All featured events are open to the public. They are free unless otherwise noted.
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Thursday, February 9, noon
Colby College Museum of Art
A discussion by Lincoln scholar and John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History Elizabeth Leonard
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Thursday, February 9, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fairchild Room, Dana Dining Hall
Auden Schendler is vice president of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. He was named a global warming innovator by Time magazine and a climate saver by the EPA. Schendler has testified to congress on the impacts of climate change on public lands, and he speaks widely on sustainability. His book Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution was called “an antidote to greenwash” by NASA climatologist James Hansen. His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Scientific American, Orion, Rock and Ice, Salon and other media, and his work has been covered in Outside, Fast Company, Travel and Leisure, and Businessweek. An avid outdoorsman, Schendler has climbed Denali, North America’s highest peak, and kayaked the Grand Canyon in winter.
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Saturday, February 11, 10 a.m. - noon
Colby College Museum of Art and Barrels Community Market, Waterville
Learn about prints and patterns at the museum, then, at Barrels Community Market, create stamps to print valentine cards. This event is free and open to all ages, but attendance is limited and preregistration is required. To register, please call 207-859-5613.
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Monday, February 13, 7 p.m.
Page Commons, Cotter Union
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.
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Tuesday, February 14, 7 p.m.
Room 122, Diamond Building
This roundtable brings together five Colby professors to talk about how terrorism is conceptualized from within their disciplines: Jennifer Yoder (government), Walter Hatch (government), Margaret McFadden (American studies), Elena Monastireva-Ansdell (German and Russian) and Lydia Moland (philosophy).
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Thursday, February 16, 7 p.m.
Diamond 122
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.
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Thursday, February 16, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fairchild Room, Dana
David O. Carpenter serves as director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at University at Albany's School of Public Health. Carpenter was recently named to New York's Renewable Energy Task Force, charged with implementing plans to reduce electricity use through new energy efficiency programs in industry and government. Carpenter, who received his doctorate from Harvard Medical School, has 220 publications, 37 reviews and book chapters and 12 other publications to his credit.
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Friday, February 17, 8:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Diamond Building, Room 146
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.
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