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Events at Smith Smith Walk for Water March 22, 2021 This semester, we are raising awareness and funds for an NGO in Kenya, Kwaho. Kwaho provides water, sanitation and hygiene to communities in need and has been doing so since 1976. The Walk would be from Monday March 22- Monday April 19th. The money we all raise by walking, jogging, hiking or biking will go to Kwaho! Steps: 1. Please register and RSVP on the Smith Social Network (link below). This will allow us to email you with opportunities to meet up with us and other Smithies for a walk! 2. Download the StepBet app and join our team with the code �WALKFORWATA� 3. Ask someone to sponsor you or bet $10 on yourself! 4. Complete the walking challenge by walking your minimum number of steps 6 days a week for 4 weeks! 5. Win your money back with a profit. Thank you for joining us and Kwaho to fight the Global Water Crisis. More... StepBet App Winging It: Farmed Animals, Sanctuary Science, and Multispecies Justice March 22, 2021 Farmed animal sanctuaries rescue and care for animals bred for use in agriculture. In this talk sponsored by the Environmental Science and Policy Program, Dr. Heather Rosenfeld will review the history of the farmed animal sanctuary movement, analyzing sanctuaries as multispecies safe spaces. She will discuss how sanctuaries learn to care for hens bred for egg production and introduce a few other projects on environmental justice, community mapping, and multispecies research ethics. Email jbenkley @smith.edu for the link to join the event. Virtual 4:00 pm Reversing Knowledge Loss March 24, 2021 A presentation by Sven Haakanson. What does it mean to regain knowledge and practice of lost technologies? Why do some successful technologies disappear? Sven Haakanson works with the Alutiiq in Kodiak, Alaska, and other communities in preserving and relearning languages and cultural practices. Haakanson received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work reviving Alutiiq language and culture. He recently worked with Kodiak communities in relearning, building and using angyaaq again. Sponsored by the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. Register using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:00 pm From Basalts to Bylines: Science Communication and my Path to Journalism March 25, 2021 Join the geosciences department in welcoming Dr. Maya Wei-Haas '09, PhD �back� to campus. Dr. Wei-Haas is an award-winning science writer for National Geographic. Please register in advance at the link below: More... 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Take a Walk with CEEDS March 25, 2021 The weather is nice and warm, perfect for a walk together to look for signs of spring! You'll have a chance to get outside, meet and hang out with other cool students, and staff from CEEDS. Dress for the weather and be prepared to explore. Meet at the Boat house. Space is limited, sign-up with the link below. More... Boat House 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Health and STEM Professions Lunchbag: First-Generation-in-College Faculty Members: March 26, 2021 a panel discussion about what it means to pave the way to higher education for one's family. With panelists Professors Denise Lello, Randi Garcia, Will Williams and Peter de Villiers More... Virtual 12:15 pm to 1:00 pm Crochet a Coral Reef! Be a part of the Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science project! March 26, 2021 Join us and crochet a coral figure that will become part of the Tang Teaching Museum�s major community art project Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science. These virtual sessions, led by various campus groups, can be joined via the zoom link below (click on "More"). Don�t know how to crochet? We will have experienced crocheters on every call who can teach you in a break out room. Need crochet materials? Email us at capenannex@ smith.edu and we will get you set up! More... Virtual 2:00 pm Events Off Campus Panel Discussion with Juan Carlos Oseguera, Joe Del Bosque and Patrick Cavanaugh March 22, 2021 In celebration of World Water Day, join the University of California, Merced for a discussion with Juan Carlos Oseguera, Joe Del Bosque and Patrick Cavanaugh. Juan Carlos Oseguera is the producer of the film, "The Fight for Water". Joe Del Bosque is one of the two farmers interviewed during the filming of the documentary and provided some insights into what the water fight meant for him, the farmers, his community and for his farm workers. He has continued to be active in water issues in the state of California. Patrick Cavanaugh is a journalist who was interviewed in the documentary and has been an active reporter in agricultural and water issues in the state of California. He was instrumental in helping the producer get access to venues of filming and provided some context on the delta smelt. How to Watch: http://www.thefightforwaterfilm.com/. Click on the link below to register for the panel discussion. More... 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Climate Change as Seen from Space March 23, 2021 Is it possible to connect the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events with climate change? How do space-based observations of Earth support the latest in climate science? Extreme weather events are constantly in the news, from devastating wildfires to destructive hurricanes. These natural disasters have tremendous impacts on our lives and economy, causing billions of dollars in damages and hundreds of deaths every year. With the growing availability of data from space-based observations of Earth, researchers are now learning to identify when some classes of extreme events (such as heat waves, drought, coastal flooding, and intense precipitation) are caused or worsened by anthropogenic climate change. Join us for a public lecture to hear from NASA Senior Climate Advisor Gavin Schmidt about Earth observations from space and their unique perspective on climate. During the lecture, he'll explore the emerging science of extreme event attribution and what the next decade might hold. This event is organized by the National Academies' Space Studies Board. You can register at the link below: More... Virtual 5:30 pm Virtual Roundtable, Climate Resilience Community Roundtable March 24, 2021 The online community discussion will explore how area residents can make a difference in addressing global climate change at the neighborhood level. This session will offer all participants the opportunity to contribute to a conversation on climate resilience in the Pioneer Valley, and how residents can participate in upcoming environmental monitoring projects that will be taking place in Springfield, Holyoke and other communtieis this year. This important roundtable is open to all residents of the Valley, including homeowners, renters, high school aged youth, seniors, and any individuals interested in helping to make our communities a bit greener and healthier for all. This virtual roundtable, �Climate Resilience Community Roundtable� is being sponsored by ReGreen Springfield, in partnership with the City of Springfield and other partners, including Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program (MVP), the Office of Attorney General Maura Healey, the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts, Live Well Springfield, Yale University School of Public Health, the US Forest Service. During the session, participants will learn how they can help to plan for the installation of air-quality monitors in the Valley, in order to better understand how air pollution impacts public health. Attendees can help decide where to place those monitors, which will provide real-time data on the air quality in at-risk areas, that have elevated asthma and respiratory rates. Discussion of how to address rising asthma rates in the Valley, how trees can assist in improving air quality and other environmental topics will be undertaken during the two-hour roundtable. To learn more about the event and to register, please visit link below. More... Zoom and Facebook Live 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Northampton's Parks: An Unexpected History March 24, 2021 Rediscovering Northampton: Local History Viewed Through an Ecological Lens - How did Northampton citizens respond to the idea of creating public parks? In Part 5 of the lecture series, Rediscovering Northampton, Laurie Sanders will describe the origins of the Northampton parks we enjoy today and tell the tales of those that were never created. It is no surprise that the establishment of nearly all of them was controversial. Admission: Sliding scale $0 - $20 More... 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Agribiopolitics: How Monocrops Transform the Welfare State March 25, 2021 The Green Revolution in crop development of the mid-20th century is normally told as the story of heroic plant geneticists, miraculous fertilizers and increasingly complex machinery and pesticides. But the expansion of monocrop agriculture throughout this period was also enabled by novel governmental apparatuses that guarded the health of plants much as welfare regimes guarded that of humans. In this presentation, Dr. Kregg Hetherington (environmental anthropologist and director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab in Montreal) will argue that it's worth thinking of these two things together, as an overarching politics of life that oversaw the shifting relation between the well-being of plants and that of humans. Biopolitics was always, in other words, agribiopolitics, a political technique that made certain populations of humans thrive alongside companion crops. Using Paraguay as a site of genealogical engagement, he will show how this history of monocrops first supported, then undermined human welfare, and how intertwined it is with the political predicaments of the Anthropocene. Dr. Hetherington is author of The Government of Beans (2020) and editor of Infrastructure, Environment and Life in the Anthropocene (2019). His research has focused on agrarian politics and bureaucracy in Paraguay, and crop and water management in the Anthropocene. Register below: More... Virtual 12:00 pm Unsettling Whiteness in Neighborhood Planning: Social Justice Efforts in Seattle, WA March 25, 2021 with Serin D. Houston. Seattle�s Race and Social Justice Initiative, a citywide initiative focused on eliminating institutional racism and race-based disparities, has notably revamped everything from professional development trainings to budget processes to neighborhood planning approaches. These changes in urban governance have better aligned social justice ideals with material practices and illustrate the crucial role of unsettling whiteness. Unsettling whiteness refers to intentionally disrupting the normative power of whiteness to reproduce racial hierarchies and craft systems, structures, and stances that principally benefit white people. With this in mind, Prof. Houston will examine the unsettling of whiteness in the 2009 neighborhood planning efforts in North Beacon Hill, New Holly � Othello, and North Rainier Valley in Seattle to demonstrate how changing planning processes produced more inclusive and equitable results. Her research underscores that analyzing how whiteness constraints planning endeavors and working to center equitable approaches instead is necessary and worthwhile. Serin D. Houston is an Associate Professor of Geography and International Relations at Mount Holyoke College. Use the link below to join the lecture online. More... Virtual 4:00 pm Hop Reuse Hub Presents: Plastic Bag Reuse and How to Reduce March 26, 2021 Register below to join the Johns Hopkins Homewood Recycling Office for a fun, two-part Lunch & Learn series this spring. We will teach you how to use plastic bags to make a reusable produce bag! This is a two-part event. During the first event, from noon to 1 p.m. on March 26, we will teach you how to use disposable plastic bags to make plarn, aka plastic yarn. During the second lunchtime event, from noon to 1 p.m., on April 16, we will teach you how to use the plarn to make a reusable produce net bag (see attachment for example). To participate in the event, all you will need is approximately four to six disposable bags and a pair of scissors. During both events we will also chat about the importance of reduction and reuse as well as the Baltimore City plastic bag ban and extended producer responsibility (EPR). You must register to get the Zoom link. Contact recycling@jhu.edu with questions. We look forward to seeing you! More... Zoom 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Kinstillatory Mappings and Speculative Conversatins to Otherwise Spaces of Care: March 26, 2021 Emily Johnson in conversation with Karyn Recollet. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in New York City. Originally from Alaska, Emily is of Yup�ik descent, and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as portals and installations, engaging audiences within and through space, time, and environment�interacting with a place's architecture, peoples, history and role in community. Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future. For more information and to register, please visit the link below: More... Virtual 4:30 pm 2nd Annual Virginia Environmental Justice Summit (VEJS) March 27, 2021 VEJS is a student-run conference designed to engage other students from throughout the nation in multidisciplinary conversations around issues of environmental justice. The goal of the event is to learn about environmental justice issues impacting our communities, with a specific focus on the intersections of food, water, and energy. In the summit students will: learn basic definitions of environmental justice, actively engage in discussions about food and water sovereignty, energy transition, environmental racism, and environmental policy in Virginia, with a specific focus on uplifting Indigenous communities and communities of color, Gain skills for coalition building, lobbying, petitioning, letter writing, and other advocacy action items, Meet other activists and learn about their unique experiences and perspectives within the environmental justice movement View agenda, register, and learn more at VirginiaEnvJustice.org (linked below) More... Virtual 9:00 am to 4:00 pm		Events at Smith Sigma Xi Lunch Talk: How LiDAR is Revolutionizing The Way We Read the History of Landscapes March 30, 2021 Faculty, emeriti, staff, and students are welcome to attend the talk by Smith's very own Bob Newton, Professor Emeritus of Geosciences. Bob Newton is a groundwater geologist, hydrologist and geomorphologist interested in groundwater contamination issues, chemical cycling in groundwater systems, interactions of groundwater and wetlands, and use of high�-resolution light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data for imaging geomorphic features and processes. Zoom info is linked below. More... 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm The 12th Annual AEMES Research Symposium March 30, 2021 We've got eleven dynamic 4 minute presentations by AEMES Scholars and Junior and Senior McKinley Fellows on their work on topics that range from Effects of Color on Prey Capture in Sarracenia Pitcher Plants to Resilient Carbon Neutrality: Battery Backup Power on Smith Campus Here, in no particular order, are the awesome presenters Wanbin ChenGiovanna Sabini-LeiteSara SchritterNubia UdohLucy GouldQuinton CeluzzaSally RobsonJailene GonzalezNelida AyalaAshley RivasNyla Conaway, Vivian Almaraz, Dorithy Barnieh Zoom link below. More... 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm Designing Collaborative Change: a Q&A Event with the Team from Creative Reaction Lab March 31, 2021 How might young people work collaboratively to create powerful change? Join a Q&A event with members of the team at Creative Reaction Lab (CRXLAB), an organization whose mission is to educate, train, and challenge Black and Latino youth to become leaders in designing healthy and racially equitable communities. The panel includes Antionette Carroll, President and CEO; Tiana Glass, Program Coordinator; Mariapaz Gomez, Community Engagement Associate; and Hilary Sedovic, Learning and Education Director. Watch Carroll�s TED Talk on �Designing for a More Equitable World,� and then join us to learn about how CRXLAB empowers youth to work together to lead change. Click below to RSVP for the event! More... 7:00 pm Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore March 31, 2021 Author Elizabeth Rush, will speak on her latest book Rising: Dispatching from the New American Shore, a Pulitzer finalist, which lyrically documents the transformation of shorelines around the United States as a result of climate change and rising seas. Rush teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University. She appears in conjunction with the Kahn Institute yearlong project Imagining Climate Change: From Slow Violence to Fast Hope. Click the link below to register: More... Online 7:00 pm Birding with CEEDS April 1, 2021 Learn to identify some of our local birds on this casual walk around Paradise Pond and along the Mill River with Dano Weisbord. No previous birding experience necessary! Please wear comfortable walking shoes and be ready for spring mud. Space limited and sign up is required. To sign up email ceeds@ smith.edu. Meet on Chapin Lawn 8:30 am to 10:00 am Alum Chat with Clara Fang, '05, Student Engagement Director with the Citizens' Climate Lobby April 1, 2021 ES&P hosts an Ask Me Anything (AMA) Series with some of its alums. Fair game are questions about finding a job, grad school, work/life balance, Smith courses that made a difference, career paths, lessons learned, and much more. What burning questions do YOU have? These events are intended to provide a space for students to chat with alums about their current career and their journey after Smith. Our first guest, Clara Fang '05, is a PhD candidate in environmental studies at Antioch University New England who works to empower young people and people of color in the climate movement. As Student Engagement Director for Citizens� Climate Lobby (CCL), Clara oversees programs that have helped thousands of young people learn advocacy skills, organize climate action in their communities, and lobby their elected officials for fair and effective climate policies. Email jbenkley @smith.edu for a link to join us. Virtual 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Events Off Campus Unpacking Food Trauma: A Workshop on Addressing Oppressive Structures Within the US Foodscape March 30, 2021 The industrialization of food production and perpetually increasing corporate greed, especially in colonized regions of the world, has poisoned the relationship between many communities and food. Determined by race, class, and gender, food trauma takes root in the scarcity of adequate nutrition, the removal of access to culturally relevant ingredients, food apartheid, climate crises, and a weightloss focused restrictive diet culture. Join us in a conversation with Dr. Breeze Harper to discuss the ways in which we can engage in food justice through a trauma informed and intersectional lens and how to make our movements as inclusive as possible. Link to join below. More... 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Restoring Florida�s Corals Reefs: From Colonies to Coastlines March 30, 2021 Healthy coral reef ecosystems underpin Florida�s tourism economy, support vital commercial and recreational fisheries, and help protect our shorelines from the devastating impacts of storm surge and coastal flooding. But these iconic ecosystems have undergone dramatic declines in recent years. Associate Professor Lirman and Professor Baker from the Department of Marine Biology and Ecology at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science are working together to restore these precious local ecosystems and the valuable services they provide using a combination of new and established restoration approaches aimed to not only recover depleted reefs but also increase the climate resilience of restored coral populations. Part of the 2021 Sea Secrets lecture series at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Register using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 6:30 pm Our World: Indigenous Communities in Solidarity for Environmental Justice April 1, 2021 In efforts to build international solidarity, this panel will bring attention to the common thread of colonialism causing environmental justice issues in each panelist�s country as well as uplift their work supporting their communities. We will learn from the panelist�s climate activism and adaptation, traditional ecological knowledge, and Iived experience fighting for environmental justice. Panelists will discuss their work as well as their thoughts on how global solidarity is important and necessary. Register with link below More... 2:00 pm Addressing Challenges of Diversity, Representation, Bias, and Discrimination in Planning Practice April 1, 2021 Across the U.S., there are institutional debates regarding how best to support diversity within urban planning curricula, among our students and faculty members, and in our workplaces. Dr. April Jackson, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University, will discuss findings from a collaboration between the American Planning Association (APA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning � Planners of Color Interest Group (ACSP-POCIG). Dr. Jackson's research focuses on the ways planners can promote racial equity and inclusion in mixed-income communities, institutions, and workplaces by advocating for equitable, inclusive, and just communities. Prior to her faculty position she worked as an architect and urban designer at Destefano Partners and AECOM in Chicago, IL and Irvine, CA on public housing redevelopment projects, neighborhood revitalization plans, and new urbanist communities in the U.S., China, and the Middle East. Part of the UMass Zube Lecture Series. Use the link below to join the meeting; Zoom meeting ID: 981 5129 0161 More... Virtual 4:00 pm Lecture: Black Landscapes Matter April 1, 2021 The UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts welcomes acclaimed landscape designer and public artist Walter Hood as the inaugural speaker in the Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series. His lecture "Black Landscapes Matter" discusses landscape architects, planning professionals, and scholars to probe how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape. The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated cities, from freedman villages to northern migrations for freedom, the nation�s landscape displays the fragments of diverse, often oppressive origins. Black landscapes matter because they tell the truth. Register with link below: More... Virtual 4:00 pm		Events at Smith Beyond Big Data: Communicating Climate Change Through Indigenous Voices and Art April 8, 2021 An online conversation with indigenous scientist/artist James Temte and special guest Alaska Native Ahtna Elder Wilson Justin. James Temte, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe who leads National Science Foundation's Navigating the New Arctic Community Extension Office, will share a conversation with Ahtna elder Wilson Justin on the topic of Indigenous knowledge, connection to the land and the role of art in communicating the realities of climate change beyond the Arctic. This public conversation is presented as part of the Kahn Institute yearlong project Imagining Climate Change: From Slow Violence to Fast Hope. More... 7:00 pm Events Off Campus Native Americans and the National Consciousness: Virtual Reading and Conversation with Joy Harjo April 5, 2021 The Harvard University Native American Program and the Harvard Art Museums present a reading and conversation with Joy Harjo, the 23rd poet laureate of the United States. Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer, who is a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). The author of nine books of poetry, several plays and children�s books, and a memoir ("Crazy Brave"), she has received many honors, including the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a PEN USA Literary Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader�s Digest Fund Writers� Award, a Rasmuson U.S. Artists Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Harjo is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a founding board member of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She is executive editor of the anthology "When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry," released in 2020. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow. Register below: More... Virtual 6:00 pm Science at Conservation�s Frontiers April 6, 2021 How is conservation conducted at the edges of our scientific knowledge? What does conservation research look like when an entire taxon of species is removed or in habitats where species are designated threatened as quickly as they are discovered? Attempting to answer these questions are Dr. Haldre Rogers, Project Director of the Ecology of Bird Loss Project and Assistant Professor at Iowa State University, and Dr. Brett Scheffers, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida. Join us to learn more about their critical research and conservation journeys. You won�t want to miss this! Sponsored by the Society for Conservation Biology North America. Registration is required, please register at the link below: More... Virtual 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Disrupting Settler Colonialism: #landback and Other Calls to Action April 7, 2021 What does #landback look like, in practice? How can non-Native settlers actively participate in disrupting settler colonialism? We hear from people involved in Indigenous resistance about their work, what #landback means to them, and what possibilities the future holds if there is an authentic collective effort to disrupt the persisting violence of settler colonialist practices. Registration link is below: More... 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Student Climate Conference: Legislating the Climate Crisis: A Reflection April 8, 2021 on Climate Action During Biden's First 100 Days in Office and Our Path Forward. As we approach both Biden's first 100 days in office and Earth Day 2021, speakers from the Sunrise Movement, the Biden administration, and Los Angeles Times climate journalist, Rosanna Xia, will discuss climate change, climate justice, and our immediate path forward under the Biden administration. In attending this event, you will join the action-oriented conversation on the climate crisis and Biden�s legislative agenda with members of educational communities across Harvard and the surrounding Boston-area, including MIT, Tufts, Northeastern, and Boston University. By creating a dialogue between students, policy-makers, practitioners, academics, innovators, and activists, this conference seeks to evaluate existing systems, inspire agents of change, and start conversations around the multidisciplinary solutions we urgently need. More... 5:30 pm Climate Solutions Dialogue April 8, 2021 Brandeis is the MA host for the Solve Climate by 2030 project, an international series of dialogues about climate solutions. This year�s theme is what we need to achieve a green economic recovery and a just transition in Massachusetts, and our goal is to Make Climate A Class in every classroom in MA. Climate change touches every discipline, in K-8, high school and university. The teachers guides are grounded in climate solutions and justice in the transition. The amazing panelist include: Jennie C. Stephens, PhD, is the Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Dean�s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University and panelist Tibor Toth is an Adjunct Professor at Brandeis University�s International Business School, and is currently the Managing Director of Investments at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Learn more and register with link below. More... 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm