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Events at Smith You live in a Botanic Garden - Come Explore It October 1, 2021 Join Smith arborist and gardener John Berryhill for an exploration of your Smith home. Enjoy a multi-sensory learning experience about the botanic garden that is all around you. Sign up with a Smith email is required. Space limited to 30 people. More... Chapin Lawn Exhibition: Grow in Light (2021) by Artist Wendy Kawabata October 4, 2021 While Grow in Light relies on the armature of laborious process, the drawings embrace chance effects and are full of longing in the best way possible. They look at landscape both interpreted and remembered. In this way they are visual condensations; materialization of landscape as a means for mining the remnants of what is physically inaccessible. Born from the same experience, the whole is an attempt to convey beauty, sincere expression, and regard, with simplicity: to take nothing more than needed and, in doing so, offering more than given. Exhibit open September 23th - October 21, Monday through Friday 8:30-4:30. Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Possible Futures: Transforming Systems with Individual Agency October 4, 2021 Eve Mosher is a cultural change entrepreneur working at the frontlines of climate change and the urban environment. Her work explores individual agency in transforming the systems that have led to this moment through creative engagement, multi-sensory collaboration, and radical imagination. Eve co-founded and co-directs Works on Water, an artist initiated and run non-profit. Part of the ENX 100: Environment and Sustainability -Notes from the Field lecture series. McConnell B15 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm Presentation of the Environmental Concentration October 7, 2021 We want to help you find your path- whether you are interested in sustainable food, sustainable design, environmental justice, or something else entirely. Join us to learn more about how you can use our choose-your-own-adventure concentration model to weave together formal and informal learning opportunities to bridge theory and practice in support of environmental decisions and action! Light refreshments provided. Wright Hall 005 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm Events Off Campus Presentation: "Examining Equitable Accessibility in Sustainability Transitions." October 1, 2021 Please join us for a talk by Ekundayo Shittu, Ph.D. Professor, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University. Several policies have been enacted to promote the adoption of renewable electricity leading some incumbent utilities to embrace the transition. Yet, the scale of consumer adoption appears to be limited by accessibility. The underlying factors inhibiting accessibility are exacerbated with low- and middle-income (LMI) consumers who also make up a significant proportion of a utility�s customer base. The first theme of this talk examines democratizing access to solar technology. The second theme dives deeper to extract contributions to distributional effects of environmental policy to provide consumer access to clean energy. The talk concludes on a third theme that previews two other interesting projects in the investigator�s research agenda. Bernie Dallas Room (in Goodell), UMASS Amherst 12:00 pm Labor in Farm to Institution Supply Chains Part 1: Prison Labor and the Need for Transparency October 6, 2021 Was the food on your plate grown or produced by incarcerated people? We don�t really know. The lack of transparency in our food supply chains means that it can be hard to trace food that�s available in hospitals, schools, and grocery stores- or to understand the working conditions of the incarcerated people making some of it. Senior staff reporter Claire Brown at The Counter addresses some of the questions spurred by this lack of transparency in her Sourced From Inside three-part series. The series was recently recognized by Online Journalism Awards, as a finalist in the �explanatory reporting, small newsroom� categories. More info and register at the link below: More... Virtual 2:00 pm A Work on Paper, a Plantation, and a Polariser: An Environmental History of Cedric Price's Generator October 7, 2021 with Sylvia Lavin, Critic, Curator, and Historian Sponsored by UMass Department of Architecture More... UMass Olver Design Building Atrium* 5:30 pm		Events at Smith Exhibition: Grow in Light (2021) by Artist Wendy Kawabata October 11, 2021 While Grow in Light relies on the armature of laborious process, the drawings embrace chance effects and are full of longing in the best way possible. They look at landscape both interpreted and remembered. In this way they are visual condensations; materialization of landscape as a means for mining the remnants of what is physically inaccessible. Born from the same experience, the whole is an attempt to convey beauty, sincere expression, and regard, with simplicity: to take nothing more than needed and, in doing so, offering more than given. Exhibit open September 23th - October 21, Monday through Friday 8:30-4:30. Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Events Off Campus Webinar: How Will Climate Change Impact Forest Wildlife? October 13, 2021 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 considered sensitive to climate change. Finally, local species� adaptive capacity 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, and projections for future impacts. It will also showcase coproduced research results that indicate climate change refugia, areas buffered from climate change that can be conserved to enable the persistence of species in the face of changing climate. More... Virtual via zoom 4:00 pm Artist Conversation: Public Art, Native Art Expressions and Ecological Thinking October 14, 2021 Multidisciplinary Native artists Erin Genia (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate/Odawa) and Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag), whose practices span public art, textiles, jewelry-making, and other mediums, will join in dialogue over the values that guide their work, from cross-cultural and Native art expressions to traditional ecological knowledge and the impact of climate change. Register to watch remotely at the link below: More... Virtual 12:00 pm Toward an Urban Ecology October 14, 2021 with Kate Orff, Founding Principal of SCAPE Gamble Auditorium- Mount Holyoke College (Located by the Art Museum - Enter at Art Museum Entrance) 5:30 pm		Events at Smith Need Plant Help? Join the Botanic Garden for a Plant Clinic! October 15, 2021 Bring your plant for a repotting and stay to talk to our horticulturists about how to help your plants thrive. Drop in whenever you can! For disability access information or accommodations requests, call 413-585-2740 Lyman Plant House 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Interpreting the MacLeish Landscape October 16, 2021 Join us for a hike at the MacLeish Field Station where we will learn how to interpret the landscape to better understand the history of MacLeish. We will find stone walls, witness trees, homesteads, and other important landscape features that indicate how the land was used and has changed throughout some of its history. Vans will leave from the Chapin loading dock at 12:30 pm. Use your Smith email to sign up at the link below: More... Meet at Chapin Loading Dock; event takes place at MacLeish Field Station 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm Exhibition: Grow in Light (2021) by Artist Wendy Kawabata October 18, 2021 While Grow in Light relies on the armature of laborious process, the drawings embrace chance effects and are full of longing in the best way possible. They look at landscape both interpreted and remembered. In this way they are visual condensations; materialization of landscape as a means for mining the remnants of what is physically inaccessible. Born from the same experience, the whole is an attempt to convey beauty, sincere expression, and regard, with simplicity: to take nothing more than needed and, in doing so, offering more than given. Exhibit open September 23th - October 21, Monday through Friday 8:30-4:30. Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Bringing Resilience and Sustainability into Planning October 18, 2021 Wayne Feiden, Director of Planning and Sustainability, City of Northampton will speak as part of the ENX 100: Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field lecture series. All members of the Smith community in the testing protocol welcome. McConnell B15 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm Events Off Campus Grad School Info Session: The Conway School October 18, 2021 The Conway School, a graduate program in ecological landscape design and planning located in Northampton (MA), is accepting applications for the 2022-2023 academic year. At Conway, students work on real landscape design and planning projects, exploring green infrastructure, food security, flood resilience, habitat restoration, urban green space, and other topics related to ecology and climate change. Students earn a Master of Science in Ecological Design in one year. Please email admissions@csld.edu for more information about the application process and curriculum. Register for the info session using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:00 pm Indigenous mapping: the third biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography October 20, 2021 October 21, 2021 Indigenous peoples around the world continue to fight for their recognition and rights to land and resources. Simultaneously, institutions are increasingly examining their roles in exploitative imperial expansion and settler colonialism. The history of colonial encounters and of indigenous agency can both be glimpsed in historical maps, many of which were made thanks to Indigenous contributions. All of these interpretations of Indigenous maps and mapping will be highlighted at the conference. Each day of the conference will begin with a keynote, followed by panels that speak to a specific strain of scholarship. Our keynotes will be Alex Hidalgo (Texas Christian University), Mishuana Goeman (UCLA), and Eric Anderson and Carrie Cornelius (Haskell Indian Nations University). The conference, to be held digitally, is hosted by the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries, which sits on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. The conference is free and open to all. Register using the link below: More... Virtual