Calendar of Events

Guest speaker Cindy Pierce offers a fresh, honest and funny perspective for young men and women on the ins and outs of healthier, saner (and safer!) sex. In this hilarious keynote, Pierce uses anecdotes and her social research to demystify sex and relationships in college. Students walk away with safer and more realistic expectations around sex. Pierce is shaking people out of their comfort zones. She is the co-author of Finding the Doorbell: Sexual Satisfaction for the Long Haul. 

Kishi Ducree is an professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University.  Her research focuses on environmental sociology and environmental justice. She is a contributing author to Echoes from the Poisoned Wells: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice.

Has civility in America disappeared? Did it ever truly exist? A group of leading scholars and journalists, including Ellen Goodman, Joe Klein, Randall Kennedy and Jill Lepore, will gather at the University of Massachusetts-Boston to discuss those questions and more about the role civility plays in American politics.  The event will be moderated by Tom Ashbrook, award-winning journalist and host of NPR’s On Point. The Goldfarb Center will host a live webcast of the daylong event.

Andrea Bruce, a freelance photojournalist who has worked in the Middle East for nearly a decade, will narrate a viewing and discussion of photos she has taken while in Afghanistan and Iraq and while covering the Arab Spring. Bruce was last on campus in 2007, as part of a panel before the Lovejoy Convocation, when she discussed the unique problems confronting photojournalists covering wars.

Tietenberg will discuss the scientific and economic cases for action on climate change and the current political situation both domestically and globally. He will explore the potential role for carbon pricing (emissions trading and/or carbon taxes) by reviewing how well existing programs work and what their evolution over time suggests for their future. This talk will draw upon both Tietenberg’s participation in a National Academy of Sciences project on climate change and a recent survey paper that he completed for the International Monetary Fund, an organization that is getting more heavily involved in carbon pricing. Tietenberg retired from Colby in 2008 after more than 30 years at Colby.

More on his career in Colby magazine

Free tickets are required. Tickets will be made available to the Colby community on February 15th. Members of the public interested in attending can send an e-mail to ngsintet@colby.edu to reserve tickets. Live feeds in Lovejoy, the Pugh Center, and LoPo (Cotter Union) are free, open to the public, and do not require a ticket. S.H.O.U.T! (Speaking, Hearing, Opening Up Together) is a student-organized weekend of events celebrating multiculturalism and community building at Colby. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.

Screenings of three of Spike Lee's films will be held at Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, in the weeks preceding the event.

Crooklyn (1994), Wednesday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m.
Malcolm X (1992), Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7 p.m.
Do the Right Thing (1989), Wednesday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m.

At the age of 24, Kemba Smith, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine for her boyfriend's drug activities. Smith, seven months pregnant at the time with no criminal record, became a "poster child" for mandatory sentencing when she was sentenced to 24.5 years in prison with no possibility of parole. Mandatory minimum sentencing laws have made her and an increasing number of women casualties of excessive punishments that do not fit their crimes. Smith will share how she became the "poster child" by coming from a middle class, college experience to dating one of the FBI's most wanted and then being pardoned by former President Bill Clinton.