Last Week

Next Week

Events Off Campus

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:
More...
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

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

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:
More...
Virtual
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

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:
More...
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:
More...
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

Events at Smith

Study Abroad Fair
September 20, 2022
Hosted by the Office for International Study.
Davis Ballroom
11:00 am to 2:00 pm

Aimee Nezhukumatathil: reading and conversation with Conkling Writer-in-Residence Leila Chatti
September 20, 2022
Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center and the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS). Livestreams available on Boutelle-Day Poetry Center YouTube and Facebook channels.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
7:00 pm

Food Systems and Climate Resilience
September 21, 2022
How can we heal ourselves and the natural world from the profit-over-people-based practices of industrial and corporate agriculture? How can we farm in ways that save and restore the complex and interactive ecosystems (soil, water, air) that sustain human and more-than-human life? Alisa Klein of Grow Food Northampton and Gaby Immerman from the Smith Botanic Garden will offer participants a chance to engage for themselves with these pressing real-world problems. First workshop in the Community Conversations series offering an opportunity for students to discover problems worth solving and develop solutions worth building. Dinner provided. For Smith community members. RSVP on the Smith Social Network, link below:
More...
Neilson 103
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Lecture: Landscape Approach: From Local Communities to Territorial Systems
September 22, 2022
How we can learn from traditional ecological knowledge, sustainable technologies, and alternative worldviews that offer a critical lens for designers, planners, policymakers to not only consider but partner with the communities affected by our professional outcomes? Samantha Solano, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst and Alberto de Salvatierra, Assistant Professor of Urbanism and Data in Architecture at the University of Calgary present. Part of the Zube lecture series. More details at the link below:
More...
Design Building Rm. 170, UMass Amherst
4:00 pm

Opening Reception and exhibit: Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium 2022
September 22, 2022
Opening reception and "Considering Indigeneity" exhibit. Wampanoag cuisine by Sly Fox Den. Register for symposium events using the link below:
More...
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Webinar: Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land
September 22, 2022
The occupation of the land today—and throughout history—is a theme that’s gaining renewed focus. Through images and discussion, authors David Brule and Suzanne Gardinier will guide us as we look at the human occupation of land with an emphasis on the long presence of Indigenous people and the waves of settlement by people from other countries that began during the early 1600s and continues today. Their work raises questions such as: How do people occupy land and make it their “home”? How are these stories of occupation told? How can we now engage with difficult histories? Organized by Kestrel Land Trust. Register below (students can attend for free):
More...
Virtual
6:30 pm