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Events at Smith

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

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

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

Events at Smith

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

Geothermal Project Tour
November 9, 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 11/10 at the same time. Open to all Smith community members.
Meet at the Elm St entrance to the Campus Center
12:10 pm

Environmental Protection and Tribal Communities: My Path to a Career in Federal/Tribal Relations
November 9, 2023
a GEO lunchbag with Lisa Berrios AC '02. Lisa is the Senior Advisor for Tribal Capacity Development in the American Indian Environmental Office of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Sabin-Reed 103
12:15 pm

Student Networking Tea with Lisa Berrios, AC'02
November 9, 2023
Lisa is the Senior Advisor for Tribal Capacity Development in the American Indian Environmental Office, Environmental Protection Agency. Hosted by the geosciences department.
McConnell 103
4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

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

Events at Smith

ES&P Lunchbag: Interview Skills Practice
November 10, 2023
Lazarus Center staff members will lead an interactive exploration of how best to present your skills, knowledge and experiences in ES&P—in an interview and otherwise. Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm

Garlic Planting and Winterizing
November 10, 2023
Join us to plant some garlic and put the Learning Gardens to bed for the winter! Sign up at the link below
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The Learning Gardens (between Northrop/Gillett and Lamont houses)
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Food Sovereignty in Native America
November 13, 2023
By Rachel Beth Sayet, Indigenous educator and anthropologist. Rachel is a member of the Mohegan nation. Raised with the spirits of her ancestors, she grew up learning traditional stories and teachings and participating in tribal events. Rachel has always been passionate about and proud of her Mohegan heritage and identity as well as an avid studier and learner about other cultures, indigenous and beyond. 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

Science Careers for the Greater Good: Sandra Laney, PhD
November 13, 2023
Hear from Sandra Laney (AC 1996, G 2002), the President and Principal Advisor at SJL Advising, a philanthropic advisory firm focused on science and social impact. Dr. Laney has also worked for the Gates Foundation, Paul G. Allen's Ebola Program at Vulcan, Inc., and the Walder Foundation. In addition, she served as the Senior Advisor on Gender, Education and Health in Secretary Clinton's Science Advisor's Office at the U.S. Department of State. Register on Handshake.
Zoom
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

GIS Day Interactive Workshop: Participatory mapping for accessibility on campus
November 15, 2023
Are you a member of Smith College? Interested in mapping for accessibility? Want to define what accessibility means at Smith? Join Shiya Cao (SDS) and Heather Rosenfeld (ES&P) to map for accessibility on the Smith College campus in a guided workshop. Click on the link below to sign up for the GIS Day Event! Lunch provided. Everyone is welcome – we are eager to hear from students, faculty, and staff.
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CEEDS
11:00 am to 1:00 pm

For a Pirate Ecology: And We Will Be Free
November 15, 2023
With Fatima Ouassak, political scientists, co-founder of Mothers' Front and Verdragon: House of Popular Ecology, created in 2021 in the hills of Bagnolet, in Seine-Saint-Denis, France. She has contributed to several collecive works on feminism and ecology. On the heels of her celebrated first book, The Power of Mothers (La Decouverte, 2020) which received the Caussette 2021 Feminist Essay Prize, she is releasing For A Pirate Ecology: And We Will Be Free this fall (2023), a reflective work that combines environmentalist, feminist and internationalist outlooks. Ouassak will be presenting material from this last book at Smith in French, with English translation.
Stoddard G2
4:30 pm

Carbon Neutrality and the Benefit of Nature Based Solutions
November 16, 2023
CEEDS intern and engineering major Dakota Law '24 will share some of the basics of what carbon neutrality is and how nature-based solutions can contribute to these efforts. Lunch provided! Also available on Zoom; emails ceeds@smith.edu for the link.
CEEDS
12:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Automated moth monitoring & you!
November 16, 2023
To truly understand trends in insect populations, we are going to need more data. Cameras and automation can massively accelerate collection of biological data. But how do we build an automated monitoring system for nocturnal insects? And how do we make the automated monitoring of moths inclusive, accessible, and scientifically robust? Join us and discover the convergent evolution of four systems: the Mothitor, AutoMoth, Mothbox and AMI, in a quadruple-webinar followed by a guided discussion. Professor Mariana Abarca from Smith College will speak on The Mothitor: Automated moth monitoring by undergraduate students. Sign up at link below!
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Online
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm