Environmental Studies

A combined talk/reading by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Professor of English (State University of New York at Fredonia) and 2016-17 Grisham Writer-in-Residence (University of Mississippi), in which she will explore a different way of thinking about environment and discuss “wonder” as an ecological love practice in nature writing. Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s fourth book of poetry, Oceanic, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon and her nature essay collection is forthcoming from Milkweed in 2018.

Students in WT Course “Sea Turtles to Sharks: Exploring the Social & Ecological Context of Marine Protected Areas” will be performing slam poetry about the reproductive strategies and key life-cycle traits of a marine organism of their choice. From hermaphroditism to sexual outercourse, come learn about the art of salty seduction.

Author and explorer Brooke Williams will talk about discovering our role in evolution with references to his new book, “Open Midnight: Where Wilderness and Ancestors Meet” (Trinity University Press).

Shua Group (NY/NH) and the Dance Company of Middlebury present two interactive installations that visitors can discover on campus. Find them, then jump into a pool of plastic, or listen to the melting of an ice sculpture. Through drastically different aesthetics and experiences, the installations offer metaphors for our relationship with environment. Sponsored by the Enviornmental Studeies and Dance programs and Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of the Celebration of 50 Years of Enviornmental Education and Leadership at Middlebury.

Shua Group (NY/NH) and the Dance Company of Middlebury present two interactive installations that visitors can discover on campus. Find them, then jump into a pool of plastic, or listen to the melting of an ice sculpture. Through drastically different aesthetics and experiences, the installations offer metaphors for our relationship with environment. Sponsored by the Enviornmental Studeies and Dance programs and Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of the Celebration of 50 Years of Enviornmental Education and Leadership at Middlebury.

Shua Group (NY/NH) and the Dance Company of Middlebury present two interactive installations that visitors can discover on campus. Find them, then jump into a pool of plastic, or listen to the melting of an ice sculpture. Through drastically different aesthetics and experiences, the installations offer metaphors for our relationship with environment. Sponsored by the Enviornmental Studeies and Dance programs and Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of the Celebration of 50 Years of Enviornmental Education and Leadership at Middlebury.

Shua Group (NY/NH) and the Dance Company of Middlebury present two interactive installations that visitors can discover on campus. Find them, then jump into a pool of plastic, or listen to the melting of an ice sculpture. Through drastically different aesthetics and experiences, the installations offer metaphors for our relationship with environment. Sponsored by the Enviornmental Studeies and Dance programs and Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of the Celebration of 50 Years of Enviornmental Education and Leadership at Middlebury.

Shua Group (NY/NH) and the Dance Company of Middlebury present two interactive installations that visitors can discover on campus. Find them, then jump into a pool of plastic, or listen to the melting of an ice sculpture. Through drastically different aesthetics and experiences, the installations offer metaphors for our relationship with environment. Sponsored by the Enviornmental Studeies and Dance programs and Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of the Celebration of 50 Years of Enviornmental Education and Leadership at Middlebury.

Maree ReMalia and her Pittsburgh-based collaborators, The Drop Ins, are melding their creative fields spanning dance, sound, visual art, photography, and film to develop movement scores and interactive installations that invite the community to engage in playful, creative ways alongside them to offer a means of expressing and interacting through various mediums while actively engaging questions of resiliency, connectivity, and sustainable well-being. The scores and installations are intended to be inclusive for a wide range of participants to “drop in”.

Come learn about a brand-new Feb Break educational opportunity investigating the power dynamics that surround Guatemala’s complex food system with the Origins of Food project.