Environmental Studies ENVS

Life in the Time of Covid: Creativity & Faith in Times of Violence and Insurrection

What does it take to dream the future we want? What does it mean to let go of the old in order to try something new?

Join artist and catalyst Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees and artist & Middlebury scholar-in-residence Carolyn Finney as they lean into the borderlands of possibility to support multiple visions of the future.

Bring your open heart and good questions!

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Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public

Ride or Die: Fractured Environments, Building Community & Keeping it Real

“Who I am is the possibility of the transformation of humanity.  What I’m giving up is that I’m misunderstood” – Mahting Putelis

Who do you stand with?  Where do you stand?  What does it mean for us to have something in common?  CEO of Hunt to Eat Mahting Putelis and artist-in-residence Dr. Carolyn Finney open up with each other about identity, conservation, generational trauma, & the challenge of walking the talk.  Join them as they take the leap – bring your open hearts and good questions!

Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public

Represent This! Black Bodies, Green Space and Radical Self-Care

“Nothing is more intimate than your body in the world” – Alice Randall

NY Times bestselling author & activist Alice Randall joins artist & Middlebury scholar-in-residence Carolyn Finney for a conversation where they give up the “t” on the intimate experience of being a black body on a green and imperiled planet. 

Join them as they go off the beaten path to dig into self-care, allyship, Black possibility and the art of living. 

What would a Black Walden Pond look like? 

Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public

Chemistry & Biochemistry and Env. Studies Guest Lecture

Sponsored by:
Chemistry and Environmental Studies
Prof. William Tarpeh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, will give a guest lecture via zoom, titled “Tracking and Treating Aqueous Nitrogen Emissions” on Friday, April 2, 2021 at 1:45 PM. Students are invited to meet with Prof. Tarpeh immediately following his lecture.

Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public

Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series - Midd-Climate Action Fellows Reflections on Learning

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
Middlebury’s recently launched Climate Action Capacity Project seeks to support all students in finding meaningful ways to engage and act on the climate crisis. One of the hallmark initiatives of the Project is the Climate Action Fellowship program, developed for students from varied backgrounds and interests. As they wrap up the inaugural year of the Climate Action Fellowship, participating students will reflect on their backgrounds, the work and learning they’ve done through the Fellowship and what they hope for themselves and Middlebury going forward.

Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public