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Expired Rags: How Wool Recycling Got Fleeced
September 14, 2020
with Adam Minter, Investigative Journalist; Author of Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale, among other books; columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Part of the ENX 100 speaker series of practitioners and scholars working on issues related to the environment and sustainability. Join using your Smith email at the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
3:15 pm to 4:30 pm

Part 2: Polling a Polling Station
September 15, 2020
This workshop guides you through designing geolocated surveys to capture and share crowdsourced map data using Survey123. We can use this data collection technique to investigate questions such as: How and where is your community voting? What are the conditions of polling stations? Where are mailboxes or ballot drop boxes being removed? Part of the Spatial Analysis Lab fall workshop series. Pre-register using the link below and join us at https://smith.zoom.us/j/6757119877
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Virtual via zoom
12:30 pm to 1:15 pm

Info Session: Wurtele Center's Amplify competition
September 16, 2020
There's never been a better time to have your voice heard! Amplify is a new program through the Wurtele Center for Leadership with the goal of equipping all members of the Smith community with the creativity, courage, and collaborative capacity to lead change at scales both large and small. Learn more about upcoming programming and the competition, and register at the link below.
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Virtual via Zoom
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Global Perspectives on Climate Change: Sea, Sand and Sustainability
September 16, 2020
Because of climate change, half of the world’s beaches could disappear by the end of the century due to coastal erosion. This erosion will also have a tremendous impact on vital wildlife habitats, as well as coastal homes, livelihoods, and industries. And the vulnerability gap is even more prevalent in poorer and low-lying countries.How do marine scientists, civil engineers, and management communities envision the twin issues of sand and sustainability? Register at the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
10:00 am

Alternative Food Movements and Farmer Viability: An International Perspective
September 17, 2020
Across the globe, alternative food movements have emerged in response to the devastation—environmental, social, and economic—brought about by a global industrialized food system. At the core of these movements are small and medium size farmers who are driving agroecological change through innovative practices and discursive frameworks that revalorize peasant identities. In the US, beginning farmers and ranchers are often playing this vital role in reimagining and remaking agricultural livelihoods and regional food systems. Here and abroad, however, the long-term viability of small and medium size farmers is continually jeopardized by structural barriers in the global industrialized food system. This talk will explore the concept of farmer viability as it relates to alternative food movements and the productive possibilities of agri-cultural exchange between the global North and South. Register with the link below:
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via Zoom
12:00 pm

The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
September 17, 2020
Protests have been a feature of American political life since well before the Constitution’s ratification, but their tactics and effects have long been the subject of vigorous debate. Now, amid the demonstrations against police violence following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and many others, questions about the impact of protests have gained new urgency. This year’s annual celebration of Constitution Day will feature a talk by Daniel Gillion, the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Gillion has written multiple books revealing the ways that protests influence institutions, policies, voters, and parties, and his insights will help us better understand the vital role that protests play in our democracy. The event is sponsored by the Tufts Department of Political Science, Tisch College, the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the President. Register at the link below:
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virtual
5:00 pm

Visible Mending Workshop
September 19, 2020
Learn the art of visible mending with Namita Patel from Dayton Fibershed. Learn how to repair clothing to extend their lifespan while at the same time updating the design of these garments to create a new look. We will cover ways to mend garments using embroidery, patchwork, and weaves. For participants interested in sharing their mending projects, we will have a show-and-tell at the end of the session. Mending is an act of resilience. It extends the lifespan of clothing and reduces textile waste into our landfills. The simple skill of mending will help you repair and redesign your wardrobe for a lifetime. Register using the link below: FREE - to make this skill available to all and those struggling during COVID.
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Virtual
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Events at Smith

Food Insecurity and Disasters during Covid-19. Affirmations of Solidarity, Gender Activism and Novel
September 21, 2020
Alliances in Germany, the US and Lebanon. Ninette Rothmueller, Visiting Research Scholar at Smith College with a background in Cultural Studies, Social Work and Interdisciplinary Arts will speak about her practice-led and theoretical work concerned with who humans are to, and with, each other under various circumstances, such as severe crisis. Her autobiographical documentary poetry reflects experiences of forced immobility and displacement across borders and languages. Part of the ENX 100 speaker series of practitioners and scholars working on issues related to the environment and sustainability. Join using your Smith email at the link below:
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Virtual via zoom
3:15 pm to 4:30 pm

Poetry Reading: Mark Doty
September 22, 2020
Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poetry, three acclaimed memoirs, a lyric book-length meditation on the art of the still life, and, most recently, What Is the Grass (W. W. Norton, 2020), a personal interrogation of his life-long relationship with the work of Walt Whitman. In awarding the National Book Award in 2008 for Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems, the committee described Doty as a "master" whose poems convey "ferocious compassion." Doty teaches at Rutgers University, where he serves as Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Writers House. This event launches the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College's fall series. Free and open to all. Register using the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
7:30 pm

Green Team Meeting
September 23, 2020
Calling all Smith students interested in connecting with others who are interested in (and and all) environmental issues! Join our meetings for a place to have a discussion, learn about something new or share something you care about, and have some fun with like-minded Smithies. The intent is for this to be a stress-free org where everyone can to take part. This will be a planning meeting for the year; you will hear from GT leaders about ideas they have, and have a chance to weigh in with yours. Use your Smith email to join with the link below:
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Zoom
4:30 pm

Part 3: Gerrymandering (is it /g/erry or /j/erry?)
September 24, 2020
The term “gerrymandering” was named after the 9th governor of Massachusetts Elbridge Gerry, for redrawing the South Essex senate district in favor of his party – in the shape of a salamander. In this workshop we discuss the implications of representation, and learn to classify and symbolize election results in a web map using ArcGIS Online. Part of the Spatial Analysis Lab fall workshop series. Pre-register using the link below and join in at https://smith.zoom.us/j/6757119877
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Virtual via zoom
12:30 pm to 1:15 pm

Sunrise Smith meeting
September 24, 2020
Calling all Smithies! We'd love to have you join our regular weekly meeting. Interested folx can email sunrisesmith @ smith.edu to get link.
Virtual via Zoom
6:00 pm

Healthy Activism for Democracy: a Conversation
September 24, 2020
Leslie Abraham, Elvis Mendez, and Kelly Anderson, three dynamic, engaged individuals will have a conversation about how to show up for the upcoming election and for our community in ways that are safe & reflective of the times we're living in. During this time of remote living, many of us are craving human connection and the opportunity to actually DO something. This panel will help us gain some insight, and provide some context for specific projects they are working on in the community. Leslie Abraham (she/they) - Leslie Abraham '18, is a research fellow for Project Coach’s participatory action grant where she works closely with the Jandon Center and the local community of Springfield, MA. Elvis Mendez is the co-director for Neighbor to Neighbor MA. Kelly Anderson is faculty in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender and directs the Archives Concentration at Smith College. Co-Sponsored by the Five Colleges Community Based Learning Network, the Jandon Center for Community Engagement, the Mwangi Cultural Center, Smith Votes and the Wurtele Center for Leadership. Register using the link below.
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Zoom
7:00 pm

Amplify Panel: Developing and Owning Your Public Voice
September 24, 2020
There are a lot of issues to speak up about these days, but how do you know how to get started and if you’re the right person to do the speaking? Join the Wurtele Center for Leadership and two panelists to discuss what it means to develop and then own a public voice. Guests include Tanisha C. Ford, scholar, writer, and speaker on the intersections of style and social justice, and Tuck Woodstock, non-binary journalist and producer of the Gender Reveal podcast. Register using the link below:
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Zoom
8:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Building a Just and Climate-Ready Economy in a Post-COVID World
September 21, 2020
Join a conversation in honor of Climate Week with Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University, who will address The Science and Forecasting of Climate Change and Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor, who will address the Business Case for Building a Just and Climate-Ready Economy. Moderated by: Jennifer Nash, Director of Harvard Business School’s Business and Environment Initiative. Hosted by: HBS Connects and the Harvard Business School Business and Environment Initiative. RSVP to join the Zoom webinar at the link below:
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Virtual Zoom webinar
4:30 pm

We are the Story, We are the Land
September 22, 2020
Larry Spotted Crow Mann will lead an engaging talk focused on the spiritual, cultural and social significance of ‘Place and the Art of Story’ for the Indigenous peoples of New England. This event will highlight how a colonial narrative has harmfully impacted both Native people and non-Native people through a conversation that centers on the personal journey of the survival and perseverance of Nipmuc People and their continued efforts to share their story, while also shaping new ones for the coming generations. Register using the link below.
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Virtual via Zoom
5:30 pm

The Power of Nonviolent Direct Action: Using Civil Resistance to fight Oppression
September 23, 2020
In this webinar with Dominique Thomas, NY and Mid-Atlantic Regional Organizer for 350.org, participants will explore the history of nonviolent direct action (NVDA) through civil resistance and civil disobedience. Participants will learn the different steps needed to engage in NVDA through your campaigns and grassroots organizing. We will work through the different types of NVDA seen throughout history and in the current uprising along with the successes and challenges. Participants will have time to think through their own NVDA plans and how to be more strategic with their demands through a NVDA lens. Register using the link below:
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Virtually via Zoom
12:00 pm

Adventures in EcoSocial Design with Jorge Antonio Espinosa
September 23, 2020
Gather round for a storytelling session with Jorge detailing their experiences facilitating the design process, exploring questions of regeneration and resilience, and taking back our power to learn and unlearn in ways that honor innate, natural curiosity, collaboration, and connection with community and ecosystem. Jorge Antonio Espinosa is a nurturer of people and ecosystems, passionate for endeavors that range from the creative to the scientific, especially ones that bridge divergent ways of being and interacting with the world. Their favorite kind of creative project is where the landscape and community come together to blur the edges of canvas and artist, reimagining our food systems into masterpieces of resilience and collaboration. Jorge holds a Master of Science degree in Integrative EcoSocial Design. Hosted by Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Join on FaceBook Live, or use the link below to join via Zoom:
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Virtual via Zoom
7:00 pm

Reuters Newsmaker with Katharine Hayhoe
September 24, 2020
As the United National General Assembly gathers to address climate action and the world recognizes Climate Week, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe will join Reuters to discuss climate change, our ability to tackle the challenge and whether society can adapt to a warming planet. Also with Simon Robinson, Global Managing Editor, and Katy Daigle, Climate Change Editor, both from Reuters. Use the link below to register:
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Virtual
10:00 am

A Conversation with L.A. Times Environment Reporter Rosanna Xia
September 24, 2020
Climate change. Pollution. Endangered ecosystems and equitable access to nature. How do you communicate the most complex and pressing environmental issues of our time? Los Angeles Times reporter Rosanna Xia, in a conversation with Environmental Studies Director Colin Orians, will share her experiences working in the field. She will also talk about her time studying at Tufts and her recent interactive project on sea level rise, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist this year in explanatory reporting. In her role as a reporter, Rosanna covers the coast and has written about sea level rise, public rights to nature and endangered species deep beneath the sea. Her stories connect science and policy and have led to new laws and regulations. She holds a degree in quantitative economics and international relations from Tufts University.
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Zoom
12:00 pm

Notes on Resilience
September 24, 2020
From the ongoing COVID pandemic to the rebellions that have gripped communities around the world in the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd, unprecedented popular attention has been paid to systemic inequities in our environments. What might this mean for landscape architecture? This talk will use the topic of resilience as a means to acknowledge our strong professional toolset for addressing non-human ecological matters but also call attention to the need to build more robust and impactful tools for nurturing human resilience. Speaker Kofi Boone, FASLA is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at NC State University in the College of Design. His work is in the overlap between landscape architecture and environmental justice with specializations in democratic design, digital media, and interpreting cultural landscapes. Boone is a School of Earth and Sustainability Bridge Scholar at UMass speaking as part of the Zube Lecture Series. Join the event using the link below:
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Zoom
4:00 pm

Regenerative Recovery: Building Back Even Better
September 25, 2020
with Hunter Lovins, Professor Sustainable Management at Bard MBA, Chief of Impact at Change Finance, and President of Natural Capital Solutions. A Bard Center for Environmental Policy webinar. Link is below:
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Virtual via Zoom
12:00 pm

DC's Story Collider: Online Story Hour- Connection and Science
September 25, 2020
Join us for a night of laughs, tears, and everything in between. From the comfort of your home, enjoy three true, personal stories about the power of connection and science—from the friendships that anchor us in times of change to the relationship of our work to the ones we love. Stories by:Majdy Fares, Comedian and storyteller; Marisa G Franco, Psychologist and friendship expert; Jeremy Richardson, Climate and energy policymaker; Hosted by Shane M Hanlon and Maryam Zaringhalam. More info at the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
7:00 pm

“Our” Story 400 Years of Wampanoag history- virtual tour
September 26, 2020
The Wampanoag have lived in southeastern Massachusetts for more than 12,000 years. They are the tribe first encountered by Mayflower Pilgrims when they landed in Provincetown harbor and explored the eastern coast of Cape Cod and when they continued on to Patuxet (Plymouth) to establish Plymouth Colony. 2020 is here and America will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage and the founding of Plymouth Colony, a story that cannot be told without the perspective of the indigenous people who were here as that ship arrived and who still remain. This event is an exclusive opportunity to experience this unprecedented exhibit which reveals little-known historic and cultural realities of the “people of the first light.”
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Online
11:00 am

Events at Smith

LIVE Q&A with designer Cas Holman
September 29, 2020
Through her company Heroes Will Rise, Cas Holman designs and manufactures tools for the imagination which inspire constructive play and cooperative interactions between people. Her toys are never gender specific and encourage an exploratory, unstructured play. Cas is featured in Netflix's season 2 of Abstract: The Art of Design. If you have access to Netflix, we highly recommend watching the episode prior to this event, if not, no worries, this is a great opportunity to learn more about Cas’s life and work! Register at the link!
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Virtual via zoom
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

ES&P Lunchbag: Statistical modeling for forest ecology
September 30, 2020
with Albert Kim, Assistant Professor in Statistical and Data Sciences. Many people associate “statistics” only with dense mathematical formulas and numbers. While superficially this is the case, at a much deeper level statistics is about creating models of real-world phenomena. In particular, these data-driven models must navigate uncertainty. In this data visualization driven talk, Kim will address three questions relating to the growth of trees (1) “How can we model growth?” (2) “How can we model the effect of interspecies competition on growth?” and (3) “How does climate change affect annual growth?” The talk will center on forestry data from the ForestGEO network’s Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, VA, USA. Use your Smith email to join us at the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
12:30 pm to 1:20 pm

Open Zoom Hours with Rachael Wein
October 1, 2020
Are you passionate about the environment and sustainability? Want to think through how you can connect what you're studying to issues of environmental justice? Need to talk through an article you just read or an idea you just learned about? Just want to hang out? You'll find good company in this zoom room! Bring your questions, thoughts, and specific interests! Rachael is excited to meet you!
https://smith.zoom.us/j/92864294175
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Sunrise Smith meeting
October 1, 2020
Calling all Smithies! We'd love to have you join our regular weekly meeting. Interested folx can email sunrisesmith @ smith.edu to get link.
Virtual via Zoom
6:00 pm

Antigone in Ferguson
October 2, 2020
A performance of Sophocles' Antigone as a catalyst for an audience discussion about racialized police violence.Antigone in Ferguson is a groundbreaking project that fuses dramatic readings by acclaimed actors of Sophocles’ Antigone with live choral music performed by a diverse choir, from St. Louis, Missouri and New York City culminating in powerful, healing discussions about racialized violence, police brutality, systemic oppression, gender-based violence, health inequality, and social justice. Register for this free event below:
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Virtual via Zoom
5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Events Off Campus

What Does the Earth Ask of Us?
September 30, 2020
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, distinguished Professor and author of Braiding Sweetgrass. We are showered every day with the gifts of the Earth and yet we are tied to institutions which relentlessly ask, what more can we take? Drawing upon both scientific and Indigenous knowledges, this talk explores the covenant of reciprocity. How might we use the gifts and the responsibilities of human people in support of mutual thriving in a time of ecological crisis? The Keynote to the 2020-21 Feinberg Series, Planet on a Precipice: Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency presented by the UMass Amherst History Department. Use the link below to register or for more information:
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Virtual via Zoom, FaceBook or YouTube.
6:00 pm

Art as Story Through an Indigenous Lens with Judy Dow
September 30, 2020
In order to understand the world today and prepare for the future, we must also know and understand the past. Judy Dow, Abenaki artist & educator, uses art to tell stories rooted in the geologic and historical context of land, the people who live on it, and the ways that they interact. Judy has been teaching for 30 years and in the past 10-15 has worked with youth to tell important stories through Abenaki traditions, crafts, and skills. From middle school math lessons, to high schoolers helping shape how land is used in Brattleboro, the art & stories Judy will share offer a new lens for considering the world around us. Hosted by Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Join on FaceBook Live, or use the link below to join via Zoom:
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Virtual via Zoom
7:00 pm

Farm to College in New England: Past, Present, and Post-Pandemic
October 1, 2020
"Farm to institution" represents an important lever for change in the effort to build resilient and sustainable regional food systems. Institutions, including colleges and universities, make important daily choices about food including: what food to buy, where to buy it from, if they should grow it, how much to pay for it, how much to charge for it, and how to serve it. These choices provide opportunities to promote sustainable growing practices, provide transparency in the food system, support regional economies, and increase food access & food justice. These connections have become ever more relevant due to Covid-19’s food system disruptions. What roles can (or should) institutions play in support of the regional food movement at the intersections of sustainability, resiliency, student food access, and food justice?
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Virtual via Zoom
12:00 pm

Maintaining Resilient and Enduring Urban Places in the Age of Climate Change
October 1, 2020
with Forster Ndubisi, Professor, Texas A&M University. Part of the Zube Lecture Series hosted by Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass, Amherst.
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Zoom
4:00 pm

A Black Pandemic Toolkit: Lessons from Black Geographies on Crisis
October 2, 2020
with Dr. Celeste Winston, part of the UMass Department of Geosciences Guest Lecture Series. Listen in using the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
12:20 pm

Co-Op Power Annual Climate Justice Summit
October 3, 2020
October 4, 2020
Spend the weekend taking in the good news about the substantive progress toward racial justice, climate justice, and community owned clean energy. Join this multi-class, multi-race, inter-generational, inclusive gender, Northeast regional movement with practical ways to build a more just and sustainable energy future. Extended plenary sessions with inspiring speakers, lots of interaction and time for networking and learning . Dozens of participatory workshops on critically important themes. Opportunities for community building and mutual aid. FREE for anyone under 25. Get the full conference schedule and register using the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
10:00 am to 5:00 pm