Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Barclays is an international financial services provider engaged in personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management with an extensive presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Barclays’ purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way. With 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs over 130,000 people.

Paul Sommers, Paige-Wright Professor of Economics will give this lecture.

“Forty-Two Years of Collaborative Research with Middlebury College Students … and Counting”

In this lecture, Paul will discuss several of his student co-authored papers. The topics will include who voted for Trump, how accurate is Punxsutawney Phil, why George W. Bush owes a huge debt of gratitude to Pat Buchanan in the 2000 presidential election, and who really wrote the Beatles’ hits that were ostensibly collaborative Lennon/McCartney songs?

Kathryn Morse, John C. Elder Chair in Environmental Studies and Professor of History will give this lecture.

Conserving Whiteness: The 1930s Tenancy Crisis and New Deal Rural Rehabilitation

MIDD-ES CORE PANEL DISCUSSION: Environmental Studies for an Unpredictably Changing World: An Interdisciplinary Conversation.

Peter Ryan, Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies; Jon Isham, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies; Kathryn Morse, John C. Elder Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of History, Middlebury College.

“Same as it ever was – State leadership on climate change in the post-Obama era” by Jared Snyder, Deputy Commissioner, Office of Air Resources, Climate Change and Energy.

“The Making of The Narrow Edge” by Deborah Cramer, Author, Visiting Scholar Environmental Solutions Initiative, MIT.

“Beyond Moral Fundamentalism: Pragmatic Pluralism in Environmental Ethics” by Steven Fesmire, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College; Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Green Mountain College

“Healing the Agricultural Mind” by Bill Vitek, Professor of Philosophy, Clarkson University.

“The Evolution of Private Governance Across Sectors” by Graeme Auld, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University.

“Metropolitan Foodsheds: A Resilient Solution to the Climate Change Challenge?” by Laura Lengnick, Owner and Principal, Cultivating Resilience, LLC and Vice President of Resilience, Climate Optimize, Inc.