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Presidential Colloquium: Rachel Maddow
January 23, 2017
MSNBC news anchor Rachel Maddow reflects on the 2016 presidential election.
John M. Greene Hall
10:00 am

Presidential Colloquium: Ana Navarro
January 24, 2017
CNN commentator Ana Navarro will offer reflections on the 2016 presidential election.
John M. Greene Hall
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Drive Green
January 21, 2017
Green your ride and your electric bill with Drive Green and New England Green Start! The Center for EcoTechnology (CET), in partnership with Mass Energy Consumers Alliance, is promoting a limited time opportunity to buy or lease a brand new Electric Vehicle at a deeply discounted price. And you can power your new EV with 100% New England generated renewable energy, making a dramatic reduction in your carbon footprint! CET will be on hand to answer your questions about these exciting programs that can help you dramatically reduce your reliance on fossil fuels, and will offer a presentation on the programs from 11AM-Noon. You will also have an opportunity to see and test drive an electric car! Free. Please register below:
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Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Women's March and Rally in Northampton!
January 21, 2017
Unable to join the Women's March in Washington, Boston or New York? Join it in Northampton! Beginning at 10:00 AM we will live stream the march in the Social Room of the Unitarian Society, 220 Main St, and provide information about community organizations in our area. Come see how you can get involved! You are welcome to bring a lunch. For those who want to protest, a march will begin at 11:30 at Sheldon Field, and end next to the Unitarian Society, at Pulaski Park. At 12:30 PM, we'll have a rally. Speakers will include Mary Ford, the first female mayor of Northampton; Diana Sierra from the Pioneer Valley Workers Center; Marty Nathan from the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice, La Cliniquita and Climate Action Now; and legendary activist Frances Crowe. Smith alum Myra Lam, from the American Friends Service Committee, will emcee. Save carbon! Raise your voice here in the Valley! For questions, email usnfsocialjustice @ gmail.com, or visit the Facebook page below:
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Unitarian Society, 220 Main St/Pulaski Park, Northampton
10:00 pm

Want to make a difference for climate change? CAN Meeting
January 23, 2017
Get involved! Climate Action Now Massachusetts needs you to help pass climate change legislation in Massachusetts this year. Attend the meeting of Climate Action Now. The group is especially recruiting STUDENTS for this meeting. • With a carbon fee and rebate system carbon emissions will be reduced; low and moderate income residents will come out ahead. • Learn how you can help! Contact Mary Jo Maffei: Maryjomaffei22 @ gmail.com or txt 413-265-6390
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Unitarian Meetinghouse, downtown Amherst (next to Bart’s ice cream)
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

Summer Jobs and Internships for STEM Students
January 27, 2017
An overview of specific resources and techniques for securing a summer position in the STEM field. Students of all class years are welcome to attend. Pizza will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
McConnell 103
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Lecture: Can gull contamination along the shoreline make swimmers sick?
February 2, 2017
Kendra Brown, Lecturer in Engineering, will give a presentation about her research in shoreline water quality, focusing on recreation impacts from gull contamination.Co-sponsored by Environmental Science and Policy and Picker Engineering. Lunch is provided- bring your own drink.
Ford Hall 240
12:00 pm

Smith College Life Sciences & Technology Fair
February 2, 2017
A variety of science-related and engineering organizations will speak with students about full time and internship positions. Visit the Lazarus Center website (below) for a list of participating employers.
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Campus Center Carroll Room
3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Workshop: Kimchi Power: Transnational Discovery of Food and Identity in Contemporary Korean Media
February 2, 2017
with Professor Robert Ji-Song Ku (Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University, author of Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA); Jenny Wang Medina (literary translator, educator, Ph.D. in East Asian languages and cultures); and Ellie Choi (Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Smith College). Approaching migration and displacement as a contemporary global condition, we examine the showcasing of Korean food in diverse spatio-temporal domestic settings -- the past (historical dramas), the countryside (seaside villages), the cities (youth gourmet dramas), and the new spaces of Korean-language "mukbangs," to its recent deterritorialization abroad, as diasporic Koreans like Marja Vongerichten, Roy Choi, and David Chang negotiate the glocal here in the U.S. landscape of ethnic cuisine. Questions of gender, spatio-temporality (town and country, East and West), commodification, and national identity are reconstituted in our inquiry. Sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and the College Lecture Committee. Free and open to the public.
Campus Center, Room 001
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Information Session: Graduate Program in Sustainable Landscape Planning & Design
January 28, 2017
The Conway School is hosting an information session here at our Easthampton Campus that will include an overview of the program, presentations by two current students, and presentations by two alums, both of whom are involved in food production and agriculture (Jamie Pottern of Mt. Grace Land Conservation Trust and Marie Macchiarolo of Green City Growers in Boston). Students graduate from our program with a Master of Science in Ecological Design. More information and the registration form can be found at the link below:
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Mill 180, 180 Pleasant Street, Easthampton
10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Public Forum: Climate Action in a Time of Crisis
January 28, 2017
2016 was the warmest year in modern history. Every day scientists report further signs of climate change. Yet, far from helping, the new administration seems determined to make things worse. It’s up to the states. Join MA Senate President Stan Rosenberg, Amherst Rep. Solomon Goldstein-Rose, Smith professor Nat Fortune, and activist Marty Nathan to discuss what the Commonwealth can do. Followed by workshops and break out groups to help make your voice heard. Free.
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First Churches sanctuary, 129 Main Street, Northampton
3:00 pm

New England Conservation in an Era of Global Change
January 31, 2017
A talk with David Foster, ecologist and author of the recently released book "A Meeting of Land and Sea: Nature and the Future of Martha's Vineyard", which explores the ecological dynamics, conservation history, and future prospects for one of New England’s iconic and most threatened landscapes. David is the director of the Harvard Forest, a 4,000-acre ecological laboratory and classroom in Petersham and a faculty member in ecology at Harvard University. He leads the Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research program, which involves more than 100 scientists and students from across the nation investigating the dynamics of the New England landscape as a consequence of climate change, human activity, and natural disturbance. FREE and Open to the Public. Space is limited. Please RSVP online at link below:
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Amherst College Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski Building
7:00 pm