Environmental Studies

Join visiting artist Jay Mead to create community art to commemorate 50 Years of Environmental Education and Leadership at Middlebury! Jay will be working on the lawn between Franklin Environmental Center and Proctor all day October 1 & 2, so stop by and participate at any time.

“Rewilding, Large Mammal Reintroduction, and Park Creation in South America: 25 years of Tompkins Conservation” by Ignacio Jimenez Perez (Tompkins Conservation). Co-sponsored by The Program in Environmental Studies, Environmental Affairs, and the Biology Department.

Screening and Panel Discussion: DamNation (doors open at 6:30p) Middlebury is hosting a screening of DamNation, an award winning film that sheds a new light on America’s dams. Here in Vermont, dams may not be considered big but they are plentiful—over 1,000 dams exist on Vermont’s waterways. An estimated 200 of these are considered “deadbeat” dams, meaning that they serve no utility or purpose.

Carolyn Finney author of “Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimaging the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors.” In her recently published book, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (UNC Press), Carolyn explores the complexities and contradictions of the African American environmental relationship.

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.