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Climate Justice Symposium: Exploring Feminist Interventions and Possibilities
September 20, 2024
September 21, 2024
Join other scholars, artists, students, activists, and professionals for a dynamic interdisciplinary symposium. The symposium focuses on climate justice scholarship, activism, and art around 3 themes- Food and Land, Energy and Natural Resources, and Health and Well-being- and includes keynotes with Dorceta Taylor, Wangari Mathaai Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment and Jacqueline Patterson, Founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project and one of Time Magazine’s Women of the Year for 2024, plus parallel panel sessions and workshops. Find out more, and register to attend at the link below. All welcome.
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Smith College, Northampton, MA

'Confluence' by Amanda Maciuba
September 5 through October 16, 2024
Amanda Maciuba’s work is an exploration of the visible and invisible marks of human hands on the landscape. Her practice investigates human relationships with the environment over time, forefronting the impacts of human driven climate change. Confluence is a series of prints, artist’s books and installations that are inspired by the confluence of the Kaw and Missouri Rivers in Kansas City, Kansas, that has expanded to consider multiple points how water shapes human life and how our actions impact river environments in return throughout the United States. Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. On view through October 17.
Oresman Gallery, Hillyer
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

International Park(ing) Day celebration!
September 20, 2024
Reid Bertone-Johnson and the ParKit team will be celebrating this holiday with a Landscape Master Plan inspired installation! All are welcome to come on down. They'll have games, comfortable places to rest, and bubbles! Bring your lunch or take a break and find another time to join the fun for a little while.
Near Sage Hall
10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Climate Shocks, Domestic Violence, and the Protective Role of Climate-Resilience Projects
September 20, 2024
Nidhiya Menon, Professor, Department of Economics & International Business School will discuss her paper which investigates the impact of climate change on intimate partner violence in Bangladesh, and shows that policy can mitigate much if not all of the harmful consequences of climate shocks on women. All are welcome to this Climate Justice Symposium adjacent event hosted by the economics department.
Seelye 201
12:15 pm

Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals from Leonardo to Now
September 21, 2024
This fall stop by to enjoy this companion exhibit to the book of the same name by Christophe Gole (Smith College), Stephane Douady, Jacques Dumais, and Nancy Pick. Photographs by Victor Mozqueda. Join the exhibit opening on September 26, 4:30-6 pm.
McConnell Hall Foyer

Requesting Letters of Recommendation
September 23, 2024
In this workshop, learn how to decide whom to ask to write you a letter of recommendation, how to make the request, and how to guide your letter writers to best support your application. We’ll also discuss how to build positive and meaningful relationships with faculty long before you would like to ask for a recommendation. Pizza will be served, including vegan and gluten-free options. Register on Handshake (link below)
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Campus Center 103/104
12:15 pm

Smithies in Science Club meeting and talk!
September 23, 2024
Join us for the first meeting of the semester Smithies in Science Club at Smith! Guest Martha Weiss, professor and director, Biology Department and co-director, Environmental Studies Program at Georgetown University will join us via Zoom. If you are interested in Environmental Science or Biology, come and hear her speak about her career and answer any questions you may have! If you want to join the Smithies in Science email list, you can sign up at the link below:
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Ford Hall 240 (Picker Case Study Room)
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Bike Kitchen!
September 24, 2024
Open Hours: Monday 12-1 pm, Thursday 12-1pm, Sunday 4-6 pm starting Monday 9/23. Have a bike that needs fixing? Want to learn how to fix your own and/or other people's bikes? By gosh then we'll see you there. Bike Kitchen is back in the basement of Talbot (woo!!). You can get to us by going around the house to the left of the front door, our door is at the base of the circle drive. Find out about bike rentals to Smithies (coming over the next few weeks) via Instagram (@smith.bikekitchen).
Talbot House basement

Career Communities Connect & Chat at CEEDS
September 24, 2024
Lazarus Center for Career Development’s Heather Brinn DeLand, PhD, Career Specialist for Government, Law, Policy & International Affairs and Debra J. Immergut, Career Specialist for the Arts, Media & Communications will be available to discuss possible career paths, internship ideas, career resources, and more. Drop by with your questions! Limited lunch provided on a first come, first served basis.
CEEDS
12:15 pm

'Confluence' by Amanda Maciuba
September 5 through October 16, 2024
Amanda Maciuba’s work is an exploration of the visible and invisible marks of human hands on the landscape. Her practice investigates human relationships with the environment over time, forefronting the impacts of human driven climate change. Confluence is a series of prints, artist’s books and installations that are inspired by the confluence of the Kaw and Missouri Rivers in Kansas City, Kansas, that has expanded to consider multiple points how water shapes human life and how our actions impact river environments in return throughout the United States. Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. On view through October 17.
Oresman Gallery, Hillyer
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Environmental Justice and Building a Clean Energy Economy
September 19, 2024
Join Black Appalachian Coalition, Ohio River Valley Institute and Main Street for Lunch & Learn at noon where we will hear from Archbishop Marcia Dinkins framing the issue of shaping a new economy with justice, inclusion and environmentally safe communities. Our special guests: Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome, Environmental Justice 40 Initiative Director for the White House Council on Environmental Quality will address the importance of the EJ-40 Initiative. Her perspective brings a new paradigm to government spending as a catalyst for change. Sonia Kikeri, National Director for Policy and Civic Engagement for Emerald Cities will show how strong economies are democratic and inclusive of all populations that are impacted by public and private investment and policy decisions. Patricia DeMarco will discuss the intrinsic dignity of work and the new direction for jobs in the clean economy. There will be time for discussion and a call to action for October and November. Register for the event at the link below.
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Over Zoom
12:00 pm

A Look at the Women in the Etchings of Frank A. Waugh
September 19, 2024
With Professor Emerita Annaliese Bischoff. In the twentieth century Frank A. Waugh was one of the most influential writers and advocates for horticulture, landscape design, and conservation, though he is not well known today. He wanted people to see beauty in the common places around them, beginning with the trees. Late in life he took up etching so he could represent trees in his penultimate book to popularize tree appreciation for everyone- men, women and children. In these etchings, beyond the trees, he represented three little known women who factored into his life- his wife, his eldest daughter and the long-term cleaning lady. Through the window of the etchings, more understanding about all of their important lives can be gleaned- how Waugh supported them and how they supported Waugh adds a dimension to history to be shared here. Their historically significant contributions to the larger community will be the focus. This Zube Lecture is sponsored by the UMass Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning.
UMass Amherst Design Building Lecture Hall (DB 170)
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Events at Smith

ES&P Lunchbag: The World of Langston Hughes and the Logistics of Counter-Mapping with Aaron Nyerges
September 26, 2024
Dr. Nyerges will discuss the literal and literary map-making practice of the modernist poet, arguing that Hughes's spatial praxis locates national identity by dislocating it, seeking to make cartographic representations personal, provisional, and negotiable rather than fixed and authoritative. This is a selection from the introduction of Dr. Nyerges's forthcoming book, American Modernism and the Cartographic Imagination. This new reading of American modernism examines the cartographic literature of the United States and places it in context of the state's overseas expansion. It stretches the map of US literature across an imperial archipelago of territories, bringing canonical American authors into relation with writers who are comparatively under-represented in modernist studies. The book argues that literary artists from across US dominion responded to space-dominating technologies of empire and retooled them to imagine counter-cartographies, designs that challenged the official geographies of the United States. Aaron Nyerges is a Senior Lecturer of American Studies at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. His work engages with literature, geography, and the history of media technologies. From 2021-2024 he was Academic Director of the United States Studies Centre and in 2024 he is the Rolf Lessenich Visiting Fellow at the University of Bonn. His first book, American Modernism and the Cartographic Imagination, will be released by Cambridge University Press in 2025. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

Exhibit opening: Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals from Leonardo to Now
September 26, 2024
Join us for the opening to enjoy this companion exhibit to the book of the same name by Christophe Gole (Smith College), Stephane Douady, Jacques Dumais, and Nancy Pick. Photographs by Victor Mozqueda. All welcome.
McConnell Hall Foyer
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Field Station Friday!
September 27, 2024
Enjoy your Friday afternoon with us for some Monkeying around at MacLeish on the Low Ropes Course! Get outside and have some laughs with Becca, Paul and Stef... Meet up at Sage Hall by 2:45 p.m. to get the van headed to MacLeish. We'll have you back on campus by dinnertime (6 p.m.). Sign up for a spot here!
Sage Hall to MacLeish Field Station and back again
2:45 pm

Writing Personal Statements
September 30, 2024
In this generative workshop, you will learn strategies for writing effective personal statements and statements of purpose for graduate and professional school. We’ll cover what admission committees are looking for, essential elements to include in a statement, and strategies for drafting and revising. Participants will leave with original content for their essays as well as a possible structure. Please bring a laptop or pen and paper. Pizza will be provided, including vegan and gluten-free options. Register on Handshake (link below)
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Campus Center 203
12:15 pm

What We Can't Burn
September 30, 2024
by Eve Driver, co-author of What We Can't Burn, a ‘memoir in two voices’ that she co-wrote with Kenyan climate entrepreneur Tom Osborn who was critical of Harvard's fossil fuel divestment campaign while Eve was part of it. This talk is part of the ENX 100 Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field lecture series. All are welcome!
CEEDS
3:05 pm to 4:20 pm

Exhibition: Here, Now
August 30, 2024 through July 13, 2025
From August 30, 2024 until July 13, 2024, The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) will host a solo exhibition of art by Younes Rahmoun—one of Morocco’s most important artists—in partnership with the Botanic Garden of Smith College and Arts Afield at CEEDS. The exhibition will explore how Rahmoun’s place-based sculptures and installations have, for the last 25 years, created space for viewers to be in community, together in the here and now. Foremost among the exhibition's themes are nature, place, and landscape; spirituality; migration as a consequence of de/colonization; and the relationship between the macrocosm and the microcosm. The public can visit various elements of he exhibition- on Smith Campus at the SCMA and the Botanic Garden- and at Smith's Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station.
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Smith College Museum of Art and the MacLeish Field Station

Events Off Campus

Lecture: Converting Science into Policy: A Career Inspired by Rachel Carson
September 26, 2024
Dr. William Sutherland, Professor of Conservation Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK, will deliver a Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture. Dr. Sutherland is a leading ecologist and conservation scientist. Over the last twenty years he has pioneered a range of approaches to policy and practice including novel means of horizon scanning, identifying policy-relevant research agendas, new techniques for collating and assessing evidence, and processes for embedding experiments into practice. With over eleven hundred named collaborators he has created the website www.conservationevidence.com (which reviews the evidence for the effectiveness of 3155 conservation actions), and a set of tools for making evidence-based decisions and embedding evidence into practice. He was President of the British Ecological Society and regularly advises government and conservation organizations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Commander of the British Empire, a recipient of the ECI Prize, Sir John Burnett Memorial Lecture Medal, Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, Marsh Award for Ecology from the British Ecological Society, and many others. Register for this talk at the link below:
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Zoom
10:00 am

Lecture: What is a 'Third Place' and Why do They Matter?
September 26, 2024
With Karen Christensen. The term “third place” was coined in 1989 by sociologist Ray Oldenburg (1932-2022) in The Great Good Place, meaning happy gathering places that are neither home nor work. He saw that third places - cafes, taverns, bowling alleys, barbershops, and general stores – could be found around the world, providing fertile ground for human interaction, enhancing individual well-being, and contributing to the common good. Karen Christensen corresponded with Oldenburg for 20 years before meeting him, and he left her the job of writing a sequel to his landmark book. Christensen suggests that third places are the key to solving climate change, loneliness, and political polarization, and brings a cross-cultural perspective to issues including diversity, economics, and public transit. This Zube Lecture is sponsored by the UMass Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning.
UMass Amherst Design Building Lecture Hall (DB 170)
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Events at Smith

'Confluence' by Amanda Maciuba
September 5 through October 16, 2024
Amanda Maciuba’s work is an exploration of the visible and invisible marks of human hands on the landscape. Her practice investigates human relationships with the environment over time, forefronting the impacts of human driven climate change. Confluence is a series of prints, artist’s books and installations that are inspired by the confluence of the Kaw and Missouri Rivers in Kansas City, Kansas, that has expanded to consider multiple points how water shapes human life and how our actions impact river environments in return throughout the United States. Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. On view through October 17.
Oresman Gallery, Hillyer
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Presentation of the Concentrations
October 4, 2024
Get more information about the concentrations at Smith (including the Environmental Concentration).
Carroll Room, Campus Center 208
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

Environmental Study Abroad Info Session
October 7, 2024
Students interested in studying abroad with a program that has an environmental focus should plan to attend this lunchtime information session to learn about all of the different types of programs available. Lewis Global Studies Center staff will be there to answer questions and students who studied abroad last year will be there to share their stories. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

Making Meaning of ‘Women for the World' to Advance Climate Action
October 7, 2024
by Blythe Coleman-Mumford ‘17, Climate Programs Manager: HBCU/MSI Engagement and BIPOC Affinity Programming at Second Nature. This talk is part of the ENX 100 Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field lecture series. All are welcome!
CEEDS
3:05 pm to 4:20 pm

Botanic Garden Summer Internships - Info. Session
October 7, 2024
What: Learn about opportunities to get involved with the botanic garden! We have conservation and summer internships, and opportunities for conducting plant research over the summer in London through a Kew internship.
Lyman, 111
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Alum Visit: Science Journalist Sadie Dingfelder '01 Talks About Her Neurodiverse Career
October 8, 2024
Smith alum Sadie Dingfelder '01 will give an overview of career opportunities in science writing and science communication, and share what she's I've learned about neurodiversity and the neurodiversity movement through her work as a neurodiverse science writer for National Geographic, the Washington Post, and the American Psychological Association. Sponsored by the Lazarus Center, the Accessibility Resource Center, ES&P and JNX.
CC 103/104
4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

Science Careers for the Greater Good
October 9, 2024
The Science Careers for the Greater Good series introduces Smithies to a range of science-focused careers that have a social impact. This semester, we'll be joined by Beth Capiro '16. Beth is Manager of Climate Data Science at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the public agency responsible for public transportation in New York City. Beth joined the MTA in 2018 when she completed a Master of Urban Planning degree at CUNY Hunter College. Her work at the MTA involves collecting, managing, and interpreting a variety of data to support the development and implementation of the MTA's Capital Improvement Program. In particular, she's worked on a variety of initiatives to better prepare New York City's public transit system for climate change. Snacks provided. Sponsored by The Lazarus Center and CEEDS.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Captured Sunshine: An Energetic View of Terrestrial Ecosystems
October 4, 2024
Harvard Forest Bullard Lecture, with Dr. Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Programme Leader of the Ecosystems Group at the Environmental Change Institute, and the Director of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, University of Oxford.
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Zoom and in person - more details at link
11:00 am

Information Session: The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability
October 8, 2024
The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to invite interested prospective students to our Online Information Session to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver for attending. We'll also review our scholarships (below)! Use the link below to register:
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Virtual
7:00 pm

2024 Virtual Forum on Bi-Partisan Environmental Policy
October 9, 2024
The Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, the League of Conservation Voters, the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth, and Sustainable Futures Consulting will be hosting a multi-part panel discussion featuring bi-partisan environmental decision-makers of the past, present, and future. The first panel is on Reflections and Insights from Champions of the Clean Air Act Amendment and the second panel is on Youth Environmental Action.
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Webinar - register at link above
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm