Past Events
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Thursday Mar 13 2025
Film viewing and discusion – “Salvaxe, salvaxe” [Wild, Wild] (2024)
4:30 pm
Salvaxe, salvaxe [Wild, Wild] (2024), by Galician director Emilio Fonseca, is a nature antidocumentary: wolves look back at the camera, terrified, and humans howl. All of us creatures…
Monday Sep 30 2024
27th Annual Otis Lecture – Lauret Savoy
7:00 pm
This year’s lecture, “Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape” will be given by Lauret Savoy, author of Trace. This lecture is made possible by the Philip J. Otis ’95 Endowment.

Monday Mar 25 2024

Wednesday Oct 12 2022
25th Annual Otis Lecture – Carolyn Finney
7:30 pm
The Bates College Philip J. Otis Committee invites you to attend The 25th Annual Otis Lecture, made possible by the Philip J. Otis ’95 EndowmentCarolyn Finney, author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining…
Monday Oct 25 2021
24th Annual Otis Lecture, Winona LaDuke – Postponed from 2020.
7:30 pm
Winona LaDuke, economist, activist, and author, will deliver a talk titled: “The 7th Fire and a Just Transition: Indigenous People and the Next Economy” A book signing will follow the lecture. The event…
Monday Nov 4 2019

Monday Apr 1 2019

Wednesday Mar 20 2019
EnviroLunch – Student Stories from the Field
12:00 pm
The EnviroLunch Series 12:00 to 1:00 pm in Commons room 221 Wednesday, March 20 Maggie O’Shea: Intern, Sierra Club, Rocky Mt. Chapter Nell Pearson: Historical Horticulture Intern, Plimoth Plantation Lars Schuster: Intern, Fishpond Elliot Wilson: Intern, La Plata Open Space Conservancy The EnviroLunch Series…
Wednesday Jan 30 2019
Daegan Miller
12:00 am
“The Work Of Imagination In the Age of Catastrophe” 1/30/19

Saturday Oct 27 2018
2018 Annual Otis Lecture, Elizabeth Rush,
12:00 am
“On Rising: Exertion, Activism, and Art in the Age of Climate Change”

Friday Oct 5 2018
“Trespassing Across America,” Lecture by Ken Ilgunas 10/5/18
12:00 am
Ken Ilgunas walked 1,700 miles across North America, following the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline, from Hardisty, Alberta, to the Gulf Coast of Texas. On his journey Ken encountered…
Thursday Nov 20 2014
Aaron Strong
12:00 am
“Devils in the Details: The Roles for Scientific Engagement in the Development of California’s Climate Policy”

Wednesday Oct 22 2003
Pattiann Rogers
7:00 pm
Seventh Annual Otis Lecture – “Life in an Expanding Universe”

Thursday Oct 11 2001
Gary Paul Nabhan
7:00 pm
2001 Annual Phillip J. Otis Lecture
“Coming Home to Eat”



