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September 2009

October 2009

October 18-24 - Sunday-Saturday

Fall of the Berlin Wall Celebration
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November 2009

December 2009

January 2010

February 2010

March 2010

April 2010

May 2010

2008-2009 Event Calendar

September 2008

September 12 - Friday
Making a Difference in the World

NOTE CHANGE IN VENUE
12:15 p.m. - DANA AUDITORIUM - SUNDERLAND
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by a panel of faculty and staff who are returned Peace Corps volunteers. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 9/8, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
Panelists: David Rosenberg, professor of Political Science (Nepal 63-65); John Maluccio, Assistant Professor of Economics (Kenya 87-89); Jennifer Goetz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology (Niger 96-99; Jason Chance, Ski School (Guinea 99-01); Nicole Chance, International Programs and Off-Campus Study (Guinea 00-02); Jessi Flynn, Peace Corps Recruiter (Panama 01-04)

September 18 - Thursday

Are Reports of al Qaeda's Death Exaggerated?
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University. Professor Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for more than thirty years. He is currently a tenured professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND’s Washington, D.C. Office. Professor Hoffman was Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006. He was also adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq during the spring of 2004 and from 2004-2005 was an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. Professor Hoffman was also an adviser to the Iraq Study Group. In November 1994, the Director of Central Intelligence awarded Professor Hoffman the United States Intelligence Community Seal Medallion the highest level of commendation given to a non-government employee, which recognizes sustained superior performance of high value that distinctly benefits the interests and national security of the United States. A revised and updated edition of his acclaimed 1998 book, Inside Terrorism, was published in May 2006 by Columbia University Press in the U.S. and S. Fischer Verlag in Germany. Foreign language editions of the first edition have been published in ten countries. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

September 23 - Tuesday

The 'Culture' of Globalization
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by John Storey, Centre for Research in Media and Culture Studies, School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland, UK. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, American Studies, Departments of French, Spanish, and Sociology and Anthropology.

September 26 - Friday

Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost--And How It Can Find Its Way Back
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Mickey Edwards, director, Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership, lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and former Republican member of Congress from Oklahoma. He is the author of Reclaiming Conservatism. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 9/22. to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.

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October 2008

October 1 - Wednesday

Is China Going to Take Over the World Economy?
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room.
A Department of Economics mini-symposium by Richard Hornik, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow (2006-2007), director of Southeast Asia Programs for the Independent Journalism Foundation, Tom Hout, Boston Consulting Group, and David Colander, Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics, Middlebury College.

October 3 - Friday

White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Robert Schlesinger, '94, U.S. News and World Report. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 9/29, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.

Schlesinger is deputy assistant managing editor, opinion at U.S. News & World Report. He was formerly political editor of The Hill, Washington correspondent for The Boston Globe, and his articles have appeared in The Washington Monthly, The Weekly Standard, and People. He teaches political journalism at Boston University's Washington Journalism Center.

October 7 - Tuesday

Europe, Russia and Energy Security
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Jan Macháček, journalist and musician working as a commentator for Respekt magazine, an investigative weekly; and teacher at New York University in Prague. He was involved in underground culture and samizdat publishing during communism in the 1980s, and was a member of the famous underground music band The Plastic People of the Universe as a guitar player, and later joined the band Garage, with which he still plays. After the revolution in 1989, he joined together people from underground publishing to create the first independent media outlet in the country, the weekly Respekt (originally titled Information Service). There, he was frequently awarded for both his investigative and analytical writing. In 2000, he became Respekt's deputy editor in chief. Macháček has been a fellow of the National Forum Foundation in Washington and the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.

October 9 - Thursday

The U.S. in Afghanistan: Challenges and Opportunities
7:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A panel discussion by Middlebury College students from Afghanistan: Shabana Basij-Rasikh '11, Mirwais Hadel '12, Bilal Sarwary '10, and Tabasum Wolayat '12. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Kevin P. Mahaney Center for the Arts and the Center for Teaching and Learning.

October 10 - Friday

A Battle of Lions and Tigers: The War in Sri Lanka
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Pushpa Iyer, assistant professor and program coordinator--Conflict Resolution at Monterey Institute of International Studies. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 10/6, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.

October 16 - Thursday

Collecting Antiquities in the Age of Cultural Repatriation
4:30 p.m. - Center for the Arts room 221
A slide lecture by Pieter Broucke, associate professor of history of art and architecture, and associate curator of ancient art, Middlebury College. Broucek will highlight the Museum's early Cycladic figurine as he discusses issues of illegal excavation, forgeries, and the diligence museums must exercise in scrutinizing provenance and authenticity when acquireing antiquities. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies, and Brainerd Commons.

October 16 - Thursday

The Warsaw Ghetto Series by Wladyslaw Brzosko
Art Exhibit Reception
5:15-6:45 - Johnson Art Gallery
The Warsaw Ghetto Series art exhibit by Polish Artist Wladyslaw Brzosko (1912-) will complement the performance Life in a Jar. Brzosko was a witness to the ghetto uprising and its annihilation. Haunted by his memories, he created a deeply personal memorial to the destruction of Warsaw's Jewish community. His exquisite use of color and line captures the drama of the historic moment. On display will be four large oil paintings and about thirty sketches from 1961-1969. Brzosko received his training in post-impressionist and cubist traditions in Poland and Paris. He now lives in the US.

Sponsored by the Scott Center for Spititual and Religious Life, The Aquinnah Fund for Jewish Studies, the Holocaust Film Fund, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

October 16 - Thursday

Life in a Jar
7:00 p.m. - Dana Auditorium
The play Life in a Jar tells the true story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, where they faced certain death. Most children were given false papers and Polish names. After safely relocating the children, Sendler wrote their Jewish names on tissue paper and hid the records of their true identities in jars which she buried under an apple tree in her co-conspirator's garden. Sendler was arrested in 1943 and subjected to crippling torture, but she never revealed the location of the jars. She was sentenced to death and miraculously escaped. Sendler's story was forgotten until three girls from a small, poor, rural all-white high school in Uniontown, Kansas, rescured her story from obscurity by writing and performing a play about her wartime heroism and decency that they called Life in a Jar. Over the past eight years they have performed the play almost 250 times in the U.S., Canada and Poland.

Sponsored by the Scott Center for Spititual and Religious Life, The Aquinnah Fund for Jewish Studies, the Holocaust Film Fund, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

October 21 - Tuesday

Beyond Sovereignty: The Emperor and the State in Tomoyuki Hoshino's Lonely Hearts Killer
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A bring-your-own brown bag lunch presentation by Adrienne Hurley, assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University. Among her academic interests are modern and contemporary Japanese literature, comparative cultural studies, youth and violence, anarchist studies, and the fiction of Tomoyuki Hoshino, a woman Japanese anarchist. Sponsored by the International Studies Program and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

October 21 - Tuesday

I Vetelloni: Yesterday and Today, Fellini and Muccino
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Daniela Bini, Centennial Professor of Modern Languages, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin. Sponsored by the Departments of Italian and History of Art and Architecture, Cook Commons, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

October 21 - Tuesday

Archeology, Cultural Heritage, and Politics in Post-1992 Crimea (Ukraine)
4:30 p.m. - Johnson 304
A lecture by Joseph Carter, Director, Institute of Classical Archeology, University of Texas at Austin and the Centennial Professor in Classical Archaology. He has done substantial excavations in Italy and Ukraine. Sponsored by the Departments of Italian and History of Art and Architecture, Ross Commons, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

October 23 - Thursday

Climate Change, Culture Change and Human Rights: Making the Case for Viliui Sakha of Northeast Siberia
12:15 p.m. - Hillcrest 103
A Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series presentation by Susie Crate, Assistant professor of Human Ecology, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University. This talk first documents Viliui Sakha elders' testimonies about how their climate, environment, and daily and seasonal rhythms are changing, explores how those testimonies build a case for the human rights offences of GCC for the communities, then contemplates anthropologists' role in witnessing, acting and communicating the local realities and the human rights offenses to advocate for change. Sponsored by Environmental Studies, Environmental Affairs and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs

October 24 - Friday

My Family and Other Saints
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium presentation with Kirin Narayan, professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsis-Madison, reading from her new memoir My Family and Other Saints. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 10/20, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the First Year Seminar Program.

October 24 - Friday

The DNA of American Afrobeat: How '70s Nigeria Changed U.S. Music in the 21st Century
4:30 p.m. - Ross Fireplace Lounge
A discussion by members of Chicago Afrobeat Project, a music group that intensifies Chicago's rich music scene into the infectious sounds of afrobeat. The range of influences--funk, rock, jazz, afro-cuban, high life and juju--will be discussed. Sponsored by Office for Institutional Planning and Diversity, 51 Main, Ross Commons, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs

October 24 - Friday

Chicago Afrobeat Project Concert
8:00-11:00 p.m.
51 Main
Free

October 31 - Friday

Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An international Studies Colloquium presentation by Arlene Davila, Professor of Anthropology, Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. This lecture is part of Hispanic Heritage Month. Professor Davial is author of Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race (2008), Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the Neoliberal City (2004), Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People (2001). Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 10/27, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Office for Institutional Planning and Diversity, and American Studies.

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November 2008

November 3 - Monday

The Empire Strikes Back: American and European Respnses to a Resurgent Russia
7:30 p.m. - Robert A. ones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Jacques Rupnik, director of research at CERI, Sciences-Po, Paris, and visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He is presently visiting senior fellow at the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. His recent work has focused on democratic change and the integration of Central European and the Balkan countries into the European Union.

November 3 - Monday
Faculty Meeting
4:15 p.m. - Kirk Alumni Center

November 4 - Tuesday

Finding a Way Forward: Options for Ending the Conflict in Eastern DRC
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lunchtime presentation by Phil Oldham '90, Regional Director, West and Central Africa, Mercy Corps. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Wednesday, 10/29, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.

November 5 - Wednesday

The Challenge to Us of Holocaust Rescuers
7:00 p.m. - Dana Auditorium
A lecture by Pierre Sauvage, president of the Chambon Foundation, a nonprofit educational foundation committed to exploring and communicating the necessary and challenging lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust's unavoidable lessons of despair. In 2005 the Varian Fry Institute was established as a division of the Chambon Foundation. Sauvage is a documentary maker best known for his 1989 documentary Weapons of the Spirit which tells the story of Varian Fry and Le Chambon, the French mountain community that defied the Nazis and took in and saved 5000 Jews, including Sauvage and his parents. Sponsored by The Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, the Department of Film and Media Culture, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

November 6 - Thursday

Image and Meaning: The Art of Xu Bing
4:30 p.m. - Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall
A slide lecture by celebrated Chinese artist and MacArthur award winner Xu Bing. He will speak about his art and in particular his exploration of language and signs. Calligraphy by Xu Bing will be on display in the Robert F. Reiff Gallery from September 12 until December 7. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Departments of English and American Literatures, Chinese, History, the Teacher Education Program, and Middlebury College Museum of Art. This exhibition is dedecated to the memory of William S. Youngman (1907-1994), P'64, GP '87, '90, Trustee of Middlebury College 1962-1977.

November 7 - Friday

Peace Project Presentations
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Middlebury College students who were awarded funding from either the Kathryn Davis Wasserman 100 Projects for Peace Foundation, or from Alliance for Civic Engagement and other college offices. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 11/3, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Project on Creativity and Innovation in the Liberal Arts and the Rohatyn Centr for International Affairs.

November 10 - Monday

November 1938-November 2008: Seventy Years After Italy's Racial Laws
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Alessandro Visani, lecturer in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Rome, La Sapienza and currently a Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Italy's Racial Laws, he will present material from his third book, based on archival research conducted in the Vatican Secret Archives, which were opened to scholars in September 2006. Sponsored by the Departments of History and Italian, Cook Commons, Jewish Studies Program-Saltz Fund, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

November 11 - Tuesday

How Does Postmodern Work? (The Indian Experience)
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Beth Citron, advanced Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania (degree expected May 2009), on Tyeb Mehta and Akbar Padamsee's flirtation with abstraction/ the dialogue between figuration and abstraction in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

November 13 - Thursday

How Culture Invented a Nation for the Mexican Revolution
4:30 p.m. - Robert a. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Horacio Legrás, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, School of Humanities, University of California at Irvine. He has published essays on Augusto Roa Bastos, José María Arguedas, Caribbean culture, theatre in nineteenth century, Mexican muralism, critical theory and film. He recently finished a book titled Literature and Subjection which explores the historical role of the literary form in the incorporation of marginal subjectivities to representation in Latin America. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Departments of Political Science and Spanish and Portuguese, and Ross Commons.

November 14-15 - Friday and Saturday
ECONOMICS WORKSHOP ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION for full agenda go here

November 14 - Friday

Population Ageing and Pension Reforms in Europe--the Role of the European Union in Meeting the Challenge?
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Heikki Oksanan, European Commission, Directorate General for the Economic and Financial Affairs, Brussels, Belgium. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 11/10, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu, or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Ten Years of European Monetary Union: What's Gone Right and What's Gone Wrong?
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Keynote lecture by Peter Kenen, Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance Emeritus, Princeton University, and Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, New York. Sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

November 21 - Friday

Big Powers/Small Conflicts - The U.S. in the Sri Lanka Peace Process
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Jeffrey Lunstead, Diplomat in Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor in International Studies at Middlebury. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 11/17, to Martha Baldwin by e-mailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.

Jeffrey Lunstead was United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives from 2003-2006. A member of the Foreign Service since 1977, he served overseas in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Malaysia. In Washington he was Director for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh from 1999-2001 and Afghanistan Coordinator after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Sri Lanka has suffered a violent ethnic conflict since 1983, with over 70,000 deaths. From 2001 until 2006 the parties engaged in a peace process designed to bring about a political solution to the conflict. This effort was supported by the interntional community, including the U.S. The United States became deeply involved, despite the fact that it has no strategic interests in Sri Lanka. Why did the U.S. become involved, and what lessons can be drawn from the U.S. experience?

November 24 - Monday

The Long Memory: An (Incomplete) History of Grassroots Media
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Anna Leventhal, independent scholar, writer and media enthusiast. She was the curator of Quebec Alternative: Radical Publications of 1970s Quebec, an exhibition shown at the McGill University Library. Anna has been involved in several grassroots media initiatives over the past decade; she was part of the Projet Mobilivre/Bookmobile Project, and is one of the founders of the Bibliograph/e Zine Library. She blogs for Shameless Magazine, and is the contributing editor of The Art of Trespassing, a new fiction anthology from Invisible Publishing.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the International Studies Program, and the Department of English.

A German Director in Latin America: "The Ascent of the Chimborazo" (1989)
7:00 p.m. - Alexander Twilight Hall Auditorium
A lecture and discussion with Rainer Simon
"The Ascent of the Chimboraso" (96 mins. German w/English subtitles):
In 1802, the your Alexander von Humboldt led a scientific expedition to the Chimborazo in Ecuador, thought to be the hightest mountain in the world and never before climbed. At great risk to his own life, as well as those of his companions--the French doctor and botanist, Aimé Bonpland, and the local créole aristocrat, Carlos Montúfar--Humboldt carefully measures and documents flora, fauna, soil, rocks, water, and the air itself. They survive snow, cold, and the thin mountain air and explore regions that no European had seen before. But it is his encounters with the indigenous people of Ecuador that deeply fascinate him. He explores their culture and language and comes to see German society in a new light. Partly filmed on location in Ecuador.

Director, documentarian and writer Rainer Simon worked for the East German DEFA Film Studio from 1965 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He made his directing debut in 1968 with a children's film "How to Marry a King." His film "The Woman and the Stranger" won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984. Much of his recent work focuses on the life and culture of the indigenous people of Ecuador. Simon will discuss his film after the screening.

Sponsored by the Departments of Film and Media Culture, German, Spanish, Ross Commons, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

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December 2008

December 5 - Friday

Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to People's Republic?
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium presentation by William Waldron, Associate Professor of Religion, Middlebury College. Lunch will be available thoughout. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED as space is limited--frist come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 12/1, to Martha Baldwin by e-mailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.

December 8 - Monday

Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m. - McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

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January 2009

January 12 - Monday

Faculty Meeting
4:15 p.m. - McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

January 13 - Tuesday

Middle East Challenges to the Obama Administration
12:15 p.m. - McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
A lecture by David Makovsky, The Washington Institute's Project on the Middle East Peace Process, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. His commentary on the peace process and the Arab-Israeli conflict has appeared in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Before joining The Washington Institute, Mr. Makovsky was an award-winning journalist who covered the peace process from 1989-2000. He is former executive editor of the Jerusalem Post and was diplomatic correspondent for Israel's leading daily Haaretz. Now a contribution editor to U.S. News and World Report, he served for eleven years as the magazine's special Jerusalem correspondent. Sponsored by Middlebury College Hillel, Jewish Studies Program, Middle East Studies Program.

January 14 - Wednesday

Obama, NATO, and You
4:30 p.m. - Hillcrest 103
A lecture by Lawrence Chalmer, Director, NATO Education Center, National Defense University, and a highly-respected expert on U.S.-European security relations. The Education Center's NATO related education programs are mandated by the U.S. chief of defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for attendance by US military officers engaged in NATO duties. Mr. Chalmer has produced a web-based distance-learning series of lessons in use today by NATO Headquarters as an introduction to NATO. As part of his support to the U.S. Joint Staff and NATO, he supplements the directing staff at NATO Headquarters during Crisis Management Exercises. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and Winter Term Enrichment Funds.

January 26 - Monday

France, the United States and NATO: A New "Ménage à Trois?"
A Brown Bag Lunch lecture by Leo Michel, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strtegic Studies at the National Defense University, on the implications ofr US interest of Sarkozy's new attitute toward the US and NATO. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and Winter Term Enrichment Funds.
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February 2009

February 13 - Friday

Enrironment as a Bridge to Peace in the Middle East
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime lecture by Rabbi Michael Cohen, Director of Special Projects, Avara Institute for Environmental Studies. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 2/9, by e-mailing Martha Baldwin, or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Aquinnah Fund for Jewish Studies.

February 16 - Monday

Faculty Meeting
4:15 p.m. - McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

February 25 - Wednesday

Democracy in Eastern Europe and Latin America: the Cases of Russia and Brazil in Comparative Perspective
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Angelo Segrillo, professor of political science, University of Sao Paolo in Brazil, currently a visiting scholar at American University, and an independent researcher at the Library of Congress. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and Russian and East European Studies.

February 26 - Thursday

When Will France Have Its Own Obama?
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A roundtable discussion with David Berliss, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of New Orleans; Beth Epstein, Assistant Director, New York University in Paris, France; and Anne Raulin, Professor of Anthropology, Université de Paris X, and Member of the Laboratory of Urban Anthropology (CRNS). Moderator will be William Poulin-Deltour, Assistant Professor of French, Middlebury College. Sponsored by the Academic Enrichment Fund, the Department of French, the International Studies Program, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

February 27 - Friday

Endangered Languages and the Strange Case of the Summer Institute of Linguistics
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium/Language Works: An Invitation to Linguistics Series presentation by David Stoll, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middlebury College. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 2/23, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.

March 2009

March 5 - Thursday

Wired for War
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Peter W. Singer, Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. A leading expert on changes in 21st century warfare, he has also written for major media and journals, including the Boston Globe, L.A. Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Current History, Survival, International Security. He has provided commentary on military affairs for nearly every major TV and radio outlet. Dr. Singer is the author of Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (2003), Children at War (2005), and his newest, just out this month, Wired for War, which looks at the implications of robotics and other new technologies for war, politics, ethics, and law in the 21st century.

March 6 - Friday

The Rise and Fall of Money: An Insider's View of the Collapse of Indymac Bank
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Grosvenor Nichols '71, independent consultant; former Director of Corporate Communications; and former CAO at Indymac Bank. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED as space is limited--first come first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 3/1, by emailing Martha Baldwin at baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.

March 6 - Friday

Afghanistan: Notes From the Remembered War"
4:30 p.m. - Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center
A lecture by Sarah Chayes, former NPR correspondent, and founder of Arghand, a cooperative that produces skin-care products made from local fruits, nuts and botanicals. She is the author of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (2006). Ms. Chayes has appeard on "NOW with Bill Moyers," the "Oprah Winfrey Show," and "ABC News," as well as programs on CNN and NPR. As a reporter for NPR, her work during the Kosovo crisis earned her the 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards, together with other members of the NPR team. Sponsored by the Office for Institutional Diversity and Planning, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Ross Commons.

March 9 - Monday

Faculty Meeting
4:15 p.m. - McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

March 11 - Wednesday

Ever Greater Misery: The French Transit Camps 1940-1942
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Miriam Dean-Otting, professor of religion at Kenyon College. Sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies-Aquinnah Fund and Brainerd Commons.

March 12 - Thursday

From Bialik to Biton: A Political Path through Modern Hebrew Poetry
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Yaara Shehori, Tel-Aviv University. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program-Aquinnah Fund, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and Brainerd Commons.

March 12 - Thursday

Sex, Gender and Fascism: A Round-Table Discussion with Victoria de Grazia and Dagmar Herzog
4:30 p.m. - Axinn Center 229
A round-table discussion with Victoria de Grazia, Professor of History at Columbia University and Dagmar Herzog, professor at the City University of New York. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Academic Enrichment Funds, the Departments of History and Italian, Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Cook Commons.

March 13 - Friday

Drawing on Truth: Animated Documentaries from Japan, Iran, Israel
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Carole Cavanaugh, Professor of Japanese Studies, Middlebury College. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP my Monday, 3/9, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.

March 13 - Friday

Challenges of Development in East Asia
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Naazneen Barma, Public Sector Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank. Her work focuses on implementation of the Bank's new Governance and Anticorruption Strategy in various countries in East Asia. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

March 16 - Monday

Dostoevsky's Artistic Approach to Sexuality
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Susanne Fusso, professor in the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University; author of Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol; translator and editor of writings of Vladimir Trubetskoi; and co-editor of volumes of essays on Karolina Pavlova and on Googol. Sponsored by the Russiand Department Normano Fund and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

March 18 - Wednesday

An Islamic Enlightenment? Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Ahmad Dallal, associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies and chair of the Arabic and Islamic Studies Department at Georgetown University. His academic training and research cover the history of the disciplines of learning in Muslim societies, including both the exact and the traditional sciences, as well as early modern and modern Islamic thought and movements. His books and articles are focused on the history of science, Islamic revivalist thought, and Islamic law. He has written essays and delivered numerous lectures on the background and aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Sponsored by the Department or Religion, the Islamic Society, Middle East Studies, Academic Enrichment Fund, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

Monday, May 4 - Friday, May 5
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
INTERNATIONAL THESIS FORUM

May 4 - Monday - 4:30 p.m.

Nicole Conti, history of art and architecture major: "Illness and Devotion on Hieronymus Bosch's Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony in Lisbon
Pieter Broucke

Torrey Crim, international studies major: "Alice Lakwena's Holy Spirit Movement in Northern Uganda in Historical Perspective"
Jacob Tropp, Linda White

Jessamy Klapper, international studies major: "His Name is (Usama) Al Dinasoury: Wandering Words and Wandering Ways in the Myths of a Dinosaur-Poet"
Samuel Liebhaber, Leif Sorenson

Elisabeth McMorris, international studies major: “Cultural Objects in the Age of International Consciousness: The 1954 Hague Convention, the 1970 UNESCO Convention, the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention”:Pieter Broucke, James Morrison

Susanna Merrill, Russian and religion, joint major: "Seeing the Possessor/Non-Possessor Conflict through the Visual Theology of the Virgin of the Burning Bush"
Maria Hatjigeorgiou

Ria Shroff, Spanish major: “Cuerpo femenino, arte y memoria: Eva Perón y sus representaciones artísticas y Literarias" (Feminine body, art and memory: Eva Perón and her artistic literary representations)
Juana Gamero de Coca, Viviana Rigo de Alonso

May 5 - Tuesday - 4:30 p.m.

Harriet Fox, political science major: "Will of the People: NGO Strategy and the Progressive Realization of Human Rights in South Africa"
Bertram Johnson, Sarah Stroup

Ioana Literat, film and media culture major: "The Use of Entertainment-Education as a Tool for Social Change in Developing Countries"
Jason Mittell

Emily Sage Sipchen, international studies major: "From Democracy to Dictatorship: Government Impact on Chile's Shantytowns"
Maria Woolson, Kathryn Morse

Sakura Yagi, international studies major: "The Doxa of a Hegemonic World Order: The Defining of the Japanese 'Self" Vis-a-vis the Chinese and American 'Others'"
Ellen Oxfeld, Burke Rochford, Don Wyatt

May 6 - Wednesday - 4:30 p.m.

Julie Ellenberger, international politics and economics major: “Balancing Integration and Policy: France, Maghrebi Women, and the Republican Model”
Thierry Warin, Quinn Mecham

James Fallon, political science major: "Political Violence in Post-War Lebanon"
Quinn Mecham, Kateri Carmola

Marie Horbar, international studies major: "Collected Memory, Collective Memory: Italy's Present-day Remembrance of its Fascist Past"
Natasha Chang, Nathalie Peutz

Caitlin Pentifallo, political science major: "Going for the Gold: Explaining Motivations for Olympic Games Bidding"
Amy Yuen, Bertram Johnson

Emre Sahin, political science major: "Romani Political Mobilization in Spain and Turkey: A Comparative Analysis”
Quinn Mecham, Kateri Carmola

Mohammed Shoushi, international studies major: “Redirecting Social Change: Intersections of Multiculturalism and Sexual Diversity in Contemporary Japan”
Linda White, Stephen Snyder

May 7 - Thursday - 4:30 p.m.

Rachel Korschun, environmental studies major: "Square Peg, Round Hole: A Case Study of the NGO-Village Interactions of TFCG and Sagara Village, Tanzania"
Jacob Tropp, Christopher Klyza

Jessica Clayton, international studies major: "The impact of remittances: A Survey Analysis"
Thierry Warin, Jeffrey Cason

Daniela Fiedler, international politics and economics major: "Islamic Finance"
Thierry Warin, James Morrison

Elizabeth Herron-Sweet, international studies major: "The Right to Memory and Truth: Evaluating the Consequences of Transitional Justice Policy in Brazil"
Jeffrey Cason, Fernando Rocha

Louise Song, international politics and economics major: "The Sinification of Capitalism: Moderating with Foreign Ownership Laws"
Thierry Warin, Sarah Stroup

Abigail Willman, international politics and economics major: "The Determinants of Migrant Remittances in the US"
Thierry Warin, Jeffrey Cason

May 8 - Friday - 12:15 p.m.

Callie Collins, international studies major: "Hopeless Heroes, Fractured Evolutions: Finding Albert Camus’s Absurd Man"
Bethany Ladimer, Stefano Mula

Elizabeth Crane, English, and sociology and anthropology, joint major: "Intimacy with an Other: Imaginings of 中美跨国婚姻 and White-Chinese Interracial Marriages"
Ellen Oxfeld, Lynn Owens, Leif Sorenson

Josannah Keller, Chinese, and sociology and anthropology, joint major: "Recreating the Exotic: China's Changing Representation in The New York Times and National Geographic"
Ellen Oxfeld, Thomas Moran, Laurie Essig

Claire Kelly, international studies major: "Inspiring Love and Resistance in Occupied France: The Poetry of Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard"
Paula Schwartz, Charles Nunley

Michael Nevadomski, English major: "'The Mule Burst-All': Untranslation Theory and The Arabian Nights"
Timothy Billings, Justin Stearns

Chi Zhang, international studies major: "To Be or Not To Be--A Writer's Burden: Suicide and the Modern Experience in Twentieth-century China and Japan"
Stephen Snyder, Thomas Moran

May 11 - Monday

Faculty Meeting
3:00 p.m. - Kirk Alumni Center
3:00 p.m. - Kirk Alumni Center

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