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Events at Smith

Exploring ArcPro
March 4, 2020
Curious about making the switch to ArcPro? Learn the basics of using ArcPro. This event is part of the Spatial Analysis Lab's Spring 2020 workshop series. We ask that you register using the link for the workshops you are interested in so we know how many snacks to provide. Please join us for any or all.
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Spatial Analysis Lab, 104 Sabin Reed Hall
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Working Writers—Embracing the Ephemeral: Make a Zine, Give a Zine
March 4, 2020
Working Writers - Embracing the Ephemeral: Make a Zine, Give a Zine! A writing workshop for faculty and staff on finding your voice through the creative process of making zines. Open to all in the Smith community and the general public and wheelchair accessible.
Seelye 106
4:30 pm

Lecture/reception: The Russian Environment and Social Critique: Ivan Turgenev’s Nature Writing
March 4, 2020
Ivan Turgenev, revered for his skill with fictionalized depictions of ideological strife and unhappy love, was also one of Russia's finest nature writers. In his cycle of short stories, Notes of a Hunter(1847-52), he deploys his expert knowledge of hunting and the natural world to support one of the cycle's key functions: the denunciation of serfdom as a crime against humanity as well as nature. Guest speaker Thomas Hodge is Professor of Russian at Wellesley College, where he teaches literature and language courses and co-founded a humanities-and-science course on Lake Baikal that features fieldwork in Siberia. A specialist in nineteenth-century Russian literature, he is the author of A Double Garland and has translated Sergei Aksakov's classic Notes on Fishing. His new book, Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World, will be published by Cornell University Press in September. Sponsored by the Smith College College Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program, the Endowed Lecture Committee and the Five College REEES Certificate Program.
Campus Center 103/104
7:00 pm

Lecture: Proforestation for People and the Planet
March 5, 2020
With guest lecturer Susan Masino, Vernon D. Roosa Professor of Applied Science Neuroscience and Psychology. Forests protect biodiversity, clean our water and air, and mitigate multiple effects of climate change. We know we also need places for respite, and new research shows that forests support our health – especially brain health. It is urgent to heed new science so we can strike a balance among responsible resource use, high quality long-term research, and proforestation – a nature based solution that protects ecosystems and maximizes benefits for people and for the planet.
McConnell 103
5:30 pm

Art and Board Games at MacLeish Field Station
March 6, 2020
Join us for a cozy afternoon of art making, board games, and tea in the beautiful Bechtel Environmental Classroom. The perfect spot to enjoy New England beauty! Or to do homework in a cozy space. Sign up for a spot in our vans at the link below. And bring your friends!
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meet at Sage Hall to get the van to MacLeish
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Climate Change, Food, and Landscapes: Bulb Show opening lecture
March 6, 2020
What we eat, how we manage our landscapes, and how our food is grown have a huge impact on climate change. In fact the food system is responsible for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions – yet it also offers great promise as part of the solution. This presentation will introduce practical steps you can take at many levels: in your garden, in your kitchen, and with the farms and ecosystems in your community. Mitigating climate change also means addressing climate justice and helping farmers around the world adapt to challenging new conditions. Some suggestions will be offered for policies to push for from the local to international levels.
Carroll Room, Campus Center
7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

LSS 100 lecture: Design Against Disaster
March 9, 2020
Mariana Mogilevich, Editor, Urban Omnibus, Architectural League of New York, will present as part of the Spring 2020 Landscape Studies Lecture Series: Landscape, Design, and the Environment, in honor of the 20th year of Landscape Studies at Smith College. 
Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Complex
2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Land Dive Team at Smith College
March 10, 2020
This performative workshop and collective action with visiting artist Hope Ginsburg seeks to stimulate attention and dialogue around the climate crisis, our relationship to it, and its impact on our lives and future. This body of work proposes the practice of present moment awareness as a tool for coping with the mental and emotional challenges of living with climate change. Land Dive Team is a public performance with up to ten participants meditating in full scuba gear, who will be seated in a community space.
Art Museum Atrium
2:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Where In The World?!: Finding Spatial Data
March 10, 2020
Where in the world do you find spatial data for mapping projects? Learn about how and where to find this information and the beginning steps to using the data creatively and successfully. This event is part of the Spatial Analysis Lab's Spring 2020 workshop series. We ask that you register using the link for the workshops you are interested in so we know how many snacks to provide. Please join us for any or all.
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Spatial Analysis Lab, 104 Sabin Reed Hall
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Artist Talk: Hope Ginsburg
March 10, 2020
Hope Ginsburg's long-term projects build community around learning. Her work is by turns collaborative, cooperative, and participatory. These artworks are made with peers, students, members of the public, and experts with knowledge from outside of the field. Rooted in first-hand experience, Ginsburg's projects are invested in the socially transformative potential of knowledge exchange. Her practice is interdisciplinary, social, and concerned with the well-being of humans and other species on our shared, catastrophically troubled planet. Ginsburg has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as MoMA PS1, MASS MoCA, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, the Baltimore Museum of Art, SculptureCenter, and the Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre Brazil. She is the recipient of an Art Matters Foundation Grant and a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. Ginsberg is an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.
Graham Hall, Hillyer
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

If You Can't Fix It, Don't Break It: African Feminisms and Climate Justice
March 4, 2020
Shailja Patel, Kenyan author of Migritude, and Nobel Women's Initiative Spotlighted Global Activist, breaks down the ways in which African women are silenced, excluded, and erased in current global discourse on climate crisis, and shows how African feminisms are critical to the concept of climate justice. Dinner provided. The venue is accessible.
Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 83 College Street, Mount Holyoke College
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Events at Smith

International Film Series on Climate Change: Lazzaro Felice (Happy As Lazzaro)
March 11, 2020
This event has been canceled.

Panel Discussion: Hope Ginsburg, Javier Puente, and Camille Washington-Ottombre
March 11, 2020
Visiting artist Hope Ginsburg's long-term projects build community around learning. Her work is by turns collaborative, cooperative, and participatory. Rooted in first-hand experience, Ginsburg's projects are invested in the socially transformative potential of knowledge exchange. Her practice is interdisciplinary, social, and concerned with the well-being of humans and other species on our shared, catastrophically troubled planet. Javier Puente, assistant professor of Latin American studies, and Camille Washington-Ottombre, associate professor in the environmental science and policy program, both at Smith College, will engage in a conversation with Hope about their collective work and how it intersects.
Seelye 107
11:00 am to 12:00 pm

Placing the Mineral Collection: Geocoding the Archives
March 12, 2020
Where did we get all these rocks? Explore the mineral collection and their various journeys to the Smith College Mineral Collection. We will use mapping to better understand the stories behind these rock specimens. This event is part of the Spatial Analysis Lab's Spring 2020 workshop series. We ask that you register using the link for the workshops you are interested in so we know how many snacks to provide. Please join us for any or all.
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Spatial Analysis Lab, 104 Sabin Reed Hall
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

A Lake People: San Juan de Ondores, the Chinchaycocham and the Andean Struggle for Water
March 13, 2020
This event has been canceled.

Events Off Campus

Decolonizing Botany: From the Herbarium to the Plantarium
March 11, 2020
with Banu Subramaiam (UMass WGSS). Are you looking to engage in humanities scholarship to address environmental questions? Are you interested in intersectional dynamics of environments and ecologies? The Environmental Humanities Lecture Series is intended to answer these and other questions. All are welcome!
Room W465, South College, 150 Wicks Way, Umass Amherst
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Events at Smith

International Film Series on Climate Change: Demain (Tomorrow)
March 23, 2020
This event has been canceled.

LSS 100 lecture: Kate Cholakis
March 23, 2020
Kate Cholakis, Conway School of Landscape Design will speak as part of the Spring 2020 Landscape Studies Lecture Series: Landscape, Design, and the Environment, in honor of the 20th year of Landscape Studies at Smith College.
Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Complex
2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

ArcGIS Online & StoryMaps Basics
March 24, 2020
This event has been canceled.

Presidential Colloquium with Regina McCarthy
March 24, 2020
This event has been canceled.

Events Off Campus

No Man's Land Film Festival
March 24, 2020
An all-women adventure film festival. Panel discussion to follow. Doors open at 7; films start at 7:30. Tickets: $7 gen adm; $5 with Five College ID. Hosted by the University of Massachusetts Outing Club.
Mahar Auditorium, 119 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA
7:00 pm