Archive
2021
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Thursday, September 16, 2021 Marine Climate Change Ecology: How Trying to Predict the Future Helps Us Understand the World Today
Kat Anderson, Biology ProgramReem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 |
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Monday, May 17, 2021 Climate and Community Science Chat #2: Community Science in the Classroom
Online Event 8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-48:30 am New York l 2:30 Vienna Are you currently involving community science in your classrooms? Or do you want to do more of this? Please join Eli Dueker and Emily White to share ideas and best practices around community-engaged science teaching and interdisciplinary learning. We are also currently seeking partners for an air+water quality OSUN Network course in spring 2022 — if you are interested in working with us to develop syllabi specifically addressing the important issues of water and air quality both locally and globally, we'd love to collaborate! Register via Zoom. |
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Friday, May 14, 2021 Saw Kill Water Sampling
Saw Kill 10:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results. Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours. Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection. Open to everyone. Free training is available. If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager ldrew@bard.edu |
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Thursday, April 22, 2021 EUS Earth Day Panel
White Nationalism, White Supremacy, and the Environmental MovementOnline Event 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 National experts Eric Ward, Scot Nakagawa, and Lindsay Schubiner will lead the Bard community, regional community leaders, and Hudson Valley NGOs in exploring connections between white supremacy, the growth of white nationalism, and the environmental movement over the past 30 years. Eric K. Ward is a nationally-recognized expert on the relationship between authoritarian movements, hate violence, and preserving inclusive democracy. In his 30+ year civil rights career, he has worked with community groups, government and business leaders, human rights advocates, and philanthropy as an organizer, director, program officer, consultant, and board member. The recipient of the Peabody-Facebook Futures Media Award, Eric’s widely quoted writings and speeches are credited with key narrative shifts. He currently serves as Executive Director of Western States Center, Senior Fellow with Southern Poverty Law Center and Race Forward, and Co-Chair for The Proteus Fund. Scot Nakagawa is senior partner of ChangeLab, a national racial equity think/act lab addressing issues of demographic change and the transformation of racial identity and meaning in the United States in context of globalization, including the rise of white nationalism and of right wing nationalist movements in communities of color. Lindsay Schubiner directs Western States Center’s program to counter the dangerous ascension of white nationalism and hate violence across the country. She previously led advocacy efforts against anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim bigotry at the Center for New Community. Lindsay has served as a congressional staffer handling housing, health, and immigration policy, and managed advocacy for sexual health and rights at American Jewish World Service. https://bard.zoom.us/j/6091568866 |
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Friday, April 9, 2021 Saw Kill Water Sampling
Saw Kill 10:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results. Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours. Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection. Open to everyone. Free training is available. If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager ldrew@bard.edu |
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 – Thursday, April 15, 2021 Solve Climate by 2030: A Global Dialog
Green Recovery / Climate Solutions / Just TransitionOnline Event 9:00 am – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 On Tuesday, April 6, OSUN's Solve Climate by 2030 project and the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College are organizing simultaneous “global dialog” webinars to focus the world on regional and local solutions—in 50 different countries and in every US state. The webinars will present climate solutions from experts in Hungary, South Africa, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Florida, New Mexico and Minnesota—100 sites worldwide—about ambitious but feasible actions that could spur a just, Green Recovery and get the world on track to solving climate by 2030. Colleges and universities and local faith, civic, and business groups will host viewings of the webinars and in-person discussions of how to get involved in climate solutions. Faculty at all levels are being asked to assign viewing the webinars as homework, and then spend the following class discussing climate solutions. This opportunity is not just for environmental studies classes. The challenges posed by solving climate change range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism, and the arts. Solve Climate has disciplinary guides for follow-up discussions about the state-level, solutions-focused webinars. The project will engage 300+ climate experts around the world as panel speakers, such as state and national political leaders, including members of the US Congress, a US Senator, a US governor, and two ambassadors from Kazakhstan. See the list of global dialogs Follow the #MakeClimateAClass social media campaign Sign up here to stay informed |
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Thursday, April 1, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021 Earth Month Drawdown Ecochallenge: Bard + Community
A one-month team climate competition Online Event Bardians engaging with climate solutions through this online competition will have a greater understanding of how we can reverse global warming. Log in to sign up for Bard + Community Team via the URL provided or find the competition at earthmonth.ecochallenge.org. |
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey
Online Event 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm EDT/GMT-4Environmental and infrastructural transformations in Turkey’s expansive swamps and marshes have unfolded against the backdrop of tightening authoritarian rule and the rise of wetland conservation. Drawing on fieldwork with farmers, scientists, and bureaucrats in two Turkish agrarian deltas, this talk explores how relationships between water, sediment, infrastructure, plants, and animals matter in contemporary Turkey, and what these relationships reveal about the intersection of moral and ecological concerns in the current moment. The “wetland” emerged as a globally significant scientific category over the course of the 20th century, becoming a key concept within Turkish state-making projects built on attempts to manipulate swampy nature. As transnational science and environmentalism cast the wetland in a starring role, Turkish farmers, scientists, and bureaucrats also drew on wetlands (sulakalanlar) as a novel idiom for claiming divergent ecological futures. I analyze these transformations between humans, non-humans, and their unstable surroundings in Turkey through the concept of moral ecologies—contrasting notions of just relations among people, land, water, infrastructure, animals, and plants. Divergent moral claims about ecology, infrastructure, and the livelihood of nonhuman animals have become central to a Turkish politics of livability. This approach to the wetlands of contemporary Turkey demonstrates how the valuation and governance of non-human creatures and elemental assemblages are not only entangled with human politics: they constitute it. Caterina Scaramelli is an anthropologist of the environment and science. After completing her PhD at MIT's History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society Program, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Humanistic Inquiry and in the Anthropology Department at Amherst College, and an Agrarian Studies postdoctoral associate at Yale. Currently, she is research assistant professor in the departments of Anthropology and of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Scaramelli's research addresses practices and politics of environmental expertise and the political ecology of conservation. Her fieldwork in Turkey has focused on the making and unmaking of watery places—rivers, wetlands, marshes, urban waters, and agricultural irrigation—and now she is studying the cultivation and contested meanings of "local" agricultural seeds. Her first book, How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey, was published in March 2021 with Stanford University Press. Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/88142814000?pwd=S2ZqRVZoQVVnMTFQekdwc3RWbG5zdz09 Meeting ID: 881 4281 4000 Passcode: 337474 |
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Friday, March 12, 2021 Saw Kill Water Sampling
Saw Kill 10:30 am – 12:30 pm EST/GMT-5As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results. Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours. Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection. Open to everyone. Free training is available. If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager ldrew@bard.edu |
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Friday, February 12, 2021 Saw Kill Water Sampling
Saw Kill 10:30 am – 12:30 pm EST/GMT-5As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results. Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours. Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection. Open to everyone. Free training is available. If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager ldrew@bard.edu |