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Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies ENVS

Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series: The Texture of Landscape

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
“The Texture of Landscape” Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Nancy Winship Milliken, Environmental Artist.

What is Celebratory Ecology? How do we memorialize a global event, such as climate change, that seemingly has no end? Where are the nature-centric monuments? Nancy shares her open studio approach that holds these questions at the center of her practice.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Megan McKenna

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
“Listening to a changing world: what soundscapes can teach us” an Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Megan McKenna, Academic Director of Study Away at Monterey, including California Coast and Climate Semester, Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Senior Data Scientist, affiliate with NOAA National Center for Environmental Information.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

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