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Book Talk: Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
September 7, 2022
James Morton Turner—author and professor—presents. What is the Charged about? Batteries are going to be key to a clean energy transition. Charged examines the history of batteries - from the lead-acid batteries in most cars to the lithium-ion batteries in your smart phone - to draw lessons about the material implications of the clean energy transition. Where will the materials come from? Who is implicated in the supply chains? What role can recycling play? Part of the Harvard Science Books Talks series. Register for the webinar below:
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Virtual
12:00 am

Searching for Equity in Design
September 8, 2022
Design Schools often work with communities to develop tailored solutions to address community needs and curricular responsibilities to prepare students for practice in increasingly more diverse cities. In this lecture, Prof. Chiessa, Assistant Professor of Architecture at The University of Texas at Arlington, will present research, speculative projects, and built work conducted in the design studio and in private practice that explores issues of identity, representation, and equity in underserved, underrepresented, and underinvested communities of color. Focusing on the Latinx community, the presentation traces the ancestral roots of this community in Latin America to understand the impact this migration has on established Latinx and transitioning neighborhoods.
Olver Design Building, Room 170, UMass Amherst
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

How Environmental Justice Advocates Use Public Opinion Research to Win
September 9, 2022
Two in three Americans support increasing funding to low-income communities and communities of color who are disproportionately harmed by air and water pollution. We will explore support for climate justice policies in the United States–what we know and where there are gaps in research. And we will hear from environmental justice leaders about they have leveraged public opinion research to make a difference for communities facing a disproportionate burden from pollution. Register at the link below:
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12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events at Smith

Lecture: Rebel With A Cause, Psychological motivators of activists
September 14, 2022
Lauren Duncan, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology will give her inaugural lecture chaired professor lecture. All are welcome.
Seelye 201
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Webinar: Buying Time With Runnels: A Climate Adaptation Tool for Salt Marshes
September 14, 2022
Salt marshes across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are experiencing rapid expansion of interior shallow water areas, which are "eating" marshes from the inside out. Runnels, or shallow channels created to drain impounded water, have been recently used by resource managers across the Northeast US to restore tidal hydrology and vegetation in these areas. In this talk Alice Besterman, Woodwell Climate Research Center and Diana Brennan, Bristol County Mosquito Control Project will describe the origin, dynamics, and prevalence of interior shallow water areas in coastal marshes, and how runnels attempt to slow and reverse open water conversion through hydrologic modification. They will also discuss the history of runnel application as a "win-win" for mosquito management and wetland restoration, promising outcomes and lessons learned from existing projects. Link and additional information is below:
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Virtual
4:00 pm

Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England
September 14, 2022
Professor Jean O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) will discuss how local historians in New England, writing between 1820 and 1880, promoted the myth of Indian extinction, if they wrote about the Indigenous population at all. Hosted by Historic Northampton. Sliding Scale Admission: $0-$20. For information and registration, please visit the link below:
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Virtual
7:00 pm

The Promise and the Mess of Digital Urbanism
September 15, 2022
The presence of new digital technologies is expanding in professional planning practice and in everyday urban life. Rather than examine the technical capabilities or institutional structures of such tools, this talk draws attention to the personal and collective desires that animate them, in particular the desires for certainty and solvability. Examples from recent research on New Mobility—a suite of smartphone apps, data infrastructures, and novel transportation services—suggest that when digital technologies promises an idealized escape from the challenges of politics and infrastructure, they risk leaving us unprepared to live well with the inevitable messiness of urban life. With Peter Dunn, Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at Umass Amherst.
UMass Amherst, Design Building Rm. 170
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm