Co-Sponsored Events

Big Picture, small parts: Art & Practice of Environmental Impact

Monday, November 10, 2025, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Reeves Museum of Ceramics

Join the W&L Art Museum and Galleries and the Office of Sustainability as we use art to reflect on the broad impact of human activity on nature and explore sustainability initiatives that shape W&L’s relationship with the environment. The event will include a guided tour of W&L’s Campus Garden and the exhibition, Edward Burtynsky: Taking Place, on view in the Reeves Museum of Ceramics. The event invites participants to explore how we can adopt more sustainable practices in food and resource use, both individually and as a community.

The event is free and open to all. Registration required.

This event is in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability and Energy Education, and the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics 2025-2026 series “Taking Place: Land Use and Environmental Impact.”

• Registration Required

Patrick Fleming ’04: Farming as a Liberal Art

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 5:00 pm, Stackhouse Theater

Join CKWL for a presentation by Patrick Fleming ’04, associate professor of economics and public policy at Franklin and Marshall College. The talk is titled “Farming as a Liberal Art: Growing Food with Freedom and Intention.” An environmental and agricultural economist, Fleming studies water quality, agricultural sustainability and the evaluation of public policies intended to achieve these goals. His recent scholarship examines farm environmental policies and their effects on the Chesapeake Bay, behavioral science, legacy pollution, and survey design in the context of household environmental investments.

“Pat Fleming brings great insights to us as an academic with training in agricultural economics and ethics, and a practicing farmer,” said Art Goldsmith, the Jackson T. Stephens Professor of Economics at W&L. “He understands the challenges of improving both the quality of our nation’s food supply and its equitable distribution — along with ways to improve each.”

Fleming’s lecture is presented by the 1963 Scholars in Residence Program, Economics Department, Office of Alumni Engagement and Campus Kitchen.

Michael Mann: Science Under Siege

Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 5:30 pm, Stackhouse Theater

Michael Mann, the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science, Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, and Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action at the University of Pennsylvania, will be speaking about the current state of climate science and the intersection of science and society in the present as informed by the past.

This event is in collaboration with the Earth and Environmental Geoscience Department, Biology Department, Center for International Education, Environmental Studies Program, Physics and Engineering Department, Student Environment Action League, and Office of Sustainability.