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2009-2010 Event Calendar

(This page last updated 11/10/09 at 8:48 AM by M. Baldwin)

September 2009

September 11 - Friday

Greening Study Abroad: Sustainable Study Abroad Grants
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

International Studies Colloquium presentation by Middlebury College seniors on the environmental projects they generated while studying abroad:

Kathleen (Kat) Hartley, Sophia University, Japan Organic Farming in Japan
Stephanie Joyce, Universidad Austral de Chile (Middlebury School in Latin America), Glacial Meltwater as an Urban Resource
Deanna Tamborelli, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (University of Virginia) Peru, Saving Peru's Waterways: The Effectiveness of Grassroots Environmental Activism.
Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY. RSVP by Tuesday, 9/8, by emailing Martha Baldwin at baldwin@middlebury.edu, or by calling 443-5324.

Sponsored by International Programs and Off-Campus Study, Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.


September 17 - Thursday

Can the Provate Sector be Trusted to Protect Nature? Conservation Cowboys in Africa and Latin America
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture by Jeff Langholtz, associate professor of International Environmental Policy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. He is founder and director of the Monterey Institute's Conservation Leadership Practicum and former head of its 70-student master's program in International Environmental Policy. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

September 28 - Monday

Trade and Poverty over Two Centuries
4:30 p.m. - Warner Hemicycle
Christian A. Johnson Economic Enrichment Fund lecture by Jeffrey Williamson, Laird Bell Professor of Economics, emeritus, Harvard University. Sponsored by the Department of Economics.

October 2009

October 1 - Thursday

China Today: Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the PRC
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A faculty-student panel discussion to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. There will be brief opening remarks from the panel followed by comments and questions from the floor, open discussion. Panelists are John Berninghausen, Tom Moran and Weihe Xu,Chinese department; Jessica Teets, political science department; Maggie Clinton, history department and Yunfei Ren, current senior from China. Sponsored by the Department of Chinese, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Political Science Department.



October 2 - Friday

Human Security and Regional Cooperation in East Asia
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

An International Studies Colloquium Presentation by Tsuneo Akaha, Professor of International Policy Studies and Director for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY. RSVP by Monday, 9/28, to Martha Baldwin by e-mailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies Program and the Department of Political Science.

October 7 - Wednesday

Study Abroad in China: Do Students Become More Fluent?
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A Language Works: An Invitation to Linguistics Series presentation by Assistant Professor of Chinese Hang Du. The Interdepartmental Faculty Speaker Series in Linguistics provides opportunities for Middlebury students to get to know resources in linguistics on campus: faculty members and their work in the various subfields of linguistics. Middlebury faculty from all language departments, teacher education, sociology/anthropology and others will share their research and scholarly expertise.

October 7 - Wednesday

To Live or Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
7:00 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture and book signing by Nicholas Schmidle, freelance journalist and fellow at the New America Foundation. He will discuss his experiences covering events in Pakistan, where he spent two years as a journalism fellow. His talk will reveal a country—complicated, dangerous, and fragile—that looks to be the battleground for the future of the Muslim world. Schmidle writes for the New York Times Magazine, Slate, The New Republic, Smithsonian, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. A fellow at the New America Foundation, he received the 2008 Kurt Schork Award for freelance journalism. He is the author of To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan.

Schmidle's lecture is cosponsored by the Rohatyn Center, the Vermont Humanities Council (VHC), and the Ilsley Public Library, and is part of VHC's First Wednesdays series. First Wednesdays is underwritten statewide by the Vermont Department of Libraries and is also supported by The Preservation Trust of Vermont.

October 9 - Friday

A Canadian Looks at America
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Andrew Cohen, president of The Historica-Dominion Institute, an organization dedicated to advancing history, identity and democracy in Canada. He is also a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and professor of journalism and international affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY. RSVP by Monday, 10/5, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Middlebury Town and Gown Group.

October 9 - Friday

Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Peter Andreas, associate professor of political science and international studies at Brown University, and director of Brown's International Relations Program. A former Academy Scholar at Harvard, research fellow at Brookings Institution, and Mac Arthur Foundation Fellow on International Peace and Security, he is the author of Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide (2000), Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations (2006), Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo (2008), and the forthcoming Sex, Drugs and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict (2010. He has also published a number of articles in such journals as International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, and The Nation. Sponsored by the Department of Political Science, Interntional Politics and Economics, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

October 14 - Wednesday

Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and the Importance of Soulful Capital
12:30 p.m. - Hillcrest 103 - The Orchard

Environmental Studies Howard E. Woodin Colloquium Lecture Series presentation by Jed Smith '88, Managing Partner of Catamount Ventures and a member of the Middlebury Board of Trustees. He will discuss the emerging trends in eco-entrepreneurship, both from an eco and an entrepreneur's perspective. Jed will also cover, from an investment point of view, what he looks for in a new plan. He will then briefly outline two new business concepts that his company is considering and ask the audience for feedback and to vote on which one should be pursued. Please feel free to bring your own lunch and beverage to enjoy during the talk. Co-sponsored by the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

October 14 - Wednesday

Persians, Protests and Politicians: Who is in Charge in Iran?
7:00 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Borzou Daragahi, a two-time Pulitzer prize nominee who has covered war, politics, culture and commerce in the Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Middle East at large. He has covered the Middle East for print and broadcast outlets since 2002 and is a regular contributor to the News Hour and NPR. He has been a journalist for the Los Angeles Times since 2005. He is based in Beirut. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the student organization Middle East Action.

October 15 - Thursday

The origins of political complexity in the Maya area
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Norman Hammond, professor of archaeology, Boston University. Norman Hammond's research interests include the emergence and decline of complex societies, exchange, and the history of archaeology. Since 1968 he has worked in the Maya lowlands, with interdisciplinary projects at Lubaantun (1970-71), Nohmul (1973-86), Cuello (1975-93) and currently La Milpa (1992-), a large Classic period (AD 250-900) city in northwestern Belize. The La Milpa project has an international staff and is funded by the National Geographic Society and Boston University. Professor Hammond has also published fieldwork in North Africa, Afghanistan and Ecuador. He was on the faculty of Cambridge University (1967-75), Bradford University (1975-77) and Rutgers University (1977-88), and has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Jilin University (China), the Sorbonne and the University of Bonn; he has also held a Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship and visiting fellowships at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Professor Hammond serves on the editorial boards of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Journal of Field Archaeology, and is an advisor to The Times of London. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

October 16 - Friday

Free Speech or Hate Spech? The Danish Cartoon Controversy in the European Legal Context
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Erik Bleich, associate professor of political science, Middlebury College.  Lunch will be available throughout. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY. RSVP by Monday, 10/12, to Martha Baldwin by e-mailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

October 16 - Friday

Hoshino Tomoyuki and the End of Modern Japanese Literature
5:00 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by John Treat, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University and co-editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies. He is the author of Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire (Washington 1988), a study of the works of Ibuse Masuji, and of Writing Ground Zero (Chicago 1995), the definitive study of the literature on the atomic bombs in Japan. His Greatest Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan (Oxford 1999) examines the history and psychology of oriental studies. He has written widely on modern Japanese literature, popular culture, and film. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Academic Enrichment Fund.

October 18-24 - Sunday-Saturday

Freedom without Walls: an initiative sponsored by the German Embassy in DC and Middlebury College to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989

October 18 - Sunday
Student-written Scenes about life in the shadow of the Berlin Wall
8:00 p.m. - McCullough Social Space
Introduced and moderated by Vermont playwright Dana Yeaton

October 19 - Monday
The End of the Cold War: The Night the Masks Fell
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
by Igor Lukes, History professor at Boston University.

October 20 - Tuesday
Citizenship and National Identity
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Faculty-Student panel discussion

October 21 - Wednesday
Of Maps and Men: Representing Divided Germany
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 conference room
A lecture by Professor of Geography Guntram Herb.

October 22 - Thursday
Screening of Das Leben der Anderen with Q&A
8:00 p.m. - McCardell Bicentennial Hall

October 23 - Friday
Breakthrough: Charity Race to benefit WomenSafe
3:00-6:00 p.m. - Golfcourse/Track Team Course

October 24 - Saturday
Ich bin ein Berliner
8:00 p.m.
Closing gala: Video-dance performance and reception with German food and drinks. Video-dance collage written and directed by Luisa Covaria '09 and Denise Hofmann '10.
Featuring Middlebury Chamber Singers under the direction of Professor Jeff Buettner, Middlebury student dancers under the direction of Jelena Jesajana '10.5.  This event is co-sponsored by Cook Commons.


October 23 - Friday

Social Entrepreneurship Meets Venture Philanthropy: The Story of Mothers2Mothers
12:15 p.m., Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

An international Studies Colloquium presentation on global health by David Torres '84, director for mothers2mothers (www.m2m.org), based in Capetown, South Africa. mothers2mothers is a multinational NGO with over 500 sites in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa which aims to reduce the number of babies born with HIV and help women access medical care for themselves and their families by offering an effective, sustainable model of care that provides education and support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV/AIDS. Lunch will be available. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY. RSVP by Monday, 10/19, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.

October 23 - Friday

"No Blacks Around?" Cadernos Negros and the Construction of Black Identity in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Emanuelle Oliveira, associate professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature, Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Writing Identity: The Politics of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature (2007).  Prof. Oliveira has done a superb work on one of the most important Afro-Brazilian literary groups in Brazil, the Quilombhoje, who are active participants of the black movement and use their writings to promote a consciousness-raising process on the questions of race relations and racism in Brazil. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, International Studies Program, Latin American Studies, and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

October 28 - Wednesday

Applied Linguistics 101: Language Matters in the Worlds of Education, Geopolitics, and Social Justice
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A Language Works: An Invitation to Linguistics Series presentation by Shawna Shapiro, Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing
The interdepartmental Faculty Speaker Series in Linguistics provides opportunities for Middlebury students to get to know resources in Linguistics on campus: faculty members and their work in the various subfields of Linguistics. Middlebury faculty from all language departments, Teacher Education, Sociology/Anthropology and others will share their research and scholarly expertise.

October 29 - Thursday

Sri Lankan Muslims: Between Ethno-nationalism and the Global Ummah
4:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Denis McGilvray, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka (Duke 2008). Sponsored by South Asian Studies, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

October 30 - Friday

Too Much Tuscan Sun? Americans Write about Italy
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Edward Knox, College Progessor Emeritus, French. He has spoken and written on contemporary American writing about France, and now proposes to do an overview of how Americans have written about Italy in the last dozen years. Lunch will be available. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY. RSVP by Monday, 10/26, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.

October 30 - Friday

Reflections on 1989: Twenty Years of Czech-American and Transatlantic Relations
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A talk by His Excellency Petr Kolar, Ambassador of the Cxech Republic to the United States.  Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of Political Science, Russian and East European Studies, the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, and European Studies.

November 2009

November 3 - Monday

Start Again: Rethinking Afghanistan in a Girl's Orphanage
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Ian Pounds of Ripton, Vermont, who recently returned from Kabul, Afghanistan, where he lived and volunteered for nearly five months in Mehan Orphanage, one of three run by Afghan Children Education and Care Organization (AFCECO). Isolated in a section of the city otherwise off limits to Western workers, Pounds taught English, drama, photography and computer skills to 180 children.  Pounds' presentation, including stories, music, photos and video, tells a story we're not likely to hear in the mainstream media. He lived in a house full of girls where he otherwise could not stray outside the gates for fear of kidnapping and bombs, had contact only with Afghans, studied the language and history, and had daily talks with a man who has lived in Kabul through the Soviet era, civil war, Taliban and the present war.  Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

November 4 - Wednesday

Your mother house: A view of family in the Caribbean
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Merle Hodge, visiting professor of English at Dartmouth College and senior lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus.  She is the author of the novel Crick Crack, Monkey, the textbook The Knots in English: A Manual for Caribbean Users (1997), and the author of articles in journals such as Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Journal of West Indian Literature, Interamerican Review, and The Caribbean Writer

Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of English, Cook Commons, and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

November 6 - Friday

Recoiling from Politics, Reinvigorating Past Glories: The Hybrid Blend of Traditional Aesthetics and Modernism in Contemporary-Classical Chinese Ink Painting, 1979-2009
12:15 p.m. - Johnson 304 - NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION

An International Studies Colloquium illustrated presentation by John Berninghausen, Truscott Professor of Chinese Studies, Middlebury College. Lunch will be available. RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY. RSVP by Monday, 11/2, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.

November 11 - Wednesday

Introduction to Chinese Medicine
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Marnae Ergil '85, associate professor, Finger Lakes School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine of New York Chiropractic College. Professor Ergil will talk about Chinese medicine and her career path after leaving Middlebury College in 1985 as an East Asian Studies and dance major.  Sponsored by the Department of Chinese.

November 12 - Thursday

The New Geopolitics of Energy: Beyond the Crisis
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies. He has written widely on the U.S. defense policy, arms trade, and world security affairs. He is also the defense correspondent of The Nation and a contributing editor of Current History, both journals to which he has contributed articles, as well as to Arms Control Today, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harper's, Le Monde Diplomatique, and many others. Professor Klare is also the author of several books, including Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (2004) and Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict (2001). Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of Geography, International Politics and Ecomonics, International Studies, and the Department of Political Science.

November 12 - Thursday

U.S.-China Relations in the Age of Obama
7:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by David M. 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 (SAIA). 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 the editor of The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Age of Reform, 1978-2000 (2001).  Sponsored by the Department of Chinese.

November 13 - Friday

Fumatrici: Women and Cigarettes in Italy from the Belle Epoque to the 1960s
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Carl Ipsen, professor of history at Indiana University.  Lunch will be available.  RESERVATION ARE NECESSARY.  RSVP by Monday, 11/9, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.

Professor Ipsen is the author of Dcitating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy (Cambridge University Press), now a classic in the field of fascist studies.  He is also the author of Italy in the Age of Pinocchio (Palgrave) which treats children's issues in c.1900 Italy--abandonment, labor, delinquency, emgration.  He has worked as a consultant on the issues of contemporary child immigration and integration in Italy (an EU project) and on smoking in post-World War II Italy (for a law firm). As part of a larger study of smoking as a lens on developments in Italian society and culture, this lecture will look at the issue of female smoking over nearly a century as depicted in fine arts, literature, etiquette manuals, film and elsewhere.

Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Department of Italian.

November 18 - Wednesday

Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Stephanie Barron, senior curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 1984 she was awarded the Order of Merit, Frist Class, by the government of Germany for her achievements in the area of German Expressionist art and cultures. Her curren exhibit "Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures" was first displayed in Los Angeles and will be the featured exhibit at Berlin's Deutsches Historisches Museum for the official celebrations to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of German Kade Fund, and the Freedom Without Walls Initiative.

November 18 - Wednesday

Mercenaries: America's 21st Century Forces
8:00 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

Join the Roosevelt Campus Network along with Professor Allison Stanger,  and Professor Kateri Carmola, both of political science, in a discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Walter Pincus. The event will focus on the effect that private military contractors have in America's wars.

November 19 - Thursday

Women, Alterity, and Mexican Identity in Como agua para chocolate
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

Tina Escaja is Professor of Spanish at the University of Vermont. She has published extensively on gender and contemporary literature from Latin America and Spain. She is the author of awarded poetry and fiction as well as experimental and multimedia works, including hypertext. This lecture will examine female Mexican archetypes questioned by Laura Esquivel in her popular Latin American Novel.

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

November 20 - Friday

Hope for Change: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities in Afghanistan
12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

An International Studies Colloquium presentation and panel discussion with Bilal Sarwary, Middlebury student, whose photos of Afghan elections will be on exhibit; Jeffrey Lunstead, Diplomat in Residence; and Middlebury students Hamza Usmani and Will Bellaimey. Lunch will be available.  RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY. RSVP by Monday, 11/16, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.

December 2009

December 2 - Wednesday

Raising Bilingual Children in Monolingual Environments: A Case Study
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A Language Works: An Invitation to Linguistics Series presentation by Ana Martinez-Lage, associate professor of Spanish.

The interdepartmental Faculty Speaker Series in Linguistics provides opportunities for Middlebury students to get to know resources in Linguistics on campus: faculty members and their work in the various subfields of Linguistics. Middlebury faculty from all language departments, Teacher Education, Sociology/Anthropology and others will share their research and scholarly expertise.

January 2010

January 21 - Wednesday

Reading Beyond Orientalism: Why Polemics Never Really Die
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Daniel Varisco, Chair of Anthropology at Hofstra University, an anthropologist and historian who has worked in Yemen since 1978 and published extensively on the history of Yemeni agriculture and the representation of Islam in scholarly and popular discourse. He is co-editor of Contemporary Islam, founding editor of CyberOrient, an online journal for the study of Islam and the Middle East, and Tabsir, a website devoted to the analysis of Islam and the Middle East. His latest book Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid (University of Washington Press) is a comprehensive survey of Said's Orientalism thesis and the vigorous debate over it. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Middle East Studies Program.

February 2010

February 18 - Thursday

The Idyll, the Ideal, and the Real: The Rediscovery of Greek Architecture and its Consequences in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
4:30 p.m. - Mahaney Center for Arts, Room 221

A lecture by Professor of the History of Art Frank Salmon, Cambridge University, England. Dr. Salmon is an expert on early archaeology and antiquariansim and has published widely on these topics. He published the prize-winning book Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture (Ashgate 2001). This lecture is in support of the exhibition "Greece vs. Rome: The Eighteenth-Century Quest for the Sources of Western Civilization" on display at the Middlebury College Museum of Art in Spring 2010. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Department of Classical Studies, Ross Commons, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

February 19 - Friday

Title TBA
1215 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

An International Studies Colloquium presentation by David Stoll, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. Lunch will be available.  RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY. RSVP by Monday, 2/15, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324. 

March 2010

March 16 - Tuesday

At the Crossroads of Modern Science: Saavedra Fajardo and the Galilean Telescope
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomás, professor of Spanish, Department of Languages and Literatures, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.  Professor Santo-Tomás was also the 2007 Research Fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.  Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Department of Physics, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

April 2010

April 1 - Thursday

TBA re theatre in Argentina
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by Jean Graham-Jones, professor and executive officer of the Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.  Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.

April 15 - Thursday

Don Quixote in Western Art and Thought
4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

A lecture by John J. Allen, Professor of Spanish, emeritus, University of Kentucky, and Patricia S. Finch, Professor of Spanish at Centre College, Kentucky. 
Professor Allen has an Honorary Doctor of Letters, Middlebury College (2004) for his work on Cervantes.  He is author of Don Quijote: Hero or Fool? and The Reconstruction of a Spanish Golden Age Playhouse: El Corral Del Pricipe. He was the first editor of the journal Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, and is a past president of the Society.  In 2008, Cátedra published his latest edition of Don Quijote, the 27th, revised and updated following the 400th anniversary of the original publication of Part I of Cervantes' masterpiece.
Professor Finch published an edition in 2003 of La Celestina, Spain's first great international literary success, and has done a number of articles on aspects of La Celestina and on its relationship with other works, including Don Quijote.  She co-authored with her husband, Jay Allen, Don Quijote en el arte y pensamiento de Occidente, published by Editorial Catedra in Madrid in 2004, the updated contents of which are the basis for their talk today.  She is currently finishing an English translation of La Celestina.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and International Studies/European Studies.

May 2010

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