Middlebury joins hundreds of educational institutions around the world (in more than 50 countries and most US states) in the World Wide Teach-In on Climate and Justice on and around March 29, 2023. This will continue ongoing campus-wide conversations and engage students, faculty, and staff as we grapple with a time of planetary crisis and transformation.
Calendar Announcement
A presentation on landscape ecology, land use change, biodiversity conservation, and ecological restoration in Chile by Dr. Adison Altamirano, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of the Frontier (UFRO) in Temuco, Chile. This seimnar will be followed by a short reception at 5:15 pm for Dr. Altamirano and his colleague Prof. Alejandro Herrera Aguayo who is also a faculty member at UFRO in Anthropology. Sponsored by the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Middlebury joins hundreds of educational institutions around the world (in more than 50 countries and most US states) in the World Wide Teach-In on Climate and Justice on and around March 29, 2023. This will continue ongoing campus-wide conversations and engage students, faculty, and staff as we grapple with a time of planetary crisis and transformation.
Calendar Announcement
Middlebury joins hundreds of educational institutions around the world (in more than 50 countries and most US states) in the World Wide Teach-In on Climate and Justice on and around March 29, 2023. This will continue ongoing campus-wide conversations and engage students, faculty, and staff as we grapple with a time of planetary crisis and transformation.
Calendar Announcement
Middlebury joins hundreds of educational institutions around the world (in more than 50 countries and most US states) in the World Wide Teach-In on Climate and Justice on and around March 29, 2023. This will continue ongoing campus-wide conversations and engage students, faculty, and staff as we grapple with a time of planetary crisis and transformation.
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“Building a Soccer Club driven by Environmental Justice” by Sam Glickman & Patrick Infurna, Co-founders of Vermont Green FC, and Markus Gerke, Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Middlebury College.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
Climate Change touches everything, but it can be hard to know how to match your interests, skills, and passions up as you consider your career. This two-day UpNext: Climate Careers program seeks to demystify the many existing and developing climate careers and sectors.
Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center
Closed to the Public
Middlebury joins hundreds of educational institutions around the world (in more than 50 countries and most US states) in the World Wide Teach-In on Climate and Justice on and around March 29, 2023. This will continue ongoing campus-wide conversations and engage students, faculty, and staff as we grapple with a time of planetary crisis and transformation.
Calendar Announcement
What is the world we want to live in? The world we are already living into! How can we cultivate a stronger sense of connection to self, each other and the planet? Curious? Let’s talk! Join Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence, and Sophia Calvi ‘03.5, Director of Programming, Franklin Environmental Center, for the second of three discussions they will host during spring semester. The additional date is April 18.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
“Climate Theatre: Stories of Kinship, Community, and Climate Justice” by Theresa May, Faculty of Theatre, Environment and Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon, and Artistic Director of the EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
The 2023 Scott A. Margolin ‘99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs presents Elizabeth Rush, author of The Quickening: On Motherhood and Antarctica in the Twenty First Century and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
On Rising Together: Collective and creative responses to the climate crisis
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
“Highways and Habitats – Road Ecology and Habitat Connectivity in Vermont” by Chris Slesar, Environmental Resources Coordinator, Vermont Agency of Transportation.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
Advancing Climate Solutions through Venture Capital - the vital role of early-stage investment in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement
Peter Hirsch ‘12, Head of Sustainability at 2150, a climate tech-oriented venture capital firm in London, will return to campus for a conversation moderated by students Kavina Amin ‘24 (Economics and History) and Gianna Palli ‘23.5 (Art History and Economics).
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
What is the world we want to live in? The world we are already living into! How can we cultivate a stronger sense of connection to self, each other and the planet? Curious? Let’s talk! Join Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence, and Sophia Calvi ‘03.5, Director of Programming, Franklin Environmental Center, for the third of three discussions they will host during spring semester.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Closed to the Public
“Empire of My Fireflies” by Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao, First-Place Winner of the United Nations International Art Competition and Nigeria’s Arts Ambassador to the United Nations and United States.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
Join us for a dynamic conversation with guest speakers and community members about how art can reflect, engage, and resist apocalyptic ideas and futures.
Sponsored by the Department of Theater; co-sponsored by the Environmental Affairs, the Department of Biology, Committee on the Arts, and the Climate Action Capacity Program
Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre
Open to the Public
An evening of short films that center and celebrate the non human world and our relationship to it. Presented by Ibiyinka Alao, Nigeria’s Art Ambassador to the UN, featuring Midd alum, and community members.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao, Nigeria’s art ambassador to the United Nations, visual artist, filmmaker, architect and author will lead a visual art (painting) workshop as part of the Art vs the Apocalypse event. Alao’s paintings center redemption, peace and love, and lately reflect a long-standing fascination with fireflies. Materials provided. Open to Middlebury College students.
Sponsored by the Department of Theater; co-sponsored by the Environmental Affairs, the Department of Biology, Council on the Arts, and the Climate Action Capacity Program.
Mahaney Arts Center 221
Closed to the Public
Join Dr. Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence, Environmental Affairs, for a unique presentation that brings her life in conversation with historic figures and contemporary issues. Central Park birder Christian Cooper. George Floyd. The removal of Confederate Statues. Renaming of institutions. Reparations. Systemic Racism. Finney asks, what’s environment got to do with it? How do we meet this moment? Drawing from her book, Black Faces, White Spaces, her relationships “in the field” and her lived experience, Dr.
Axinn Center 232
Open to the Public
“Defending Conserved Land: The Challenge of Data Centers and Energy Infrastructure” by Christopher G. Miller, President, The Piedmont Environmental Council.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the PublicCultivating personal spirituality through the arts, nature, ceremony, food, &
Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life - 46 South Street
Piatã Marques, University of Buffalo
Fish and the city: understanding the effects of urbanization on the ecology and evolution of aquatic biota
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
Open to the Public
Award-winning journalist Abe Streep (‘04) will be in conversation with esteemed sports writer, Alexander Wolff to discuss his first book, Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana (Celadon Books, 2021). The book follows the boys basketball team from Arlee High School as they defend their state championship. Streep reports on the place of basketball in the lives of members of the Flathead Reservation’s Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
“Following Nature: Ancient Philosophy on World Catastrophe” by Christopher Star, Professor of Classics, Middlebury College.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
MIDD-ES CORE PANEL DISCUSSION: Restoration
Mez Baker-Medard, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Kathryn Morse, John C. Elder Professor of Environmental Studies, and
Professor of History
Alexis Mychajliw, Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
“The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics” by Jon D. Erickson, Blittersdorf Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, University of Vermont.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
“Building a Soccer Club driven by Environmental Justice” by Sam Glickman & Patrick Infurna, Co-founders of Vermont Green FC, and Markus Gerke, Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Middlebury College.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
“Climate Theatre: Stories of Kinship, Community, and Climate Justice” by Theresa May, Faculty of Theatre, Environment and Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon, and Artistic Director of the EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
The 2023 Scott A. Margolin ‘99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs presents Elizabeth Rush, author of The Quickening: On Motherhood and Antarctica in the Twenty First Century and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
On Rising Together: Collective and creative responses to the climate crisis
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?
Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.
Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre
Open to the Public
A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?
Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.
Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre
Open to the Public
A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?
Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.
Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre
Open to the Public
A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?
Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.
Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre
Open to the Public
