Today's Events
Join us for a Lampert Speaker, featuring Julia Nesheiwat on Energy, the Environment, and National Security.Event details to follow.

Today's Events | Little Hall, 105 Golden Auditorium
From pre-Industrial England to modern-day Washington and Amsterdam, ordinary people, working with each other, with plants and microbes, cultivated life in the unlikeliest of places. Tiny Gardens Everywhere explores how urban gardeners reactivated commons in European and North American cities in the long 20th century. Using the deluge of nutrients that flow into cities, working class gardeners regenerated wasteland, built the first garden city communities, and engaged in the most productive agriculture in recorded human history. Following the plants and microbes, urban gardeners also built mutual aid societies that advocated for equity, social welfare and rights—rights not to liberty and the pursuit of happiness (who can eat that?) but to food, fuel and shelter; for well-being for all.Guest lecturer Kate Brown is a professor of science, technology and society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Co-sponsored by History, Environmental Studies, Geography, and Sociology and Anthropology

Today's Events | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Emily Strasser is the author of Half-Life of a Secret, a deeply researched memoir which was awarded the 2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award, the 2024 Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Strasser’s work has appeared in Catapult, Ploughshares, Guernica, Colorado Review, The Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Gulf Coast, among others. She teaches at Tufts University..Support for this event is provided by the Parshley Christ Endowment for Living Writers. The course and program are led by faculty in the Department of English and Creative Writing with generous support from the Olive B. O'Connor Fund as well as the President and the Provost/Dean of the Faculty. A signature program of Colgate University since 1980, Living Writers is a master class in how works of literature come to be.