[SustainableTompkins] Global Warming discussion at Ithaca College Handwerker Gallery on Tuesday, October 2nd at 4pm

[Marian Brown]

*‘TUESDAY SALON’ SERIES AT ITHACA COLLEGE’S HANDWERKER GALLERY * *WILL 
FOCUS ON GLOBAL WARMING*

The “Tuesday Salon” series at Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery will 
continue on Oct. 2 with a discussion led by Michael Smith, assistant 
professor of history. Entitled “How Inconvenient? Coming to Terms with 
Global Warming,” the event will begin at 4 p.m. in the Handwerker 
Gallery. The presentation is free and open to the public. Light 
refreshments will be provided.

“With films like ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and ‘The Eleventh Hour’ 
bringing the issue of global warming to the silver screen, what 
scientists have been talking (and worrying) about for more than a decade 
is now part of the cultural mainstream,” Smith said. “Yet have we as a 
society responded to this inconvenient truth? The Arctic sea ice has 
shrunk to its lowest extent since data began to be recorded. What does 
this mean for us? What kind of conversations should we be having about 
global warming?”

The Tuesday Salon is a Handwerker Gallery program aimed at providing 
students, faculty, staff and members of the community a forum outside of 
a classroom setting for intellectual discussion and debate. Topics are 
selected by a guest discussant, who provides a 10-minute introduction 
and moderate the ensuing conversation. Tuesday Salon events will 
continue through the fall semester.

For further information, contact Rebecca Plante, Tuesday Salon 
co-director and assistant professor of sociology, at rplante at ithaca.edu.

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For those of you coming to campus from off-campus, the Handwerker 
Gallery is located in the ground floor of the Gannett Center. This is 
building 11 on the Campus Map. http://www.ithaca.edu/map/
There is some parking for mobility impaired folks behind Dillingham 
Center (only with properly authorized disabled permit on display). All 
others should park in Visitor Parking (see map for location). Visitor 
parking is free.
http://www.ithaca.edu/map/parking.php