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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:
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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

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.
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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:
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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

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:
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Virtual via Zoom
7:00 pm

Presentation of the Concentrations
October 22, 2021
Find out more about the following Concentrations: Archives, Book Studies, Community Engagement & Social Change, Environmental, Global Financial Institutions, Museums, Poetry, and Translation Studies. The first part of the session will be a brief overview of the common features and shared goals of the Concentrations at Smith. The second part will contain breakout sessions led by representatives from each of the Concentrations, with information about the application process, gateways, capstone projects, and internships. Register by October 20th at the following link: https://forms.gle/rdFzn6f6KkmNe8Xo6
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Register by October 20th at the following link: https://forms.gle/rdFzn6f6KkmNe8Xo6
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

Events at Smith

Global Salon: Compounding Risks: The Intersection of Climate Change, Conflict and State Fragility
October 25, 2021
Alumna Erin Sikorsky, Director of the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), and Director of the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS) will speak and share her perspective as the world readies for the UN COP26 conference in a talk sponsored by the Lewis Global Studies Center and CEEDS as part of the college wide Themed Year on Democracies. Sikorsky is also an adjunct professor at George Mason University and a visiting fellow at University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. All members of the Smith community in the testing protocol welcome. Grab and Go Lunch available for the first 40 attendees.
Campus Center 103/104
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

Climate Security Risks: What They Are and Why They Matter
October 25, 2021
Alumna Erin Sikorsky, Director of the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), and Director of the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS) will speak as part of the ENX 100: Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field lecture series. Sikorsky is also an adjunct professor at George Mason University and a visiting fellow at University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. All members of the Smith community in the testing protocol welcome.
McConnell B15
2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

ES&P Tea with Alumna Erin Sikorsky '01
October 25, 2021
Come by for a cup of tea and a treat and join an informal conversation about career paths and life after Smith, about the work Erin does in climate security, her thoughts on global climate action and environmental policy in the run up to COP 26 -or whatever else might be on your mind. Erin is the Director of the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), and the International Military Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS). All students welcome!
CEEDS
5:15 pm

ES&P Lunchbag: Environmental Study Abroad Info session
October 26, 2021
Students interested in studying abroad with a program that has an environmental focus should plan to attend this information session. Students will learn about the different types of programs available and ES&P majors who studied abroad last year will share their stories. Lisa Johnson, Assistant Dean for International Study will also be there to answer questions about all of the programs available that have an environmental focus. Lunch provided.
CEEDS MacHarg Room, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Indigenous mapping: the third biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography
October 20, 2021
October 21, 2021
October 22, 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:
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ES&P Tea: Integration of traditional knowledge for the assessment of River herring
October 27, 2021
and American eels in Squibnocket Pond on Martha's Vineyard. Asha Ajmani, PhD candidate in environmental conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will talk about her fisheries research and work with the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head. All members of the Smith community in the testing protocol welcome.
Neilson Library Browsing Room
4:15 pm

Presentation of the ES&P major and minors
October 28, 2021
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! All members of the Smith community in the testing protocol welcome.
Seelye 201
4:30 pm

CEEDS' Annual Apple Cider Pressing
October 30, 2021
Join us on a beautiful Fall day to experience the magic of turning apples into delicious fresh cider, then enjoy a cup with a locally made cider donut! Round out your experience of this time-tested New England tradition by stopping by to learn about and try some heirloom apples. All welcome! Sponsored by Smith's Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability.
Chapin Annex Road, Chapin Loading Dock
11:00 am to 3:00 pm

Events Off Campus

this, not that, basket of vegetables with a redheaded doll of a leek laid across it
October 28, 2021
with Eric Ellingsen, Assistant Professor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University
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UMASS Olver Design Building, Room 170
4:00 pm

Macro Energy Systems Speaker Series : Justice and Equity
October 29, 2021
What work has been done to incorporate energy justice considerations into energy policy analysis, and moving forward, what are the metrics and objectives that we should be thinking about when designing policy with energy justice in mind? Panelists include Sanya Carley, Indiana University; Mijin Cha, Occidental College; Destenie Nock, Carnegie Mellon, moderated by Ines Azevedo, Stanford University. Part of the series sponsored by the Energy Transition Institute (ETI). Register here
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Virtual
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Discussion of the film "A Plastic Ocean"
October 29, 2021
with Dr. Laura Agusto the Senior Project Manager at the A Plastic Ocean Foundation. The Film is a new award-winning feature-length documentary by a group of dedicated scientists, filmmakers, social entrepreneurs, scholars, environmentalists, and journalists, that explores the fragile state of our oceans and uncovers alarming truths about the consequences of our disposable lifestyle. A Plastic Ocean documents the global effects of plastic pollution and highlights workable technologies and innovative solutions that everyone - from governments to individuals - can do, to create a cleaner and greener ocean. The film has been selected for screenings at international conferences and festivals around the world including at the Smithsonian Institute and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, where the film was seen by former US President Barack Obama and environmentalists Sylvia Earle and Jane Goodall. The film can be viewed on Netflix. Register in the link below.
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Virtual
7:00 pm