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Events at Smith

Circle Practice to Hold Climate Grief
November 28, 2022
Are you struggling with climate grief? How do you deal with the losses you see going on around you? How is the way the environment is being treated affecting you? How do you connect with the land? How do you use what is around you for personal healing? Honoring the need for community, dialog, and reconnection around these issues, Strong Oak Lefebvre will guide us through the basic tenets of Circle Practice. Under Strong Oak’s gentle and skillful leadership, participants will learn about the meaning of Circle Practice, the importance of the ritual, and have a chance to connect with others, talk about the above and other questions, and experience the deep sharing that often emerges. Strong Oak Lefebvre, MSSA is a citizen of the Ko'asek Band of Abenaki of New Hampshire. They are Executive Director and co-founder of the Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition, Inc. (VBCIC) and co-author of the Walking in Balance with All Our Relations teaching curriculum, a violence prevention approach based on transformative/restorative Circle practices and traditional values of indigenous people prior to colonization from a racial justice lens. Strong Oak was named to the statutory Governor’s Restorative Justice Advisory Committee in Massachusetts for a 2018-2024 term. They teach Circle process to communities, agencies, and providers working with those who are survivors of homicide victims, domestic and sexual violence; and those who are working to return to their communities’ violence-free after having hurt others. Strong Oak works through VBCIC in partnership with community organizers to build sustainable environments and economies based on antiracist structures. Limited to 12. Dinner provided. Sign up at the link below.
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Bodman Lounge
4:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Lecture: Conservation Futures: Indigeneity, Tigers, and Protecting the Ussuri Taiga
November 29, 2022
What does it mean to protect nature as embodied on the Bikin River and in the Ussuri taiga in Russia’s Primorskii krai? Why are Udege villagers and neighbors in Krasnyi Yar, who believe essentially the same ideas about their own positive role in and the inseparability of tradition from protecting nature in the past, present, and future, in conflict with each other? How do tigers fit? Speaker Kamal Kariem looks through the lens of regional conservation—mainly enacted for the protection of the Amur or Siberian tiger—and the conflict surrounding the Bikin National Park to describe how this conflict is not about conservation itself per se. Rather, ethnographic and archival analysis illuminates that this conflict is the result of various “unmakings” and “makings” that have occurred in the village—the unmaking of the hunting economy and the making of the Bikin National Park—that impact the position of tradition and the futures that can be imagined in Krasnyi Yar. Kamal Kariem is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University and Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at Williams College. His research interests lie at the intersections of Indigeneity, protected areas, Russia, and post-Socialism.
Hillyer Graham Hall
4:30 pm

Indigenous Land-based Philosophy and Climate Justice
December 1, 2022
The philosophy department hosts Brian Burkhart for a talk in their series on the dimensions of subjectivity. Burkhart is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma where he mentors PhD students studying Native American and Indigenous philosophy. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma but was born and raised in the Navajo Nation of Arizona. Burkhart was one of the early members of the American Philosophical Association’s Native American and Indigenous Philosophy committee. He is a Southern powwow singer and Cherokee hymn singer. Co-sponsored by Religion, Environmental Science & Policy, and the Five Colleges Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) program.
Seelye 201
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs
December 1, 2022
The Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin. Dr. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, where she teaches the histories of science, climate, colonialism, and environment. This talk will be held via Zoom. All welcome. Register at the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
5:00 pm

Events at Smith

Geothermal Project Tour
December 2, 2022
Have you been wondering what that construction going on outside is? Have you ever been inside a Smith building in the summer and wondered when we'll install AC? Have you ever wanted to know what the college is doing to combat climate change? Come find out the answers to these questions and more on one of our student-run Geothermal Project Tours! Rain date is 12/5 at the same time. Open to all in the Smith community.
Meet at the Elm St entrance to the Campus Center
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

ES&P Special Studies Presentations
December 5, 2022
Listen to two seniors share the results from their special studies projects. Meihui Chen presents, "How does research inform policy? Analysis of papers and policies concerning US residential energy consumption (RECS) through open-access and open-source projects" and Jane Andrews presents, "Investigating Delays: What Temporal Variation in EPA Action under CERCLA Suggests About Equity." Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Honors Progress Report: “Supporting local agriculture and feeding people”
December 6, 2022
Rae Ettenger '23J will share an update on their Honors project, “Supporting local agriculture and feeding people”: Farmers’ Markets in Hampden County, and Fresh Food for Low-Income Communities. Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Hydro Power Lunch Learn In
December 7, 2022
Renewable and sustainable energy is key to combating climate change, but information on how it works and legislation surrounding it is often highly technical and hard to understand. Designed by a student for students to give us the tools we need to support environmentally conscious energy change. Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Final Project Showing for IDP 109 Aerial Imagery & Cinematography
December 7, 2022
Watch and provide feedback to the drafts of the two projects in the IDP 109 course: virtual landscapes for more accessible geosciences and campus geothermal. As one prescient fortune cookie suggests: "And all for love, and nothing for reward...with drones!" Favorable forecast for snacks.
Sabin-Reed 104
1:20 pm

Events at Smith

Boba Fundraiser with the Food Recovery Network
December 9, 2022
Delicious bubble tea for sale for $4 with the Food Rescue Network. Come learn about the vital work we have done to make Smith sustainable this semester.
Campus Center
11:00 am to 2:00 pm

ENX Capstone Presentation: Diminishing Winters and the Future of Winter Recreation
December 9, 2022
Join Annabel Stattelman-Scanlan, Kaia Cormier, Marge Poma Alarcon and Naina Bhargava for their Environmental Concentration capstone presentation on the future of ski resorts in our changing climate. Refreshments will be provided.
CEEDS
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Investigating Delays: What Temporal Variation in EPA Action under CERCLA Suggests About Equity
December 13, 2022
Come support Jane Andrews '23 in her Special Studies presentation! Refreshment provided.
CEEDS
11:15 am to 11:45 am

ES&P Presents: Sustainable Solutions Capstone Projects
December 13, 2022
Senior Environmental Science and Policy majors present their capstone research projects: Ecosystem Services Analysis of Land Management Options for MacLeish Field Station: Comparison of Pasture, Reforestation, and Agroforestry - Rae Ettenger, Brianna Ray, and Silas Weden // Our Landscape: Integrating Student Input into Campus Planning - Waleska Reyes, Frances Li, Cora Lochner, and Jane Andrews // Decarbonizing the Massachusetts Teachers Association and Strategizing for Carbon-Free Schools - Maeve Morrow, Allison Wray, and Jessica Brown. Lunch provided.
Neilson Browsing Room
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm