Environmental Studies

John Bunker has been farming in Maine for more than 40 years and has played a central part in Fedco Seed Company. Please join John as he the recounts the history of apples in New England and the return of cider. He will ask the question: how are the two related and what might we have in store?

“The Chinese Safari: Cultural Identity and Wildlife Conservation in Kenya’s Tourism Industry,” a talk by Amanda Kaminsky (class of ‘13). Ms. Kaminsky will talk about the social and environmental consequences of Chinese tourism in Kenya, which she has been studying as a graduate student at the Univesity of Michigan. In her Master’s thesis Ms.

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.

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).