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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

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

Events at Smith

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

Biochemistry Presentation of the Major
October 27, 2023
Pizza provided, including gluten free and vegetarian options. Learn about: The latest research and developments in the field, research at Smith, schedule flexibility and more. Meet: faculty, current biochemistry students and liaisons, other potential BCH majors.
McConnell 103
12:15 pm

Thinking Italian Plants: Vegetal Lives in a More-Than-Animal Italy
October 27, 2023
Elena Past, Professor of Italian, Wayne State University, invites a reconsideration of plant being, showing how contemporary Italian philosophy shatters the mute passivity conventionally associated with plants, and recognizes instead their ability to communicate, strategize, remember, and even play. Learn how plants shape, sustain, and inspire animal life, human cultures, and more-than-human landscapes in this interdisciplinary talk that bridges science and humanities. Sponsored by the Department of German & Italian and First-Year Seminars. Free and open to the public.
Seelye 201
1:20 pm to 2:35 pm

Field Station Fridays: S'mores and Spooky Stories at MacLeish
October 27, 2023
Celebrate Halloween with a cozy, spooky night at MacLeish Field Station. Sign up for a spot in the van at the link below.
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MacLeish Field Station - Meet at Sage Hall Circle
4:15 pm to 7:30 pm

HalloGREEN
October 27, 2023
Learn how to make terrifying and creative costumes and decorations at the DTI! Haunted houses, not over consumption, should be the scariest part of Halloween. This year you can learn to upcycle and make customes/decorations in order to have some of the coolest, one of a kind, and long-lasting low-cost Halloween pieces. Delicious treats will be provided! Hosted by the DTI and Eco Reps.
Capen Annex, 25A Henshaw
4:45 pm to 8:45 pm

Capen Bulb Planting!
October 28, 2023
Join the fun! Drop in anytime. Cider and donuts provided.
Capen Garden Gazebo
10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Climate Innovation: from Food Systems to Industry Decarbonization
October 30, 2023
by Julia Franchi Scarselli '18, co-founder of Libellula, an olive oil company dedicated to driving the adoption of regenerative food systems through education, community-building and experiential excursions in the Italian family-owned olive groves. This talk is part of the ENX 100 Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field lecture series. All are welcome! Also available via Zoom; see link below.
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Neilson Browsing Room
3:05 pm to 4:20 pm

Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop
October 31, 2023
Join Taz (Tarcisio Ramos) and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese to engage in techniques, games, and discussion about the Theatre of the Oppressed created by the Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist Augusto Boal. This workshop will include an environmental theme. Co-sponsored by CEEDS, with support from the Office for Equity and Inclusion, Department of Theatre and the Design Thinking Initiative. Register at the link below:
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Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

"Deborah Jack: the water between us remembers, so we carry this history on our skins,
November 1, 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

Presentation of the GEO major/minor
November 1, 2023
You may be a declared GEO major, or interested in GEO, and this is a great opportunity for everyone to meet department faculty and find out more about classes we'll offer next semester. Lunch provided.
McConnell 103
12:15 pm

Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop
November 1, 2023
Join Taz (Tarcisio Ramos) and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese to engage in techniques, games, and discussion about the Theatre of the Oppressed created by the Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist Augusto Boal. This workshop will include an environmental theme.Co-sponsored by CEEDS, with support from the Office for Equity and Inclusion, the Department of Theater, and the Design Thinking Initiative. Register below:
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Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Events at Smith

Multiplying Power: Image as Protest in Prints and Photographs
November 2, 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

Geothermal Project Tour
November 3, 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 11/4 at the same time. Open to all Smith community members.
Meet at the Elm St entrance to the Campus Center
4:10 pm

What Ties, What Roots? Chrysanthemum Kinship at the Ends of the World
November 3, 2023
Join us for the Mum Show Opening Lecture, "What Ties, What Roots? Chrysanthemum Kinship at the Ends of the World" by Professor Colin Hoag. In tandem with a year-long exhibit at Lyman Conservatory focusing on Plath's encounter with bell jars, this year’s Mum Show Lecture traces Plath’s development of the bell jar metaphor and what it might say about our relationship to Chrysanthemums, family, and place. Preview of the Mum Show and the original exhibit in Lyman "The Bell Jars: Lyman Conservatory and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination" to follow.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright
7:25 pm

NOAA Summer Internship Presentations (Take 1)
November 6, 2023
Hear from three Smithies who spent their summer interning with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and find out how you might intern with NOAA in summer 2023! Today's presentations include Tie Matecha '26J: "Noise cascades: Evaluating the impacts of anthropogenic noise"; Becca Smith '24: "Compensatory Mitigation on State-Owned Submerged Lands in Silver Spring, MD"; and Seychelle Brainard '25: "Coastal Ecosystem Observation Systems and Shellfish Research at NOAA Cooperative Oxford Laboratory - Oxford, MD". Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Environmental Publishing with the Editor-in-Chief of Orion Magazine Sumanth Prabhaker
November 6, 2023
Orion magazine invites readers into a community of caring for the planet. Through writing and art that explore the connection between nature and culture, Orion inspires new thinking about how humanity might live on Earth justly, sustainably, and joyously. Sumanth Prabhaker shares the behind the scenes perspective on publishing this magazine. 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

NOAA Summer Internship Presentations (Take 2)
November 7, 2023
Hear from three Smithies who spent their summer interning with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and find out how you might intern with NOAA in summer 2023! Today's presentations include Nikola Jensen '25: "Participating in sea level rise research and teaching youth about Oregon coastal habitats at South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Charleston, OR"; Ruize Qin '25: "Tracking of Caribbean Corals Outplanted from Nurseries NOAA Fisheries Southeast Regional Office - St. Petersburg, FL"; and Leah Harries '24: "Monitoring the Migrations of Wild Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon Juveniles NOAA Research Station Pasco, WA". Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Lunch & Learn: Washburn House Carbon Study with Molly Neu '25
November 8, 2023
Molly Neu '25, an Environmental Concentrator, completed a carbon study of Washburn House during her summer internship with C&H Architects. At this lunch, she will present her findings, including the operational and embodied carbon of Washburn, whether renovated or new buildings have higher carbon emissions, and more. Lunch provided!
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Events Off Campus

Housing Justice in the Weeds: The Complications of Reducing Housing Poverty and Insecurity
November 2, 2023
through Subsidized Housing in the Context of Racialized Concentration and Exclusion with Revel Sims, Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is also an affiliate in the Department of Geography, the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), and the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies (CommNS). "Housing Justice in the Weeds" will summarize findings from several published and unpublished investigations on housing conditions within a Southern California neighborhood and offer critical reflections on the question of housing justice.
Design Building Atrium, UMass Amherst
4:00 pm

The Return of the White Shark to Coastal New England with Dr. Greg Skomal and Ret Talbot
November 2, 2023
The New England Aquarium Lecture Series presents acclaimed shark biologist Dr. Greg Skomal and science writer Ret Talbot, who in their new book—Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark—explore the remarkable conservation success story of this species. From the fascinating early days of shark research on the East Coast to the consequences of the so-called Jaws effect to the newest white shark hot spot off Cape Cod, Skomal and Talbot will frame the restoration of this apex predator to an ecosystem as a conservation win, but one that brings with it serious challenges, drama, and controversy. They ask: Will we welcome the return of these ancient and marvelously evolved creatures, or revert to viewing them as competitors, invaders, and monsters? This New England Aquarium Lecture Series event is free to the public and presented in partnership with the Lowell Institute. Space is limited, registration is required; sign up at the link below.
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Webinar
6:30 pm

Building Guitars Sustainably
November 6, 2023
Luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz lectures about sustainable guitars, as part of the the annual Veena David B. Reck lecture series. Come try out her guitars! Reception to follow. FREE and open to the public. Presented by the Five College Ethnomusicology Program.
At the Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI Think Tank) in the Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum, Amherst College

Native Representation
November 6, 2023
The annual Native and Indigenous Heritage Month keynote lecture featuring Dr. Adrienne Keene, (Cherokee Nation), scholar, writer, blogger, podcast host, and activist. Keene is passionate about reframing how the world sees contemporary Native cultures. She is the creator and author of Native Appropriations, a blog discussing cultural appropriation and stereotypes of Native peoples in fashion, film, music, and other forms of pop culture. She is the author of Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present (October 2021- Penguin Random House/Ten Speed Press). And she is co-host (with Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip)) of the popular podcast, All My Relations, that explores what it means to be a Native person in contemporary America. Through her writing and activism, Keene questions and problematizes the ways Indigenous peoples are represented, asking for celebrities, large corporations, and designers to consider the ways they incorporate "Native" elements into their work. She is very interested in how Native peoples are using social and new media to challenge misrepresentations and present counter-narratives that showcase true Native cultures and identities. A professor at Brown University, Keene earned her BA from Stanford University in Native American Studies and Cultural Anthropology, and her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in Culture, Communities, and Education. Sponsored by: Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with generous support from the Five College Consortium and the Mellon Foundation.
Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
7:00 pm