Rohatyn Center for International Affairs Events Calendar
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SEPTEMBER
Thursday, 9/15, 7:00 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Screening and discussion: of "Liemba: A Documentary Film" with John Billingsley, director/producer
Take an epic journey down the longest lake in the world on Africa's last surviving steamship...The MV Liemba. A voyage down Lake Tanganyika aboard the Liemba reveals how people living along the remote shores of the lake continue to rely on this battered old relic of the German colonial era for their livelihood as they have for almost 100 years. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and African Studies.
Friday, 9/16, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
RSVP: French Matters or What Does the Strauss-Kahn Affair Tell Us, an International Studies Colloquium presentation by Edward C. Knox, College Professor Emeritus. Professor Knox will speak on how the Dominique Strass-Kahn court case points up differences in the public and private spheres in France and the U.S.
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP in advance. RSVP by Monday, 9/12, to Martha Baldwin at baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Monday, 9/19, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Identity Shifts in Tarkovsky's film, NOSTALGIA, a lecture by P. Adams Sitney, professor of Visual Arts and continuing lecturer in the Council of Humanities at Princeton University. Sitney is co-founder of Anthology Film Archives and a frequent lecturer here and abroad. In addition to numerous articles and edited volumes, he has published Visionary Cinema, Modernist Montage, and, most recently, Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson.Sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Culture, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Department of Russian.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 9/22-24
McCullough Social Space
Clifford Symposium 2011: (Re)Presenting National and Cultural Identities in the Middle East: Analysis, Journalism, and the Arts
Monday, 9/26, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Learning to Prevent a Nuclear or Biologic Holocaust: Nonproliferation and the Liberal Arts by Orde Félix Kittrie, Professor of Law, Arizona State University.
Orde Kittrie is a Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU), and a leading expert on the proliferation of nuclear and biological weapons, on which he serves as an adviser to the U.S. government.
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP in advance. RSVP by Tuesday, 9/20, to Martha Baldwin at baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the President's Office and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Monday, 9/26, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Strategies of State and Society in Hyderabad, 1748-1803: Mythmaking, Realpolitik, and Romance a lecture by Richard Barnett, associate professor of history, University of Virginia. Professor Barnett is the author of North India Between Empires, a seminal book on 18th century India;/ also editor of Rethinking Early Modern India, a valuable set of essays on this period. Sponsored by South Asian Studies Program and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Thursday, 9/29, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Radicalities of an Undivided Intimacy (I Am My Favorite Poet) a lecture by Eduardo Espina, Professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University. Professor Espina is the winner of the 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry. He is, with Charles Bernstein, editor of the quarterly S/N:New World Poetics. His poems have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Albanian, Romanian and Croatian. He is included in more than 30 anthologies of Latin American poetry. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, First Year Seminars.
OCTOBER
Monday, 10/3, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Political Institutions under Dictatorship: Economic Performance and Elite Factionalism a lecture by Jennifer Gandhi, associate professor of political science at Emory University. Her work on authoritarian institutions is cutting edge and will shed light on how authoritarian regimes are so durable, and why some are currently under challenge such as Egypt, Tunisia, etc. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Tuesday, 9/27, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Political Science and the International Politics and Economics Program.
Tuesday, 10/4, 12:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
From the Narcissism of Vision to Kinesthetic Empathy: Dancing Towards an Embodied Cosmopolitan Aesthetic by Vermonja Alston, Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario. She is a former dissertation fellow at Middlebury College. Professor Alston rethinks cosmopolitan theory through the gendered, racialized and sexualized body in motion. This presentation extends her work on the preeminent African American Dancer Katherine Dunham. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Wednesday, 9/28, to Martha Baldwin at baldwin@middlebury.edu, or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Latin American Studies Program, Department of Dance, Franklin Environmental Center, Women's and Gender Studies, and Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.
Tuesday, 10/4, 4:30 PM
The Orchard, Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics by Jason Scorse, associate professor and chair of the International Environmental Policy Program at Monterey Institute for International Studies. This is the first lecture in the Global Vision - Global Reach: The Middlebury--Monterey Lecture Series 2011-2012.
Thursday, 10/6, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Anima: A Bilingual Poetry Reading by José Kozer
Texts read in English by Olivia Grugan
English translations by Peter Boyle
Anima de José Kozer: Lectura Bilingüe de Poesía
Textos en Inglés leídos por Olivia Grugan
Traducciones al Inglés de Peter Boyle
José Kozer is professor emeritus at Queens College, CUNY. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Friday, 10/7, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
Between Memory and Amnesia: Romania after 1989
An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Monica Ciobanu, associate professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice at State University of New York, Plattsburgh. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 10/3, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and Russian and East European Studies.
Tuesday, 10/11. 4:30 PM
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
The Route to a Stalemate: NATO Supplies and the US-Pakistan Relationship, by Shahan Mufti, journalist and freelance writer (Harpers, NYT Magazine, The Nation, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor), occasional talking head (Bill Moyers, Anderson Cooper, NPR), and adjunct lecturer at New York University where he teaches graduate courses on "Reporting in the Middle East." His first book, The Scribes of Memory (to be published by Other Press, is part family memoir and part history that offers a fresh perspective on Islam, contemporary Pakistan, and the conflict tearing it apart. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Political Science, International Politics and Economics, and South Asian Studies Program.
Tuesday, 10/11, 8:00 PM
Kirk Alumni Center
Tea Ceremony Demonstration
The Japanese Studies Department invites the community to a unique introduction to the Yabunouchi Tea Ceremony, presented by Prof. Akira Takemoto of Whitman College. Prof. Takemoto is one of the few Yabunouchi trained and certified teachers in the United States. This will be a rare opportunity to see this tea ceremony, an ancient art form with a martial and aristocratic style. Prof. Takemoto will explain the ceremony as he presents it and will answer questions afterwards.
Free and open to the public.
Thursday, 10/13, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Film Lecture: Kluge's Yesterday Girl and Post-War German Identity by Stuart Liebman, professor of media studies at the City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center Programs in Art History and Theatre. Liebman's specialty is the cinema of the Holocaust, Jewish cinema, and post-WWII German film. Sponsored by the Departments of Film and Media Culture, Religion, German, and History; the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs; Brainerd Commons, and the Aquinnah Fund for Jewish Studies.
Monday, October 17: Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity Signature Film Series on Race, Ethnicity, and Education
4:30-6:30pm [Screening in Axinn 232]
6:30-7:30pm [Light dinner and discussion in Axinn 229]
Screening and discussion of Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited: Japan, China, and the United States For more about this film visit: http://joetobin.net/videos.html Co-sponsored with Department of Chinese, Department of Japanese, Education Studies Program, and the Center for International Affairs.
Thursday, 10/20, 4:30 PM
Mahaney Center for the Arts 125
Scandalous Writing: Rumor, Gossip, and the Acoustic Architecture of the Erotic Classic Jin Ping Mei,a lecture by Paize Kuelemans Given our (twentieth-century) tendency to associate eroticism with visuality, the 16th-century erotic classic Jin Ping Mei comes to us with a bit of surprise: many of its erotic scenes are told with a remarkable emphasis on its sound. How are we to interpret the sighs and sounds, whispers and overheard conversations the novel portrays in such remarkable detail? In an age where the workings of the printing press increasingly alienated readers, simulated orality allowed the vernacular novel (and those who gossiped about such novels) to create a sense of intimacy amidst an increasingly anonymous mass-readership. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies Program, Academic Enrichment Fund, Department of Chinese, Department of History, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts, and Cook Commons.
Friday, 10/21, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
A Layering of European Integration: Perspectives from Liechtenstein, an International Studies Colloquium presentation by Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of the Principality
Though Liechtenstein is a small country, it has an important perspective on Europe. Ambassador Fritsche will speak on Europe and European integration from the perspective of Liechtenstein, one of three countries (along with Norway and Iceland) that are not members of the EU yet participate in the EU's Internal Market through the European Economic Area. In exchange, Liechtenstein is obliged to implement EU regulations that apply to the single market, except laws on agriculture and fisheries. Additionally, as a member of the European Free Trade Agreement (along with Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) Liechtenstein is able to position its economy beyond Europe, further enhanced by a special relationship with Switzerland through a customs union established in 1923. Come and learn about Liechtenstein and its relationship with Europe at the economic, financial and political levels, as well as its bilateral relationship with the United States.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Vermont Council on World Affairs.
Friday, 10/28, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Can Philosophy Integrate the Social Sciences? by Mark Risjord, professor of philosophy at Emory University and in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. He has published extensively in the philosophy of the social sciences, including Woodcutters & Witchcraft: Rationality and Interpretative Change in the Social Sciences and co-editing a comprehensive volume on the Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology. Risjord also has been at the forefront of the philosophical aspects of nursing, including his most recent book Nursing Knowledge: Science, Practice, and Philosophy. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic, where his many projects include a textbook on the philosophy of social science. Sponsored by the Christian A. Johnson Funds, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Department of Philosophy.
NOVEMBER
Tuesday, 11/1, 4:30 PM
Twilight Auditorium
The Politics of Freedom in Rome: Caesar and Augustus as Liberators? A lecture by Kurt Raaflaub, Professor of Emeritus of Classics and History, Brown University. He was the co-director with his wife, Deborah Boedeker, of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. He served as the president of the American Philological Association, and is the author or editor of 20 books, has published at least 85 book chapters and 14 refereed articles. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Adler Classics Fund, and Ross Commons.
Thursday, 11/3, 4:30 PM
Mahaney Center for the Arts 125
Imagined into Existence: How the Ming-Qing Art Market Made History
by Bruce Rusk, assistant professor of Chinese language in the Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University.
The bronze incense burners attributed to the Ming (1368-1644) court workshops of the Xuande reign (1426-35) are among the most sought-after forms of later Chinese metalwork, yet they have always been surrounded by uncertainty about how to identify authentic pieces. Such doubts are well-founded but misplaced: a re-examination of the textual and material evidence reveals that there were almost certainly no originals. Rather, connoisseurs, middlemen and producers together conjured up a whole category of artifact based on a vision of how early-Ming production ought to look and imbued these inventions with authenticity by manipulating the relationship between object and documentation. Texts both intrinsic (markings on the vessels) and extrinsic (forged historical accounts) tied the objects to what collectors knew about imperial production. If they fail as proofs of provenance, as historical sources they reveal how participants in this market imagined the imperial luxury manufactures they might hope to possess.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies Program, Academic Enrichment Fund, Department of Chinese, Department of History, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts, and Cook Commons.
Tuesday, 11/8, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Recent Investigations at the Newly Discovered Maya Center of Tipan, Belize by Christopher R. Andres, adjunct research associate, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mississippi, Oxford. His research in Belize has been sponsored by funding from Indiana University, the IPFW, and the U.S. Department of the Interior Historic Preservation Fund. He has published in the Journal of Field Archaeology, Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, and The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation (2004). Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Middlebury College Museum of Art, and the Department of History of Art & Architecture.
Thursday, 11/10, 4:30 PM
Axinn 220
Risk Perception, Trust and Reputation: When Social Media Define Truth 2.0 by Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, PhD., associate professor at École Polytechnique de Montreal and vice-president at CIRANO in charge of the risk management and sustainable development group. CIRANO is a research center of over 180 fellows active in economics and management. Her research interests are risk management and decision theory in risk and uncertainty. Nathalie has published numerous academic articles in a wide variety of journals and more than 20 research reports for governments and other organizations. Most of her research has led to new bills, new procedures, new norms or new tools. Since 2008, she is the president of the International Network RISQ+H for Awareness and Experience Sharing in Risk-Management, Patient Safety and Quality of Care. She is also co-holder of the Marianne-Mareschal Chair at the École Polytechnique, which aims at promoting Women in Science and Engineering. In 2009, the Premières en affaires magazine in Canada gave her a young women leader recognition award.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Department of Economics
Friday, 11/11, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
The 'Université des Montagnes' or the Reinvention of College Education in Francophone Africa, an International Studies Colloquium presentation by Ambroise Kom, Professor of French and Eleanor Howard O'Leary Chair, College of the Holy Cross. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 11/17, to Martha Baldwin at baldwin @middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and African Studies Program.
Saturday, 11/12, 9:00 PM
51 Main at the Bridge
Afro-Zep and Seneke have teamed up for a joint venture that mixes music and cultures to create a one of a kind experience. Their performance blends traditional West African drumming into original arrangements of the music of Led Zeppelin - the World's Greatest Hard Rock Band. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, 51 Main at the Bridge, African Studies Program, and Office of the Dean of the College.
Thursday, 11/17, 4:30 PM
Mahaney Center for the Arts 125
The Painter as Knight-Errant: Xu Wei (1521-93) and the Creation of an Alternative Artistic Persona in the Late Ming by Kathleen Ryor, professor of art history, Carleton College. Contrary to dominant narratives of the cultural history of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), many literati were actually immersed not only in the practical side of military matters, but also in the emblematic and symbolic aspects of martial life. Looking through the collected writings of many prominent intellectuals, writers and officials, one sees that swords, swordsmen and swordsmanship occupied a large part of the literati imagination. Encyclopedias of sword lore, biographies of Shaolin monks and "sword knight-errants," who were martial persona if not necessarily members of the military, proliferated during the second half of the 16th century. By the end of the sixteenth century, it is clear that certain types of martial qualities or personae had also become alternative models for ethical behavior in both life and art. This lecture will examine how the late Ming poet, playwright, and painter Xu Wei refashioned the ideal of the eccentric artist as a type of knight-errant through his painting style, art criticism, and other professional activities.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies Program, Academic Enrichment Fund, Department of Chinese, Department of History, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts, and Cook Commons.
Monday, 11/28
Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity Signature Film Series on Race, Ethnicity, and Education
4:30-6:30pm [Screening in Axinn 232 ]
6:30-7:30pm [Light dinner and discussion in Axinn 229]
Screening and discussion of The Class
For more on this film visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068646/
Co-sponsored with the Department of French, Education Studies Program, and Rohatyn Center for International Affairs
DECEMBER
Friday, 12/2, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Money in Politics: A View from the Front Lines, an International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Bob Edgar, president and CEO of Common Cause. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 11/28, to Martha Baldwin by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
JANUARY
Friday, 1/13, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
COME LEARN ABOUT: Monterey Opportunities for Middlebury Students and Graduates
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Tuesday, 1/10, by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 443-5324.
A discussion with Jeffrey Cason, Dean of International Programs and Director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and Charlotte Tate, Associate Director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, about academic programs at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, a graduate school of Middlebury College.
Tuesday, 1/17, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Where Can Language Teaching Take Me? An Interactive panel presentation broadcast from Monterey Institute for International Studies for Midd students to watch and ask questions. A panel of MIIS graduate students will represent degree programs in Teaching a Foreign Language (TFL), Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Language Program Administration (LPA), Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), and Peace Corps Master's International (PCMI).
Tuesday, 1/24, 4:30 PM
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by William Arkin, co-author with Dana Priest of a book of the same title, free-lance author, and columnist at The Washington Post. His unique career spans an early assignment in Army intelligence in Cold War Berlin to being a best-selling author today. He has worked as a military adviser to non-governmental human rights and environmental organizations, authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and has been both a columnist and reporter with The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Friday, 1/27, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
RSVP: Presentations by Grantees of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs International Research Travel Grant and the Mellon Foundation Grant by Kate Bass (Mellon grantee), "Becoming Aliens: Citizenship and Mexican Migration to the United States" and David Tyler Gibson (RCFIA grantee) "Effects of 2008 Labor Contract Law on China Labor Organization." Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 1/23, by e-mailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
FEBRUARY
Wednesday, 2/15, 7:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Refiguring Christian History for Readers and Viewers by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford, and prize-winning author. He has written extensively on the sixteenth century and beyond it. His History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Penguin Press) and the BBC TV series based on it first appeared in 2009 and won him the Cundill Prize, the world's largest prize for history, in 2010. In this lecture, MacCulloch discusses the writing of his new history of Christianity and the making of its associated BBC TV series. He refocuses its story to show what an unexpected product modern Western Christianity is from an Eastern religion whose center might easily have been Baghdad rather than Rome, and he emphasizes the power of ideas to reshape human affairs.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Religion and Department of History.
Thursday, 2/16, 4:30 PM
Mahaney Center for the Arts 221
Environment and Object in Recent African Art--Issues, Artists, and Objects an illustrated lecture by Viye Diba, professor, National School of Fine Arts, Dakar, Senegal. Mr. Diba will be installing Sengalese art beginning February 13, and will be talking, along with co-curators Aronson and Weber to provide an overview of the exhibition and offer insight into the varied issues Environment and Object engages, tracing its germination and focus. Cosponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Friends of the Art Museum, and Rohatyn Center for International Affairs. Seating is limited and is available on a first-come first-served basis.
Monday, 2/20, 7:30 p.m.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Government Without Newspapers, a Meet the Press lecture by Jacob Weisberg, Chairman of The Slate Group, a unit of The Washington Post Company devoted to developing a family of Internet-based publications through start-ups and acquisitions, and where he served as editor from 2002 until 2008. The Slate group’s roster includes Slate, The Root, and the video site Slate V. Jacob’s regular opinion column is published by Slate. Between 1994 and 1996, he covered politics for New York Magazine. Until recently, Weisberg also oversaw Foreign Policy Magazine and Foreignpolicy.com. He has also been a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington, as well as an editorial page columnist for the Financial Times. Weisberg is the author of several books, including The Bush Tragedy, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2008. With former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, he co-wrote In an Uncertain World, which was published in 2003.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Meet the Press, Department of English and American Literatures, and Department of Political Science.
Tuesday, 2/21, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Che as Icon by Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante, associate professor of Spanish, Utah State University, and co-director of Decimononica, Journal of Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Cultural Production. Ernesto Che Guevara is a Latin American cultural icon. Professor Spicer-Escalante will talk about his political, social, literary, historical and artistic impact.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Latin American Studies Program.
Tuesday, 2/28, 5:00 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Middlebury's Guide to North Korea Two Middlebury students' perspectives on the North Korean state. Arthur Choo '12, political science and sociology double major from Seoul, South Korea. Most of his independent undergraduate research has focused on North Korea -- ranging from North Korean refugee resettlement to the future of North Korean regime durability during the ongoing transition. In 2011, Arthur worked for the Ministry of Unification in South Korea and continues to serve as an overseas student correspondent writing articles on inter-Korean relations, regime durability, and refugee resettlement. Ian Thomas 13.5, political science major from Southern California. He has traveled extensively around our planet, visiting almost 40 countries in the process. He has studied North Korea for five years, wrote a paper on the China-North Korea relationship and did a five day tour of North Korea in the summer of 2011. Ian's research interests include: international politics, authoritarian governments, transitions from communism, and transitions to democracy. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
MARCH
Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 PM
Twilight Auditorium
Wham! Bam! Islam! Screening of documentary followed by Q & A with independent filmmaker Isaac Solotaroff. - In 2003, Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa -- Kuwaiti psychologist, graduate of Columbia Business School and father of four young boys -- had an idea: create a comic book series with roots in Islam and Islamic culture. Al-Mutawa came up with the concept of THE 99: a team of superheroes, each one exemplifying one of the 99 attributes of Allah. His motivations were both entrepreneurial and idealistic -- THE 99 would exemplify the Islamic virtues of compassion, understanding, and tolerance -- qualities not often associated with Islam by the West. Within the Islamic world, Al-Mutawa hoped these new role models would counter the growing tide of political and religious extremism.
Sponsored by Middle East Studies, Departments of Religion, Education Studies, Film and Media Studies, Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity, and Wonnacott Commons.
Thursday, March 8, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Midd-MIIS Integrated Degree Program Panel
by Casey W. Mahoney '11, candidate for M.A. in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies '12, Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) and Lauren Redfield '11, candidate for M.A. in International Development Policy Studies '12, Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Middlebury College commemorates Japanese disaster of 2011 with suite of cultural events:
Sunday, March 11, 2:00 PM
Mahaney Center for the Arts dance theatre
Shinsai: Theaters for Japan
Tuesday, March 13, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Panel discussion with Lecturer Kyoko Davis and Assistant Professor Linda White from Japanese Studies Program, Assistant Professor of History Max Ward, and Rich Wolfson, Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs
Thursday, 4/5, 7:00 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
RETHINK, REBUILD, REMEMBER
See more information on commemoration of Japanese earthquake, 2011
Thursday, March 15, 7:00 PM
Dana Auditorium
American Teacher, screening and discussion with producer Ninive Calegari '93. Ms. Calegari is co-founder of the literacy non-profit 826 National. Sponsored by Education Studies, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Friday, March 16, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
Fragmented Resistance: Mexican Strawberry Workers and the Racial Tide that Divides Them. An International Studies Colloquium lunchtime presentation by Marcos Lopez, post-doctoral fellow in sociology. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 3/12, by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Tuesday, March 20, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Homophobia in Europe a lecture by Judit Takacs, Scientific Deputy Director, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Sponsored by Russian and East European Studies Program, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Russian, Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
APRIL
Tuesday, 4/3, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Seeking hegemony in the seas already sailed before: Portuguese (post) colonial practice and discourse in the Lusitanian press by Fernanda Muller, visiting scholar and researcher at University of Notre Dame.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Latin American Studies,Department of English and American Literatures, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, European Studies
Wednesday, 4/4, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Between Brazilian Identities and Eurocentrism: João Caetano of the Portuguese Scene by Yuri Brunello, Ph.D. candidate in Research Methodology on Theatre, University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Theatre, and Department of English and American Literatures.
Thursday, 4/5, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
The Global Assault on Africa's Resources by Michael T. Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, based at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum. Professor Klare presents an illustrated lecture about how the world's relentless demand for oil, minerals, timber, and other raw materials is producing war, poverty, and environmental devastation in Africa. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Department of Geography, Atwater Commons, and the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs. Free
Thursday, 4/5, 7:00 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Rethink, Rebuild, Remember by Keiko Kiyama, Secretary General of JEN (Japan Emergency NGOs) and Nozomi Kanda, director of the Power of Japan.
Friday, 4/6, 12:15 p.m.
Robert a. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
"It's a Question of My Dignity": Narratives of Immigrant Workers in Montreal An International Studies Colloquium presentation by Yumna Siddiqi, associate professor of English and American literatures. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 4/2, by emailing baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling /02-443-5324.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Monday, 4/9, 7:00 PM
Forest East Lounge
Recognizing the Precious Knowledge and Cultural Wealth in Communities of Color by Judith Flores Carmona, Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in critical literacies and pedagogies, Hampshire College. The perspectives and insights about diverse ethnic, racial and gender communities contained in the works banned in Tucson, Arizona, cultivate in students an appreciation for difference and diversity, knowledge of wide-ranging ideas and fearlessness in engaging with the ideas of others to achieve nuevos conocimientos/new knowledges. The removal of books amounts to censorship and furthermore undermines the presence of students of color and their communities as holders and producers of knowledge. Research has shown that a multicultural-diverse education that promotes critical thinking and addresses the history and identity of ethnic minorities in fact closes the achievement gap between white students and students of color.
Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Alianza, Education Studies Program, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and Cook Commons.
Tuesday, 4/10, 4:30 PM
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
New Cartographies: Co-joining Humanities and Science through GIS in Worldmap by Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African american Studies at Harvard University. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Geography, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Library and Information Services, Director of the Arts, Atwater Commons and the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
Wednesday, 4/11, 12:15 PM
Axinn Center 100
Art and Peace: The Role of Diplomacy in the Ancient Yoruba Sculpture from Ife by Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African american Studies at Harvard University. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Geography, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Library and Information Services, Director of the Arts, Atwater Commons, and the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
Thursday, 4/18, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Humanitarians for the Dead: Forensic Investigations of Mass Atrocities
Adam Rosenblatt is Assistant Dean for Global Engagement at Champlain College. He studies the politics of human rights from perspectives including political theory, international relations, anthropology and law. In concert with the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon, he is currently exploring the ethical and policy challenges of DNA analysis in the wake of disasters. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Monday, 4/23, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
The Velvet Revolution and Lessons for the Arab Spring by Petr Gandalovic, ambassador from the Czech Republic to the United States since May 2011. Ambassador Gandalovic previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in the Czech Parliament (2006-11). He was also the mayor of the city of Ústí nad Labem (2002-06), the Czech minister of agriculture (2007-09) and minister of regional development (2006), as well as consul general of the Czech Republic in New York (1997-2002). In addition, Ambassador Gandalovic served as minister adviser (1994-95) and director of the Economic and Information Section (1995-97) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and deputy minister at the Ministry of Environment (1992-94).
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Vermont Council on World Affairs.
Wednesday, 4/25, 7:00 PM
Brainerd Commons House, 132 Blinn Lane
What's Race Got to do with it? A talk by William Poulin-Deltour on his research project that explores education and race and ethnicity in France.
Sponsored by Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Thursday, 4/26, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
'The Good Japanese:' Disciplinizing Democracy by Harry Harootunian, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University. He currently teaches at Columbia University and Duke University. Professor Harootunian is the author and editor of multiple books on early modern and modern Japanese history. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of History, East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 4/27, 28, & 29
Middlebury Bach Festival
Campus Wide - click here for details
Monday, 4/30, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Forbidden Curriculum and the National Implications of Arizona's Ban on Ethnic Studies
A Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity Distinguished Speaker Series presentation by Anita Fernandez, faculty member in the Education Program of the Resident Degree Program, Prescott College; and co-founder of La Tierra Community School, a local elementary Expeditionary Learning school in Prescott. Sponsored by Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and Department of History.
