Past Events

Salvaxe, salvaxe [Wild, Wild] (2024), by Galician director Emilio Fonseca, is a nature antidocumentary: …
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…
This year’s lecture, “Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape” will be given by…
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.

The Bates College Philip J. Otis Committee invites you to attend The 25th Annual Otis…
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…
Winona LaDuke, economist, activist, and author, will deliver a talk titled:  "The 7th Fire and a…
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…
The EnviroLunch Series


12:00 to 1:00 pm in Commons room 221
Wednesday, March 20
         Maggie O'Shea:  Intern, Sierra Club,…
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…
"The Work Of Imagination In the Age of Catastrophe" 1/30/19
Wednesday Jan 30 2019

Daegan Miller

12:00 am

The Work Of Imagination In the Age of Catastrophe” 1/30/19

“On Rising: Exertion, Activism, and Art in the Age of Climate Change”
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”

Ken Ilgunas walked 1,700 miles across North America, following the proposed route of the Keystone XL…
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…
"Devils in the Details: The Roles for Scientific Engagement in the Development of California's Climate…
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”

Seventh Annual Otis Lecture - "Life in an Expanding Universe"
Wednesday Oct 22 2003

Pattiann Rogers

7:00 pm

Seventh Annual Otis Lecture – “Life in an Expanding Universe”

2001 Annual Phillip J. Otis Lecture



"Coming Home to Eat"
Thursday Oct 11 2001

Gary Paul Nabhan

7:00 pm

2001 Annual Phillip J. Otis Lecture

“Coming Home to Eat”