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Years of Living Dangerously
October 26, 2017
A public screening of an episode from the acclaimed National Geographic series Years of Living Dangerously featuring the Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL), a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots advocacy organization that works on national policies, such as carbon pricing, to address climate change. A discussion about carbon pricing, bi-partisan lobbying strategies, and a brief presentation from members of the local chapter of the CCL will follow the film. All welcome.
Campus Center room 103/104
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

Web Mapping in ArcGIS Online – Part 2
October 25, 2017
Learn how to make interactive online maps with ArcGIS online. Open to all Smithies. Register on the SAL website- link below.
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SAL
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Landscape Studies lecture
October 26, 2017
with Charles Marohn, Founder and President of Strong Towns, Brainerd, MN. Lecture Title TBA.Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 lecture series
Weinstein Auditorium
3:00 pm to 4:50 pm

Lecture: Reversing Roles?: China and the U.S. on the Environment
October 26, 2017
with Robert Gottlieb, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Founder and Former Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College, CA. This talk will compare environmental approaches on such issues as food, transportation and air quality in China and the U.S., and the role of governments, social movements, and popular protests to help us understand what has changed and why, particularly since the election of Donald Trump and the consolidation of power of China's President Xi Jingping. Open to the Public
Seelye 201
5:00 pm

Action Research and Community Engagement: from the classroom to the community and back
October 27, 2017
Lunch and conversation with Robert Gottlieb, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy; Founder and Former Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College, CA
Campus Center 205
12:00 pm

Fictional and Fantasy Maps
October 30, 2017
Get your creative juices flowing before Halloween by exploring imaginary landscapes and making your own maps from your favorite fictional work. Open to all Smithies. Register on the SAL website- link below.
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SAL
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Artist's talk with Visiting Artist Adriane Herman
October 30, 2017
Adriane Herman is an interdisciplinary artist and professor from Maine College of Art. She has been described as "artist, educator, and maverick impresario..a bit of a shape-shifter," and her work as "sometimes serious, sometimes silly, and sometimes with a hint of the trickster, but always focused on two central aims: honing a critique of contemporary culture's fascination with consumption (art, food, experience, human memory, nostalgia, everyday commodities) and navigating new and unplanned routes for the intersection of contemporary art and a very public, sometimes unsuspecting audience." Adriane will discuss her recent work dealing with the material and emotional cycles of accumulation and letting go. She will also introduce opportunities for public involvement with her work on campus taking place on 10/31 and 11/1.
Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Center
5:00 pm

Discussion for Students Interested in Sustainability, Art, and Materials Use
October 31, 2017
Led by Adriane Herman with a presentation by Sustainability Coordinator Emma Kerr. This informal discussion is an opportunity to learn about how waste is addressed on the Smith campus and to speak candidly about our relationships with the materials we produce, keep, and discard. Issues surrounding sustainability can be enormous and overwhelming, but how can we make progress proactively rather than reactively?
Hillyer 207D
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Presentation of the majors and minor in Geosciences
October 31, 2017
What on EARTH should you do for a major?! Lunch provided.
Sabin-Reed 103
12:10 pm

Witnessed Release of Objects
October 31, 2017
Experience the power of witnessing to help you in the process of letting go! Join self-described experience broker Adriane Herman (and Visiting Artist) for the opportunity to rid yourself of an object before a group of cheering spectators. Bring an item you wish to discard, and gather with us at the dumpsters and recycling bins behind Hillyer. This is a perfect way to feel unburdened before your Halloween festivities. Open to the public.
At the dumpsters behind Hillyer Hall
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Farm theater presents: True Thomas
October 29, 2017
A Halloween outdoor adventure for all ages! Food trucks, pumpkin picking and more...buy tickets at farmtheater.com
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Valley View Farm, Haydenville, MA
1:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Events at Smith

ES&P Lunch Talk: Citizen Science: Seeing the World As It Is, Across Time, Place, and with Purpose
November 1, 2017
Mary Ellen Hannibal '81 author of the "Citizen Scientist: Searching for heros and hope in an age of extinction" will talk about her research and participation in citizen science efforts focusing on biodiversity conservation. Hannibal notes, "For me the most compelling reason to do citizen science is the sixth mass extinction of plants and animals currently underway. In the book I do a lot of reporting and research on this scourge, but contextualize what’s happening within a broad framework."
McConnell 103
12:15 pm

Drop In: Collaborative Monoprinting
November 1, 2017
With visiting artist Adriane Herman. Adriane will share her method od printing monotypes using cut papre and water-soluble crayons. Visitors are welcome to observe, discuss, and participate in the process. Adriane is an interdisciplinary artist and professor from Maine College of Art. She has been described as "artist, educator, and maverick impresario..a bit of a shape-shifter," and her work as "sometimes serious, sometimes silly, and sometimes with a hint of the trickster, but always focused on two central aims: honing a critique of contemporary culture's fascination with consumption (art, food, experience, human memory, nostalgia, everyday commodities) and navigating new and unplanned routes for the intersection of contemporary art and a very public, sometimes unsuspecting audience." Open to the public.
Printmaking studio, Hillyer L08
1:10 pm to 4:00 pm

Exhibit of Etchings by Ruth Wilson Sutro '46
November 3, 2017

Lyman Plant House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Presentation of the Environmental Science and Policy Program major and minors
November 3, 2017
Interested in environmental or marine science and policy? Join us to find out more about how you can study these topics at Smith. Lunch provided.
Ford 240
12:15 pm

Who Put Those Genes in My Food?? Facts and Myths About “GMOs”
November 3, 2017
Fall Chrysanthemum Show Opening Lecture by Margaret Smith, PhD., Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University. Genetically engineered crops (so-called “GMOs”) have generated much controversy in recent years. The goal of this lecture is to help listeners better understand genetically engineered crops and to provide clear, objective, and factual information that they can use to form their own opinions.
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Campus Center Carroll Room
7:30 pm

Fall Crysanthemum Show
November 4, 2017
Each fall as colors fade outdoors, a riot of color erupts indoors in the Lyman Conservatory at the Botanic Garden of Smith College. This year's show runs from Saturday, November 4 to Sunday, November 19. The show is open daily 10 am-4pm, and on Fridays until 8 pm.
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Lyman Conservatory
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
November 5, 2017
Botanical illustrations created by Victoria I and Lillian Nicholson portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii. Come explore the varied ways both ancient Romans and modern Pompeians have used these plants. Exhibit on view through December 15, 2017.
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Church Exhibition Gallery, Lyman Plant House

Lecture: Does Farm Machinery Have a Collective Memory and Cultural Identity?
November 6, 2017
The Case of Argentina, 1920-1960, by Yovanna Pineda, University of Central Florida. Sponsored by the Program in Latin American and Latino/a Studies and the History Department.
Hillyer 319
12:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Climate Justice film: Requiem for the American Dream
November 1, 2017
Noam Chomsky, who spent time interviewing many people who bring insight to growing inequality in the United States is featured. The film gives viewers a background on the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. What does this have to do with climate justice? Come and watch the film and join the conversation afterwards, which will be led by Professor Tim Downs of Clark University. Please call the library at 978-249-9515 to reserve a spot. This is the second film in the "Reverence, Resistance, Resilience" series.
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Athol Public Library
7:00 pm

"How Do Indigenous Peoples Value Nature? Experiences from Water Defenders Resisting Mining Projects"
November 6, 2017
During this event Yaku Perez Guartamble asks the question: Is gold more valuable than water? Ecuador’s paramos are fragile ecosystems rich in water. Yet these waters often run above mineral reserves rich in gold. The state pursues mineral extraction in the name of development. Indigenous peoples, in turn, claim rights to self-determination to protect their waters from extraction industries. This happened in Kimsacocha, where Ecuador’s government granted concessions to Canadian mining companies without consulting the local population. As an Indigenous leader, lawyer and scholar, Yaku Perez Guartambel will contribute insights onto sustainable worldviews to face today’s climate crisis. Through his experiences and analysis, he explains the value of indigenous resistance through the notion of rights of nature, first established by the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador and now common across the world. Indigenous approaches to nature are vital in the era of climate change; their claims to self-determination are a valuable tool to promote world peace.
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Paino Lecture Hall (Amherst College)
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Before They Were Ecologically Noble Savages: Representations of Amazonian Peoples and Nature (1970s)
November 7, 2017
How does the world imagine Amazonia? Sarah Sarzynski shows what Amazonian discourses were circulating immediately before the global environmental movement recognized “tropical deforestation” and the burning of the Amazon as a global emergency, and creates environmental-indian alliances. Her analysis focuses on visual representations of peoples in the region to understand broader politics of the Cold War in the region. This talk on global representations of indigenous peoples, the environment and sexuality and relates to popular culture theory. This presentation is based on a peer-reviewed article on representations of the Amazon in popular culture in the 1970’s.
Porter Lounge, Converse Hall (Amherst College)
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Featured Event

Lunch and Conversation: Modes of Mapping in Cultural Geography
November 13, 2017
Join Jamie Worms (visiting cultural geographer in Latin American and Latin@ Studies), Jon Caris (SAL director), and Tracy Tien (PostBac SPatial Analysis Fellow) for a discussion over lunch. Pizza lunch provided. Sponsored by LALS.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events at Smith

Info Session: The Earth Institute, Columbia University
November 8, 2017
Learn about our professionally-oriented Master’s programs in Environmental Science and Policy, Sustainability Management, and Sustainability Science at Columbia University. The session will cover admissions, fellowships, and careers after graduation. RSVP with the link below:
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Lazarus Center- Group Meeting Room
12:15 pm

Combating the Climate Change Hoax: State Policy Swords and Shields
November 9, 2017
A lecture by Janet Milne, Professor of Law; Director, Environmental Tax Policy Institute, South Royalton, VT. This lecture is part of the LSS 100 lecture series, and is open to the public. All welcome.
Weinstein Auditorium
3:00 pm to 4:50 pm

Can I Map That?
November 9, 2017
Curious about what GIS and spatial analysis can do for you? Explore diverse datasets from different disciplines and put your spatial thinking hats on for your research. Open to all Smithies. Register on the SAL website- link below.
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SAL
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Exhibition: 'Greenhouse Panoramas: a Process of Reinvention'
November 11, 2017
This show is the result of a series of creative re-inventions. Esther Pullman '64 trained as a graphic designer but made a self-directed mid-career transition to photography which itself morphed from a hands-on, craft-based discipline to a computer-based digital process. This series of large-scale greenhouse images, began as an intuitive and visceral effort to bring light and life into my own home, as I anticipated the darkening seasons, gradually took on a more symbolic and metaphorical meaning in the face of our increasingly imperiled home planet. Exhibition open to public Monday-Friday, Sept. 8 to Jan. 8, 2018
Alumnae House Gallery
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Exhibit of Etchings by Ruth Wilson Sutro '46
November 11, 2017

Lyman Plant House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Fall Crysanthemum Show
November 11, 2017
Each fall as colors fade outdoors, a riot of color erupts indoors in the Lyman Conservatory at the Botanic Garden of Smith College. This year's show runs from Saturday, November 4 to Sunday, November 19. The show is open daily 10 am-4pm, and on Fridays until 8 pm.
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Lyman Conservatory
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Stargazing and S'mores at Macleish Field Station
November 11, 2017
Enjoy a beautiful fall evening at MacLeish Field Station! There will be a campfire in the fire pit and s’mores (ingredients provided). In case of bad weather, the event will be moved inside to the Bechtel Environmental Classroom. Sign up for a spot in the van at the link below . Van will leave from Chapin loading dock at 6:30 p.m. and be back at Smith by 9:30 p.m.
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MacLeish Field Station
6:30 pm

Art Exhibit: local landscapes
November 13, 2017
An art exhibit by students in Sedimentary Geology (GEO 232) course in now on display through December 1. The art is inspired by our local landscapes and communicates information about their geological origins.
McConnell Foyer

Poetics of Construction: Seeing, Judging and Thinking in the Contemporary Landscape
November 13, 2017
with Niall Kirkwood, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology, Harvard University. The final Fall 2017 Neilson Professor Lecture Series: Design Matters: Landscape Practices, Pedagogy, Projects for the New Environmental Reality. Hosted by the Landscape Studies Program and the Picker Engineering Program, with support from the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
5:00 pm

Sigma Xi lunch and talk: Monitoring Macroinvertebrates in the Mill River
November 14, 2017
with Marney Pratt (biological sciences). Lunch is served in the Foyer at 11:45 a.m., talks begin at 12:10 p.m. and are open to all faculty, emeriti, staff, and students.
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McConnell 103
12:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Lecture: 'Before and Beyond the Disaster Movement'
November 9, 2017
Disaster anthropologist, Dr. Anthony Oliver-Smith, will present "Before and Beyond the Disaster Movement: Anthropology & History of Disasters." The talk will explore how the traditional focus in disaster research is expanding beyond the extremely limited time and space scales of impact. Disasters now are understood to involve far more than spatially delimited, temporally demarcated physical triggering events. Rather they are systemic processes that unfold over time. Their causes are deeply embedded in societal history, structure and organization, and human-environment relations. As such, the longitudinal and holistic approach of anthropological theory and method are now moving toward the forefront of disaster research, policy and management.
Room E24, Machmer Hall, UMass Amherst Campus
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Mondays: “Hearts in Action: Creative Responses to Climate Change”
November 13, 2017
Join this weekly collaboration between Talking Truth and Paperbark Magazine (a new UMass Amherst environmental-humanities publication). The sessions include art-making, readings, reflective writing, discussion, contemplative exercises and more. [Mondays: September 11 — November 27, 2017]
Lederle Lowrise, Science and Engineering Library, UMass Amherst Campus
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm