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Events at Smith

Fragile Earth
September 9, 2019
The impact of human action on the earth has increased dramatically in the past 50 years. This installation, organized to coincide with Smith College’s Year on Climate Change, features a selection of works from the SCMA collection created between the early 1970s and mid-2000s that focus on the intersection of human life and our environment. On display July 19-November 10, 2019. Visit the website for hours:
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Nixon Gallery, Smith College Museum of Art

Lunchbag: Groundwater contamination at Pinetree Power: What constitutes safe drinking water?
September 9, 2019
Geo lunch talks kick off with a presentation by Professor Bob Newton. Lunch served at noon, talk begins at 12:15 p.m.
Sabin-Reed 103
12:15 pm

Extinction Rebellion meeting
September 9, 2019
New Member Intro Session at 6:30; general meeting from 7-9 pm, open to all. More info at the link below:
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Campus Center -look for meeting signs
6:30 pm

Climate 101: Why the Earth is Warming. Carbon Cycles, Bathtubs, and You!
September 10, 2019
A Sigma Xi lunchtime talk by Professor Nathanael Fortune, Department of Physics. Part of the Year on Climate Change's Climate 101 series. Talks begin at 12:10 and are open to all faculty, staff, and students. A complimentary lunch is offered in McConnell Foyer.
McConnell 103
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Events at Smith

Listening Session with Landscape Master Plan Committee and Matthews Nielsen Landscape Architects
September 13, 2019
September 14, 2019
Come to the Campus Center and Join the Conversation! Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to join the conversation and shape Smith's next landscape master plan. Your comments, concerns, ideas, and values are essential. Through your involvement, the Landscape Master Planning (LMP) Committee can identify synergies and strategic changes that will inform comprehensive solutions to complex issues affecting Smith’s landscape. The LMP will establish an overarching philosophy for the landscape and a mission statement for Smith College for the next 20 years with regard to: 1. Inclusivity: Capacity of the landscape to strengthen and advance social and cultural identity and promote health and well-being; 2. Education: Capacity of the landscape to be a teaching and learning environment that fosters stewardship and scholarship; 3. Adaptation: Capacity of the landscape to be resilient to the forces of climate change and prioritizes regenerative ecological function.
Campus Center
11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Bike Kitchen: fall bicycle rentals
September 15, 2019
$20 for the semester- cash or OneCard. Includes bike, lock and helmet. If we run out of bikes you can fix one of our extras up and rental is free.
Talbot House basement by the Campus School
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Exhibition: Journeys & Visual Poems
September 16, 2019
Journeys, an exhibit of paintings by Kate Whittaker (AC 1990), reflect impressions formed during her climate research travels to remote areas of the world. Patterns form landscapes, marks conjure ancestral presence, and ancient calligraphy evokes a shared heritage. The process can involve forty or more layers of paint, while accents of micaceous paint illuminate and grow quiet with the changing light. Visual Poems, in traditional scroll format, are a natural offshoot of these layered paintings and combine details of her paintings and photographs to form narratives of their own. On view Sept. 6-Dec. 17. Open Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.
Alumnae House Gallery, 33 Elm St.
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

The Climate Justice Movement: Grassroots Organizing in High Stake Times
September 16, 2019
with Susan Theberge, Member, Climate Action Now. This lecture is part of the ENX 100: Environment and Sustainability Lecture Series
McConnell 103
2:40 pm

Study Abroad Fair
September 17, 2019

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Davis Ballroom
11:00 am

SEA Information Table
September 17, 2019
Can't make it to the afternoon info session? Stop by our info table to find out more about this field-based study abroad program focused on the ocean environment. SEA offers 6 different semester programs ranging in focus from global climate change to cultural and environmental sustainability to conservation and marine biodiversity. SEA semester programs include an on-shore component followed by a sailing research voyage in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Caribbean. Motivated students of all majors who are passionate about learning, inspired to take on real-world issues, and eager to become part of an unparalleled living and learning community are welcome to apply.
Campus Center, main level table
2:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Info Session: SEA Semester
September 17, 2019
SEA Semester is a field-based study abroad program focused on the ocean environment. SEA offers 6 different semester programs that focus on environmental topics ranging from global climate change to cultural and environmental sustainability to conservation and marine biodiversity. SEA semester programs include an on-shore component in Woods Hole, Massachusetts followed by a sailing research voyage in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Caribbean. Motivated students of all majors who are passionate about learning, inspired to take on real-world issues, and eager to become part of an unparalleled living and learning community are welcome to apply.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
4:15 pm

Info Session: Nicholas School of the Environment/Duke Marine Lab
September 18, 2019
Meet Park Watson from the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment to talk about the Nicholas School’s professional master's degrees in Environmental Management (MEM) and Forestry (MF). Student interested in studying at the Duke Marine Lab (as an undergraduate or graduate student) are also invited to attend. The Nicholas School’s interdisciplinary focus trains our students to be effective practitioners of environmental stewardship and sustainable development. Students are prepared for varied environmental management careers in Federal/State positions, private industry, NGOs, and consulting jobs. Our MEM students chose from seven program areas, with the option to complete a concurrent degree in engineering, public policy, business, law, teaching, or theological studies. Many of our MF students complete a concurrent MEM degree.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

BagShare Training with Design Thinking Initiative
September 18, 2019
Learn how to use equipment to transform used feed bags and agricultural plastic waste into fashionable tote bags. Workshop participants will be trained on all equipment and techniques necessary to lead future Bagshare workshops. Pre-registration Required (use link below).
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Capen Annex: Design Thinking
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Events at Smith

Chajara-Tupelo performance
September 19, 2019
A performance by artist Younès Rahmoun Followed by discussion with audience. This program is presented in collaboration with The Botanic Garden of Smith College and is part of the scholarly convening, Light, Brick, Jute, Earth: Younès Rahmoun, September 19-21, 2019, organized by Emma Chubb, Ph.D., Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art, SCMA, in collaboration with the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. Supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Paradise Pond (opposite the Japanese Garden) rain or shine
5:15 pm to 7:00 pm

Buddhism and Extinction: Buddhist Perspectives on the Climate Emergency
September 19, 2019
Confronted with the climate emergency, Buddhists offer a range of responses, some inclining towards activism and others towards passivity. In this lecture, Dr. Karin Meyers examines these responses in light of a variety of Buddhist philosophical perspectives and the historical development of Buddhism in Asia and the West. She argues that the climate emergency ought to be a central Buddhist (and human) concern which calls for a deepening and evolution of Buddhist practice. Meyers is Visiting Assistant Professor at Smith this semester and received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2010.
Seelye 201
7:00 pm

Sustainable Development: Four Years Linking the Smith Campus and the Global Challenge
September 23, 2019
with Dano Weisbord, Director of Sustainability and Campus Planning; Administrative Director, CEEDS. Part of the ENX 100: Environment and Sustainability Lecture Series
McConnell 103
2:40 pm

Workshop: UN Sustainability Development Goals: Problems and Solutions
September 24, 2019
The UN SDGs are a blueprint to realize a more sustainable future, addressing global problems associated with environmental degradation, prosperity, peace and justice. The goals that will be the focus of this workshop include quality education, gender equality, affordable and clean energy, reducing inequality, and climate action. During this workshop, students will begin to think about these problems and act on creating potential solutions. Dinner provided. Part of the Conway Center's Innovative Strategies Workshop Series: Social Impact- for Smith community members.
Campus Center Room 003
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Cultivating Wisdom, Intimacy, and Response in a Warming World:
September 25, 2019
A Meditation Series in Eco-Buddhism Wednesday evenings throughout the semester with Karin Meyers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies. Meyers was associate professor at Kathmandu University’s Centre for Buddhist Studies from 2011–18, where she also served as director of the master’s program in Buddhist studies. Her work focuses on Buddhist psychology, ethics and contemplative systems; Buddhism and free will; and topics in Buddhist studies that occupy the borderlands of religion and philosophy.
Helen Hills Hills Chapel
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Climate Emergency March for a Just Future - Strike Solidarity
September 20, 2019
Our life support systems must be protected now! The students who strike on #fridaysFortheFuture know that this is a climate emergency. We know that this is a climate emergency. 4:15 pm: gather & get organized at the Sheldon Field Northampton commuter lot. 4:30 step off march. Climate Emergency March & chanting to city hall. 5:00 protest rally at Northampton City hall It's time for our government, institutions, corporations, and all people to take action to scale with the enormity of the the problem. Today is the day for all to acknowledge the urgency of our situation. After the rally: Please support Northampton businesses today! Starting at 6 pm, the Ecstatic Rebellion Dance for Life fundraiser for Extinction Rebellion Western Mass starts at First Churches on Main St!
Sheldon Park, 269 Bridge St Northampton
4:15 pm

We're Doomed. Now What? Reading & Conversation with Roy Scranton
September 20, 2019
We live in a time of alarming and bewildering change--the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what? Join Roy Scranton for an exploration of how to make sense of the planetary catastrophe we're currently living through, and what real hope for a human future might look like. Roy Scranton is the author of several books, including Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. His latest books are Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature, and the novel I ❤ Oklahoma! He teaches at the University of Notre Dame. This event is part of Philip Glass at UMass: Arts & Sustainability Responding to Life Out of Balance, a weekend of thought-provoking events about the threats we are facing to our natural world and how we can rise to the challenge. This event is hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA for Poets and Writers, School of Earth & Sustainability, and the Fine Arts Center with gratitude for support from the UMass College of Humanities & Fine Arts, Department of English, Department of Environmental Conservation and the W.E.B. Du Bois Library’s Sustainability Fund; the Mount Holyoke College English Department and the Miller Worley Center for the Environment; the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College; and the Smith College Poetry Center and Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability.
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John W. Olver Design Building, UMass Amherst
7:30 pm

Trail Beautification Project
September 21, 2019
Friends of Northampton Trails board members Freeman Stein and Karen Beyel are leading an effort to beautify the section of the trail corridor that abuts their neighborhood. The first work day of this project consists of removing debris and invasive plants. Future work includes a landscape design by Smith College students that incorporates native plants, and the subsequent realization of the design. This project will result in a highly enjoyable experience for everyone passing through this trail segment. Meet on the bike path between Chestnut St and Straw Ave (below Fairfield Ave). Bring work gloves, water and a pruner or saw if you have it. Work will end by noon. Contact Freeman@fntg.net for additional information and to RSVP.
Florence
9:00 am

Reading: Art in the Anthropocene
September 21, 2019
The Anthropocene is our current geological era defined by the impact of human interference on the planet. This reading invites conversations around engagement with art in the age of the Anthropocene. Join Paperbark Literary Magazine as we celebrate the fall release of Issue 2: Resilience with selected readings from the magazine's contributors, followed by a Q&A. Paperbark Literary Magazine celebrates the resonance between the sciences and the humanities. The magazine acknowledges the varying approaches to the work of sustainability across disciplines and aims to gather distinct voices in the collective resistance to pressures like climate change and natural, economic, and public environmental crises. Paperbark publishes written pieces and visual art that speak to environmentalism rooted in racial and socioeconomic justice. This event is hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA for Poets and Writers, School of Earth & Sustainability, and the Fine Arts Center with gratitude for support from the UMass College of Humanities & Fine Arts, Department of English, Department of Environmental Conservation and the W.E.B. Du Bois Library’s Sustainability Fund; the Mount Holyoke College English Department and the Miller Worley Center for the Environment; the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College; and the Smith College Poetry Center and Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability. This event is part of Philip Glass at UMass: Arts & Sustainability Responding to Life Out of Balance, a weekend of thought-provoking events about the threats we are facing to our natural world and how we can rise to the challenge.
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Old Chapel, UMass AMherst
1:00 pm

Special Event: Philip Glass in Conversation
September 21, 2019
Join Philip Glass and the School of Earth & Sustainability in an engaging panel discussion with prominent scholars and artists about pressing environmental issues, promising solutions, and the power of creative arts and communication to inspire collective action.
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Bowker Auditorium, UMass Amherst
7:00 pm

Film: Koyaanisqatsi Live Performed by Philip Glass & The Philip Glass Ensemble
September 22, 2019
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Philip Glass Ensemble, the legendary composer Philip Glass will join the Philip Glass Ensemble to perform a live film concert of his original score of Godfrey Reggio’s cinematic masterpiece, Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance.
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Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, UMass AMherst
3:00 pm