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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

(Re)Claiming Grief: An Embodied Journey Back to the Earth
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

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

"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

Events at Smith

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

Film screening: Woman at War
April 12, 2023
Halla is a fifty-year-old environmental activist who crusades against the local aluminum industry in Iceland. As her actions grow bolder, her life changes in the blink of an eye when she is finally granted permission to adopt a girl from Ukraine. Woman at War is a 2018 Icelandic-Ukrainian comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, and starring Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir. Sponsored by the Environmental Science and Policy Program for ES&P majors, and shown in conjunction with the GOV 347: Environmental Security course. All welcome. Bring a friend! For disability access information or accommodation please call 413-585-2407 or email ods@smith.edu 10 days before the event.
Graham Hall, Hillyer
7:00 pm

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Summit on Women’s Leadership in Climate Justice
April 13, 2023
A welcoming space for all genders and non-binary people seeking to celebrate the accomplishments and vision of women in the field of climate justice. This three day event will provide opportunities to learn from leading global and local scholars, community organizers, and entrepreneurs including Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist for the Nature Conservancy, Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, Founder of Climate Critical Earth, and Kat Cadungog, Executive Director of the Foundation for Environmental Stewardship.
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Mount Holyoke College

Comparative Racializations in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands:
April 13, 2023
Im/migrant Justice and Indigenous Struggles for Sovereignty with Dr. Raquel Madrigal, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies at Vassar College.
West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College
4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Lights Out! with the Eco Reps
April 15, 2023
Join the Eco Reps for this popular Earth Week event! We will be turning off all the exterior lights on the Quad from 10 to 10:20 pm. Enjoy beautiful stargazing, pizza, and s'mores with us! All students welcome-- bring a friend! Rain date is 4/22.
Quad Lawn
9:00 pm to 10:30 pm

What You See Is What You Write
April 17, 2023
with Jonathan Lerner, Author and Journalist. Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex-Graham Hall
3:05 pm

Gen Z Mental Health: Climate Stories - documentary screening + conversation
April 17, 2023
A short documentary film screening + moderated conversation with Gen Zers from the film (Maksim Batuyev, Vanessa Villanueva, Aishah Nyeta, and McKenna Dunbar) about the impact of #climate crisis to #GenZers #mentalhealth and how we can respond to develop emotional resilience and community connections! This event is open to Smith College students, faculty and staff, and to vaccinated members of the public. Masking is optional and welcomed everywhere on campus. For disability access information or accommodation requests please call 413-585-2407. To request a sign language interpreter send email to: ods@smith.edu at least ten days before the event. Sponsored by Smith College Department of Geosciences and its Climate in Arts and History Project (https://www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/), Environmental Science and Policy Program, Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS), Office of Disability Services (ODS), and Schacht Center for Health and Wellness.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
7:00 pm

Weed Walk! with Blanche Derby
April 19, 2023
Get outside and celebrate Earth Week by joining a CEEDS-sponsored walk with local foraging expert Blanche Cybele Derby and learn more about the many edible plants that are all around us! A forager of wild and tame plants for over 35 years, Blanche has lectured and led walks all around New England. [Rain date is 4/20-same time and meet up location.]
Meet at the Lanning Fountain between Wright Hall & Sabin-Reed
4:15 pm

Reading: Month of Wind/mes del viento
April 19, 2023
with Cece Roth-Eagle, Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award Winner for Prose. The reading discusses Roth-Eagle's time studying abroad in Argentina and the way in which the indigenous Mapuche people of the region have responded to environmental crises, including government-supported fracking and decreases in biodiversity. Light refreshments will be provided.
Boutelle-Day Poetry Center, Wright Hall
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Summit on Women’s Leadership in Climate Justice
April 14, 2023
April 15, 2023
A welcoming space for all genders and non-binary people seeking to celebrate the accomplishments and vision of women in the field of climate justice. This three day event will provide opportunities to learn from leading global and local scholars, community organizers, and entrepreneurs including Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist for the Nature Conservancy, Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, Founder of Climate Critical Earth, and Kat Cadungog, Executive Director of the Foundation for Environmental Stewardship.
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Mount Holyoke College