Wildlands & Woodlands the Focus of Upcoming Talk From the GMC Journal Week of February 8, 2010 Brian Donahue, associate professor of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University, will present a lecture titled "Wildlands, Woodlands, and Farmlands: Natural Infrastructure and Sustainability in New England" on February 16 at 7 p.m. in The Gorge. Donahue is an award-winning environmental history scholar, earning the George Perkins Marsh Prize for the Best Book in Environmental History for his 2004 work, The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. He is also the author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town. His talk is sponsored by the GMC Family Farm Forum and the history program.
Ashes for Cash: Moore Presents Lecture on 1820s Poultney From the GMC Journal Week of November 9, 2009 Did you ever think of making some much needed cash by selling ashes from your fireplace or recently burned field? That’s what people in Poultney did in the early 1820s when barter was the primary means of exchange. On November 15 at 2 p.m. in the Poultney United Methodist Church, historian and GMC adjunct professor Patricia Moore presents a talk titled “Ashes for Cash: 1820s Poultney as Seen Through the Northern Spectator Newspaper.” The talk investigates advertisements in the Northern Spectator to explore how Poultney citizens gradually entered the cash economy during the market revolution. Pat’s talk is sponsored by the Poultney Historical Society.
Blust Presents at Women's Congress in Spain From the GMC Journal Week of September 2, 2008 Prof. Vangie Blust (sociology) attended the Women’s Worlds 08 Congress in Madrid, Spain July 3-9. She presented a paper titled “Touched by Overseas Filipino Employment: Four Women, Four Struggles, Similar Outcomes,” which was derived from the research she and four GMC students conducted in the Philippines in summer 2007 under the ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation grant. More than 3,000 women and about 100 men from over 100 countries attended the congress with more than 1,000 paper presentations. The Women’s Worlds Congress is held every three years; the next will be in 2011 in Ottawa, Canada.
China Scholar/Translator Bill Porter to Speak Tonight From the GMC Journal Week of March 12, 2007 Bill Porter is an internationally renowned translator of Chinese poetry and Buddhist texts, will give a slideshow talk entitled “In Search of the Way: The Chinese Quest for Solitude” on Monday evening, March 12 at 7 p.m. in The Gorge of Withey Hall. Porter has been a practicing Buddhist monk, worked as a radio journalist (putting together over 1100 programs about his extensive travels in China), written a book about searching for hermits in contemporary China, and penned several books of translations, including "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain," the 300 surviving poems of a Tang Dynasty hermit poet. Porter will also visit two classes – Prof. Mark Dailey’s Anthropology of China and the block course, “Chinese Mountain Poetry,” taught by Dailey and Prof. Laird Christensen. Porter’s appearance is co-sponsored by the anthropology department and the Speakers Bureau.
Freeman Grant Awarded to Students for Philippines Research Trip From the GMC Journal Week of Feb. 19, 2007 Professor Vangie Blust (sociology) and five students have been awarded a research grant of nearly $26,000 by the ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Program. The grant will cover the group’s study on the impact of overseas Filipino employment on families left behind, especially children. Over the past 2-3 decades, overseas labor has become the Philippines' chief export. The country's economy has benefited from this trend through remittances sent to families back home, but there have also been some onerous challenges that those families face, especially in caregiving. The GMC team will investigate the social costs and benefits of overseas employment related to caregiving of family members left behind. They will also look into the role of community support structures in providing a nurturing environment for those families. The research team, which will travel to the Philippines for 3-1/2 weeks in June, includes: Prof. Blust and students: Matthew Bower (philosophy); Paula Maciel (soc/anthro); Svea Miller (soc/anthro); Ashley Potter (soc/anthro); Rafi Wainhaus (psychology).
GMC Student Wins Scholarship for India Study From the GMC Journal Week of Dec. 4, 2006 Green Mountain College junior, Tala Wunderler-Selby, has been awarded a highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study at Pondicherry University in India next semester. Granted by the U.S. State Department's Institute of International Education, the $5,000 Gilman scholarship was awarded to 400 students out of 1,189 applicants. The scholarship encourages students to study abroad in non-traditional locations, especially those outside of Western Europe and Australia.
Archaeologist to Discuss Early Champlain Valley Native Americans From the GMC Journal Week of Sept. 11, 2006 In honor of Vermont Archaeology Month, UVM anthropologist, Dr. John Crock will present a guest lecture entitled Native Americans in the Champlain Valley between 10,000 B.C. and European Contact.” Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in the Gorge. Crock is Director of the Consulting Archaeology Program at University of Vermont. His illustrated lecture is free and open to all. Vermont Archaeology Month is presented by the Vermont Archaeological Society in partnership with the Division for Historic Preservation and is generously supported by the Vermont Agency of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration.
