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SAL Workshop: Data Collection with ArcGIS Field Maps
March 9, 2022
With Haley Schmidt ‘22. Interested in learning how data is collected in the field? In this workshop we will learn how to use ArcGIS Field Maps for field data collection and GIS mapping. Field Maps is a mobile app that combines data collection, map viewing, and location tracking. We will use it to map street lights around campus. We will then learn how to upload and use this data in ArcGIS Pro. Come prepared to spend some time outside! Register for the workshop below:
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Sabin-Reed 104 (& we will be outside for parts of the workshop)
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

The Threat of Nuclear War: A Presentation and Conversation with Michael Klare and Ira Helfand
March 9, 2022
What's the big deal about nuclear weapons? Is nuclear war really a threat these days? Experts Michael Klare and Ira Helfand will discuss the security situation in Europe in light of the current crisis, as well as the danger of nuclear war and its consequences together with potential actions and solutions. Michael Klare is Five College professor emeritus of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS). Ira Helfand is former President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, and cofounder and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. This event is hosted by student affiliates of Back From the Brink, a US-based grassroots coalition advocating for better nuclear weapons policies to secure a future free of the threat of nuclear war. Use the link below to join the meeting:
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Virtual via Zoom
8:00 pm

Connecting Threads: Gallery Conversation with visiting artist Sheila Pepe
March 10, 2022
Smith students are encouraged to bring their own crochet or knitting projects to stitch under Red Hook at Bedford Terrace, an installation-in-progress that opens to the public on March 11. Explore art, making, labor, and connectivity in dialogue with the artist. Moderated by Ruby Lowery ‘21, Student Programs Coordinator (OSE). Part of the Connecting Threads community-wide creative crochet project brought to campus by CEEDS, the BG, DTI, JCCE, OSE, and SCMA.
Meet in the SCMA lobby
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Study Break at the Bulb Show (for Smith students only)
March 10, 2022
Blend your own herbal tea, enjoy snacks, and try out a few botanical activities among the bulbs. Let the flowers and fragrances of the Bulb Show offer you a restorative lift. Please RSVP at link below:
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Lyman Plant House
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Webinar: Coral Reparations
March 10, 2022
Coral restoration involves the interplay of interdisciplinary science, corporate public relations, global crisis, and local politics. We are familiar with the story of coral in the Anthropocene: tropical coral reefs are the "rainforests of the sea", extremely vulnerable to "human" threats of destructive fishing, pollution, and climate change, and dying at an alarming rate. Mainstream arguments for restoration highlight the private capital and techno-scientific experts who are growing super-coral and building large-scale underwater infrastructure to rehabilitate entire coral colonies. But are there ways to foster coral becoming that do not replicate the white supremacy and naked capitalism of Anthropocene science? Speaker Amelia Moore, Associate Professor of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island studies coastal and island life and the marine sciences in The Bahamas, Indonesia, and the United States utilizing anti-racist and anti-colonial methods, perspectives, and relationships. Register below:
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Virtual
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Transformative action to live within the Doughnut
March 16, 2022
If humanity’s 21st century challenge is to create a world that meets the needs of all within the means of the living planet, right now we are far from achieving it. Kate Raworth and Andrew Fanning will present the core concepts and tools of Doughnut Economics, and share examples from change-makers worldwide –in education, communities, cities, and government -who are working to turn these ideas into transformative action. Prof. Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Her internationally best-selling book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist has been translated into over 20 languages and has been widely influential with diverse audiences, from the UN General Assembly to Pope Francis to Extinction Rebellion. Dr. Andrew Fanning is Data Analysis & Research Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute. He was previously the recipient of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship funded by the European Commission for the project ‘Living Well: Provisioning Systems for Sustainable Resource Use and Human Well-Being’ hosted at the Sustainability Research Institute. Andrew’s research in the field of ecological economics explores how to move towards a world where people can achieve their aspirations while ensuring the burdens of economic activity are both ecologically safe and socially just. Register using the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
2:30 pm

Webinar: Anticipating Extreme Events in Our Changed Climate
March 17, 2022
We live in a changed climate. Every day, we see evidence of the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme events around the world. To avoid disasters, we use earth system models to "see" into the future, both to predict short-term weather events and to predict long-term changes in extremes. There is preliminary evidence that forecast-based actions c an promote nutrition security around the world, and several governments have recently committed to increase the scale of these interventions. The Academic Alliance for Anticipatory Action is a new consortium of researchers from around the world studying how we can use weather models to act before climate disasters happen. We will present stories and evidence of how people are adapting to climate change in many different contexts. Erin Coughlan de Perez, Associate Professor, Feinstein Center, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. Register below:
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Virtual
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Film: Adaptation
March 22, 2022
Tim Johnson, Director of the Botanic Garden at Smith College, joins us to introduce the film as part of the 2022 National Evening of Science on Screen. Director Spike Jonze (HER, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Chris Cooper in an Oscar-winning role), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage), and his twin brother, Donald (also Cage). As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean's best-selling book The Orchid Thief, he writes himself into his own movie, as various stories crash into one another, exploding into a wildly imaginative film.
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Amherst Cinema
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

Connecting Threads- Working Together Towards Activating April
March 23, 2022
Get ideas, plan or work on your project, practice or learn new techniques, meet other amazing fiber artists/activists, and enjoy some creative time in community. Tasty snacks provided!
CEEDS, Wright Hall lower level
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

SAL Workshop: Mapathon for Accessibility on Smith Campus
March 24, 2022
Crowdsource mapping, or volunteered geographic information (VGI), leverages participatory action and citizen science to gather information that could benefit the collective good. In this mapathon (a coordinated map editing event), we will contribute to three crowdsourced maps that address various aspects of accessibility that are currently deficient for campus: wheelchair accessibility, pedestrian friendly sidewalks, and safe restrooms. Register for the workshop below:
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Knowledge Lab, Alumnae Gym 207
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

High Deserts and Mud Volcanoes: Seeing the Civil War and Reconstruction from Unexpected Places
March 28, 2022
The Landscapes Studies Program is pleased to welcome 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist Megan Kate Nelson. What happens when we look at well-known historical events from unexpected places? Drawing on material from her recent books (The Three-Cornered War and Saving Yellowstone), Megan Kate Nelson will discuss how the federal government attempted to establish control over the West during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She will focus on natural and built environments like stage roads and railroads, desert ecosystems, Indigenous pathways, and geothermal features, all of which shaped the future of the West and its communities in the 1860s and 1870s. Dr. Nelson is a writer and historian. She is the author of four books: Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp; Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War; The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West; and the recently released Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America. A full list in this speaker series is at the link below:
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Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
2:45 pm to 4:25 pm

Events Off Campus

Small Island Big Song
March 27, 2022
Featuring footage made during a three-year film trip across 16 island nations and guided by the artists on their homelands, Small Island Big Song is a stunning live collaboration reuniting the distant yet interconnected musical traditions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The resulting work is a contemporary and relevant musical statement of a region on the frontline of cultural and environmental challenges. "The most important music documentary you'll see this year," Beat Magazine wrote of the film. "One coherent, jaw-dropping piece." - Billboard Magazine. Now in-person, combining music, spoken word, dance and film, eight musicians and vocalists from the nations of Taiwan, Australia, Madagascar, Tahiti, Mauritius, Marshall Islands, and Papua New Guinea will perform live on stage with the Fine Arts Center! More information and tickets at the link below. Student tickets are only $10
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UMass Fine Arts Center (right next to the main UMass PVTA bus stop in Haiggis Mall)
4:00 pm