Environmental Studies ENVS

Garden

This large-scale, site-specific installation celebrates the passage of knowledge, experience, and hope from one generation to another. By slowly crisscrossing colorful, oversized ribbons within an expansive environment, the performers alter the color, density, and time signature of space, creating a world in which each movement and architectural detail is illuminated. Developed by Tzveta Kassabova with the Dance Company of Middlebury and guest performers. Location: Outside Mead Memorial Chapel on Oct. 8th. Rain date is Oct.

Middlebury College

Free
Open to the Public

Film Screening of Overburden and discussion with Director & Emmy-winning filmmaker, Chad Stevens

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
Overburden is the story of a fiery, pro-coal right-winger and a tenacious, environmentalist grandmother as they take on the most dangerous coal company in America. These two lives intertwine as Betty and Lorelei unite to launch the first wind farm in coal country and to rebuild their fractured community.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

Free
Open to the Public

Fifty Years of Green: A Digital Exhibition

Professor Kathy Morse (History) and Postdoc Alicia Peaker (DLA) will discuss the goals, process, successes and stumbles in having students build a series of collaborative, digital exhibits to mark 50 years of environmental studies at Middlebury. Fifty Years of Green, built using Omeka & Neatline, showcases the work of students in a Spring 2015 Environmental History course (HIST 222). During their talk, Kathy and Alicia will reflect on collaborative digital work; modifying an existing course with an experimental project; and student reactions to learning new software and skills.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Free
Closed to the Public

Facilitation in Katie Martin’s Dance Improvisation Class

Maree ReMalia and her Pittsburgh-based collaborators present Landing/Shifting: Drop In, a series of interactive and participatory installations and performances that invite all members of the community to “drop in.” These events use dance, visual art, sound, and video to explore the ways creative experiences foster resiliency, connectivity, and sustainable well-being. This first event will play with movement scores and installation concepts in conjunction with Katie Martin’s Dance Improvisation class. Sponsored by The Andrew W.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall Discovery Court

Open to the Public

Environmental Studies Senior Thesis Presentation

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
Please join us for two senior thesis presentations in Environmental Studies!

4:00 p.m. Thomas Epstein, Environmental Studies major, Environmental Policy focus: “The Structural Determinants of Undocumented Farmworker Health: Understanding the Impacts of U.S. Immigration Policy Since NAFTA.”

4:30 p.m. Heather Tourgee, Environmental Studies major, Environmental Non-Fiction focus: “When the Flood Comes: On rising seas, grief, and coming to terms with a new planet.”

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Celebrating Fifty Years of Environmental Education & Leadership at Middlebury!

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
World Café: Our Environment, Our Future An Inclusive Group Dialogue for Students, Staff, Faculty and Guests In a café setting, we will build upon the ideas expressed in the keynote address and panel to explore questions that matter to our community, our nation and our globe. Our goal is to connect diverse perspectives, share collective discoveries, and stimulate deep thinking about our collective and personal “environmental” futures. All are invited to attend. For more information & a complete schedule of 50th celebration events: go.middlebury.edu/enviro50

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

Open to the Public