The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Assembling Networks of Care in Global Maternal Health; Technologies, Tasks, and Traditional Birth Attendants” with Prof. Margaret MacDonald.
Virtual Middlebury
Open to the Public
Presented in Spanish with real-time translation to English
The symposium will kickoff with a keynote presentation by Argentine anthropologist Rita Segato, followed by an open discussion with students, faculty, and community members. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided in Sunderland Lobby beginning at 4:00 PM.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
The United States has used economic sanctions many times to try to achieve foreign policy goals. Sanctions were used extensively on Russia after it invaded Ukraine. How effective were these sanctions and what can we learn from their use going forward? Elizabeth Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes in the Biden Administration, played a key role in the sanctions effort and will discuss these issues with Q and A afterwards.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
On the second day of the symposium, Mexican director Michelle Garza Cervera will answer questions (in English) about her acclaimed debut film Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022). This will be followed by a conversation in Spanish between Michelle and Rita Segato, offering a broader dialogue on gender-based abuse and violence against women in Latin America. The conversation between Michelle and Rita will be translated into English for the audience.
Cookies and drinks will be provided.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Join us for a screening of the documentary film “Made in Ethiopia” (7:30-9 pm) followed by a group discussion with Professor Obie Porteous (9-9:30 pm). When a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia, three women in search of prosperity have their faith in industrialization tested to the limit. More information on the film at: https://www.madeinethiopiafilm.com/.
Axinn Center 232
Closed to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents “Globalizing Traditional Medicine and Knowledge into the Future” with Sena Voncujovi ‘17.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held in person and by zoom almost every Tuesday, 12:30-1:30 pm EST. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents “How ‘America First’ Changed US Foreign Policy” with Elizabeth Shackelford.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held in person and by zoom almost every Tuesday, 12:30-1:30 pm EST. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Want to learn more about the Rohatyn Global Fellows Program for the ‘26-27 year? Join us for an informational session.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Want to learn more about the Rohatyn Global Fellows Program for the ‘26-27 year? Join us for an informational session.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited to join the members of the artistic collective, Art Lords, to paint a mural in Proctor on the theme of art, migration, and belonging. No artistic experience required! Come for as little or as long as you like! Painting will take place between 9am-8pm on April 24-25th.
Sponsored by the Committee on Art in Public Spaces, Committee on the Arts, International & Global Studies-Middle East and North Africa, Office of Equity, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, and the Innovation Hub.
Proctor Dining Room
Closed to the Public
Assistant Professor Caileigh Glenn and Jon Pevehouse have published “International Dimensions of Democratization” in World Politics.
Assistant Professor Margaret Hanson and Gaukhar Baltabayeva have published “Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Explaining first‑wave Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus” in the Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies.
Assistant Professor Margaret Hanson and colleagues won the Heinz I. Eulau Award for “Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy,” published in Perspectives on Politics.
Visiting Assistant Professor Daniel Fram published “A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism” in American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture.
Associate Professor Gary Winslett has published “Digital Trade in Services: Globalization’s Exciting New Frontier” in the edited volume Defending Globalization: Facts and Myths About The Global Economy and Its Fundamental Humanity.
Associate Professor Ajay Verghese published “The Qualitative Metamorphosis” in Comparative Politics.
Associate Professor Ajay Verghese has won a three-year Fulbright Flex Grant to support his research in India.
Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu and Ilkim Buke Okyar published “Teaching Israel-Palestine Across the Atlantic: Addressing Affective Polarization and Dehumanization through Dialogic Education” in PS: Politics and Society.
Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu and Aylin Aydin-Cakir published “Constitution-making in polarized transitions: The role of civil society in the establishment of independent judiciary” in International Journal of Constitutional Law.
Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu has published “How to Fight Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn” in the Journal of Democracy.
Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu and colleagues have published “Competitive yet unfair: 2023 elections and authoritarian resilience in Turkey” in South European Society and Politics.
Professor Kemi Fuentes-George has published “‘Music Gonna Teach’: Decolonizing IR Through a Musical Exploration of Knowledge” in the Review of International Studies.
Professor Kemi Fuentes-George and colleagues Guntram Herb and Sujata Moorti have published the Middlebury Atlas of Globalization: A Concise, Visual Guide to Our Globalized World.
Professor Kemi Fuentes-George has received a five-year NSF/UVM Study of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) Grant.
Professor Jessica Teets, T Hildebrandt, R. Hasmath, JYJ Hsu, and CL Hsu published “What Makes a ‘Bad Citizen’? Understanding Non-Participation in Philanthropic and Voluntaristic Activities in China” in Journal of Asian Public Policy.
Professor Jessica Teets has been awarded the Guang Biao Distinguished Chair Professor, Zhejiang University, a position she will hold for three years.
Professor Jessica Teets and her colleague Xiang Gao have published “China ushers in a new era governance framework” in East Asia Forum Quarterly.
Professor Jessica Teets and colleagues have published “The Civic Participation in China Survey: Key Trends in Philanthropic and Voluntary Activities” in the Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies.
Professor Jessica Teets and colleagues have published the dataset “Civic Participation in China Surveys – 3 waves of surveys from China available with questions focused on volunteering, donating, and perspectives on citizenship.”
Professor Sarah Stroup published “Global development in crisis: responding to America’s retreat” in the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) Briefing Paper.
Professor Sarah Stroup published “Information bubbles and US foreign policy: the illusion of public support” in FIIA Comment.
Professor Sarah Stroup has published “Humanitarian Organizations” in the Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality.
Professor Sarah Stroup has been named Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs during her leave year, and has support from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation and the Jeffrey R. Cason Memorial Field Work Fund.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and colleague A. Maurits van der Veen have published “The Advantages of Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis in an Age of Machine Learning” in PLOS ONE.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich, Husam AlZubaidy, Andrey Cao, Abigail Chang, Nikki Sadat, Abby Ward, and A. Maurits van der Veen published “The Politics of Language: Politicized Semantic Change, Pejoration, and the Case of ‘Woke’’ in Political Studies.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich, Gyula Zsombok, and A. Maurits van der Veen published “Social Proximity, Discursive Opportunity Structures, and the Diffusion of the Culture Wars: The Case of ‘Woke’ in France” in International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and colleague A. Maurits van der Veen have been awarded the International Studies Association International Communications Section Best Book Award for Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective.
