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Events at Smith

Environmental Science and Policy Lunchbag Talk:
March 29, 2017
Drone Mapping for Sea Turtle & Tortoise Conservation, St. Catherines Island, GA. Lunch provided.
Sabin-Reed 220
12:15 pm

Climate Change and the Developing World
March 29, 2017
A presentation by Elliot Fratkin, Smith College Department of Anthropology. When most people think about the effects of climate change they tend to think only about how their lives here in the "privileged North" will be affected. What about the millions of people who live in the developing world who don't have many of the benefits we do of protective infrastructure and a variety of safety nets? Dinner will be provided for the first 20 people.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
5:00 pm

Presentation of the GEO major/minor
March 30, 2017
Join us for Indian food and to learn more about the geosciences major and minor over the lunch hour.GeoClub will be presenting as well!
Sabin-Reed 103
12:00 pm

Documentary screening: On Coal River
March 30, 2017
Join the screening followed by a Q&A with director and producer Adams Wood. The film deals with mountaintop removal coal mining, and mine waste-injection issues, through an on-the-ground portrait of residents, activists, miners, and regulators. The film premiered at AFI Silverdocs, won “Best Documentary” at the Appalachian Film Festival, and was nominated for an IFP/Gotham Award, among other honors. Co-sponsored by CEEDS. Check out the trailer below:
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Seelye 106
7:00 pm

Workshops: Hands-On Filmmaking for Social Engagement:
March 31, 2017
Theory and Basic Camera Skills. These interactive workshops will offer participants basic skills and theory about the many ways video and filmmaking can be used to share knowledge and inspire engagement in a social movement context. The workshops will be led by Adams Wood, an award-winning filmmaker with a 20 year career creating video for social impact. We will discuss different forms and formats including social issue documentary, campaign and call to action videos, as well as emerging media platforms. We will screen and discuss excerpts pulled from Wood’s own work and beyond. In small group work, participants will have the opportunity to create a strategy for a hypothetical engagement goal. We will end the workshop with a brief hands-on camera training, where we will cover filming and interviewing techniques, using participant’s own cell phone cameras. Offered twice: 10:30 am-12 pm and again from 4-5:30 pm. Co-sponsored by CEEDS. Registration required at the link below:
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Neilson Library Knowledge{Lab}

Events Off Campus

Indigenous Sovereignty Against the State:
April 3, 2017
Rearticulating Andean Resistance in Times of Climate Crisis. Carlos Perez Guartambel, ECUARUNARI-CAOI, INterpreting by Antonia Carcelen-Estrada
Converse Hall, Amherst College
5:00 pm

Indigenous Knowledge and Environmentalism: The Struggle Against the Dakota Access Pipeline Beyond
April 4, 2017
With internationally acclaimed historian, activist and multiple award-winning author professor emerita (UC-Davis) Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Paino Lecture Hall, Beneski Building, Amherst College
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Featured Event

Arts Afield: Weathering Heights
April 8, 2017
Join Smith College faculty, staff and students along with local community members for our inaugural Arts Afield event as they dance, tell stories, read poetry, play music and more. The event starts at 1 p.m. and features Carol Berner (EDC), Dean Flower (ENG), artists Bruce Hook and Dan Ladd, Naila Moreira (ENG), Michele Wick (PSY), Whitney Wilson (DAN) and several others. Music will be provided by the Wailing Banshees. Cider and donuts will be served. Want to go? Get a ride on our bus! Departs JMG at 12:30 pm, returns by 4:15 pm.
MacLeish Field Station- Catch a bus at JMG (see details above)

Events at Smith

Environmental Science and Policy Lunchbag Talk:
April 5, 2017
the Study Group on Climate Change Report. Lunch provided.
Sabin-Reed 220
12:15 pm

Smith's Special Trees: A Musical Tribute
April 5, 2017
with Mary Hubbell, soprano, and Monica Jakuc Leverett, piano. This concert will feature musical tributes to some of the champion-sized trees as well as other remarkable and historic tree specimens that grace the Smith College campus arboretum- now recognized as an accredited arboretum and as a Tree Campus USA.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall
12:30 pm to 1:00 pm

Cultivating Resistance: Food Justice In Palestine (A Teach-In)
April 5, 2017
Smith Students for Food Justice and Smith Students for Justice in Palestine are teaming up for a teach-in about land and water access, olive trees, and agricultural boycotts. How has the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land affected agriculture and farmers? What does food justice and access in Palestine look like? There will be light snacks provided, including olives and hummus! Part of a series of events for Smith College’s Israeli Apartheid Week. More information below:
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CC 103/104
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

LiDAR: A Revolutionary Tool for Landscape Analysis
April 6, 2017
Bob Newton, Department of Geosciences presents for the Geosciences lunchtime speaker series. Lunch served at Noon, talk starts at 12:10 p.m.
Sabin-Reed 103
12:00 pm

The limitations of the WHY, the inadequacy of the WHAT and the potential of the HOW:
April 6, 2017
Creating initiatives with Underrepresented women in STEM with Dr. Kimberly Scott, associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, founding executive director of the Center for Gender Equity in science and Technology, and founder of CompuGirls, a technology program for adolescent girls from underserved school districts. Trained as a sociologist of education and childhoods, Scott’s interdisciplinary work examines girls’ of color (African American, Native American, Latina) social and academic development in informal spaces and their technosocial innovations.
Ford 240
5:00 pm

Bird Watching Walk!
April 8, 2017
*Po-ta-to-chip* (American Goldfinch) *Teakettle* (male Carolina Wren) Calling all lover of birds and feathered creature enthusiasts!! Join Mark Brandriss (GEO) for a bird watching walk up the Mill River. We will meet by the boathouse and proceed from there, walking for 1-2 hours, hoping to see a few early spring migrants. Bring your best pair of binoculars (a few will be provided), listening ears, walking shoes, and bird calls/knowledge. Hope to see you all there bright and early!! Sign up at the link below by April 6th so we can determine how many people are coming; donuts may or may not be provided ;)
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Smith Boathouse, Paradise Pond
9:00 am

Events Off Campus

Conference: New England Farm to Institution Summit
April 5, 2017
April 6, 2017
April 7, 2017
The 2017 Summit will bring together more than 500 people who are leveraging the power of schools, colleges, hospitals and other institutions to transform our food system. Please join us – and hundreds of other farm to institution advocates – for two exciting days of learning, sharing, exploring and connecting. The event will convene representatives from institutional facilities, along with their food supply chain partners and farm to institution advocates, to maximize collective impact and overcome challenges to buying more local food. The summit will feature programming that focuses on farm to school, farm to campus and farm to health care, as well as cross-sector themes.
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Doubletree by Hilton, Leominster, MA

Reception and film screening "The Spirit of Standing Rock"
April 6, 2017
kicks off "Living Waters, Animate Lands- Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Braiding Story, Skills and Sustenance with Hope for a Sustainable Future", the third annual Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium. This symposium will build bridges among cultural heritage, ecology, economics and ethics by exploring Indigenous ecological knowledge and how to adapt to environmental change.
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Cape Cod Lounge, Campus Center, UMass Amherst
6:30 pm

Earth2Trump Resistance Roadshow
April 6, 2017
Featuring exciting musicians and speakers, the roadshow will entertain, inspire and provide opportunities for everyone to help fight Trump's disastrous environmental policies and attacks on Native Americans, including the Dakota Access Pipeline. Come to sing, celebrate, and resist! Featuring music by: Lyla June - Diné and Cheyenne hip-hop artist, Casey Neill - singer-songwriter. Speeches by: Cheryl Angel - Lakota elder fighting the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, Brytnee Laurette - activist with Center for Biological Diversity. The roadshow's local sponsors are Climate Action Now MA and ACLU MA. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP encouraged.
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Academy of Music Theater
7:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Living Waters, Animate Lands- Traditional Ecological Knowledge:
April 7, 2017
Braiding Story, Skills and Sustenance with Hope for a Sustainable Future. The third annual Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium. This symposium will build bridges among cultural heritage, ecology, economics and ethics by exploring Indigenous ecological knowledge and how to adapt to environmental change. Visit the website (below) for a full schedule.
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Cole Assembly Hall, Amherst College
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Reception and reading for Living Waters, Animate Lands-
April 7, 2017
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Braiding Story, Skills and Sustenance with Hope for a Sustainable Future. The third annual Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium. This symposium will build bridges among cultural heritage, ecology, economics and ethics by exploring Indigenous ecological knowledge and how to adapt to environmental change.
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Cole Assembly Hall, Amherst College
6:30 pm

Plant walk
April 8, 2017
for participants of the third annual Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium "Living Waters, Animate Lands-Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Braiding Story, Skills and Sustenance with Hope for a Sustainable Future."
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Amherst College
10:00 am

Featured Event

Unpacking an Environmental Election: a Continuation of the Post-election Conversation
April 18, 2017
Join us for a lunchtime conversation to continue unraveling the newest budget proposals and executive orders brought by this administration. We want to hear what this means for you and how it affects your daily lives-- your connections to people and place, your interests and passions. Alex Barron (ENV) and Sarah Hines (HIST) will be on hand to help us better understand the possible real life implications of these policy proposals. Come with your questions, concerns and a hungry appetite to engage in a conversation with other students, faculty and staff. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events at Smith

Environmental Science and Policy Lunchbag Talk:
April 12, 2017
Campus Sustainability Projects- a presentation by students in ENV 201/202. Lunch provided.
Sabin-Reed 220
12:15 pm

April Showers [Earth Week]
April 17, 2017
April 18, 2017
Take part in the annual competition to see which house can save the most water and energy! The winning house will win a gift certificate to Herrells! For two weeks, starting on April 17th, mark on the scoresheet in your house's bathroom for every day you skip a shower or take a shower that lasts less than five minutes. Eco Reps will place timers in showers throughout the houses.
All Smith houses!

Film- Seed: The Untold Story
April 17, 2017
Summary: Seed keepers around the world are determined to protect humanity's 12,000-year-old food legacy. The film has been screened at the DC Environmental Film Festival and has been featured at festivals in NYC and Columbus, OH, and elsewhere.
Airing on PBS' "Independent Lens" (10 pm on WGBY and 11 pm on CPTV)

DIY Upcycled T-shirt Bags [Earth Week]
April 17, 2017
Drop-in to learn how to transform your old t-shirts into reusable and functional shopping bags in as little as 15-20 minutes. Stop by one of our drop-in sessions with your favorite old shirt or use one of ours. Customize your bag with the tools and materials in the Design Thinking Prototyping Studio.
Design Thinking Initiative, Capen Annex, 25A Henshaw Ave.
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Hidden structures: Environmental contamination, science’s “rescue” narrative, and just engagement
April 18, 2017
with affected publics- a Sigma Xi Luncheon. Speaker Dr. Yanna Lambrinidou (Smith ’89) is a medical ethnographer, affiliate faculty in Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech and founder of the non-profit children’s environmental health organization Parents for Nontoxic Alternatives. Since 2007, she has conducted extensive investigative, ethnographic and public policy research on lead in drinking water nationally. Lunch is served at 11:45 a.m., talks begin at 12:00 p.m. and are open to all faculty, emeriti, staff, and students.
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Lunch in McConnell Foyer, talk in McConnell 103
11:45 am

Events Off Campus

#marchforscience: why how signs mean matters
April 14, 2017
RPI Professor Mike Fortun will give a brief talk exploring the intersections of politics and science in the upcoming March for Science 2017 through the signs and posters that will be carried during the march. Why does it make a difference that we understand the purposes of signs and signification? What can the March for Science on April 22, Earth Day, 2017 accomplish? What can the posters & signs that are carried do? And what can/should the hashTag #marchforscience actually come to mean --and do-- for the sciences in the Trump era? This talk will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Professor Fortun to explore these questions and more. (This event is part of a seminar series which has a journal group component. A link to the reading by Gregory Bateson which accompanies the event can be found at the link below. Sponsored by The Institute for Science
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room 333 of the Cole Science Center at Hampshire College
1:30 pm

Dig in and Volunteer at Gardening the Community
April 15, 2017
Volunteer with the Community Service Organization for a spring trip to Gardening the Community. GTC is an intersectional food justice organization based in Springfield, Mass which focuses on youth development, community building, and growing good food. The event will take place outdoors and tasks will include weeding, planting, and other gardening activities. Transportation, sunscreen and bug spray are provided. Please bring water and a snack if you need one. To sign up, visit https://goo.gl/forms/rpP6N04MkW6conu73. For more information, email ewhittier @ smith.edu.
Gardening the Community, Springfield, MA
8:15 am to 12:30 pm

Edible Landscaping with Fruit
April 15, 2017
led by Ms. Sonia Schloemann. This presentation will explore how fruit can be incorporated into an edible landscape setting. We will talk about common fruit like strawberries and blueberries and also more unusual fruit like Aronia and Lingonberries. Participants will learn what these plants can contribute to a home landscape and what it takes to grow them successfully. The end of the class we will tour the UMass Permaculture Garden. Part of the Mass Aggie Seminars 2017: A Home Garden Series. Fee: $50. To register, go to the link below: Sponsors: Nourse Farms, OESCO,Inc., and Adams County Nursery.
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UMass-Amherst French Hall, 230 Stockbridge Rd., Amherst
10:00 pm to 1:00 pm