March 6, 2020 In the poem “ca’line’s prayer,” Lucille Clifton marks the progression of Black generational memory through the metaphor of drought, narrating a female ancestor’s voyage from Dahomey to the plantations of the United States South, reconfigured here as a “desert country.” The 1969 publication of “ca’line’s prayer”… Continue reading »
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff 04:00AM / Friday, December 18, 2020Print Story | Email Story WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town’s diversity committee Monday got a lesson in Williamstown’s racist history and some advice on actions that could address structural inequity. Williams College seniors Kate Orringer and Morgan Dauk appeared… Continue reading »
By Anna Bruce ‘21 On November 17 2020, the Center for Environmental Studies welcomed Maxine Burkett ’98 for a Class of 1960 Scholars Program Zoom lecture entitled: “First Do No Harm: Climate Migrations, Reparations, and the Guarantee of Non-Repetition.” Burkett is a Professor of Law at the William S. Continue reading »
November 19, 2020 By Julia Munemo The Global Ocean, taught this semester by the five faculty members who constitute the Williams-Mystic program, is among several new courses introducing Williams students to the interdisciplinarity of the sea. Based in Mystic, Conn., the program generally draws students from colleges across… Continue reading »
A Message for the Graduating Seniors from the Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff (7 minutes)… Continue reading »
Environmental Studies Thesis Student Final Presentation May 12, 2020… Continue reading »
The topics of community, small farms, fishermen, and justice concluded the month’s log lunches. Niaz Dorry is the coordinating director of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and National Family Farm Coalition. She began her talk by explaining to everyone how she arrived to Williamstown from Gloucester, Massachusetts:… Continue reading »
This week’s Log Lunch talk, given by Dr. Taza Schaming, was about the relationship between Clark’s nutcrackers and whitebark pine in the Northern Rockies. Whitebark pine is a high-elevation tree that is a keystone species in its mountain habitat. It fulfills many important ecological roles, including maintaining snowpack and… Continue reading »
Shira (left) Mohammed (middle) Sarah (right) For Log Lunch this week, Hannah Goldstein ’20 introduced the Dialogue Project by the Arava Institute, a school in the Southern Arava Valley of Israel. She had studied there for a semester and she started the talk by sharing with… Continue reading »
Rosa checking out seedlings! This week’s log lunch we heard about the CES-funded summer adventures of Rosa Kirk-Davidoff ’21 and Summer-Solstice Thomas ‘20. Rosa worked at the Paleoecology and Fire Ecology Lab at the University of Montana. She learned about the history of forest fires in Missoula, Montana… Continue reading »
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