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Nov
19

GES Balloon Launch Across Campus

Experience campus from above with our GES 286 balloon flight

Location

On Campus : Centered on the Quad

Date & Time

November 19, 2025, 9:15 am – 10:30 am

Description

Join us tomorrow morning for a special GES 286 balloon launch across campus. Weather balloons equipped with downward-facing cameras will be floating up to 450 feet above campus as students collect...

Nov
20

Chaotic Economies of Confinement: Profit, Dependency, and Extraction in U.S. Immigration Detention

Disrupting the financial logics of U.S. detention growth

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Light reception to follow

Date & Time

November 20, 2025, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

Speaker:  Nancy Hiemstra Stony Brook University Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Abstract: Drawing on two decades of research, this presentation examines how the U.S. detention system...
Chaotic Economies of Confinement: Profit, Dependency, and Extraction in U.S. Immigration Detention

Nov
22

Art–Sci Fire Conversation: “There’s No Fire Season; It’s Fire Year”

A public art and climate science conversation on wildfires.

Location

Off Campus : The Peale

Date & Time

November 22, 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Description

Join climate scientist Dr Charles Ichoku and interdisciplinary artist Timothy Nohe for an art and science conversation on our new era of "fire year." As wildfires grow more frequent, more...