2008-2009 Event Calendar
September 2008
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The RCFIA calendar lists all events that come to our attention in the area of international affairs broadly defined. Please feel free to notify us of events to be included. For further information, please contact Charlotte Tate at the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
(This page last updated 8/12/08 at 10:01 AM by M. Baldwin)
September 2008
September 12 - Friday
Making a Difference in the World
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
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.
September 23 - Tuesday
Title TBA
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
Title TBA
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.
October 2008
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 9 - Thursday
Title TBA
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room.
A lecture by Richard Hornik, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow (2006-2007), director of Southeast Asia Programs for the Independent Journalism Foundation.Sponsored by the Department of Economics.
October 10 - Friday
Title TBA on 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 23 - Thursday
Climate Change, Culture Change and Human Rights: Making the Case for Viliui Sakha of NE Siberia
12:15 p.m. - Hillcrest 103 "The Orchard"
An Environmental Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Susan A. Crate, assistant professor of human ecology, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Geoge Mason University. Sponsored by Enviromental Studies Program and Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
October 23 - Thursday
Islamists in Action - The Moroccan PJD and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Amr Hamzawy, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
November 2008
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.
December 2008
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April 2009
April 23 - Thursday
My Happiness Bears no Relation to Happiness: Poet Taha Muhammad Ali and the Palestinian Century
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Adina Hoffman, on her new book of the same title. It is the first biography of a Palestinian poet, and the first portrayal of Palestinian literature and culture in the 20th century. Sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and Middle East Studies Program.
May 2009
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September 14, Friday
The Making of a European Economist
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by David Colander, Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics, Middlebury College. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served. RSVP by Monday, 9/10, by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
September 18, Tuesday
Changing Perspectives: From Sherpa Culture to Social Justice
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room
A lecture by Frances Klatzel, chair of CORE (Creating Opportunities and Resources for the Excluded). Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Women's and Gender Studies, and Program in Environmental Studies.
September 27, Thursday
Beyond the Object: The Concept of Power in African Art
7:30 p.m. - Dana Auditorium
A lecture by Rowland Abiodun, John C. Newton Professor of Fine Arts and Black Studies and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Amherst College. Lecture is affiliated with the Museum of Art exhibition, Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, History of Art and Architecture Department, and Office for Institutional Diversity.
September 28, Friday
The Superclass
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by David Rothkopf, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, and president and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm specializing in emerging markets and risk management services. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served. RSVP by Monday, 9/24, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Rothkopf will speak on his forthcoming book The Superclass to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in multiple languages. It is a study of globalization's elites, how they interact, and the implications of those interactions. In writing it, he interviewed many of the world's most powerful individuals. His talk at Middlebury will be the world premiere of the argument.
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October 2007
October 3, Wednesday
The Evolution of the Post-Soviet Identity: In Search of the Russian Soul
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Anna Vassilieva, professor and Russian Studies Program head, Monterey Institute of International Studies. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
October 7, Sunday
¿Puedo hablar?: A documentary film on the recent elections in Venezuela
4:00 p.m. - Dana Auditorium
Screening and discussion with filmmaker Christopher Moore, director and producer Sol Productions. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Department of Spanish.
October 8, Monday
Enabling Social and Economic Development in the Digital Age
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Michael Rawding '86, vice president, Unlimited Potential Group, Microsoft Corporation. He is responsible for leading Products & Solutions Management, Partners, Business Development and Field Execution for the Unlimited Potential Group. This group is charged with spearheading efforts to close the digital divide by creating new products and programs that will help bring social and economic opportunity for the estimated 5 billion people not yet realizing the benefits of technology.
October 10, Wednesday
Reclaiming the Future
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room
A lecture by David Lowenthal, author of George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation and professor emeritus, Department of Geography, University of London. This lecture is part of INTL0468 Topographies: Writing the Map of Home. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies, Environmental Studies, and the Departments of American Literature, English, Geography and History.
October 11, Thursday
Mixed Messages: Text, Image, and Identity in the Work of Contemporary African Artists
4:30 p.m. - Center for the Arts Room 221
A lecture on African art in a global context by Elizabeth Harney, assistant professor, contemporary arts, University of Toronto. The lecture is affiliated with the Museum of Art exhibition, Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art. Sponsored by Middlebury College Museum of Art, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and Department of History of Art and Architecture.
October 11, Thursday
Driving a Hybrid: Between Dictatorship and Democracy in the Modern World
12:15 p.m. - Chateau Grand Salon
A lecture by Graeme Robertson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lunch will be avaialbe throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served. RSVP by Friday, 10/5, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Departments of Economics, History, and Political Science.
October 12, Friday
Religion and American Foreign Policy
12:15 p.m. - Dana Auditorium
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Olin Robison, President Emeritus of Middlebury College and former president of Salzburg Seminar from 1992-2005. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. STUDENTS RSVP WITH ID NUMBER. RSVP by Monday, 10/8, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu, or by calling 443-5324.
October 12, Friday
Two Americas: Income Inequality in the United States
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Nolan McCarty, Associate Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
October 17, Wednesday
Film screening and discussion: "Souls Without Borders: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln Brigade 1936-2006"
4:30 p.m. - McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
A screening of the film "Souls Without Borders: The Untold Story of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 1936-2006," on the Spanish Civil War and discussion with Anthony Geist, professor and chair, Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies Program, and the Departments of History, Film and Media Culture, and Spanish.
October 19, Friday
What is Anti-Americanism? The Case of France
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Sophie Meunier, research fellow in theWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, August 2005), and co-author of The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (with Philip Gordon, Brookings Institution Press, December 2001). Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. STUDENTS RSVP WITH ID NUMBER. RSVP by Monday, 10/15, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu, or by calling 443-5324.
October 25, Thursday
Democracy, Institution-Building and the Rule of Law in Central and East Europe
7:00 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Jan Macháček, of Hospodraske noviny (a joint publishing venture with the Wall Street Journal), Prague.
October 26, Friday
Sociality of Neoliberalism: Affect, Family and Japanese Youth
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Anne Allison, Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served. RSVP by Monday, 10/24, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury,edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, First Year Seminars, Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Wonnacott Commons.
October 29, Monday
Surrealism, Modernism, and Postwar Japanese Film Radicals
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room
A lunchtime lecture by Jonathan Hall, professor, comparative literature, University of California at Irvine. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. STUDENTS RSVP WITH ID NUMBERS. RSVP by Wednesday, 10/24, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu, or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by Film and Media Culture, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Women's and Gender Studies, Japanese Studies, Middlebury Asian Students' Organization, and International Studies.
October 30, Tuesday
Iraq's Elusive Peace: A Reporter's View from Inside the Green Zone
7:30 p.m. - McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
A Meet the Press Series presentation by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, National Editor of The Washington Post and the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, an account of the American effort to reconstruct Iraq. The book, which provides a firsthand view of life inside Baghdad's Green Zone, wond the Overseas Press Club book award, the Ron Ridenhour Prize and Britain's Samuel John Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of English, and Atwater Commons.
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November 2007
November 2, Friday
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Projects for Peace Presentations
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Storytelling in Uganda by Aylie Baker '09, Leah Bevis '09, Vijay Kumar Chowdhari '09
Enlightening Pakistan by Shujaat Ali Khan '10 and Hamza Arshed Usmani '10
Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 10/29, by emailing Martha Baldwin at baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble Concert
8:00 p.m. - McCullough Social Space
Layaali is a Massachusetts-based group of talented musicians whose love and dedication to Arabic music have earned them wide acclaim from both ethnomusicologists and audiences at sold-out performances throughout the U.S. and internationally. The ensemble is committed to performing the traditional music of the Arab world and to preserving the rich legacy of Arabic culture through soulful vocals, hypnotic instrumental improvisations, electrifying percussion, and faithful renditions and recordings of master works.
The musicians and vocalist, who come from four Arab countries--Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Morocco--are Jamal Sinno (qanun and vocals), Muhammed Mejaour (nay and percussion), Kareem Roustom (oud), Michel Moushabeck (tabla, riqq, daff), and Geena Ghandour (vocals).
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies, Academic Enrichment Fund, Foreign Language Enrichment Fund, Office for Institutional Diversity, the Departments of Arabic and Music, and Cook Commons.
November 9, Friday
The Fall of the Berlin Wall 18 YearsLater: Lessons from East Central Europe
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Jiri Pehe, director of New York University in Prague and head of NYU's Prage Institute for Democracy, Economy, and Culture, He teaches at Charles University and New York University in Prague. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 11/5, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
Dealing with Russia: A Business, Political, and Legal Perspective
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Eileen O'Connor, Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, LLP. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Departments of Russian, Political Science, and Economics.
November 12, Monday
Not Yet Modernist, Already Postmodern: Hong Sang-soo and Modernism in Korean Cinema
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room
A lunchtime lecture by Seung-Hoon Jeong, Film Studies and Comparative Literature, Yale University. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. STUDENTS RSVP WITH ID NUMBERS. RSVP by Wednesday, 11/7, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu, or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by Film and Media Culture, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Women's and Gender Studies, Middlebury Asian Students' Organization, and International Studies.
November 14, Wednesday
The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room
A lecture by Leo Lucassen, professor and chair of social history, University of Leiden; author of the book of the same title as the lecture. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Office for Institutional Diversity, and the Departments of French, German, History and Political Science.
November 16, Friday
Islam Without Fear: Is Conflict with the West Inevitable?
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Raymond Baker, College Professor of International Politics, Trinity College. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 11/12, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and International Studies Program.
November 16, Friday
Tribalism in Modern Iraq and its Role in Current Iraqi Politics
3:00 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Robert A Fernea, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs; Women's and Gender Studies Program; International Studies Program; Departments of History, German, Sociology and Anthropology, and Political Science; the Tillinghast Professorship in Religion, History, and Philosophy; and Academic Enrichment Funds.
Iraqi Women: Then and Now
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Elizabeth Fernea, Professor Emeritus of English and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs; Women's and Gender Studies Program; International Studies Program; Departments of History, German, Sociology and Anthropology, and Political Science; the Tillinghast Professorship in Religion, History, and Philosophy; and Academic Enrichment Funds.
November 26, Monday
Piracy in China and Russia
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Martin Dimitrov, assistant professor of political science, Department of Government, Dartmouth College. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies, and the Departments of Economics and Political Science.
November 30, Friday
Shaping the Future: The Need for Global Citizens
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Carol Bellamy, president and CEO, World Learning, president School for International Training. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 11/26, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
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December 2007
December 3, Monday
CANCELLED/City Symphonies and Constructivist Courseware: Mining Modernism for Digital Innovation
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room
A lunchtime lecture by Marsha Kinder, University Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. CANCELLED
January 2008
January 9, Wednesday
After Iraq: Whither US Strategy?
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lunchtime lecture by Andrew Bacevich, professor of International Relations and History, Boston University. Dr. Bacevich is the editor of The Long War: A New History of US National Security Policy since World War II. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Friday, 1/4, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu, or by calling 443-5324
January 11, Friday
Empire of the Willing: The Privatization of American Power
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Allison Stanger, James Jermain Professor of Political Economy and director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 1/7, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
January 18, Friday
Private Military Contractors and Risk Transfer Warfare
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Kateri Carmola, C. A. Johnson Fellow in Political Philosophy, Middlebury College. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 1/14, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by callling 443-5324.
February 2008
February 15, Friday
The Israel Lobby
12:15 p.m. - Dana Auditorium
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Rene Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also the coauthor, with John J. Mearsheimer, of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2007). Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. Please RSVP by Monday, 2/11, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
February 21, Thursday
Economic Challenges Facing the United States
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Allan Hubbard, Former Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Project on Creativity and Innovation in the Liberal Arts, and the Department of Economics.
February 22, Friday
Political Power and Property Rights in Russia's Regions
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by William Pyle, assistant professor of economics, Middlebury College. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 2/18, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
February 27, Wednesday
THE WINNING FORMULA OF 60 MINUTES - Staying on top by covering the war while ignoring Britney Spears
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A Communications Week lecture by Jeff Fager, executive producer of 60 Minutes since 2004. Prior to taking over 60 Minutes, he was executive producer of 60 Minutes II, winning nine Emmy Awards, two RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards, two Alfred I DuPont-Columbia University Awards, three Peabody Awards, a Delta Sigma Chi Award, and two Investigative Reporting and Editing Awards. The lecture will be followed by a Career Conversation with students. Cosponsored by the Career Services Office and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
February 28, Thursday
Las Dictaduras Democraticas Del Siglo XXI (Democratic Dictatorships in the 21st Century)
4:30 p.m. - Dana Auditorium
A student-organized lecture by Virginia Contreras, American Secureity Council Foundation, former Venezuelan Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), based out of Washington, DC. At the age of 23 Ms. Contreras became one of the youngest femal directors of the ministry of justice in Venezuela. She worked extensively with President Hugo Chavez, but is now a strong opponent of his regime. She is well-known in Venezuela and speaks throughout Latin America as well as within the United States. Sponsored by Cook Commons, the Department of Spanish, MCAB Speaker Fund, the Office for Institutional Diversity, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
February 29, Friday
Recent Discoveries From the Stalin-era Archives
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Paul Gregory, University of Houston and Hoover Institution. Sponsored by the C.A. Johnson Chair in Economics and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
March 2008
March 3, Monday
China: Is Political Reform Possible?
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
The first lecture in the mini-symposium 2008 Political Games: Managing Prosperity, Power & Social Change on the Eve of the Beijing Olympics by Joseph Fewsmith, director of the East Asian Studies Program, professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University; and research associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (2001), Elite Politics in Contemporary China (2001), and The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate (1994). Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Departments of Chinese, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology, and the Office for Institutional Planning and Diversity.
March 3, Tuesday
China and World Affairs
7:00 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
The second lecture in the mini-symposium 2008 Political Games: Managing Prosperity, Power & Social Change on the Eve of the Beijing Olympics by David Lampton, director of Chinese Studies at the Nixon Center, and the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He was the former director of the China Policy Program at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. He is the author of Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 (2001) and editor of The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Age of Reform, 1978-2000 (2001). Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Departments of Chinese, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology, and the Office for Institutional Planning and Diversity.
March 7, Friday
The Culture of Food in Rural China
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation and the third lecture in the mini-symposium 2008 Political Games: Managing Prosperity, Power & Social Change on the Eve of the Beijing Olympics by Ellen Oxfeld, professor of anthropology at Middlebury College. She is the author of Blood, Sweat and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community (1993), which was the winner of the 1996 Thomas and Zaniecki Award from the American Sociological Association Section on International Migration; and co-editor with Lynellyn Long of Coming Home? Immigrants, Refugees and Those Who Stayed Behind (2004). Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 3/3, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
March 11, Tuesday
Power Transition in Russia? The Significance of the Presidential Election
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Department of Political Science.
March 10, Monday
The Relevance of Africa in World Affairs: Making Sense of "Senseless" Conflicts
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lunchtime presentation by Errol A. Henderson, associate professor of political science at Penn State University. He specializes in international relations theory, analysis of war and peace, culture and world politics, African politics, and African-american political ideology. He is the author of Democracy and War: The End of an Illusion? (2002) and Afrocentrism and World Politics: Towards a New Paradigm (1995).
Lunch will be available througout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Wednesday, 3/5, by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Academic Enrichment Fund, Office of Institutional Planning and Diversity, Department of Political Science, International Studies Program, Umoja, and International Students Organization.
March 12, Wednesday
European Integration: A Trans-Atlantic Divide or Rapprochment?
A lecture by Sarwar A. Kashmeri, founder of Strategic Communications and author of America and Europe after 9/11 and Iraq: The Great Divide (2006), and Fellow, Foreign Policy Association. He is also host of Global Currents, the Foreign Policy Association's bi-weekly podcast series. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
March 13, Thursday
1453: The Fall of Constantinople and its Impact on Europe
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Nancy Bisaha, Vassar College. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies Program, and the Departments of History, Italian, Philosophy, and Religion.
March 14, Friday
Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures from Baghdad to the Pentagon
12:15 p.m. - Robert a. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Alex Rossmiller '04, National Security Network Fellow and former intelligence officer for the Department of Defense's Defense Intelligence Agency. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 3/10, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
March 17, Monday
Mistakes of Fact and Congressional Authorizations for War
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Lori F. Damrosch, Fulbright Scholar and the Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia University. She is the author or co-editor of many publications, including: International Law: Cases and Materials, Enforcing International Law through Non-Forcible Measures, and Beyond Confrontation: International Law for the Post-Cold War Era. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the State Department's advisory committee on international law; and is editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Department of Political Science and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
March 18, Tuesday
Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Madeleine M. Kunin, Marsh Scholar Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. Kunin was the first woman governor of Vermont, and served as the Deputy Secretary of Education and Ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. She also served on the President's Interagency Council on Women and was a member of the US delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Currently she serves as president of the board of the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), a nongovernmental organization that she founded in 1991. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a regular commentator on Vermont Public Radio. Sponsored by Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
March 19, Wednesday
India, America, and Liberal Partnership: A Tocquevillean Foreign Policy
7:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Paul Caresse '89, professor and director of the United States Air Force Academy Scholar Program. He is the author of The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (2003). Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and Pre Law Club.
March 31, Monday
Who is Wu-Ming? Global Fiction From Italy
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Roberto Bui, member of the Wu-Ming Foundation, an Italian writers' collective. The members have published several highly successful novels which have been translated into many languages, and are known for their politicized writing. They come from a cultural tradition that blends social activism and cultural activity. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Academic Enrichment Funds, English and American Literature, and Department of Italian.
April 2008
April 1, Tuesday
The Pentagon's New Map
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Tom Barnett, Senior Managing Director, Enterra Solutions. LLC. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
April 2, Wednesday
Media Silence on Iraq and Iran in an Election Year
7:30 p.m. - Dana Auditorium
A lecture by Scott Ritter, former chief weapons inspector for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq. His experience on the front lines of the ongoing battle against arms proliferation served as the basis for his book Endgame, which explored the shortcoming of American foreign policy in the Persion Gulf region and alternative approaches to handling the Iraqi crisis, and for Iraq Confidential, which detailed his seven year experience as a weapons inspector. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Cook Commons, Ross Commons, and International Studies Program.
April 4, Friday
The Role of NGOs in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Charles MacCormack '63, president, chief operating officer, and member of the board of the Save the Children Federation since 1993. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 3/31, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
April 11, Friday
Public Diplomacy and the Challenges of European Power
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An Interntional Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Jean-Claude Redonnet, Professor Emeritus at the University de Paris-Sorbonne; Director of the Middlebury College French School 1998-2003. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 4/7, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
April 11, Friday
Liberty of Conscience: The Attack on America's Tradition of Religious Equality
4:30 p.m. - Mead Chapel
A Language, Mind, and Culture Series lecture by Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at University of Chicago. Sponsored by Foreign Language Enrichment Fund, the Departments of Classics and Philosophy, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
April 16, Wednesday
The Embassy of the Future
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Ambassador Marc Grossman, vice chairman of The Cohen Group, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2001-2005), Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (1997-2000), and U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1994-1997). Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
April 17, Thursday
Whither Bioethics? From Relational Ethics to Public Ethics
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Susan Sherwin, Philosophy Department, Dalhousie University. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of Philosophy, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program.
April 25, Friday
Democracy and Autocracy in Eurasia: Georgia in Transition
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Irakly Areshidze '00, author of Democracy and Autocracy in Eurasia: Georgia in Transition (Eurasia Political Economy and Public Policy Studies) (2007). Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Monday, 4/21, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
April 25, Friday
Utopophobia
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by David Estlund, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Brown University. Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
April 28, Monday
Shaping Democracy: The Role of Women as Legislators in the Mexican Congress
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lunchtime presentation by Caroline Beer, associate professor of political science, University of Vermont. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL as space is limited--first come, first served up to our limit. RSVP by Wednesday, 4/23, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Office of Institutional Planning and Diversity, and the Departments of Political Science and Spanish.
April 29, Tuesday
Homeland Security: A Military or Civilian Responsibility?
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Peter Verga, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
May 2008
May 1, Thursday
U.S. - Mexico Political Relations
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Jesus Silva-Herzog, former Ambassador of Mexico to the United States (1995-1997) and to Spain (1991-1993). As Finance Minister of Mexico from 1981-1986, Ambassador Silva-Herzog earned international recognition for his handling of acute national economic problems with direct effects on the United States. He a graduate of the National University of Mexico and of Yale University, an author and lecturer at universities in Mexico and abroad. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
May 5-9, Monday - Friday
International Studies Thesis Forum
Final schedule TBA
4:30 p.m. daily - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Five afternoons of presentations of the best international theses Middlebury College has to offer. These theses are not only from the International Studies majors, but are nominated by their advisors from any major, as long as the topic is international in scope. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.