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Events at Smith

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
May 15, 2017
Ancient Pompeii was famous for its gardens and flower culture. This exhibit features plant portraits created by Victoria I and Lilian Nicholson Meyer for the book A Pompeian Herbal. The illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii and those that still grow in the area today. A living exhibit of some of these plants will be on display in the Physiology House in the Lyman Conservatory.
Botanical Garden, Church Exhibition Gallery
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Author reading: Writers as Climate Activists
May 10, 2017
featuring three writers who employ fiction, young adult fiction, and memoir to explore how climate change threatens the very fabric of our society. *Ellen Meeropol is the author of three political and environmental-themed novels; House Arrest, On Hurricane Island and Kinship of Clover. A former nurse practitioner and a part-time bookseller, Ellen has had short fiction and essays appear in Bridges, The Cleaver, Rumpus, Necessary Fiction and The Writers Chronicle. *Brian Adams, a recently retired Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science at Greenfield Community College, now devotes his time to writing romantic comedies centered on environmental activism. He is the author of Love in the Time of Climate Change, Foreword Reviews 2014 IndieFAB Gold Medal Winner for humor, and KABOOM!, Literary Classics 2016 Gold Medal winner for environmental issues. *Jennifer Browdy is an associate professor of comparative literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, with a special interest in what she calls “purposeful memoir”: personal narratives of social and environmental justice, and the author of What I Forgot…and Why I Remembered: A Journey to Environmental Awareness and Activism Through Purposeful Memoir and The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir: A Writer’s Companion.
Forbes Library, Calvin Coolidge Museum on the second floor
7:00 pm

Workshop: Weaving Social and Political Issues Into Your Writing
May 13, 2017
Join authors Naila Moreira and Ellen Meeropol for a two hour writing workshop. We’ll focus on ways to weave thorny issues - climate change, racism, war - into our fiction and nonfiction. Come prepared to imagine, to hope, and to write. Ellen Meeropol's bio is listed with the 5/10 event; Naila Moreira, author of poetry chapbooks Gorgeous Infidelities and Water Street, has written nonfiction for The Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Daily Hampshire Gazette and other publications as well as for literary magazines. Sign up here: http://forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/3286597
Forbes Library
2:00 pm to 3:45 pm

UMASS Press Reads: Science, Scientists, and Resistance
May 16, 2017
Sam Redman, UMass Press Committee member and author of Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Harvard University Press), will facilitate a conversation examining how scientists have used their discoveries to counteract political intimidation and raise public awareness about the important consequences of their discoveries— especially concerning the environment, nuclear arms, and climate change. Panelists include: Paul Rubinson: Redefining Science: Scientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America (UMass Press); Banu Subramanian: UMass Press Committee member and author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (University of Illinois Press); Sigrid Schmalzer, forthcoming: Science for the People: Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists (Forthcoming, UMass Press). Refreshments served. sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press and the Jones Library. All welcome.
Jones Library, Amherst, MA
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
May 22, 2017
Ancient Pompeii was famous for its gardens and flower culture. This exhibit features plant portraits created by Victoria I and Lilian Nicholson Meyer for the book A Pompeian Herbal. The illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii and those that still grow in the area today. A living exhibit of some of these plants will be on display in the Physiology House in the Lyman Conservatory.
Botanical Garden, Church Exhibition Gallery
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
May 29, 2017
Ancient Pompeii was famous for its gardens and flower culture. This exhibit features plant portraits created by Victoria I and Lilian Nicholson Meyer for the book A Pompeian Herbal. The illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii and those that still grow in the area today. A living exhibit of some of these plants will be on display in the Physiology House in the Lyman Conservatory.
Botanical Garden, Church Exhibition Gallery
8:30 am to 4:00 pm