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Conference: Climate Equity and Justice: Solutions and Action
October 4, 2019
October 5, 2019
October 6, 2019
All Smith community members (students, faculty, staff, and alumnae) are invited to help launch Smith's Year on Climate Change! We hope you will join us no matter your passion or background because climate change affects all of us and everyone has a place in the important work we need to do to address it. Programming will begin Friday afternoon and run through Sunday morning. Learn about the incredible speakers with extremely diverse backgrounds and register using the link below:
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Events at Smith

Presentation of the Environmental Concentrations in Climate Change and Sustainable Food
October 2, 2019
The environmental concentrations let students engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of the many issues involved in the topics of sustainable food and climate change. Come for a tasty lunch and find out more!
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CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Cultivating Wisdom, Intimacy, and Response in a Warming World:
October 2, 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

Fall Career Fair
October 3, 2019
Students from all majors are invited to meet with recruiters from corporate and nonprofit organizations to discuss a broad range of internship and full-time career opportunities. The fair is free for students; no registration is required. For Lazarus Center tips for a successful career fair and a list and description of participating organizations visit the link below;
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Indoor Track and Tennis Facility, Smith College Indoor Track and Tennis Facility
3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Climate 101: Campus Sustainability: A Campus as Classroom Approach
October 4, 2019
A Teaching Arts Lunch sponsored by the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning and CEEDS.
Campus Center Carroll Room
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Exhibition: Journeys & Visual Poems
October 6, 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

Art Meets Climate Equity - A multi-sensory tour experience
October 6, 2019
exploring connections between art and climate justice. Meet at the Smith College Museum of Art for a multi-sensory experience exploring connections between art and climate justice. SCMA Student Museum Educators will guide participants to explore the ways in which artists through time have inspired broader awareness and action in response to climate change. Engage in dialogue, writing reflection, sketching and more during this interactive tour in the galleries of the museum!
Smith College Museum of Art
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

A model for global engagement: 20 years of environmental education and research in Belize
October 8, 2019
Join us for a Sigma Xi sponsored lunch and lecture to learn more about research Smith faculty and students are engaged in! Lunch provided.
McConnell 103
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Events at Smith

Fragile Earth
October 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

Cultivating Wisdom, Intimacy, and Response in a Warming World:
October 9, 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

ES&P Lunchbag: Who gets involved in community based conservation? An Ecuadorian case study
October 10, 2019
Kelsey Hartman '12 is currently a Master of Environmental Management candidate with a concentration in Ecosystem and Land Conservation and Management at Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Native American Life during the Early Archaic Period: A View from Northampton
October 13, 2019
A Public Talk by David Leslie, Senior Archaeologist. Last fall, Dave Leslie, a lead archaeologist with Archeological and Historical Services, Inc., was hired to conduct a preliminary assessment of an area in Northampton where a new roadway construction project is planned. Some of the test pits established during this process uncovered Native American artifacts dating to the Early Archaic Period. Leslie will present his findings and explain what this site reveals about Native Americans during this time period. This event is hosted by Historic Northampton in partnership with the Forbes Library. It is sponsored by Mass Humanities. Registration is required. Follow the link below:
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Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA
4:30 pm

Events at Smith

Lunchbag: Environmental Study Abroad student panel
October 16, 2019
Hear from fellow students about their experience in a Smith-approved study abroad program with an environment-related focus. Lisa Johnson, Assistant Dean for International Study will be there to provide additional information and answer questions about all of the programs available. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

The Consequences of Columbus 'Getting Lost": Rewriting our History:
October 16, 2019
A Talking Circle with Alice Nash, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst, and co-director of the Summer Institutes for Teachers on teaching Native American histories in collaboration with Five Colleges. On Columbus Day the indigenous community at Smith will gather to reclaim and rewrite our history as Indigenous Peoples Day. Awareness about the past and its consequences within our present are important to cultivate in order to heal our nations and move forward together into the future. We invite the entire Smith community, all friends and allies within the Five Colleges to be a part of our talking Circle on the Doctrine of Discovery and Rewriting Indigenous History as an act of Resistance. Sponsored by Indigenous Smith Students Alliance, Africana Studies, Anthropology, CEEDS, Latin American Studies, Sociology, UPC, and CSRL.
Chapin Deck
4:00 pm

Cultivating Wisdom, Intimacy, and Response in a Warming World:
October 16, 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

Global FLEX: Summer in Morocco Info Session
October 17, 2019
Learn more about the Global FLEX program, directed by Camille Washington-Ottombre (ENV) and Greg White (GOV/ENV). It examines the multifaceted dimension of climate change in a middle-income country with a particular focus on issues of environmental justice. Themes include economic development, agriculture and hydrology, efforts to adapt, gender politics, and migration. The course/program has six pre-departure meetings during the spring semester, and then travels to Morocco from June 1 - June 18.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Health & STEM Professions Lunch Bag: Intro to Fellowships for Pre-Health & STEM Professions Students
October 18, 2019
Discussion of competitive fellowships available to undergraduates in STEM majors (including Goldwater, Hollings, and Udall) and for graduate study (including NSF GRF, at US universities, and Churchill, Gates-Cambridge, and Marshall, in the UK). Selection criteria will be discussed, as well as ways that students can make themselves stronger candidates for competitive opportunities. Open to ALL students who are looking for funding and want to understand the requirements of competitive fellowships.
McConnell 103
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

GEO-Poetry Center lunchbag
October 21, 2019
Dr. Bosiljka Glumac, professor of geosciences, and Teresa Carson, poet, will discuss their cross-disciplinary collaboration that culminated in a new thread of research for Dr. Glumac, and in the poem "SARKO (FLESH) -PHAGOS (EATING)," which is a piece from Teresa's in-progress project "The Argument of Time." Lunch provided. Teresa Carson holds an MFA in poetry and an MFA in theater, both from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of three collections of poetry, and is currently working on an epic poem, "The Argument of Time," about Ostia Antica, an extinct city near Rome.
Poetry Center, Wright Hall
12:15 pm

Lecture: Abolish Big Data
October 21, 2019
Yeshimabeit Milner is the Founder & Executive Director of Data for Black Lives, an organization that mobilizes scientists around racial justice issues, bringing together data scientists, computer programmers, and racial justice activists to discuss the role that data can and should play in Black communities. This talk serves as a call to action to reject the concentration of Big Data in the hands of a few, to challenge the structures that allow data to be wielded as a weapon of immense political influence. To abolish Big Data would mean to put data in the hands of people who need it the most.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

BlockChain For Social Impact
October 22, 2019
Three panelists will help students understand what blockchain is, explore how the technology is being deployed in various industries to help solve social problems as well as help distinguish environmental impacts fact from fiction. Panelists: Evin McMullen and Johnna Powell (ConsenSys), Lexi Wangler (Wachsman). Moderated by Hassani Turner '06, American Express. Dinner provided. This is the final event of the semester in the Conway Center's Innovative Strategies series.
Campus Center 205
6:00 pm

Events Off Campus

The Great Tree Bicycle Tour- register now!
October 20, 2019
This will be an 8 mile self-guided tour of some of the most interesting and awe-inspiring trees within Northampton. Online and paper maps with the route and tree information will be provided. There will be an audio file for each tree on the tour easily accessible via a smart phone with a QR code reader. The tour will conclude with festivities at Maines Field. Bring your friends, or make some new ones, and ride at your own pace. Pre-registration is required for this event. Use the link below for more detail and to register:
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Start in Pulaski Park, Northampton
10:00 am