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Featured Event Panel: What does an equitable food system entail? May 5, 2021 The Office of Residence Life, Hopkins House, & The Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS) invites Smith College students to attend this panel discussion centering food justice and sustainability. Our esteemed panelists, Choonhee Woo, Amy Quichiz, and Razz Cacho, will introduce themselves and their critical work in their communities. Moderator Julieta Mendoza '21 will help facilitate the discussion. The event is supported by a 2019-202 Innovation Grant. Use the link below to join the webinar. More... Virtual 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Events at Smith Radiation Culture: Religion and the Environment in a Post-Chernobyl World May 4, 2021 Elena Romashko is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at G�ttingen University currently on a dissertation completion fellowship at the Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University. Her lecture is an insight into how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has been perceived through the local religious thought with a focus on the ways the alteration of the environment has initiated rituals, imagery and the creation of memorial spaces -- and thus brought about an emerging nuclear culture of religion. Sponsored by the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program and the Lecture Committee. Email pmckinnell@smith.edu for Zoom link. Virtual 5:00 pm Ecological opportunities on a former golf course: the case of Nashawannuck Brook restoration May 5, 2021 Kate Bentsen, Streamflow Restoration Specialist, and Cindy Delpapa, Riverways Program Manager, both from the MA Division of Ecological Restoration, will provide an introduction to the diverse and proactive restoration efforts underway in Massachusetts followed by a closer look into the local Pine Grove Golf Course � Nashawannuck Brook Restoration project. They will talk about the many restoration opportunities available on this large open space, and end with a discussion of the ways students and faculty can become involved and contribute to the active learning objectives at this dynamic site. Click below for the zoom link. More... Virtual 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm Events Off Campus Seminar: "Redefining Strong Corals: Identifying trade-offs May 5, 2021 between coral bleaching resistance and recovery capacity"�with Nia Walker, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in Stephen Palumbi�s lab based at Hopkins Marine Station. Nia primarily uses genomics, genetics, and physiology techniques to study climate change resilience in coral reefs. Her current research is focused on not just identifying, but also challenging, what makes "strong" corals by studying both coral thermal resistance and recovery.�This talk is the last in the Online Conversations for Equity, Action, and Networking (OCEAN) webinar series. � Register for the webinar below. To learn more about the OCEAN Webinar Series, check out the website here:�https://sites.google.com/view/segart/ocean-webinar-series?authuser=0 More... Virtual 4:00 pm		Events at Smith ENX 301 capstone project presentations May 10, 2021 Seniors in the Environmental Concentration present their capstone research projects: 3-3:30 p.m. "Unpacking the Impact of COVID-19: Keeping Sustainability Goals from Being Trashed" by Chloe Birney, Audrey Dawson and Austin Slesinski; 3:30-4 p.m. "Food and Social Equity: Re-imagining Farm to Institution of New England's Food Access Dashboard" by Sofia Romero Campbell and Phoebe Lease; 4-4:30 p.m. "We need to focus on the damn land� Land-grant Universities and Indigenous Nations in the Northeast" by Maeve McCurdy, Fee Pelz-Sharpe, and Sofia Perrotto; and 4:30-5 p.m. "Can the Healthy Incentives Program Serve Everyone Who Needs It? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Healthy Food Access in Hampden County" by Sawyer Blake, Kiehl Jones, Molly Keller, and Madeline Turner. Attend with link below. More... Virtual 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm ENV 312 capstone project presentations May 13, 2021 Environmental Science and Policy majors present their capstone research projects: "Reimagining the Northampton Food Rescue: A case study of food waste and food insecurity in Northampton, MA" by Mia Fuentes Deonate, Ellie Humphrey, and Kiehl Jones; "Party in the USA (Waste): Evaluating Waste Hauling within an Oligopoly in Amherst, MA" by Sydney Abraham, Madison Biasin, Ella Carlson, and Taylor Ditmar; and "Investigating the Feasibility of Agrivoltaics in Massachusetts" by Natalie Baillargeon, Glenda Perez, and Chaia Yodaiken. Attend with link below. More... Virtual 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm Events Off Campus �Meet the Speaker�with Nia Walker May 10, 2021 a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in Stephen Palumbi�s lab based at Hopkins Marine Station.� If you are an undergraduate in New England join Nia Walker to learn more about her research and pathway in science. Register below:� More... Virtual 4:00 pm Keeping kinships, re-membering futures: Indigenous Peoples protecting wild salmon in Alaska May 13, 2021 A talk by Carol Kalafatic and Chief Gary Harrison. Globally, many Indigenous Peoples� food sovereignty initiatives focus on the revitalization of their traditional food systems. Several initiatives include the protection of fish and their habitats against over-fishing, environmental degradation, and the climate crisis. This seminar will discuss some Alaska Native (especially Ahtna Athabascan) initiatives to protect wild salmon as a culturally important being who also happens to be a biological keystone species. It will also summarize the on-going social and political challenges that Alaska Native Peoples face in asserting their self-determination within their territories � where salmon find some of their last remaining pristine habitats. Carol Kalafatic (Quechua, Spanish & Croatian) is a Resistance Studies Fellow with the Resistance Studies Initiative at UMass Amherst and has been working with Indigenous Peoples (IPs) since 1991, as an organizer, workshop provider, trans-disciplinary scholar, and policy advocate for IPs� self-determination and food sovereignty. She serves on the Trustee Board of the Forest Peoples� Programme, and as Board Vice Chair of the AJ Muste Institute. Chief Gary Harrison (Ahtna), is Traditional Chief of Nay'dini'aa Na' Kayax' (Chickaloon Village), Alaska, and Tribal Chairman of Chickaloon Village Traditional Council. He was named Traditional Chief in 1994. For decades he has been a sovereignty activist and helped guide Chickaloon as a Tribal Government, outside of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, to become an important, alternate governance model for other traditional indigenous communities around the world. More about these speakers is here: https://tinyurl.com/keepingkinships To register for the event click on the link below: More... Virtual 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm		No events added yet. View all events.