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Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies ENVS

Bold Action on a Burning Planet: Envisioning an Escalation of Tactics and Increased Community Resilience

Sponsored by:
Economics, Environmental Studies, Political Science, and Food Studies
Chuck Collins is coming to campus this fall! He is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies in DC, and the author of a new book, Altar to an Erupting Sun. The book has won praise from Bill McKibben, Kim Stanley Robinson and Winona LaDuke, among others, and asks us to confront our moral obligations to act in the face of climate change.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public
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Small Island Big Song

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series and Environmental Studies
Small Island Big Song is a multi-platform project uniting the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, a region at the frontline of the climate crisis. Indigenous artists come together with filmmakers and poets to present irresistible oceanic grooves and soulful island ballads collected across 16 countries, all guided by the artists on their respective islands. Experience the concert event that Billboard calls “one coherent jaw-dropping piece.”

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

Tickets: $25/20/10/5
Open to the Public

Environmental Studies Thesis Presentation

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
“Flags of (In)Convenience: What Illegal Fishing Within Madagascar’s Marine Protected Areas Reveals About Food Sovereignty and Resource Security” an Environmental Studies senior thesis presentation by Victoria Andrews ‘23, Environmental Policy major.

Presentation will take place at 4:30pm followed by Q&A with the audience.

Axinn Center 220

Open to the Public

Environmental Studies Senior Thesis Presentation

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
“The Environmental Impacts of Waste and Fashion at the Turn of the Century Using The House of Mirth as Focal Text” an Environmental Studies senior thesis presentation by Eva Kaiden ‘23, Environmental Literature major.

This paper uses Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth to set the scene of high society at the time, as well as to delve into concrete example of how waste – fashion waste, energy waste, and the waste of human lives – played an active role in the shaping of community and quality of life in New York City, especially for women.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

Open to the Public