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Events at Smith

"Into the Glasshouse" Exhibit
February 10, 2023
In a collaboration between the Susan Montgomery's drawing and studio art foundations classes and the botanic garden, the Lyman Church Gallery is hosting "Into the Glasshouse" from January 20 to June 8, 2023. The exhibit "uses plants as the point of departure for student drawings and sculptures made from branches, roots, and other natural materials." Read more about the exhibit on the website created for the project, and stop by Lyman Plant House to see the exhibit or the opening reception on February 10, 2023, 4:30-6:30 pm.
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Lyman Church Gallery
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Geothermal Project Tour
February 13, 2023
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 2/14 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 am

The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under Covid-19
February 13, 2023
with Laura Bliss, 2022-2023 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex-Graham Hall
3:05 pm to 4:45 pm

Events Off Campus

Black Earth Wisdom: Afro-Ecological Survival Strategies
February 9, 2023
a Green Sabbath event with Leah Penniman. Ecological humility is part of the cultural heritage of Black people. While our 400+ years immersion in racial capitalism has attempted to squash that connection to the sacred earth, there are those who persist in believing that the land and waters are family members, and who act accordingly. In Black Earth Wisdom, Leah Penniman weaves together the lessons from today’s most respected Black environmentalists, those who have cultivated the skill of listening to the lessons that Earth has whispered to them. Together, we embark on a sensory journey through Black ecological thought. Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother, and food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist food system for 25 years. She currently serves as founding co-ED and Farm Director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a Black & Brown led project that works toward food and land justice. Register for the event at the link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
3:00 pm

Climate Justice Video Shorts
February 10, 2023
*Masks are recommended. As part of a class on the sociology of climate change taught by Vanessa Adel at Smith College, students completed a digital video project in which they were asked to connect the dots between their everyday lives, culture, politics, and the environment to consider what the climate crisis means for them. A sample of these shorts will be on view to inspire audiences to consider the relationship between the way we think about the environment, the economy, and society; and our approaches to addressing the multiple and overlapping crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and social and environmental injustice.
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CLICK Workspace, 9 1/2 Market Street Northampton, MA, 01060
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Events at Smith

Braiding Sweetgrass
February 15, 2023
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, received the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. In 2015, Kimmerer addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship With Nature.” Kimmerer is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the State University of New York and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
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Carroll Room
5:00 pm

STEM & Health Professions Career Fair
February 16, 2023
Meet with recruiters from corporate and non-profit organizations to discuss a broad range of internships, full-time jobs and graduate/professional school opportunities. This fair is FREE to students, and over 30 organizations are expected to attend. Hosted by the Lazarus Center for Career Development.
Campus Center Carroll Room
3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Praxis Info Session!
February 17, 2023
Find out how to get your normally unpaid internship funded! The Lazarus Center for Career Development is hosting a Praxis Information Session. Learn more about funding, requirements and the application process. For Smith students only.
CC 205
12:00 pm

ES&P Lunchbag: Exploring Career Paths
February 21, 2023
Join Jason Bauer-Clapp, Lazarus Center's Director of Career Education, to explore methods and resources for identifying job opportunities and career paths in environmental science and policy, go over graduate school options and key planning steps and more. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall lower level
12:15 pm

Events at Smith

Sustainable Energy Lunch Learn In: Solar Power
February 22, 2023
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

Tree Climbing Workshop
February 28, 2023
Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to climb the trees of Smith's Arboretum and discover the art and science of arboriculture. This three-day workshop is open to both the public and to Smith students. The workshop costs $1000 for the general public, but through generous sponsorship, Smith students can participate for only $50.00! (If $50 remains a barrier to participation, please reach out to garden@ smith.edu). Space is limited. All Smith students are welcome. No experience necessary. For specific disability access information or accommodations requests, please call 413-585-2742 or send an email to garden@ smith.edu prior to registering. Register at the link below:
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Smith Arboretum

Events Off Campus

Planning for Resilient Food Systems from Soil to Soil
February 23, 2023
with Julia Freedgood, Senior Fellow and Senior Program Advisor, American Farmland Trust. Part of the Zube Lecture Series, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Design Building Rm. 170, UMass Amherst
4:00 pm to 5:15 pm

To Understand A Tree Artist and Naturalist Talk
February 23, 2023
In this Hilltown Land Trust webinar, multi-disciplinary collaborators will discuss their year-long study of the dignity of a living red oak, its network of eco-systemic relationships, and the ubiquity of the material of wood in design and daily life. The project is led by artist and woodworker Gina Siepel, in collaboration with naturalist Kate Wellspring, and sponsored at the MacLeish Field Station by the Arts Afield program. Join us for a presentation, panel discussion, and audience Q&A. Zoom-generated closed captioning will be available during the event.
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Online
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Sustainability Career Fair!
February 24, 2023
This event is put on by the UMass CNS Careers office and the School of Earth & Sustainability each year and is open to all Five College students. The Five Colleges have been invited in the Handshake app so all 5C students can view it and plan to attend.
UMass Old Chapel (144 Hicks Way, Amherst)
11:00 am to 2:00 pm

Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in Indigenous Political Thought
February 24, 2023
A book talk with David Myer Temin, University of Michigan. Prof Myer is a political theorist whose research and teaching spans American political thought, Native American studies and politics, comparative and global political thought, and postcolonial and critical race studies. Myer’s research explores how the diverse strands of anticolonial thought help to reconsider central dilemmas of social and environmental justice in empire’s wake, as well as refashioning political concepts such as sovereignty and land. Myer is the author of Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought (2023, University of Chicago Press), which bridges political-intellectual history and conceptual analysis to show how key 20th-century Indigenous intellectuals and activists in lands today claimed by Canada and the United States reshaped the philosophical substance and normative goals of “decolonization.” The book traces how these conceptual moves and practical efforts to enact decolonization hinged on heavily debated projects of disentangling self-determination from the sovereign-state, the restitution of dispossessed land, autonomy and safety for Indigenous women, and care-based duties of ecological stewardship. Join in person or via the Zoom link below:
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Thompson Hall 420, UMass, Amherst
4:15 pm