Environmental Studies

Down to Earth: Nourishing Change in the Champlain Valley

Ag and culture in conversation

Join us in imagining our perennial future at the 2nd annual conversation on regeneration, reciprocity, relationship, and recovery in the Champlain Valley and beyond.

Keynote: “Caring for the Ecosphere”

Aubrey Streit Krug, PhD, The Land Institute

Panelists:

Thomas Jackson, Mind-Body Medicine

Nancy Winship Milliken, Artist

Corie Pierce, Bread and Butter Farm

Matt Schlein, Walden Project and Willowell Foundation

Distancing and Machine Intimacy: Robots, Drones, and Waste Conversion in the Covid Era
Peter Wynn Kirby, M. Phil., Ph.D. (Cantab), Senior Member Saint Antony’s College University of Oxford.

Climate and Security in an Age of Great Power Competition and Global Disruption
Sherri Goodman, Secretary General, International Military Council on Climate & Security, Senior Strategist and Advisory Board Member, Center for Climate & Security, Board Chair, Council on Strategic Risks, Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security), Senior Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center

Wildpreneurs: Turning Passion into Business
By Tamara Jacobi ’06.5, Author of Wildpreneurs and Founder/CEO of the Tailwind Jungle Lodge

MIDD-ES CORE PANEL DISCUSSION
Truth in Numbers? Data in Environmental Studies

Featuring:
Joseph Holler, Assistant Professor of Geography
Christopher McGrory Klyza, Stafford Professor of Public Policy, Political Science and Environmental Studies
Marc Lapin, Associate Laboratory Professor in Environmental Studies and College Lands Ecologist
Kathryn Morse, John C. Elder Professor of Environmental Studies; Professor of History

From High Pond with Doc Woodin to Policy Advocacy for The Nature Conservancy in the Time of COVID: A Conversation with Phil Huffman, Class of ’84 ES Major.

Phil Huffman ‘84, Director of Government Relations and Policy, The Nature Conservancy in Vermont.

Cinema toward Future Life
Brett Story, Filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Image Arts at Ryerson University.

A discussion about documentary practice, aesthetics and narrative in the time of climate catastrophe, and surviving capitalism together. 

Visit go.middlebury.edu/woodincolloquiumseries for information on how to view this lecture.

A documentary film about the Latinx immigrant workforce in American mountain towns with filmmaker Hilary Byrne. A 37-minute film screening followed by panel discussion on
immigration and diversity in the outdoors community.

Panelists: • Anahi Naranjo ‘17, Latinos Outdoors • Jocelyn Tenorio ’19, Juntos
• Doug Connelly, Dean of Students and Dir. Outdoor Programs
• Leigh Cole, Immigration Attorney, Dinse P.C. • Hilary Byrne, Filmmaker
Moderator: Cheryl Mitchell, Treleven, Inc.

Agroecology and Food Sovereignty - in Theory and Practice

Martha Caswell, Codirector, Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative, University of Vermont

Agroecology and Food Sovereignty are global movements for food systems transformation, but there are still many questions about what they represent and what they can achieve. This talk will explore their history and potential.

Visit go.middlebury.edu/woodincolloquiumseries for information on how to view this lecture.

Other Pastorals: Writing Race and the Environment

Jennifer Chang, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, George Washington University.

Cosponsored by Franklin Environmental Center and Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference