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.”

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

Environmental Studies at 50: What’s Next? This Keynote Conversation will be moderated by Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar, with special guests William Cronon (Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Env Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison), Rachel Morello-Frosch (Professor of Environmental Health Science, University of California – Berkeley), and Gernot Wagner (Lead Senior Economist, Environmental Defense Fund, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,Research Associate, Harvard Ken

Green Jobs Not Jails: Criminal Justice Ecology Don’t miss this Keynote Address by dynamic speaker Van Jones, President & Founder of Dream Corps and CNN Political Correspondent, as he explains how to shrink the prison system and grow the green economy. Welcoming remarks by President Laurie Patton. For more information & a complete schedule of 50th celebration events: go.middlebury.edu/enviro50 Sponsored by Program in Environmental Studies, Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology/Anthropology.

Prof. Traci Brynne Voyles, Loyola Marymount University This talk explores the environmental and cultural history of southern California’s Salton Sea, beginning from the assertion, central to environmental history, ecofeminism, and political ecology, that the “environment” has never been a pure, hermetically sealed category separate from human life — it has, quite to the contrary, always been integrated into and agentic in our lives.

Please join the Environmental Studies program for local cider and donuts! Meet the environmental studies faculty and students, and enjoy tasting the delicious Fall themed treats provided.

This talk will examine the ways that a growing awareness of food and foodways creates a national image for those inside and outside of the country. International attention has the paradoxical effect of enhancing a sense of shared identity as Brazilian while simultaneously strengthening people’s awareness of themselves as particular kinds of Brazilians.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes frequently about environmental science, Dan Fagin is also a science journalism professor at New York University. His book, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation,was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer for General Nonfiction, as well as the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the National Academies Science Book Award, and the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. Dan’s recent publications include The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature and Slate.

Environmental Studies Department Reception for Graduating Seniors and their guests