Week of September 27, 2021

Department of Earth and Climate Sciences (EACS)
EACS/GEO Lunch and a Talk by Bev Johnson (Professor, Department of EACS)
“CO2 Reductions via GEO-BIO Engineering: Blue Carbon Potential and Opportunities in Maine”
Tuesday, 9/28/21 – noon-1pm
noon – 12:15 pm: PIZZA on the quad outside of Carnegie (weather permitting)
12:20 – 1:00 pm: The talk on Blue Carbon in 204 Carnegie
All are welcome



Phillips Fellowship Lecture

Monday, October 4, 2021

Benjamin Mays Center

6:00 p.m.

Dinner followed by Raluca’s Presentation
“Claiming the Carpathians:  Transnational Mountain Discourses in East-Central Europe”

Registration, Tickets, & Mask Required.  Register for the event by 9/28/21 at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillips-fellowship-lecture-tickets-177384219977



Charles Nero’s Kroepsch Panel
Teaching About Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy in the Liberal Arts College
Monday, September 27
12:00
NC 221-222
Join Charles, Andrew Baker, Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Sue Houchins, Marcelle Medford, and Theri Pickens for this lunch time panel. Bag lunches will be available for take-away after the panel. Due to COVID, we have to limit attendance to 70. REGISTER TO ATTEND THE LUNCHTIME PANEL HERE

Charles Nero’s Kroepsch Lecture
2021 Kroepsch Lecture – BlacKkKlansman: Spike Lee’s Awesome Takedown of American Cinemas Interracial Friendship Fantasies
Monday, September 27
4:30 p.m.
Pettengill G52 (Keck)
Join Charles Nero, the 2021 recipient of The Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching, for a lecture on Monday, September 27 @ 4:30 in Pettengill Hall, Room G52. We have to limit attendance to 80, and all attendees must have tickets. You will receive one via email after you register. Please remember to bring your ticket with you. MASKS ARE REQUIRED. Thank you!  To attend in person,  REGISTER FOR THE LECTURE HERE  This event will be held live, and also will be streamed.  To join the live stream, go tohttps://bates.zoom.us/j/94489606330


Literary Arts Live presents writer Corinna Vallianatos
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
7:30 – 8:30 pm

A Zoom reading and conversation https://bates.zoom.us/j/94546620489

Corinna Vallianatos is the author of the novel The Beforeland (Acre Books 2020), a 2020 winner in the Forward Indie Awards for literary fiction. 

Her first collection of short stories, My Escapee (Univ. of Mass 2012), won the Grace Paley Prize in Fiction, and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. 

Vallianatos’ stories have been published in Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, The Kenyon Review, The Idaho Review, and elsewhere. 

She teaches fiction writing at Claremont McKenna College in California, where she lives with her family.


Book Club Learning Community
October 5, 12, 19, and 26 – noon-1
Under the Bardwell Tent
HHMI IE is inviting folx to participate in a book club learning community around the book Asked and Answered: Advocating for Students of Color in Mathematics by Pamela Harris and Aris Winger. While this is by mathematicians, the ideas should be of broader interest. Last year, Dr. Harris was chosen by the STEM Scholar students to be an invited speaker for their class.