Environmental Studies

Spirit Lands: Ontology and the Environment in the South Pacific
Emily Donaldson, Anthropologist, Writer, and Adjunct Faculty, Saint Michael’s College

Agriculture on the Brink: Climate Change, Labor, and Smallholder Farming in Botswana
William Moseley, Professor of Geography and Director of the Food, Agriculture, and Society Program, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minn.

I’m from the Government and I’m Here to Help: Challenges and Opportunities in USDA Conservation Programs
Jeannie Bartlett ’15, District Manager, Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation

Allies, Ancestors, and the Anthropocene: Edwin James and the Environmental Movement
Kyhl Lyndgaard, Affiliated Scholar of Environmental Studies and Director of General Education, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University

Time: Past, Present, Future
Joseph Holler, Assistant Professor of Geography
Kathryn Morse, John C. Elder Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of History
Daniel Suarez, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Stephen Trombulak, Professor of Environmental and Biosphere Studies and Professor of Biology

Building a Campaign to Conserve Canada’s Great Northern Boreal Forest
Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Advisor to the International Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Liz will address why conserving Canada’s boreal forest is so critical - for Indigenous Peoples, for species like the iconic caribou, and for shielding against climate chaos. She will describe how tissue paper is literally flushing the boreal down the drain and what NRDC’s newly launched campaign intends to do about it.

Seeing the Unseen: Using Visual Feedback of Electric Consumption to Engage Students
Michelle McCauley, Professor of Psychology, Middlebury College, and Thomas Wentworth ’18, Research Assistant, University of Vermont, and Independent Contractor, Staple Health

ENVS 0401 Community-Engaged Practicum Student Presentations

“Ecosystem management, resilience and resistance. When are our mistakes reversible and how do we avoid making them?” by Dr. Indy Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr, Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Ecosystem Science.

“The Interspecies Dance: Confrontation and Choreography with the Animal World” by Karima Borni, Scholar in Residence, Dance Program, Middlebury College

This talk explores the process of communication with non-human species using physical listening, spatial awareness and corporeal clarity in order to develop a shared language of movement. Further, the inquiry examines how this practice can impact our embodiment of the human form as dancers, and how this can lead to a more effective choreographic encounter between ourselves and “others.”