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"Deborah Jack: the water between us remembers, so we carry this history on our skins,
October 11, 2023
long for a sea-bath and hope that the salt will heal what ails us (2018)" On view through February 4, 2024. How do memory, place, nature, and the afterlives of slavery and colonialism connect? What possibilities do video (as a medium) and beauty (as an aesthetic approach) offer artists interested in these connections? In the water between us remembers…, an immersive video installation now on view in SCMA's Video and New Media Gallery, artist Deborah Jack takes up these questions and contends with past and present representations of the Caribbean as a tropical paradise. More information at the link below. Admission to the museum is free to all.
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Smith College Museum of Art
11:00 am to 4:00 pm

ES&P Lunchbag: Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
October 11, 2023
Robert Pollin, Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will describe a broad program to move the global economy onto a viable climate stabilization path and to accomplish this in a way that also expands decent job opportunities and raises mass living standards for working people and the poor throughout the world. This overarching aim is captured within the idea of a Global Green New Deal. This is an Environmental Science and Policy Program event; lunch is provided.
Center for the Environment, Wright Hall garden-level
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Food Rescue Conference Watch Party
October 12, 2023
The only conferenced focused solely on fresh & innovative food recovery solutions. Livestreamed October 12 & 13. New sessions begin every hour. Find more information and preregister on the link below, or drop in anytime.
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Hatfield 202
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Multiplying Power: Image as Protest in Prints and Photographs
October 12, 2023
This installation displays a range of prints and photographs from the SCMA collection whose circulation documents and sparks social change. Primarily made in the United States during the 20th and 21st century, these works engage with issues of racial justice, civil rights, gay liberation, feminism, Indigenous land rights, and environmental justice, among others. Activists and artists continue to work together to transform our world everyday-- creating and sharing images on social media, digital journalism, and in public spaces. On view through January 2024, the museum is open and free for all. More information at link below.
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Smith College Museum of Art
11:00 am to 4:00 pm

ES&P Lunchbag: Exploring Career Paths
October 12, 2023
Staff from the Lazarus Center for Career Development will lead an exploration of methods and resources for identifying job opportunities and career paths related to environmental science and policy, go over graduate school options and key planning steps and more. All majors welcome; lunch provided.
Center for the Environment, Wright Hall garden-level
12:15 pm

Botanic Garden Summer Internships Q&A Session
October 12, 2023
Learn about summer opportunities available through the Botanic Garden. These include internships at Kew Gardens in London, England, in molecular biology, conservation genetics and bioinformatics, and internships based at Smith in horticulture and public gardens management.
Lyman 111
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Film Screening: Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty
October 10, 2023
Join Filmmakers Collaborative and Kestrel Land Trust for the Massachusetts premiere of this award-winning documentary film that tells the story of the legendary Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall, who served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and became a towering—yet humble—figure in the 20th century American conservation movement. Udall was an early campaigner for both environmental protection and social justice, encouraging JFK, LBJ and Ladybird Johnson to become conservation leaders themselves. Through his bipartisan statesmanship, more lands and waters were protected as national parks, national wildlife refuges, and national seashores during his tenure as Interior Secretary than under any other leader in that position. Udall was directly responsible for the passage of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and the establishment of a National Trails program. He was also one of the earliest leaders at the federal level to warn about the looming dangers of climate change. The film screening will be followed by a panel conversation with writer/director John de Graaf, consulting producer Laurence Cotton; biographer Thomas Smith, Stewart Udall’s personal aide, Sharon Francis moderated by Kestrel Land Trust executive director, Kristin DeBoer. Tickets may be purchased online at the Academy of Music’s website (link below) or at the Box Office in person or by phone at 413-584-9032 ext. 105. Box Office hours are Tuesday – Friday 3-6 PM. Children & Students may attend for FREE
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The Academy of Music
7:00 pm

Cloud Archives and the Geopolitics of Climate Change
October 12, 2023
Yuriko Furuhata, associate professor at McGill University and author of Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control, will connect the aesthetic history of mushroom cloud imageries to the history of American military’s nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, and ask how these intertwined histories in the Pacific can help us rethink the politics of climate change. Please join us for this distinguished lecture with a post-talk discussion moderated by Professor Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito and reception. Hosted by the Film and Media Studies Program.
Amherst College Lyceum (197 South Pleasant Street, Amherst)
4:30 pm

Events at Smith

Food Rescue Conference Watch Party
October 13, 2023
The only conferenced focused solely on fresh & innovative food recovery solutions. Livestreamed October 12 & 13. New sessions begin every hour. Find more information and preregister on the link below, or drop in anytime.
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CEEDS
9:00 am to 3:00 pm

CEEDS' Annual Cider Pressing & Heirloom Apple Tasting
October 14, 2023
Stop by to taste the many flavors of this amazing fruit at our heirloom apple tasting. Then, experience the magic of turning apples into delicious fresh cider & enjoy a cup with a locally made cider donut! This is a rain or shine event for Family Weekend!
Next to Chapin loading dock
10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Environmental Study Abroad Info Session
October 16, 2023
All students interested in studying abroad with a program that has an environmental focus should plan to attend this information session -- regardless of your Smith major or minor. Angelo Pisano, Study Abroad Coordinator, will provide an overview of the different types of programs available, and Environmental Science & Policy majors who studied abroad last year will share a bit about their experiences. Lunch provided. Hosted by ES&P, CEEDS & the Lewis Global Studies Center
Center for the Environment, Wright Hall garden-level
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

The role of corporate environmental advocacy in the climate crisis
October 16, 2023
by Laura Draucker, Climate and Energy Director of Corporate Climate Action with Ceres, a nonprofit organization working with the most influential capital market leaders to solve the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. Laura supports the Ceres Commit to Climate initiative in strengthening and deepening corporate uptake of robust GHG emission reduction targets aligned with science and the Paris Agreement. This talk is part of the ENX 100 Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field lecture series. All are welcome!
Neilson Browsing Room
3:05 pm to 4:20 pm

Plant Clinic at Lyman
October 17, 2023
Need to repot a plant or get some support in helping your plant thrive? The Botanic Garden of Smith College (BG) is happy to help! BG horticulturists and student educators will be on-hand to answer your questions.
Lyman 112
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Rooted in Truths
October 18, 2023
Join Nipmuc Cultural Steward Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines Jr., Daishaun RedDeer and Miguel WanderingTurtle, both citizens of the Nipmuc people, at this event hosted by BIO 368, to explore connections between plants, climate change, and art with a focus on cultural and land stewardship along with aboriginal rights. We will gather outside to further understand our relationship to the earth and honor our natural, plant relatives through conversations, as well as social singing and dancing. Rain location: Seelye 106.
Cedar trees outside Lyman Plant House
4:00 pm

Trivia Night with Williams-Mystic
October 18, 2023
Join us for a night of ocean-themed trivia and prizes. All majors and class years welcome! Sign up using the link below.
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CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Events at Smith

Poetry Reading: Oscar Gonzales
October 20, 2023
Oscar Gonzales is a Honduran-American poet and writer who was born and raised in the port city of Puerto Cortes and now lives in Washington, D.C. He is the son of a union organizer in Honduras who was persecuted by the military government of his country. Gonzales is the author of 3 collections of poems, most recently Central America in My Heart, a bilingual book of poems engaged with themes of love of homeland, exile and social activism. Co-sponsored by the Environmental Science and Policy Program, CEEDS, the Jandon Center for Community Engagement, Lewis Global Studies Center, and the Translation Concentration. Free and open to all.
Boutelle-Day Poetry Center
2:00 pm

Presentation of the Landscape Studies Minor
October 24, 2023
Join Landscape Studies faculty to discuss the unlimited possibilities within the Landscape Studies Program. Lunch provided--bring your own water.
Burton 406
12:15 pm

How to Bloomberg: ESG edition
October 24, 2023
Interested in the intersection of environment and business? Need data for your final project in class? At this event you can learn how to leverage Bloomberg Terminal in your next research project. Potential topics include how to find data to answer: “Are companies with good environmental ratings good businesses?” Dinner will be served! Sign up at the "More" link below. About Bloomberg: Bloomberg is a 24-hour global information services system that provides reliable economic, financial and government data. You can only access Bloomberg via a designated computer in Conway Center in Neilson 103. Peer tutoring drop in hours are Mon, Wed 11-1 and Thu 12:30-2:30pm. Email ciec@ smith.edu to learn more.
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Conway Center, Neilson 103
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Healing in Lenapehoking
October 25, 2023
Join for a short film screening and discussion with Brooklyn Demme, Grandmother Cindy Fountain, Ms. Carrie Ruffin, and Norris War Turtle Branham. We will talk about sacred relational engagement in intimacy and justice, indigenous perspectives on mental health, land rights, and good pathways forward in Lenapehoking and beyond. Presented by TRUTH 2 POWER (T2P) in collaboration with ODS, OMA, CRSL, SCCD, the Schacht Center and the American Studies department.
Davis Ballroom
7:00 pm

Presentation of the ES&P major and minors
October 26, 2023
Interested in the environment and sustainability? Find out more about what it takes to major or minor in environmental science and policy or minor in marine science and policy. Meet faculty, staff, and students in the program, and get your questions answered! Lunch will be provided.
CC 103/104
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Life Science Colloquium: How to Make Structural Color in the Butterfly Wing
October 26, 2023
With Dr. Nipam Patel, Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole MA. The Patel lab investigates questions of evolution and development using a variety of arthropod species. His talk will focus on their work elucidating the evolution of structural color in the butterfly wing.
McConnell 103
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Herbal Medicine to Weather the Winter with the People's Medicine Project
October 25, 2023
Make some, take some! Join Abundance Farm and their friends at the People's Medicine Project to make tasty and powerful herbal medicines for yourself and others, and celebrate the season together around the bonfire. Bring clean + dry 4-8 oz. jars to use.
Abudance Farm, Northampton
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm