communication and the press to elevate an issue, pressure decision-makers, and advance campaign goals.
CEEDS- Center for Environment, Ecological Design & Sustainability, Wright Hall 005
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Events at Smith

Next-generation Photovoltaics from Unconventional Semiconductors for Low Cost,
November 13, 2015
Large Scale Electricity from the Sun. Alexi Arnago, Department of Physics, Mount Holyoke College joins us to give a lecture in the Physics Department Fall Seminar Series. Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.; the lecture starts at 4:15 p.m.
McConnell 103
4:00 pm

Nightime Visit to the MacLeish Field Station
November 15, 2015
Join us for a nighttime trip to the MacLeish Field Station for a campfire, stars, and cozy times. Leaving from outside Chapin House at 6:30 p.m., returning at 9 p.m. Sign up at the link below:
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Meet outside Chapin
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Fall Chrysanthemum Show
November 7 - 22, 2015
Featuring Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) by Smith College Students. This reception is kicked off with a lecture by Smith faculty Jesse Bellemare in the CC Carroll Room on November 6.
Lyman Plant House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Lecture: Let the water flow!
November 16, 2015
Come hear Robin MacEwan, Senior Associate, Environmental Services, Stantec, speak about aquatic restoration: Aquatic restoration one damn dam at a time. Damn those dams! Removing the shackles of New England rivers. This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Lecture: The Inspired Landscape: 21 Leading Landscape Architects Explore the Creative Process
November 16, 2015
with Susan Cohen '62, licensed landscape architect and fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Featuring the work of twenty-one landscape architects from around the world, Susan Cohen highlights each initial spark of creativity and traces it through the stunningly innovative landscape designs that resulted. Lushly illustrated with original sketches, plans and photographs this invaluable resource will embolden designers to summon the unique sources that fuel their own creative process.
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CC 103-104
4:30 pm

Library "Playback" Sessions- see multiple times
November 18, 2015
How have students, faculty and staff reimagined Neilson Library? Join members of the Library Program Committee and the design firm Shepley Bulfinch for a "playback" of the major themes and ideas that have emerged from this fall's engagement events. Open sessions for the Smith community begin at 11 a.m., 1:10 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Neilson Browsing Room
11:00 am

Food Recovery Network--action!
November 19, 2015
The dining halls for Thursdays are solely in the quad. If you would like to recover with us on this day, email us foodrecovery @ smith.edu and include your phone number if you have not yet recovered with us yet this semester. You can expect a confirmation email that includes the meeting location.
The Quad
3:50 pm

COP21 Discussion (in French)
November 19, 2015
Join us for an afternoon of lively discussion on the events of this fall's COP21 conference including discussion on the terror attacks of the past week. All students of French are welcome! We'll also be serving light refreshments only as it's Julia Child Day in the dining halls! Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions when you RSVP below:
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Lewis Global Studies Center, Wright Hall first floor
4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

Mapathon in the Spatial Analysis Lab
November 19, 2015
Attendees will identify and trace dwellings, roads/paths, medical facilities etc on the OpenStreetMap platform using aerial imagery of eastern Afghanistan. This data will then be immediately available to humanitarian organizations working in the region following a major earthquake on Oct 26. Absolutely no prior experience is required, and dinner will be provided! For more info and to sign up at link below:
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Spatial Analysis Lab, Sabin-Reed 104
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Divest Meeting
November 19, 2015
Divest Smith College (DSC) is a network of students and community members dedicated to continuing Smith College’s history of empowering women of all backgrounds to make a positive impact on the world by creating an environment that is both fiscally and morally responsible. If you're interested in making a change come to a meeting!
CC 103/104
8:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Volunteer at the Food Bank of Western Mass
November 13, 2015
Gain hands-on experience on how the Food Bank supports the local community. Help out by sorting donated food in the warehouse which is then distributed to local emergency food pantries and programs. Transportation will be provided to their site in Hatfield. Sign up by November 11. For more information and to sign up, contact Brianna Halasa at bhalasa@smith.edu at the Community Service Organization (CSO). To learn more about the Food Bank's mission and activities, visithttps://www.foodbankwma.org/ For information about this and other volunteer opportunities contact CSO at ext. 2793 or cso@smith.edu.
97 N Hatfield Rd, Hatfield, MA
2:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Collective Efforts
November 17, 2015
with Victoria Rospond AIA & LEad Cloud AIA, Founders and Principals, CDR Studio Architects, PC, New York, NY Part of the "Women in Design" architectural lecture series sponsored by the UMASS architecture department
Room S211 Integrated Learning Center, UMass
5:30 am