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Events at Smith Sunrise Smith meeting October 15, 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 Events Off Campus Webinar: How Will Climate Change Impact Forest Wildlife? October 13, 2020 The forests of the NE CASC region are highly exposed to climate change. Likewise, many of the species that inhabit these forest ecosystems are at their southern range edges here and are considered sensitive to climate change. Finally, the adaptive capacity of local species is limited by habitat fragmentation, high rates of invasive species, and other stressors. This presentation will review some of the latest research on mammal, bird, and other species' responses to climate change in addition to summarizing projections for future impacts. It will also showcase coproduced research indicating that climate change refugia, areas buffered from climate change, can be conserved to enable the persistence of species in the face of a changing climate. More... 4:00 pm Live Panel Discussion and Q & A with Young Leaders of the Movement October 14, 2020 Join intersectional environmental activist "Green Girl" Leah Thomas and indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez for a discussion moderated by CSU Chico Associated Students President Breanna �Bre� Holbert. This event is hosted by the California State University System at 12 p.m. PDT- we have adjusted the time to EDT. Please sign up at the link. More... Online Event 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Architectural Survival in an Extreme Environment with Katelyn Hudson October 14, 2020 This talk explores the history of architecture in Antarctica and how biophilic design is found within structures where nature is often viewed as a negative, dangerous quality to be kept out. Biophilic design was established through observation of experiences that connect users to the natural environment for the benefit of their wellbeing. Through a case study of six buildings spanning the history of human habitation of the southernmost continent, Hudson will analyze the attributes of biophilic design and identify patterns that can aid in the development of architectural interventions in similar extreme environments � like Vermont on a good winter day. Originally hailing from Vermont, Dr. Hudson is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. She also holds a Doctor of Architecture (DArch) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research focuses on the evolution of human behavioral patterns within architectural interventions specific to colder climates. Hosted by Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Join the talk on FaceBook Live, or use the link below to join via Zoom: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:00 pm Being Entangled: Artistic Approaches to Complex Ecologies October 15, 2020 The escalating and overlapping ecological crises are increasingly understood as more than problems of technology, resource use, and maldistribution. They are also, and perhaps fundamentally, epistemic problems: ways of perceiving, thinking, and valuing the world that favor separation over relation. As a domain traditionally associated with questions of sensing and valuing, the arts can rehearse alternate ways of approaching the embeddedness and contingency of human stories in much larger material, environmental, and inter-species assemblages. This talk will screen "Ecologies of Acknowledgment" (currently on view in the Artist Response exhibition at the Tufts University Art Galleries) and use this film, along with its companion print and Fall 2019 field trip to Deer Island, as a case study to suggest reparative and relational roles for the arts in environmental work beyond documentation of threat and loss. Sarah Kanouse is artist, writer, and filmmaker examining the politics of landscape and space. Migrating between video, photography, and performative forms, her research-based creative projects shift the visual dimension of the landscape to allow hidden stories of environmental and social transformation to emerge. A 2019 Rachel Carson Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Sarah Kanouse is Associate Professor of Media Arts in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University. Register for the event at the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm Where have all the People Gone? Studying Density and the Use of Public Space During COVID October 15, 2020 with Justin B. Hollander, Professor, Tufts University. Part of the Zube Lecture Series hosted by Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass, Amherst. Join using the link below: More... Zoom 4:00 pm		Events at Smith Radical Hope in a Moment of Danger October 16, 2020 Julie Sze, American Studies, University of California, Davis, and author of Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger, will speak as part of the Kahn project, Imagining Climate Change: From Slow Violence to Fast Hope. What does non-na�ve radical hope look like now in the face of interconnected environmental, political and social disasters? Culture and media, in abolitionist climate justice narratives, offer a partial answer. All welcome. Register using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm SCALE Africa�s W(i)SH Initiative: Increasing Access to Education For Girls in Zambia October 19, 2020 The social standing, health, and education of women has enormous effects on the amount of carbon generated globally. Erin McGurn, Co-founder & Executive Director, Scale Africa Inc., will talk about the health and education of young women and tie that to good architectural design. Part of the ENX 100 lecture series. More... Virtual via zoom 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm Part 5: Not Fake News - Crafting a Spatial Narrative with StoryMaps October 20, 2020 In this final workshop in the series, we will use StoryMaps and web apps as a digital storytelling tool to present the spatial narrative of an election map. We will practice communicating data to a broader audience, using maps to weave together the present political fabric. 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 More... Virtual via zoom 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm Presentation of the Landscape Studies Minor October 21, 2020 Use your Smith email to join us to discuss the unlimited possibilities within the Landscape Studies Program! Link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm Open Hours with Stephanie, CEEDS Sustainability Coordinator October 22, 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! Stephanie is excited to meet you! More... Virtual via zoom 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm Sunrise Smith meeting October 22, 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 Events Off Campus International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2020: October 17, 2020 �Acting together to achieve social and environmental justice for all� This year, an online global commemoration will share video messages from people and communities living in poverty and facing the adverse effects of environmental degradation and climate change who are also mobilized to address them. Their experiences remind us that social and environmental injustice often go hand in hand and the solutions they call for are also closely linked. Implementing them requires the mobilization of all. Register for this free event with the link below: More... virtual 11:00 am 400 Years: Truth and Healing for the Next Seven Generations October 18, 2020 An Interfaith/Inter-Community Project of listening, connecting, and acting for justice during this 400th year since the 1620 landing of English colonists on Native homelands in the Northeast. Native presenters will include: Rhonda Anderson � I�upiaq-Athabascan Commissioner of Indian Affairs for Western Mass; David Brule � Nehantic president of Nolumbeka Project; John �Jim� Peters, Jr. � Mashpee Wampanoag Commissioner of Indian Affairs for Massachusetts; Larry Spotted Crow Mann � Nipmuc Nation author, cultural educator & singer; Bryan Blanchette � Nulhegan Abenaki singer & musician; Stephanie Morningstar � Oneida Executive Director of NEFOC Land Trust. Join us in a live virtual gathering on Youtube via the link below: More... Virtual 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust: Centering Indigenous Sovereignty on Stolen Land October 21, 2020 With Stephanie Morningstar, Executive Director. Part of the Erasure and Restoration: An Exploration of Past and Present in the Kwinitekw Valley�s Indigenous Communities series sponsored by the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Learn more and register at the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm DesignBuildBLUFF with Hiroko Yamamoto, Adrienne Caesar, and Perry Martin October 21, 2020 DesignBuildBLUFF is a graduate architecture program at the University of Utah focused on immersing students in hands-on cross-cultural experiences. We work in partnership with the Rural and Native communities of San Juan County in the Utah Four Corners. There is an overwhelming need for affordable and culturally appropriate housing within the Navajo Nation. With this problem in mind, our students sought to develop a flexible housing prototype that could be easily built by would-be native homeowners. The concept of �sweat equity� is one in which the client uses their own labor, rather than cash, as a form of contribution in the building process. Join Hiroko Yamamoto (instructor), Adrienne Caesar (intern), and Perry Martin (student) to learn more about this impactful program. Hosted by Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Join the event on FaceBook Live, or use the link below to join via Zoom: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:00 pm Data, data everywhere: Dealing with the deluge to address issues of environmental concern October 22, 2020 Big data and data science have become common buzzwords that invoke both excitement and fear, depending on the audience. In environmental sciences and studies, big data and the tools of data science can lead to revolutionary advances and increased understanding of our collective impact on each other and the natural world. But dealing with these data presents inherent challenges, and, as the expression goes, "with great power comes great responsibility," from how we collect, manage, and analyze these data to how they are presented, stored, and shared. In this lecture, examples of "big data" projects are presented, along with the complex nature and sensitivities of interpreting and sharing results, and implications for combatting issues of environmental and conservation concern. Leone Brown, Environmental Studies, Tufts University, is an ecologist with training in population, landscape, and disease ecology, conservation biology, and data science. Register for the event using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm Facing COVID/Advancing Resilience in Washington, DC October 22, 2020 with Dwane Jones, Acting Dean for the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability, and Environmental Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia. Part of the Zube Lecture Series hosted by Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass, Amherst. Join using the link below: More... Zoom 4:00 pm		Events at Smith A Collaborative Design-a-Thon October 24, 2020 October 25, 2020 What motivates you? It�s time to co-design a better and more just post-COVID-19 world. A Collaborative Design-a-thon is a 36-hour virtual weekend event dedicated to tackling today�s wicked challenges. Fourteen teams of two or more Smithies will be accepted on a first come, first registered basis. Bring at least one friend, or more. And if you are looking for a teammate, don�t worry - indicate that in the registration form and we can match you up with another curious, creative soul. Register at the link below! More... Virtual via zoom 11:30 am Concentrations Information Session October 26, 2020 Interested in exploring the ways a concentration might open doors to new ways of thinking and being in the world? We'll provide a brief overview of the common features and shared goals of Concentrations at Smith, say a few words about resources available to support the work of concentrators, and then we'll break into focused info sessions with the directors, key support staff, and students from the Archives, Book Studies, Community Engagement and Social Change, Environmental, Global Financial Institutions, Museums, Poetry, and Translation Studies Concentrations. Register to receive the Zoom link. More... Virtual via Zoom 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm Food Policy Initiatives at the State Level with Jo Comerford October 26, 2020 Jo Comerford, Massachusetts State Senator for the Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester districts, will discuss food policy initiatives at the state level. What's happening? What's working, what isn't? Part of the ENX 100 lecture series. More... Virtual via zoom 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm To Understand a Tree, a work-in-process presentation October 27, 2020 What is the community of a tree? What will happen if I, as a woodworker, place myself in a deeper relationship to the forest? Arts Afield Visiting Artist Gina Siepel discusses her ongoing work, To Understand a Tree, currently in process in the forests of the Macleish Field Station. To Understand a Tree is inspired by a desire to contemplate a living forest tree and its immediate habitat from the perspective of a woodworker, directly engaging both the forest ecosystem and the furniture making process. In collaboration with naturalist Kate Wellspring and others, Siepel is studying a single northern red oak tree, integrating artistic and scientific methodologies. Forests are complex, interconnected systems, and in that spirit, To Understand a Tree connects furniture and object making to questions of forest ecology, climate change, and the ethical harvesting of plants and other natural resources. Please register at the link! More... Virtual via zoom 7:00 pm Presentation of the ES&P major and minors October 28, 2020 Interested in the environment and sustainability? Find out more about what it takes to major or minor in environmental science and policy or minor in marine science and policy. Meet faculty, staff, and students in the program, and get your questions answered! More... Virtual via Zoom 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm Events Off Campus Dartmouth Energy Collaborative Seminar Series with Leah Stokes October 27, 2020 Leah Stokes of UC Santa Barbara will give a talk titled, "Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States," as part of the DEC Energy Seminar Series. In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. However, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar laws or clean up its electricity system. Examining clean energy laws in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and Ohio over a thirty-year time frame, Stokes argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why states are not on track to address the climate crisis. More than a history of renewable energy policy in modern America, Short Circuiting Policy offers a bold new argument about how the policy process works, and why seeming victories can turn into losses when the opposition has enough resources to roll back laws. Leah Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). More... Online Event 12:15 pm Virtual Info Session: Columbia University�s graduate programs in applied sustainability studies October 29, 2020 The MPA in Environmental Science and Policy, the Master of Science in Sustainability Management, and the Master of Science in Sustainability Science programs provide students with the practical knowledge and training to become leaders in this rapidly growing area. To learn more about our cutting-edge programs, please register in Handshake. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Have questions or having trouble registering? Contact Kate Trzaskos, Assistant Director, Employer Relations in the Lazarus Center for Career Development. ktrzaskos at smith.edu Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm The American Garden - A life or Death Situation October 29, 2020 with Neil Diboll, President, Prairie Nursery. Part of the Zube Lecture Series hosted by Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass, Amherst. Join using the link below: More... Zoom 4:00 pm