Category Archives: On-Campus

On Campus Events: ES Pre-Major Meetings- Thurs 10/26 7:30 PM & Wed. 11/1 Lunch

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Come to an ES Pre-majors Meeting!

Please join ES faculty, and majors for one of two Pre-Majors Meetings. Learn about the coordinate major, the minor, meet faculty and students, and find out more about ES study abroad, ES summer fellowships, research, ES Independent study, and honors- over lunch or cookies and gelato.

Thursday October 26 from 7:30-8:30 PM
ES Common Room, Adams Hall

Wednesday, November 1 from 11:30-1:00
Pinette Dining Room, Thorne Hall

 

ON CAMPUS EVENT: PUBLIC ART ATTACK! AN ART ACTIONS TO FIGHT THE BATTLES THAT NEED FIGHTING! Sun. 10/29

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Public Art Attack! Art Actions to Fight the Battles that need Frighting
with Jenny Price
Sunday, October 29, 2:00 PM
Digital Media Lab, Room 115

Join Jenny Price from the LA Urban Rangers art collective for the workshop “Public Art Attack: Art Actions to Fight the Battles that Need Fighting,” a crash course on how to design public art actions to engage any social, environmental, or political problem that might be currently keeping you up at night. They’re fun! They’re experiential! They’re efficacious!

Price is a noted public scholar, writer, and artist who focuses on US environmental topics, including urban nature, environmentalism, and popular culture. Author of Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A. and Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, she’s also written for GOOD, Sunset, Believer, Audubon, New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. A co-founder of the Los Angeles Urban Rangers art collective, she has collaborated on various projects, including Public Access 101: Malibu Public Beaches and Downtown L.A. Trail System. With the Rangers, she was a resident artist for the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art and exhibited in International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Performing Public Space at La Casa de Tunel in Tijuana, and the traveling We Are Here Maps Archive.Price earned in AB in biology from Princeton University in 1985 and her Ph.D in history from Yale University in 1998. She has taught at UCLA, USC, Antioch University-Los Angeles, Washington University at St. Louis, and Princeton University. A 2005 Guggenheim fellow and two-time NEH fellow, she has also held fellowships at Princeton, Stanford, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment ant Society at LMU-Munich.

She is currently co-creating Play the L.A. River as a co-founder of the public arts and humanities collective, Project 51, and is finishing her next book, Stop Saving the Planet! Other Tips for 21st-Century Environmentalists.

ON CAMPUS EVENT: Diversity and Environmental Engagement: A conversation with Whitney Tome, Thur. Nov 2 @ 4:30

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Diversity and Environmental Engagement:
An informal conversation with Whitney Tome, Executive Director, Green 2.0 
Thursday, Nov 2 4:30-5:30
ES Common Room,
Adams Hall

Whitney Tome, as the executive director of Green 2.0, leads a campaign to increase the racial diversity of the mainstream environmental movement. Whitney was the director of diversity and inclusion at the National Parks Conservation Association, and a program manager and mediator at the Meridian Institute. At Environmental Defense Fund, Whitney served as a strategist in dozens of state and federal political campaigns and launched the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum. Whitney earned a B.A. from Middlebury College and a J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law.

 

 

On Campus Event: Bowdoin Public Service Initiative (Applications available & Info sessions scheduled)

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BOWDOIN PUBLIC SERVICE INITIATIVE

Applications now available on program web pages

 “I was personally inspired with the idea that you could do something in your life that was not going to be measured purely by financial return, but by the ability to contribute to others.” – Thomas R. Pickering, Bowdoin Class of 1953, Former US Ambassador to the United Nations and career diplomat 

  • BPS in Washington – (sophomores) education seminar and immersion trip to Washington D.C. to explore topics in government and public policy. Deadline for application – November 8th at noon.
  • BPS Fellowship – (juniors) five funded internships to work in government and public policy in Washington, D.C. during summer 2018. Deadline for application – November 15th at noon.

Upcoming Info Sessions:

  • Monday, October 16 – 7:30pm, Baxter House Common Room (BPS in Washington and BPS Fellowship)
  • Wednesday, October 18 – 7:30pm, McKeen Center Common Room (BPS Fellowship)
  • Wednesday, November 1 – 12:30pm, McKeen Center Common Room (BPS in Washington)

Questions? After attending an info session, come to Sarah Chingos’ drop-in hours

Mondays 12:00-2:00pm and Thursdays 9:00-11:00am. Banister 201 – McKeen Center, in the belfry

Skype and FaceTime appointments are also available.

On Campus: Climate Change Action Theater at Bowdoin Needs You!

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Want to participate in the Reading and Performance for Climate Change Theatre Action?

Do you like to talk about climate change? Are you passionate about the environment? Interested in exploring new avenues of climate communication? Want to participate in theatre that makes a difference?

Please consider participating in Climate Change Theatre Action! The Bowdoin Theatre and Dance Department and Masque & Gown are partnering with the Environmental Studies Department and Bowdoin Climate Action to be a part of a national theatre festival (CCAT) that presents short plays and one acts concerning climate change and climate science. The CCAT festival is an annual theatre festival that takes place globally; Bowdoin is one of many institutions involved. The performance takes place on November 5th, and we are in need of actors and directors and dramaturgs. Although directors will need to have had some experience directing productions prior to the CCAT, actors of all levels of experience (including none) are welcome! If you are interested in participating, please contact Madison Kuras ’18 ([email protected]) for more details. 

Presented by Bowdoin College department of theater and dance, Masque and Gown, and Bowdoin Climate Action

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Internship Opportunity: Impact (on campus Oct 16-19)

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Internship with Impact
Recruiter ON CAMPUS in Smith Union October 16-19
Days/times flexible

Impact is an advocacy project created by a coalition that includes Environment America and U.S. PIRG. Impact interns will conduct visibility events and news conferences to show congress public support for a clean environment. Campaign Organizer and recruiter Jacqueline Guyol (314-707-1445) will be on campus in Smith Union the week of October 16-19 to answer questions and interview candidates. Apply online here