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Events at Smith

Sustainable Energy Lunch Learn In: Biofuels
March 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

ES&P Lunchbag: Interview Skills Practice
March 23, 2023
Join Jason Bauer-Clapp, Lazarus Center's Director of Career Education, to explore how best to present your ES&P skills, knowledge and experiences- in an interview and otherwise. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

Mary Oliver: A Handsome Life, Queer Visions and Practice in the Poems and Essays
March 23, 2023
A talk by poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
4:30 pm

Lecture with Mindy Fullilove, Writer and Social Psychiatrist
March 25, 2023
Part of the spring semester Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex, Graham Hall
3:05 pm to 4:45 pm

(Re)Claiming Grief: An Embodied Journey Back to the Earth
March 27, 2023
Healer, educator, and artist Lindsay Hopkins will lead this four-part workshop series on climate grief and guide a creative group brainstorming process, ending with a temporary, socially engaged art installation and community gathering. Space is limited; sign up at the link below: All Smith community members welcome!
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Smith campus.
3:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Getting Creative at the Mall
March 27, 2023
with Alexandra Lange, Architecture & Design Critic. Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex-Graham Hall
3:05 pm to 4:45 pm

Events Off Campus

Career Development Day at MassRecycle 2023 Conference & Trade Show
March 23, 2023
Are you concerned about the environment, but do not know where to begin? Looking for your next step after graduation? Trash and waste are urgent environmental concerns; sustainable materials management is the solution. The MassRecycle Conference and Trade Show is the largest recycling and waste reduction conference in Massachusetts. This year, MassRecycle will be opening the afternoon session to students and job seekers for Career Development. Join us to learn about the current world of recycling, trash, reuse, and waste reduction, and emerging career opportunities. Learn about the creative solutions being implemented and how you can be a part of them. There will be lectures followed by an interactive discussion session and networking. Speaker Presentations include: Destinations for items banned from landfills; How to build Zero Waste plans into contracts; Municipal strategies to divert food waste; Extended Producer Responsibility legislation: holding manufacturers responsible. $10 for admission. Bring a resume and be ready to network. There will be Job Boards with open positions posted, company representatives recruiting, and roundtable discussions to offer career guidance. Learn about the many sustainability jobs in materials management, community outreach, regional planning, sales and marketing.  Registration opens at 12:30 pm. Speaker Sessions are 12:45-4:00 pm with a break for networking and job hunting, Roundtable discussions and networking will take place 4:00-5:00 pm.
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Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel, Marlboro
12:30 pm to 5:00 pm

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
March 23, 2023
In the coming decades millions of Americans will be uprooted by wildfires, floods, and rising seas in the largest migration in our country’s history. And many are already on the move. "The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration" by Jake Bittle compassionately tells their stories and uncovers how government and insurance policies are shaping who rebuilds and who retreats. The Living on Earth Book Club, UMass Boston School for the Environment and Sustainable Solutions Lab at UMass Boston proudly present this free, live conversation between author Jake Bittle and Host Steve Curwood, with a special introduction by distinguished guest, UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco. SSL Director Rebecca Herst will also be offering remarks. This event is in a hybrid format. Register below:
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Virtual via Zoom
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Voices from the DawnLand: Indigenous Writers Speak
March 28, 2023
In this Zoom panel, three Indigenous writers from New England will be reading and discussing their work. Ella Nathaniel Alkiewicz, a Labrador Inuk poet, writer and teacher; Dawn Dove (Narragansett/ Niantic) editor and author of Narragansett history; and Melissa Zobel, Mohegan playwright, novelist, screenwriter will discuss their work and what it is to be a Native writer in New England. Moderated by Rachel Beth Sayet (Mohegan writer and Native American and Indigenous Studies Community Development Fellow for the Five Colleges). Each of these authors utilizes their cultural upbringing to share unique stories with the world, debunking histories of the myth of the vanishing Indian of New England.
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Virtual via Zoom
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Faith, Contemplation and the Land
March 28, 2023
Join Professor of Theology and World Religions at Union Theological Seminary the Rev. Dr. John Thatamanil and Tim Lilburn for a virtual conversation. A growing realization is emerging in a variety of fields that human beings have become profoundly inattentive to and disconnected from place and the land. The consequences for human and natural life are profound. What might be some of the causes of this separation, and what are the upshots? On the other hand, there has been considerable resurgence of attention to contemplation. Only this resurgence has had little impact on the former problem. What might contemplation and place/the land have to do with each other? What might Evagrius say about this question? How might contemplative life reconnect us once more to place and the land? Join the distinguished Canadian Poet and Essayist for a conversation on these vital themes for an age of ecological peril. Register using the link below:
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Virtual
6:00 pm

Events at Smith

Presentation: Yestermorrow- Fall 23 semester in Design/Build
March 29, 2023
Pizza lunch provided at this info session for students.
Design Thinking Initiative, Capen Annex, 25A Henshaw Ave
12:15 pm

(Re)Claiming Grief: An Embodied Journey Back to the Earth
March 29, 2023
March 30, 2023
March 31, 2023
Healer, educator, and artist Lindsay Hopkins will lead this four-part workshop series on climate grief and guide a creative group brainstorming process, ending with a temporary, socially engaged art installation and community gathering. Space is limited; sign up at the link below: All Smith community members welcome!
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Smith campus.
3:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Geothermal Project Tour
March 31, 2023
Have you been wondering what all the construction around campus is about? 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 4/3 at the same time. Open to all Smith community members.
Meet at the Elm St entrance to the Campus Center
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Offerings to the Earth
March 31, 2023
A temporary art installation and community gathering with healer, educator, and artist Lindsay Hopkins, that invites participants to reconnect to the world's cyclicality, to heal bodies, minds, and spirits. All are welcome to this public event.
Meet up at CEEDS, Wright Hall lower-level
4:30 pm

How to Breathe with a Tree
April 1, 2023
In this Arts Afield program, a collaboration between Bernadine Mellis and Artist-in-residence Gina Siepel, we will practice guided walking and sitting meditation, followed by a discussion of the experience. We will visit the red oak tree that Siepel’s project takes as its focus, and then return to the Bechtel Classroom Building to explore the Buddhist teaching on the First Foundation of Mindfulness: mindfulness of the body. This ancient teaching, a section of the Satipatthana Sutta from the Pali Canon, has given rise to much of what we now recognize as mindfulness practice. We will learn a bit about the context for the First Foundation of Mindfulness and then investigate it experientially, in relationship with the red oak tree, the forest, the land, and our own minds and bodies. Register for a spot below:
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MacLeish Field Station
2:00 pm

Complex Interactions in Sarracenia: Implications for Plant and Ecosystem Health
April 1, 2023
With Dr. Jessica Stephens, Westfield State University; a New England Botanical Society Meeting co-sponsored by the Biology Department and open to the public. Carnivorous plants are found in nutrient poor habitats and have evolved complex trapping structures used in attraction, retention, and digestion of prey. These plants are highly dependent on insects to obtain nutrients and similar to animals, these plants are predicted to rely heavily on their microbiota to digest prey. The presentation will discuss recent research on these complex interactions in one group of carnivorous plants, pitcher plants of North America, and how understanding these relationships can better inform management and conservation in this group and surrounding habitats. Non-members are asked to preregister in advance at the link below. A zoom link will also be available. Everyone is welcome.
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McConnell 103
7:00 pm

The Smith College Landscape Master Plan: Perspective from the Smithie who Created It
April 3, 2023
with Signe Nielsen, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architecture. Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex-Graham Hall
3:05 pm

Events at Smith

"Binocularity": A Tool for Comprehending Persons
April 6, 2023
Comprehending what persons are is inherently interesting. But it can also be useful, when seeking to be in respectful and caring relationships with others—perhaps nowhere more than in the context of making decisions about medical interventions. Erik Parens is a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics research institute in Garrison, NY, and Director of the Center’s Initiative in Bioethics and the Humanities. He investigates the ethical and social implications of using technologies like pharmacology and surgery to shape ourselves, and investigates how emerging sciences like genetics and neuroscience shape our self-understanding. Sponsored by the Smith College Department of Philosophy, the Susan Badian Lindenauer '61 Endowed Fund in Support of the Ethics Program at Smith College, and the Smith College Lecture Committee. Open to the public.
Seelye 201
5:00 pm

Tinker Tech Workshop
April 7, 2023
Do you want to learn how to diagnose and fix common hardware problems> Or maybe you want to overcome your anxiety about tinkering with hardware, but aren't sure where to start? If so, join us for a hands-on workshop where you will get to work with various components of a computer system: motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard drive, power supply and more in a fun, low-risk environment. In this workshop, you will learn how to identify and troubleshoot hardware issues using tools and techniques that are not limited to desktop computers, but to tech tinkering as a whole. By the end of this workshop, you will have gained valuable skills and knowledge that will help you become a confident and competent hardware tinkerer. Sponsored by the Computer Science Department and DTI.
Capen Annex
4:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Geothermal Project Tour
April 11, 2023
Have you been wondering what all the construction around campus is about? 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 4/12 at the same time. Open to all Smith community members.
Meet at the Elm St entrance to the Campus Center
4:15 pm to 5:15 pm

Reparative ecologies and humanness after disaster in the Caribbean
April 11, 2023
By imperial design, the Caribbean region was created and traversed as uneven yet interconnected archipelagos of Black dispossession, devaluation and dehumanisation. On this basis, Caribbean leaders have initiated reparatory justice claims, demanding restitution for longstanding systemic inequalities stemming largely from plantation slavery, colonialism and native genocide. This talk with Professor Keston Perry, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Williams College will briefly interrogate the Caribbean program for reparatory justice drawing out its political strategies and ideological underpinnings.
Graham Hall, Hillyer
5:00 pm