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Events at Smith

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

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

Events Off Campus

"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

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

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

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

GIS Day!
November 15, 2017
The highly anticipated day of year is here! Open house of all things GIS—including edible ones. Open to all Smithies. Register on the SAL website- link below.
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SAL

GIS Day: Welcome and introduction to GeoWeek
November 15, 2017
Show your love for Geography Awareness Week over coffee and donuts, with story maps and printmaking. Celebrate the mappiest day of the year with the Spatial Analysis Lab!
SAL, Sabin-Reed 104
10:00 am to 10:50 am

GIS Day: Short Presentations
November 15, 2017
Hear from Cindy Li '18 (EGR), Rachel Moskowitz '18 (ENV), and Tracy Whelen (GIS Specialist at UMASS Amherst, Microwave Remote Sensing Lab) on the various facets of GIS. Celebrate the mappiest day of the year with the Spatial Analysis Lab!
The SAL, Sabin-Reed 104
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

GIS Day: Drone Flying /DYI Spatial Chocolates/Color Old Maps
November 15, 2017
Be a visual observer to a flight mission (weather permitting), make your own chocolates with SAL's special molds, or color in antique maps. Celebrate the mappiest day of the year with the Spatial Analysis Lab!
The SAL, Sabin-Reed 104
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

GIS Day: OSM Humanitarian Mapping workshop
November 15, 2017
Contribute to disaster repsonses by identifying infrastructure in satellite imagery for effective relief efforts. Celebrate the mappiest day of the year with the Spatial Analysis Lab!
The SAL, Sabin-Reed 104
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

GIS Day: Geopardy!
November 15, 2017
Unleash the Ken Jennings in all of us to conclude the day; snack on treats and your competitors' tears. Celebrate the mappiest day of the year with the Spatial Analysis Lab!
The SAL, Sabin-Reed 104
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Alternative Nature: the ideas and works of PARKIM
November 16, 2017
a lecture by Jungyoon Kim, Founder and Principal of PARKKIM, Landscape Architects, Seoul, Republic of Korea, and Visiting Design Critic, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Design School, 2017-2018. This lecture is part of the LSS 100 series, and is free and open to the public.
Weinstein Auditorium
3:00 pm to 4:50 pm

Farming with Dignity: A Conversation with Migrant Justice
November 16, 2017
Organized by Smith Students for Food Justice and Organizing for Undocumented Students' Rights with support from CEEDS, Dining Services, Religious and Spiritual Life, ES&P, Latin American and Latino/a Studies, and ORC.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
7:00 pm

Events Off Campus

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

Gallery Talk: Interweaving Themes in Physics and Art
November 16, 2017
Spencer Smith, Assistant Professor of Physics, Mount Holyoke College
Art Museum, Art Museum Exhibit Hall
4:30 pm

Featured Event

Take a (creative) break-- at MacLeish!
November 18, 2017
Looking for a new and refreshing study break? Join us for an artsy afternoon at the MacLeish Field Station! Take some time to capture this beautiful New England fall weather before it’s too late. Sketching, painting, doodling… all is welcome! No art background is necessary and all art supplies will be provided. We will leave from the Chapin loading dock at 1pm. Sign up for a spot in the vans at the link below. Hope to see you there!”
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MacLeish Field Station
1:00 pm

Lunch Talk w/ Breanna Parker '18: Carbon Pricing: A Transition Strategy to a Low Carbon World
November 17, 2017
Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) is presenting a student-led Sustainability Discussion Series, featuring Breanna Parker '18, who will be talking about carbon pricing as a market-based strategy for mitigating carbon emissions. What should the price of carbon be? And what is Smtih College doing to put a price on carbon?
Ford Hall 240
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Events at Smith

Stargazing
November 17, 2017
Come see stars, galaxies, and star clusters. All are welcome to this astronomy department open house - please dress warmly. For further information or to check on weather conditions, contact Meg Thacher (mthacher @smith.edu).
McConnell Hall Roof
8:30 pm

Art Exhibit: local landscapes
November 20, 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

Making Story Maps
November 20, 2017
A compelling visual storytelling platform—a red hot chili pepper (see: RateMyProfessor.com) in the presentation world. 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 22, 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

Events Off Campus

6th annual Hilltown Fall Seed Exchange
November 18, 2017
Learn to save your own garden seed, get answers to your seed saving questions, and exchange seed that you’ve saved with your friends and neighbors! This year's event will feature an opening talk by Amy Pulley of Wing and A Prayer Pollinator Nursery in Cummington. Amy is actively working to restore pollinator habitats throughout the area and educate gardeners, children and families about how to support pollinators by planting more pollinator plants (and saving their seeds!). There will be plenty of time to browse and help yourself to the dozens of home grown varieties of tomatoes, beans, kale, wildflowers, and many other crops. We appreciate seeds that come labeled with variety name, source, and year or date saved. Please note that you don’t have to bring seed to come to this event. We welcome people at all levels of experience, including those who have never saved seed before. As always, we encourage everyone who is bringing seed to the event to list it online using our Virtual Seed Bank. Once you have registered (a quick and easy process at the link below), you will be able to browse varieties that other people in the Hilltowns are saving and bringing to the Seed Exchange. The suggested donation for this event is a sliding scale: $5 – $10. Visit https://hilltownseeds.wordpress.com for more info, or contact Sadie at 413- 475-2692.
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Cummington Community House, 33 Main Street, Cummington
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Mondays: “Hearts in Action: Creative Responses to Climate Change”
November 20, 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