From today’s inbox:

Dr. Richard Weiss
Pretty Good Privacy: How We Can Keep Our Information Secure
Lacey Timberland Library Meeting Room
7:00 PM, Wednesday, February 5^th

When people think of online privacy, they often think of encryption–which is important–but there are also many other factors to consider. For example, social media poses significant risks to users’ privacy: it’s very easy to post photographs and other personal information online without being aware of who might be able to see it, and government agencies can gain access to these documents. This talk on cybersecurity by Evergreen State College mathematics and computer science professor Dr. Richard Weiss will cover privacy issues as they relate to web browsers, certificates, cookies, VPNs, and Tor, as well as mobile apps. We’ll also discuss how the use of encryption and digital signatures can help protect your privacy and security.

Evergreen Arts Lecture Series
McKenzie Funk
Wednesday, January 29th
11:30-1pm in the Recital Hall

National Magazine Award finalist McKenzie Funk  writes for Harper’s, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books. His first book, Windfall, won a PEN Literary Award and was named a book of the year by The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Salon, and Amazon.com. A former Knight-Wallace Fellow and Open Society Fellow, he is a co-founder of the journalism cooperative Deca and a board member at Amplifier. He speaks five languages and is a native of the Pacific Northwest, where he lives with his wife and sons.

Jeff Evans turns the winter “blahs” into “oohs and aahs” at this amazing magic show! Sponsored by the Friends of the Tumwater Timberland Library.

The Tumwater Timberland Library is located at 7023 New Market St SW, accessible via Intercity Transit route 12/13.  Call 360-943-7790 for more information.

Add a little aloha spirit to the holidays with Hawaiian songs performed by Olympia Aloha Ukulele Pu’ukani (Oly-A UP). We want to wish you a Mele Kalikimaka while we sing about Christmas luaus, decorating the palm trees, and Santa arriving on a surf board. Oly-A UP is a local group of ukulele players who share the love of Hawaiian, hapa-haole, and Americana music.

The Tumwater Timberland Library is located at 7023 New Market St SW, accessible via Intercity Transit route 12/13.  Call 360-943-7790 for more information.

From today’s inbox:

Olympia World Affairs Council
7:30 pm, Thursday, November 21, 2019
Thurston County Economic Development Council
South Puget Sound Community College
Lacey Campus, SPSCC Lacey Campus

Doors open at 7 pm, allowing us to meet
and mingle with others interested in international affairs.

At our November program Professor Sara Curran will discuss “Population Impacts of Climate Change: Considerations for the Short & Long Term.”  The demographic consequences of climate change are frequently highlighted in terms of population displacement, but the effects are likely to be much more varied across time and places around the word.  There are also going to be consequences that work through pathways of climate change adaptation, as well as through pathways of climate change mitigation.  Not only are there two pathways of impacts, there are both long-term and short-term impacts.  These complexities create challenges for scientists’ observations of climate change impacts on populations.  These complexities also make it difficult to marshal evidence that can mobilize governments to act on behalf of their citizenry in a timely fashion.  A few research examples illustrate these complex challenges.

Professor Curran is the Director of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Affairs.  She holds a joint appointment as Professor of Sociology, is Director at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology; and at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.  She is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Global Health.  Curran researches migration, globalization, gender, climate change and adaptation, and development.  She employs a variety of research techniques, including qualitative field work, survey field work, regression modeling, mixed methods, and spatial and network analyses.