Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs 2023-2024

  • McDonald’s and the Opening and Closing of Russia? with special guest Kristy Ironside

    The opening of the first McDonald’s in Moscow on January 31, 1990, was widely seen as proof of the Soviet Union opening up to the outside world after years of Cold War isolation. McDonald’s decision to pull out of Russia within months of its full-scale attack on Ukraine in early 2022 was thus naturally seen as the end of an era. This talk will look at how we got from Point A to Point B. Why did Soviet leaders agree to allow McDonald’s in, first as a joint venture with the Moscow city soviet, and what did they hope to get out of it?

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

  • Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: reflections on the prevalence, prevention of, and policy response to this public health and human rights crisis, with Sophie Morse, Philip R. Lee Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco and Women’s Health Policy Researcher.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Aparna Kapadia, associate professor of history at Williams College and ” Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life.”

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Putin’s Wars : How once the West’s Sweetheart got us into WWIII

    Yevgenia Albats, Yevgenia Albats, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

    — a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host — will talk about Russian society and politics in the context of Russia’s invasion of, and ongoing war in, Ukraine.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Combative Decoloniality and the Abolition of the Humanities

    Building from the approach to decolonization and abolition in the Haitian Revolution as well as from Frantz Fanon’s view of combative decolonization and decoloniality, the presentation makes the case for the abolition of the humanities as a crucial component of the project for decolonizing knowledge today.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries are Reshaping Emerging Economies

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries are Reshaping Emerging Economies” by Eduardo J. Gómez, professor in the Department of Community and Population Health and director of the Institute of Health Policy and Politics, Lehigh University.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Identification, Polarization, and Their Behavioral Consequences.

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics presents “Identification, Polarization, and Their Behavioral Consequences” with Luca Henkel, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago and University of CEMA.

    Virtual Middlebury

    Open to the Public
  • Autocracy Rising: Venezuela's Transition to Authoritarianism

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy presents “Autocracy Rising: Transitions to Authoritarianism in Venezuela and Beyond” with Javier Corrales of Amherst college

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

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