Join the friends for an environmental discussion with Joe Browder, an environmental lobbyist in D.C. and founder of the Environmental Policy Center.   Browder served under President Jimmy Carter’s administration as an official of the U.S. Department of the Interior to advise the Department on energy, natural resources and environmental matters. Wine and cheese reception: 6 p.m., Program: 7p.m. in Otto G. Richter Library-Special Collections.

Presents her book, SS Asteroid or Tell it to the Bees, a “semi-fictive memory” of an historic steamship moored on the river Adur in Sussex.   A tale of love, loss, and adventure told by a WWII evacuee returning to her village from an absence of 40 years to “tart up” an old ship renewing its vigor with her own; the river historian, “a mighty attractive old codger;” and an inexperienced local reporter whose passion for the wealds and downs of England’s south coast proves an irresistible magnet. Wine and cheese reception: 6 p.m., Program: 7 p.m. in Richter Library-Special Collections.

Director of Africana Studies at the University of Miami discusses his project, House of Slaves & “Door of No Return”: Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts and Castles and the Euro-African Encounters of the 15th-19th Century.  Abaka examines sites and encounters that link Euro-African contact and the slave trade during this period. Wine and cheese reception: 6 p.m., Program: 7 p.m. in Richter Library-Special Collections.