Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Events Calendar
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APRIL
Tuesday, 4/2, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Sufism and Popular Islam in Turkey by Ahmet Karamustafa, professor of history, University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of God’s Unruly Friends (University of Utah Press, 1994), a book on ascetic movements in medieval Islam, and Vahidi’s Menakıb-ı Hvoca-i Cihan ve Netice-i Can (The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1993), a study of a sixteenth-century mystical text in Ottoman Turkish. More recently, he completed a comprehensive historical overview of early Islamic mysticism titled Sufism: The Formative Period (published simultaneously by Edinburgh University Press & University of California Press, 2007). Currently, he is at work on a sequel volume titled The Flowering of Sufismas as well as another book project, Vernacular Islam: Everyday Religious Life in Medieval Iran and Anatolia (11th-15th Centuries). Karamustafa has held several administrative positions, including a five-year term as director of the Religious Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He was the co-chair of the Study of Islam Section at the American Academy of Religion between 2008 and 2011. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Middle East Studies Program and Department of Religion
Thursday, 4/11, 7:00 PM
Christian A. Johnson Memorial Building 304
Built/Unbuilt by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt, Cameron Visiting Architect, a Swedish-born, Yale-trained architect now based in Paris. He designs buildings and objects as the convergence of concept and constructive knowledge. “By breaking down conventions,” he states, “we should be free to totally reinvent our man-made world.” He recently received a “House of the Year, 2011” award from World Architecture News.
Svenstedt teaches at the Ecole speciale d’architecture in Paris, an architecture school affiliated with the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in France.
Sponsored by the Department of History of Art & Architecture, the Cameron Family Arts Enrichment Fund, and the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Monday, 4/15, 7:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
The Role of the Arabs in the Formation of Mediterranean Gastronomy by Clifford A. Wright, cook, food writer, and research scholar specializing in the cuisines of the Mediterranean. He is the author of ten cookbooks, including A Mediterranean Feast, winner of the James Beard/KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year and Best Writing on Food awards, and nominee for the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Cookbook of the Year in 2000. The New York Times has recognized Wright as one of the most innovative cooks in America in its "Cooks on the Map" series.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs; Academic Enrichment Funds; Arabic Enrichment Funds; Pardon Tillinghast Endowment Funds; Departments of Classics, French, History, and Italian; Programs in Environmental Studies, European Studies, and Middle East Studies; and Cook Commons.
Tuesday, 4/16, 7:30 PM
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Augustine's Memory in a Pixilated Age by Lisa Frienkel, chair of the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Oregon. Among the academic grants she's received are awards from the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, and humanities centers at both Berkeley and the University of Oregon. Freinkel is a recipient of the UO's Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching; her innovation in undergraduate education has also recently earned her an appointment as a UO Williams Fellow. Her publications include Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets (Columbia, 2002), and articles on topics ranging from fetishism to usury, to early modern encounters with Buddhist Asia, and addressing authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Dante, Luther, Immanuel Kant and the 13th-century Japanese monk, Dogen Zenji. Her current book project -- The Meaning of Meaning -- explores the junctures and disjunctures between the digital age, the human body and Zen. Freinkel is also a volunteer medical chaplain and a meditation instructor in university, prison and hospital environments. And she has studied Japanese in the Middlebury College summer language program.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Departments of Religion, Classics, French, Italian, German, English and American Literatures, Comparative Literature, Academic Enrichment Fund and Brainerd Commons.
Monday, 4/22, 11:45 AM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
The Great Image Has No form: Towards a Daoist Visual Theory by Gil Raz, associate professor of religion, Dartmouth College. Professor Raz specializes in Chinese Religion, with a particular interest in Daoism, and the interaction between Daoism, popular religious practices, and Buddhism. Between studies in History and Religious Studies in Hebrew University (B.A., 1992) and Chinese Religions in Indiana University (M.A., 1996; Ph.D., 2004), he spent several years in China and Taiwan, studying and working with Daoist priests. His recent book Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition (Routledge, 2012) examines the formation of the Daoist religious tradition between the second and fifth centuries C.E. His research interests include Daoist ritual, both historical and contemporary, Daoist sacred geography and mythology, traditional divination systems, and concepts of the body and sexual practices in Chinese religions.
Sponsored by Department of Religion, Department of History of Art and Architecture, East Asia Studies Program, and Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Monday, 4/22, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Mao's Red Guards in Tokyo - Popular Japanese Representations of China's Cultural Revolution Era by Erik Esselstrom, associate professor of East Asian history at University of Vermont. His primary interests in both research and teaching focus on modern political and cultural relations between China and Japan, and Esselstrom’s current scholarly work explores popular Japanese perceptions of Chinese society during the early postwar era. His first book, Crossing Empire's Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia, was published in 2009 by University of Hawai'i Press, and he has also published articles in journals such as Modern Asian Studies, Radical History Review, and Intelligence and National Security. Sponsored by East Asian Studies Program, Department of History, Program in Japanese Studies, and Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Friday, 4/26, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(by reservation only)
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 4/22, to rcga@middlebury.edu or 802-443-5324.
An International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Charles Nunley, Professor of French.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Tuesday, 4/30, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Student presentations by recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation International Research Grant and the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs International Research Grant.
MAY
Wednesday, 5/1, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Student presentations by recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation International Research Grant and the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs International Research Grant.
Thursday, 5/2, 4:30 PM
Robert a. Jones '59 House conference room
Student presentations by recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation International Research Grant and the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs International Research Grant.
Friday, 5/3, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(by reservation only)
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 4/29, to rcga@middlebury.edu or 802-443-5324.
An International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Natalie Eppelsheimer, assistant professor of German
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Tuesday, 5/7, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Student presentations by recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation International Research Grant and the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs International Research Grant.
Wednesday, 5/8, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Student presentations by recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation International Research Grant and the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs International Research Grant.
Friday, 5/20, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(reservations required)
The Sound of Memory: Listening to the Cold War an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Florence Feiereisen, assistant professor of German. Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 5/6, to rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324.
How can our understanding of the past be deepened by the study of its sounds? This talk aims to make a contribution to auralizing (aurally visualizing) space by examining three soundscapes of divided Berlin (1961-1989).
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
SEPTEMBER
Monday, 9/10, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(closed to the public)
"OneVoice" International Educational Program with Amahd Omeir, OneVoice Palestine, and Adva Vilchinski, OneVoice Israel.
Discontent with the status quo, Onevoice’s Israeli and Palestinian activists have dedicated themselves to working towards change and a better future for their societies. While describing their parallel grassroots peace-building efforts in the Palestinian Occupied Territory of the West Bank and Israel, Ahmad Omeir (OneVoice Palestine) and Adva Vilchinski (OneVoice Israel) will discuss their personal motivations for working to resolve the conflict, the unique challenges facing their activism, as well as the way we as Americans can support them in their efforts.
OneVoice activists are engaged in peace and consensus-building efforts, working within their national communities to end the conflict. They are committed to a comprehensive negotiated two-state solution based on the 1967 lines and previous bilateral agreements, that will guarantee an end to the occupation and all forms of violence, resulting in a viable independent Palestinian state living in peace and security with Israel. Through leadership training, public lectures, town hall meetings, and political advocacy these young leaders work to connect the grassroots with elected officials, enabling ordinary citizens to take ownership of the process.
Co-sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Hillel, J Street U, Islamic Society, and the Chaplain’s Office
First Annual International Politics and Economics Program Symposium:
From Deng to Dollars: The Political Economy of China's Rise
Friday, 9/21, Noon-5:15 PM, McCullough Social Space
and 7:15-8:30, McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
Noon-12:15 - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ronald Liebowitz, President, Middlebury College
Erik Bleich, Middlebury College
12:15-1:45 PM - Panel One
Deng and the Remaking of China by Ezra Vogel, Harvard University
Discussant: Sarah Stroup, political science, Middlebury College
Student Chair: Julia Deutsch '13
2:00-3:00 PM - Panel Two
What Exactly Is the China Model? by Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Will Pyle, economics, Middlebury College
Student Chair: Cara Myers '13
3:45-5:15 PM - Panel Three
The China Threat: Fact or Fiction by Scott Rozelle, Stanford University
Discussant: Jessica Teets, political science, Middlebury College
Student Chair: Kathryn DeSutter '13
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
7:15-8:30 PM Roundtable Discussion,
Ezra Vogel, Yasheng Huang, and Scott Rozelle
Chair: Erik Bleich, Director, International Politics and Economics, Middlebury College
Sponsored by International Politics and Economics Program, C.A. Johnson Economics Funds, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Academic Enrichment Fund, East Asian Studies Program, Department of Geography, Department of Chinese, Department of Political Science, Department of History, Atwater Commons, Brainerd Commons, Cook Commons
Monday, 9/24, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
"Liberal Arts, Global Action, Green Hands: Partnerships for Promoting Sustainability and Love of Nature in Chile." A presentation by Lynn Gray and Janine Gray, executive directors of Southern Nature (in Concón, Chile), the local partner organization for the environmental work being done there with study abroad program students and local youth in Chile. Manos Verde was created by Katie Siegner '12 in Chile with the help of Southern Nature. Lunch will be available.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Programs and Off-Campus Study, Environmental Studies Program, Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest.
Friday, 9/28, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
Why Is Peacekeeping So Hard? The Ups and Downs of a Collaborative Process, an International Studies Colloquium presentation by Amy Yuen, assistant professor of political science. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 9/24, by emailing Martha Baldwin at baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.
Sunday, 9/30, 7:30 PM
Dana Auditorium
Buddah Prince Backstage documentary screening and discussion with Markell Kiefer '96, and Tyson Lien '99, co-creators of the theater production "The Buddah Prince." in celebration of the Dalai Lama's life. sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Academic Enrichment Fund, Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, Office of the Dean of the College, Program in Women's and Gender Studies, and the Departments of Dance, Theater, and Religion.
OCTOBER
Monday, 10/01, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Writing Crime: Transmigrated, Border Subjects and International Violence by Ileana Rodriguez, Distinguished Humanities Professor of Spanish at Ohio State University. Professor Rodríguez specializes in Latin American Literature and Culture, Caribbean and Central American Narratives, Feminist Studies, Post-Colonial Theory, and Subaltern Studies. Her most recently published books are Transatlantic Topographies: Islands, Highlands, Jungles (University of Minnesota Press; 2004) and Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader. (Durham: Duke University Press; 2001).
Cosponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Studies Program, and Chellis House.
Thursday, 10/4, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Fast Fish and Loose Fish: A History of Slavery and Freedom in Harman Melville's "America" by Greg Grandin, professor of history, New York University. Grandin of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan 2009). A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Fordlandia was picked by the New York Times, New Yorker, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and NPR for the "best of" lists. and Amazon.com named it the best history book of 2009. Grandin writes on US foreign policy, Latin America, genocide, and human rights. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations truth commission on Guatemala and has been the recipient of a number of prestigious fellowships.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, International Studies Program, Department of History, and Department of English and American Literatures.
Thursday, 10/11, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Sovereign Debt Crisis: How Europe Got It Wrong by Lee Buchheit, partner at Clary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, and Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at the University of London. He is the recipient, in 2010, of the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award by International Financial Law Review for his contributions to international finance. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Thursday, 10/18, 4:30 pm
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
THE ROHATYN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Celebrating a Decade of Intellectual Inquiry
Panel discussion:
How Global Is U.S. Power? International Perspectives on this Country's Changing Role
The world in the twenty-first century is smaller but at the same time more politically complicated. The two blocks, which until two and a half decades ago dominated the world (politically, socially and economically), have given way to multiple new global players. The rise in economic dominance and political influence of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, china, South Africa) has threatened the position of the U.S. as a global super power. Further, grassroots uprisings in all corners of the globe increasingly challenge hegemonic powers and force change in the geopolitical landscape.
The panel participants will present their regional perspective on the U.S. role as a global power.
The Panel features:
Professor Nadia Horning--Africa
Professor Jessica Teets--China/Asia
Professor Thierry Warin--Europe
Professor Mark Williams--Latin America
Professor Matt Dickinson--U.S.
Moderator: Professor Tamar Mayer--Middle East
Friday, 10/19, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(reservations required)
'The Himyarite Kings of North Africa' or How the Touareg Became Arabs, an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Samuel Liebhaber, assistant professor of Arabic. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 10/15, to Martha Baldwin at baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.
Thursday, 10/25, 4:30, The Orchard
Human Rights Law and the Environment
by Anne Perrault, Center of International Environmental Law, Washington, D.C. Perrault works primarily in issues of indigenous rights, and how they are impacted by (and impact) international environmental law in biodiversity conservation; access and benefit sharing; development; and gender issues. She has worked particularly on the Convention on Biological Diversity, and has studied extensively on its recent negotiations on the Nagoya Protocol, and access to, and ownership of genetic resources.
Friday, 10/26, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
Betasab Global Family Initiative, “From the classroom to the world: Development through collaboration and grass roots efforts,” an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Eric Hoest '08 and Claudia Cooper, Education Studies and English and American Literatures.
Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 10/22, to Baldwin@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.
Eric and Claudia traveled to Ethiopia in January 2008 for a course taught by Claudia. Five years later the Betasab Global Family Initiative, a revolutionary project transforming the lives of orphaned children and vulnerable women opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and now gives care to nearly 30 children and 5 women. Come learn how Eric and Claudia and their third partner, Nick Rogerson, Colorado College ’08, collaborated to turn ideas from a class into a concept to create family group homes and local development programs, and then took that concept to actuality. This talk is for anyone interested in education, international development, finance, business, and law, as well as those interested in hands on social action.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
Career Conversation immediately following the lecture:
Betasab Global Family Initiative
From the classroom to the World: How to turn lessons learned at Middlebury into action
Saturday, 10/27, 5:00 PM
Dana Auditorium
Oxhide II screening and discussion with Liu Jiayin, professor of screen writing, Beijing Film Academy. She made her film debut at the age of 23 while a Master’s degree student in that program. Her first film, Oxhide I [2005] has been awarded prizes at the Berlin Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and the Vancouver Film Festival. Its successor, Oxhide II [2009], was lauded at the CinDi Seoul festival and was featured to acclaim, as well, in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, East Asian Studies Program, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Department of Film and Media Culture, Hirschfield Film Series
NOVEMBER
Thursday, 11/01, 7:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Meet the Press presents Peter Beinart, editor Zion Square and author of "The Crisis of Zionism." Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Institute for Working Journalism, and English and American Literature.
Friday, 11/2, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(reservations required)
For God's sake, let's focus on the Earth! by Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good. Cizik has been recognized as a leader in bringing evangelical Christians together with scholars and policy makers in the search for common ground on a host of national and international challenges, including climate change, civil liberties, economic justice, and national security He served for ten years as Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, the top staff position of the organization, a post he left in 2008 after enduring years of political opposition from the Religious Right. An interview with NPR's "Fresh Air" in which he expressed support for civil unions, climate change, and political collaboration with the newly-elected Obama Administration, led to a national uproar within the movement and over one-hundred top evangelical leaders defecting to a "New Evangelical" agenda.
In 2007, Cizik formed a group of scientists, including Nobel Laureate Eric Chivian and Harvard Professor Emeritus Edward O. Wilson, along with leading evangelical pastors and professors, to together release a groundbreaking document entitled the "Scientist and Evangelical Call to Action." In 2008 he was named to TIME Magazine's list of "TIME 100" most influential people.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, Franklin Environmental Center, Program in Environmental Studies, Department of Religion, Academic Enrichment Fund, Newman Club, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.
Monday, 11/5, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Syria between Crisis and Collapse by Jon Alterman,
Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and the director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel and served as an expert adviser to the Iraq Study Group (also known as the Baker-Hamilton Commission). His opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and other major publications. He is on the board of advisory editors of the Middle East Journal, is a member of the editorial advisory board of Arab Media and Society.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Departments of Geography, History, and Political Science; and Programs in Arabic and Middle East Studies.
Monday, 11/5, 7:30 PM
The Orchard, Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
50 Shages of Orange: Mobilizing the Radical Right in Ukraine by Alina Polyakova, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Ukraine's parliamentary election is on October 28th. The political situation in Ukraine has a strong impact on the region. Alina has conducted research on political parties in Ukraine for several years, her research supported by many grants. She will provide analysis of the results and a broader picture of political life in Ukraine. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Russian and East European Studies Program, Department of Russian.
Thursday, 11/8, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
This lecture will be in Arabic.
al-Lugha, al-Quwwa, al-Muq?wama (Language, Power, Resistance) by Sinan Antoon, Iraqi poet, novelist, translator and associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. He was featured in the 2003 documentary film About Baghdad, which he also co-directed. Dr. Antoon’s novels include I`jaam (2003), which has been translated into English as I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (City Lights, 2006), Wahdaha Shajarat al-Rumman (Beirut: al-Mu'assassa al-`Arabiyya, 2010) which has been translated into English as The Pomegranate Alone (Yale University Press, 2013), and Ya Maryam (Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2012). His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book In the Presence of Absence, was published by Archipelago Books in 2011 and won the 2012 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators Association.
Sponsored by Program in Arabic, Middle East Studies Program, and Comparative Literature Program.
Friday, 11/9, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
Casting More Light on Dark Networks: Mapping and Modeling the Evolution of a Notorious Terrorist Group by Philip Murphy, assistant professor, International Policy Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 11/5, by emailing cfia@middlebury.edu, or calling 802-443-5324.
This talk is part of Global Vision - Global Reach: The Middlebury - Monterey Lecture Series 2012 - 2013
Dark networks (covert or illegal networks) have been an ongoing concern for countries around the globe that seek to prevent extremist violence. Despite the challenges of collecting dark network data, social network analysis (capturing and analyzing the structure of relationships and interactions between people and other entities) has already provided a great deal of new insight into how dark networks operate, and the results have been promising. But the endogenous and exogenous factors that contribute to the evolution of dark networks are still largely unaddressed. To fill this gap, we use a longitudinal, actor-based network model to capture the factors that are associated with the evolution of an actual dark network: the insurgent network of Noordin Mohammad Top, who, until his death in September 2009, was Indonesia’s most wanted terrorist and thought to be the mastermind behind a series of terrorist attacks in Indonesia. This novel study lays the groundwork for further inquiry into the mechanisms behind how dark networks evolve over time and helps to develop new insight into how they may be impeded or dissolved.
Philip Murphy’s research interests include the application and advancement of innovative methods for detecting and discerning “dark” networks and other difficult to identify social, identity, or interest groups. He is particularly interested in the ideas of distributed cognition and shared identity (i.e., shared perceptions, overlapping frames of reference). The ability to identify – or perhaps promote – shared identities in a population, especially those that bridge disparate religious and ethno-cultural communities, holds great promise for enhancing policymaking, increasing stability, and implementing policy in developing and divided societies. He is currently involved in research projects in the fields of network analysis, public health, and security studies. Dr. Murphy’s complete faculty bio, which includes courses he teaches, can be viewed at http://www.miis.edu/academics/faculty/pmurphy/node/7861.
Monday, 11/12, 7:00 PM
Axinn Center 232
Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment, screening and discussion with Toby Perl Freilich, director of the documentary Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment, which opened in New York in April 2012. Set against the backdrop of the glorious 100-year history of the Kibbutz, the film reveals the heartbreak and hope of Israel's modern kibbutz movement as a new generation struggles to ensure its survival. Can a radically socialist institution survive a new capitalist reality? How will painful reforms affect those who still believe in the kibbutz experiment, and continue to call it home? For more information see: firstrunfeatures.com… . Sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies (Aquinnah Fund) and the Middle East Studies Program.
Tuesday, 11/13, 7:30 PM
The Orchard at the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
Will the US have two northern neighbors? Analysis of Quebec's recent election results
Panel discussion with Pierre Martin and Christopher Kirkey.
Pierre Martin is a professor of political science at the Université de Montréal, where he also holds the chair in American political and economic studies. He is a member and former director of the Université de Montréal/McGill University Center for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS).
Christopher Kirkey is Director of the Center for the Study of Canada at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, where he holds a concurrent position as full professor of political science. He also holds an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Wednesday, 11/14, 7:00 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Image Romanticism & The Narration of Violence: Anti-Modern Currents in Japanese Cinema by Phil Kaffen, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago. Kaffen's research interests include Japanese film history, film violence, the relationship between urban space and film, image and media theory, contemporary Hollywood, and modern philosophies of aesthetics and ethics.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, East Asian Studies Program, Department of History, and Japanese Studies.
Thursday, 11/15, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Meeting Future Energy Needs: Conflict and Cooperation
by Olav Ljosne, Senior Manager, International Operations, Shell Oil, based in Washington, DC (since February 2010). ). Prior to that he was Regional External Relations Director Africa, based in Lagos, Nigeria, for five years as part of his 20-year career with Shell. Based in den Haag, Stockholm, London and Oslo, he has been engaged in projects and work in most parts of the world. Prior to Shell, he served as a diplomat at Norwegian Embassies in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and with United Nations. Cosponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Vermont Council on World Affairs.
Thursday, 11/15, 7:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Terrorism Financing: How Does It Work and How Can We Stop It?
by Moyara de Moraes Ruehsen, Associate Professor, Monterey Institute of International Studies. She is a certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS) and regularly consults for the private sector, and US and foreign governments on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AMS/CTF) matters. Her most recent assignment was with the Federation of Iraqi Private Banks in Baghdad. Professor Ruehsen will be talking about how terrorists raise and move their funds, and strategies that policy makers can pursue to go after the money. She will illustrate the problem using several case studies.
Friday, 11/16, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
The US Government and Development: The Changing Roles of USAID
by Eric Postel, LS Japanese, P'13
Lunch will be available to those who RSVP by Monday, 11/12, by emailing cfia@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324.
Conversation about Careers in Development
Immediately following the lecture
Eric Postel began as USAID's assistant administrator for the Bureau of Economic Growth, Education and Environment in March 2011. He brings to the position more than 25 years of private sector experience working in emerging markets. During this time, he helped support economic development in more than 45 developing countries.
Postel is working to implement President Obama's call to "elevate broad-based economic growth as a top priority" of U.S. development efforts overseas. He is also focusing on increasing Agency engagement with the private sector. He strongly believes that other bureau activities involving Education, Infrastructure, Land Tenure, Gender and the Environment also contribute to sustainable economic growth. Postel serves as the Agency’s coordinator for the government-wide Partnership for Growth program. Throughout 2006-7, Postel served as a Senate-appointed commissioner of the U.S. Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People around the Globe (HELP) Commission. His bipartisan work contributed to the development of a wide-ranging set of recommendations to Congress and the president for the reform of U.S. foreign assistance programs.
Postel is the founder of Pangaea Partners, an investment banking and consulting firm focused on emerging markets. Its accomplishments include helping six African countries create or improve their stock markets, providing credit and treasury courses to more than 30,000 bankers in developing countries, modernizing more than 20 former Soviet banks, and advising on the creation of the Slovak Export-Import Bank. Previously, Postel worked as a vice president at Citibank Tokyo, where he arranged financing for borrowers on four continents.
Postel has a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Stanford University. Between Wesleyan and Stanford, he served as a United States Naval Officer.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Career Services at Education in Action
Tuesday, 11/27, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Storytelling in the language classroom: What learners' Swahili-language stories tell us about conformity and resistance in Dar es Salaam by Jamie A. Thomas, Middlebury Dissertation Fellow. Telling stories is not such an unusual activity in the language classroom. However, the explicit teaching of cultural styles of narration and framing of the story is new, and in the context of Swahili-speaking Tanzania, it may be regarded as the transmittance of oral literature. The teaching of the story in Dar es Salaam then takes on another dimension, with Swahili and English playing a part in the performance of the roles of 'storyteller', 'audience', 'expert', 'novice'. The analysis reveals how these roles help to reproduce within the classroom the linguistic power relations already prevalent in Tanzania at large, and how some students attempt to subvert these norms.
Friday, 11/30, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Things on Earth, Animal Essays, and One Man's Village: On Chinese Writing about Shengtai (Ecology) by Tom Moran, John D. Berninghausen Professor of Chinese.
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 11/26, to cfia@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.
Professor Moran will discuss contemporary Chinese nonfiction essays about nonhuman nature and human-nonhuman interaction. In specific, Tom will discuss Wei An (1960-1999) and his prose poetry work “Things on Earth,” a partial translation of which Tom has recently published, the 1998 One’s Man’s Village by Liu Liangcheng, whom Tom visited in Xinjiang in March, and the 2012 Animal Essays, edited by animal rights activist Zhang Dan. Among the questions Tom is addressing in his research is, What do we have to learn from contemporary Chinese writing about our shared planet?
DECEMBER
Monday, 12/3 through Wednesday, 12/5
Stop Traffic Symposium
Monday, 12/3, 7:00 PM
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
Film screening of "Half the Sky"
This PBS production brings to life Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDonn's acclaimed book Half the sky, which brilliantly explores the struggles women face world wide--from sex trafficking to gender based violence to maternal mortality--and the steps these women are taking to turn their situation around
Tuesday, 12/4, 4:30 PM
Axinn 229
Sex Trafficking: Insights from a Survivor and Expert lecture and workshop by Laura Murphy, National College Chapter Coordinator for Free the Salves, director of the Survivors of Slavery speakers network, and author of Metaphor and Slave Trade in West African Literature and Shamere McKenzie, victim of sex trafficking. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Education Studies Program, and the Commons Brainerd, Cook, and Ross.
Wednesday, 12/5, 6:00 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Dinner Conversation with a Youth Activist by Rolando Bonachea, high school senior from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After obtaining a grant from his school to do research on child labor in Turkey, he did on-the-ground work with UN officials and other experts and joins us here at Middlebury to offer a student perspective on modern day slavery and your activism in general.
JANUARY
Friday, 1/11, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(reservations required)
The Impact of Global Environmental Challenges on US-China Relations an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Orville Schell P'14 & '15, Arthur Ross Director of the Center for US-China Relations at the Asia Society. Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Tuesday, 1/8, to rcga@middleburuy.edu or 802-443-5324. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Friday, 1/18, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(reservations required)
Moving to a Better Life: Child Domestic Servants from the Andes Mountains by Elizabeth Scarinci '12, International and Global Studies major. Elizabeth received Mellon-Middlebury international research grants to fund her research in Peru. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Monday, 1/21, 4:30 PM
Axinn 103
Embracing Success: Japan Learns to Forget the War and Look to the Future by Craig Freedman, senior visiting scholar at University of New South Wales, editor of the Journal of East Asian Economies, and author of many books on both Japanese economics as well as economic theory more generally.
Sponsored by Department of Economics, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Department of History, Japanese Studies, East Asian Studies Program, and International Politics and Economics Program.
Friday, 1/25, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP by Monday, 1/21, to rcga@middlebury.edu or calling 802-443-5324.
The Rise of Asia: The Role of Population in the Economic Miracle and Prospects for the Future, an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Steven W. Sinding, senior fellow of the Guttmacher Institute.
No region of the world has seen economic expansion like that experienced by Asia over the past half century. And Asia's economic boom seems not only to be continuing but accelerating. What role has population policy played in this story and what role might it play in determining the future? Will China dominate the 21st century as the U.S. dominated the 20th? And what about India, which will overtake China as the world's most populous country around 2025?
Steven Sinding was the Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in London from 2002 to his retirement in 2006. He began his career in 1971 at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Following assignments in Washington, Pakistan and the Philippines, Dr. Sinding served from 1983 to 1986 as Director of the USAID Office of Population. From 1986 to 1990 he was the Director of USAID's Mission to Kenya. Following his 20-year career at USAID, Dr. Sinding served for a year as Senior Population Advisor to the World Bank and then moved to the Rockefeller Foundation where from 1991 to 1999 he was Director of the Population Sciences program. From 1999 to 2002 he was Clinical Professor of Public Health at Columbia University.He serves on a number of boards and works as an international consultant. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Monday, 1/28, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '58 House conference room
(by reservation only)
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Wednesday, 1/23, to rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.
"Hurtin' Songs" in Recent Quebec Drama: "Faire des Enfants" and "With Bated Breath" by Robert Schwartzwald, professeur titulaire in the département d'études anglaises at the Université de Montréal and formerly Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Winner of the 2008 Governor General's International Award in Canadian Studies, His publications include "Fear of Federasty: Quebec's Inverted Fictions," " ‘Symbolic Homosexuality,’ ‘False Feminine,’ and the Problematics of Identity in Quebec,” and " ‘Chus t’un homme’ Trois (re)mises en scène d’ ‘Hosanna’ de Michel Tremblay.” He is a member of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire en littérature et culture québécoises (CRILCQ).
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Department of French, Women's and Gender Studies, and Department of English.
Wednesday, 1/30, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(by reservation only)
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Friday, 1/25, to rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.
Afghanistan and Libya: Lessons for the Alliance by Leo Michel, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (the think-tank component of National Defense University), concentrating on transatlantic defense and security issues.Before joining INSS, Mr. Michel served over 17 years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (SD). His positions included: director for NATO Policy, OSD representative at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, director for Non-Nuclear Arms Control, deputy U.S. representative to the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Consultative Commission, and deputy director, Verification Policy.
With support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Harlan is currently finishing a book analyzing urban hero worship in Rajasthan, India. She is the author of The Goddesses' Henchmen: Reflections on Gender in Indian Hero Worship (Oxford, 2003) which examines narratives and songs performed by Rajputs, members of a martial caste. Sponsored by South Asian Studies and History of Art and Architecture.
FEBRUARY
Tuesday, 2/12, 12:30 PM
The Orchard - Franklin Environmental Center
Shale Gas: From Poland to Pennsylvania
In the last few years, no other energy topic has managed to garner as much attention and controversy as shale gas. Some have called it “a game changer” and a path to energy independence and economic revival for the United States. Others have looked closely at the environmental dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking (the technique of extraction) and our continued dependence on fossil fuels. But shale gas has now gone global. In Europe, Poland has now become the most zealous supporter of extraction, in the hopes of breaking its dependency on Russian energy supplies. Although still in the early stages of exploration and still far from successful, the program has turned into a major ideological tool and a centerpiece of Polish economic and national security policy. Dimiter Kenarov ’03.5, a freelance journalist who recently traveled to both Pennsylvania and Poland, will speak about the political, environmental, and social costs of shale gas development, as well as the rising global opposition against it. The project is funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Sponsored by Franklin Environmental Center, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, and Program in Environmental Studies
Tuesday, 2/19, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Internal Affairs: the Structure of Transnational Human Rights Campaigns by Wendy Wong, director of the Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on non-state organizations (international and domestic) and their role in international and domestic politics.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and the Department of Political Science.
Thursday, 2/21, 4:30 PM
The Orchard at Franklin Environmental Center
Hindu Heroes with Muslim Fast Friends: Contemporary Narratives on Moghuls and Princes in Udaipur by Lindsay Harlan, Chair of Religious Studies Department, Connecticut College. With support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Harlan is currently finishing a book analyzing urban hero worship in Rajasthan, India. She is the author of The Goddesses' Henchmen: Reflections on Gender in Indian Hero Worship (Oxford, 2003) which examines narratives and songs performed by Rajputs, members of a martial caste.
Sponsored by South Asian Studies and History of Art and Architecture.
Friday, 2/22, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 2/18, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.
Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture by Michael Gibbs Hill, assistant professor, Chinese and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina. His research focuses on the history of mental labor and intellectual work in modern China, and his scholarly publications cover such areas as modern and late imperial Chinese literature; translation and adaptation; publishers in turn-of-the-century China; classical Chinese prose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and attempts to reform, abolish, or supplement the Chinese written language. His first book, Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture, was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press. Professor Hill has held fellowships from the USC Provost’s Arts and Humanities Grant Program, the American Council of Learned Societies, the US-IIE Fulbright program, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the Blakemore Foundation. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Studies, East Asian Studies Program, Department of History, Department of Chinese.
Monday, 2/25, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Enemies of the State: Pussy Riot and the New Russian Protest Rock by Artemy Troitsky, Moscow State University. After a decade of President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian rule in which civil society seemed to be comatose, a new protest movement is growing in Russia. Infuriated by electoral fraud and galloping corruption, the so-called “creative class” is fighting back by means of music, poetry, multimedia, and daring art performances. In this presentation, Artemy Troitsky will give a firsthand account of the situation. ArtemyTroitsky is the first, and best known, Russian rock journalist, author of Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia and Tusovka: Whatever Happened to the Soviet Underground Culture. He currently teaches in the Journalism Department of Moscow State University, hosts TV and radio shows (including on Ekho Moskvy), writes for Novaya gazeta, is a member of the board of Greenpeace Russia, and is a well-known blogger and opposition activist.
Sponsored by Department of Russian, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, and Russian and East European Studies.
Tuesday, 2/26, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Missionaries and Muslim Brothers in Egypt by Beth Baron, Professor of History at City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. She authored Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics (University of California Press, 2005) and The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press(Yale University Press, 1994), and co-edited Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender(Yale University Press) and Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (Mazda, 2000). Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Departments of History, Religion, Political Science, Middle East Studies Program.
Thursday, 2/28, 4:30 PM
The Orchard at Franklin Environmental Center
North to South Migration, by Nina Berman, professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University. Professor Berman's area of specializations include: comparative cultural studies; Germany's relationship to the Middle East; Middle Ages to present: 19th and 20th century Germany and Africa; comparative literature (post-colonial novel); translation studies; travel in the Islamic world. This lecture is part of the Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity symposium on migrations, race and ethnicity.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Franklin environmental Center, European Studies Program, and International Politics and Economics
MARCH
Thursday, 3/7, 4:30 PM
Axinn 220
Self-Negation and Resistance to Modernity: Takeuchi Yoshimi and Wang Hui on Lu Xun, by Viren Murthy, assistant professor of global history, University of Wisconsin Madison. Murthy has written extensively on the question of modernity and its critiques in 20th century Asia. Versed in multiple languages, Prof. Murthy works on important Chinese and Japanese thinkers such as Takeuchi Yoshimi, Tosaka Jun, Lu Xun, and Wang Hui. His first book is on the Chinese Buddhist political thinker Zhang Taiyan and is currently working on Pan-Asianism and the idea of Asia in modern global history.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, East Asian Studies Program, Department of History, Japanese Studies, and Department of Chinese.
Thursday, 3/7, 7:00 PM
Dana Auditorium
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing glaciers of the Greater Himalaya by David Breashears, GlacierWorks, and Orville Schell P'13 & '14, Asia Society
The Himalaya are home to the world’s most magnificent peaks and thousands of high-altitude glaciers. These important glaciers supply crucial seasonal flows to rivers across Asia, yet many are disappearing at an increasing rate. “Rivers of Ice” presents recent photographs by mountaineer and photographer David Breashears of the world’s least studied glaciers alongside archival images taken over the past century by the world’s greatest alpine photographers. The comparison starkly reveals the alarming loss of ice during the intervening years.
David Breashears is an accomplished filmmaker, explorer, author, mountaineer and professional speaker. He is also the founder and Executive Director of GlacierWorks, a non-profit organization that uses art, science and adventure to raise public awareness about the consequences of climate change in the Greater Himalayan Region. Since 1978, he has combined his skills in climbing and filmmaking to complete more than forty film projects. In 1983, Breashears transmitted the first live television pictures from the summit of Mount Everest, and in the spring of 2004 reached the summit of Mount Everest for the fifth time while shooting his film Storm Over Everest.
Orville Schell, the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, was recently appointed by the Asia Society as the Arthur Ross Director to set up its new Center on US China Relations in New York City. The Center is now working on a number of new projects to strengthen Sino-US relations, including the Initiative on US-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate, a joint partnership with The Pew Center on Global Climate Change, as well as The Brookings Institution, The National Committee on US-China Relations, Environmental Defense and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
Friday, 3/8, 12:15 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(by reservation only)
Conserving culture and wildlife: the marriage of music and conservation biology in Ghana, West Africa, an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Steve Trombulak, Professor of Environment & Biosphere Studies.
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 3/4, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu, or by calling 802-443-5324.
Monday, 3/11, 7:00 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
From Texas to Brazil and Back: Musings about Development by Guido Groeschel, Universal Weather and Aviation; Thunderbird--The Garvin School of International Business. Guido Groeschel leads a product management team responsible for defining software solutions at Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc. which for over 50 years has supported business aviation operations with services they need to fly from one point to another globally. The company has operations in Latin America and also supports many international causes including food relief, medical and logistical aid during disasters. Guido has 12 years of product management experience in software and services in both San Diego and Houston. From 1995-1997 he served as a United States Information Agency English Teaching Fellow at Associação Cultural Brasil – Estados Unidos in Salvador Bahia, and has also worked as an ESL/EFL instructor in the United States and Spain. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Department of History, Latin American Studies Program, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Tuesday, 3/12, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Translating Poetry: A roundtable discussion with Chinese poet Xi Chuan, Central Academy for Fine Arts (Beijing), and his translator, Assistant Professor Lucas Klein of City University of Hong Kong, and Middlebury College faculty. Xi Chuan is one of the most well-known contemporary poets writing in the Chinese language, and is the author most recently of "Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems (New Directions, 2012), a bilingual edition with English translation by Lucas Klein, a 2000 graduate of Middlebury College (Chinese and LITS) and now in the department of Chinese, translation and linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Department of Chinese, John D. Berninghausen Professorship, East Asian Studies Program.
Tuesday, 3/12, 4:30 PM
The Orchard at Hillcrest
Working on Water: Student and Faculty Perspectives on Researching Water Issues
Interested in Water Issues? Wondering what it's like to do research as a student and faculty member? The Rohatyn Center Student Steering Committee is hosting a panel preview to Rohatyn Center's Water Symposium. Com hear about the current research and experiences of students and faculty who study a wide variety of water issues.
Wednesday, March 13, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Tierra de Agua: Filming Water Issues inHow do you turn an environmental research project into a documentary? Fellow Monterey students are coming to share with you and the Rohatyn Center Student Steering Committee their experience filming water issues in Nicaragua for Tierra de Agua. Clips of the documentary and a short presentation by the movie-makers will open the floor to your questions!
Wednesday, 3/13, 7:00 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Water, Trees, Life: A Global Perspective on Healing Our Hurting Planet by Roger Hoesterey, Director of Strategic Development, The Eden Projects. Hoesterey will discuss current work by the Eden Reforestation Projects to reduce poverty in Ethiopia and Madagascar by employing indigenous people to replant degraded watersheds, and the moral calling from all the world's major religions to care for the planet.
The Eden Projects is dedicated to the pursuit of solutions to the problems behind environmental destruction that are major contributing causes to extreme poverty and oppression in impoverished nations.
As Senior Vice President and Division Director West, Roger also oversees The Trust for Public Land's conservation programs in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii and Alaska. During Roger's time at TPL, the states he directs have conserved over a half million acres of forest, watersheds, ranches, and park land.
Sponsored by Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life and Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Thursday-Saturday, 3/14-16
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
ROHATYN CENTER FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS
First Annual International Conference
March 14-16, 2013
The Politics of Freshwater:
Access and Identity in a Changing Environment
Monday, 3/18, 4:30 PM
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
After the Post Cold War by Dai Jinhua,professor at Peking University. She is known as the leading feminist and film critic of China today. She is currently Visiting Global Professor at New York University. An anthology of her work translated into English is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Abstract: This talk will take up what Prof. Dai calls "After the post-Cold War," a conceptual periodization that commences in 2008, with the Beijing Olympics, the Sichuan earthquake, the global financial crisis, and the discourses of "China's rise." In an integrated filmic, cultural, anthropological, feminist, and sociological fashion, Prof. Dai explores how this "period" of the present can be conceptualized, understood, and critiqued; she does so through an examination of the ironic and real intertwining of Chinese and global history from the 1990s to today.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Department of History.
