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The Deluge by Stephen Markley Book Panel
January 24, 2023
Join us in person as Stephen Markley presents his new novel, The Deluge. His conversation partner for this event is Smith College Associate Professor Camille Washington-Ottombre. This is the January selection of the Odyssey First Editions Club. From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity. In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. Event at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm.
Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College St, South Hadley
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

Williams-Mystic Info Session
January 27, 2023
Want to learn how one semester can change your worldview? Spend a semester studying away with Williams-Mystic, the coastal campus of Williams College, to investigate pressing world issues through the interdisciplinary lens of America's coasts and oceans. Students of all majors come to the Mystic Seaport Museum from across the country to conduct impactful original research in history, literature, policy, and science. When you're not in the classroom, you will be traveling on expansive and engaging field seminars in various U.S. coastal communities, connecting with stakeholders, scholars, and community leaders in each location. These experiences allow you to study topics like environmental justice, climate change, and food insecurity in an up-close and hands-on way. Learn more at this casual info session. Meet with recent alumni of the program and get your questions answered. You can contact Meg O’Brien (mo10@ williams.edu) and Evan McAlice (em24@ williams.edu) with any questions about the program.
CEEDS, Wright Hall lower level
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Paradise Pond: What can sediment (and how we handle it) tell you
January 30, 2023
about a region's history and an institution's values? with Reid Bertone-Johnson, Lecturer in Landscape Studies, Smith College. Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex-Graham Hall
3:05 pm to 4:45 pm

Events Off Campus

Forever Chemicals and Immediate Responses: Addressing PFAS in our Environment
January 26, 2023
Join Martin Suuberg, the Outgoing Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, for a lecture about PFAS - widely-used, long-lasting chemicals which pose a big mystery. Martin will discuss the growing data on these ubiquitous compounds, government responses to date, and what future measures will be considered to protect public health and the environment. Register at link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
12:00 pm

A Climate Scientist and a Priest Walk into a Webinar: A Conversation
February 1, 2023
How can we build a coalition across multiple spiritual and faith-based knowledge systems to take action on the important environmental issues of today? What are the moral or environmentally theological perspectives on more risky solutions to address climate change (e.g., solar geoengineering), given the less-risky approaches may not be enough to combat the rising global temperature? These and other topics will be discussed by Reverend Sally Bingham and scientist Dr. Peter Frumhoff, followed by some time for Q&A with the audience. This is part of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Spirituality, Multifaith Outreach, and Science (COSMOS) webinar series: "Finding Common Ground Amongst Science, Spirituality, and Environmentalism". Register for the event below:
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Virtual
2:00 pm

Events at Smith

Indigenous and State Politics in Latin America
February 2, 2023
The Mapuche and the Constitutional Assembly in Chile, a distinguished lecture by Dr. Elisa Loncon Antileo, President of the Constitutional Assembly of Chile (2021-2022), with remarks from Professor Manuel Garcia Dellacasa and Professor Javier Puente.
Graham Hall
5:35 pm

Towards a Grammar for Experiencing Nature;
February 6, 2023
The Emergence of Cognitive and Perceptual Knowledge of the Environment in Bali, Indonesia with Yancy Orr, Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Policy, Smith College. Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex-Graham Hall
3:05 pm to 4:45 pm

How to Stop Objectifying Trees: Thoughts on Economy, Culture, and Forests
February 6, 2023
- an online event with Katharina Linne, and the first in the "To Understand a Tree" Arts Afield spring public event series curated by Gina Siepel, MacLeish Field Station Artist-in-Residence. Katharina Linne’s research investigates new possibilities for the economic valuation of trees and forests in Europe, advocating for an incorporation of their multifaceted ecological value into economic thinking. Her presentation will explore ways that ingrained cultural stories shape understandings of sustainable forestry, human relationships to trees, and dominant economic paradigms. Katharina examines the historical development of Christianity in Europe, the impacts it had on the relationship of humans to nature, and the ways that shaped the development of forestry. Q&A following the presentation. Sponsored by the Arts Afield program, an initiative of the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability at Smith College and the Kestrel Land Trust. Email ceeds@ smith.edu for a link to the event.
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Virtual via Zoom
4:30 pm

Notes from the Field - Matthew Ghazarian
February 7, 2023
Matthew Ghazarian (PhD, Columbia University) is currently the Eveillard Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College. His research and teaching focus on the environmental history and political ecology of the Ottoman Empire, and he is currently writing a book manuscript that combines social and environmental history to rethink the communal conflicts that tore apart this multi-ethnic, multi-confessional empire from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries. In our "Notes from the Field" forum with Dr. Ghazarian, we will discuss his experiences researching in archives across the Middle East and Europe--from Istanbul to Vienna and Yerevan to Venice--and the challenges posed by researching communities like the Armenians whose archival records have, like them, been scattered and fragmented by war, famine, and forced exile. Co-sponsored by the Lewis Global Studies Center and Middle East Studies. Pizza will be served.
Lewis Global Studies Center
12:15 pm