Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Events Calendar
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SEPTEMBER
Friday, 9/13, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
International and Global Studies Colloquium by Natalie Eppelsheimer
Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 9/9, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324.
Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Thursday, 9/19, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
A lecture (title TBA) by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Dartmouth College. Sponsored by East Asian Studies Program.
Friday, 9/20, 12:15 - 5:15 and 7:15 -8:30 p.m.
McCullough Social Space, 12:15 - 5:15
Second Annual International Politics and Economics Symposium
Global Inequalities in Gender, Public Health, and the Environment: What Can We Do?
12:15-1:45 Valentine Moghadam, Northeastern University, speaking on gender and economic development
2:00-3:30 Michael Kremer, Harvard University, speaking on public health puzzles and policies
3:45-5:15 Clayton Thomas-Muller, Mathais Colomb Cree Nation, Canada, speaking on environmental justice and tar sands.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room, 7:15-8:30 p.m.
Roundtable discussion with all three speakers
Monday, 9/30, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Central Asia and its Powerful Neighbors: A Struggle for Influence, a lecture by Andrew Wachtel, president, American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Russian and East European Studies Program, and Department of Russian.
OCTOBER
Tuesday, 10/1, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Lecture (title TBD) by Maya Joshi, English professor, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, South Asian Studies Program, Department of History of Art and Architecture, and Department of History.
Friday, 10/3, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Crafting a Christian Identity in the Middle East: The Case of the Maronites in Lebanon by Adam Khater, Alimni Distinguished University Professor, Professor of History at North Carolina State University. His books include Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Making of a Lebanese Middle Class, 1861–1921; A History of the Middle East: A Sourcebook for the History of the Middle East and North Africa; and Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in the Christian Middle East. He has just completed a PBS documentary on the history of the Lebanese community in North Carolina and is the senior curator for a museum exhibit on the same topic that will open in early 2014.
Friday, 10/4, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation. Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 9/30, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Thursday, 10/10, or Tuesday, 10/15 (exact date TBD)
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
Presentation on the Balkans. Details TBA
Friday, 10/11, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation (title TBD) by Amy Morsman, Associate Professor of History.
Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 10/7, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Monday, 10/14, 7:00 p.m.
Mahaney Center for the Arts dance theater
Lasyam: An Evening of Indian Classical Dance featuring Sasikala Penumarthi, director of the Academy of Kuchipudi Dance, with two of her students from the academy. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Department of Religion, South Asian Studies Program, Mahaney Center for the Arts, and Dance Program.
Tuesday, 10/15, 12:30 p.m.
Warner Hemicycle
(Title TBA) a presentation by Isabel Franc (Barcelona), author and poet. Isabel Franc became known in the literary world with her first novel Entre todas las mujeres (Tusquets 1992), an unusual work that was a finalist for the Sonrisa Vertical Prize. She is the author of the celebrated Trilogy of Lola Van Guardia, published by Egales, that includes Con Pedigree (1997), Plumas de Doble Filo (1999) and La mansión de las Tríbadas(2002). These novels have been translated to various languages. She has collaborated as a contributor of diverse publications. After the publication of Con Pedigree, the Spanish newspaper El País said: “She writes with equal parts of sarcasm and tenderness about individuals that might abound in a Woody Allen film, although they would always have a foot in a work of [Pedro] Almodóvar.” Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, European Studies Program, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, and Department of Spanish.
Thursday, 10/17, 4:30 p.m.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
A lecture (title TBA) by Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University. Sponsored by East Asian Studies Program.
Friday, 10/18, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
A Changing World, a Changing Aidscape: How International NGOs are Adapting, an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Bill O'Keefe P'13, '17, Vice President, Government Relations and Advocacy, Catholic Relief Services. Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 10/14, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Scott Centr for Spiritual and Religious Life, and Newman Center.
Thursday, 10/24, 4:30 p.m.
Location TBD
The Photo-Book and the Camera-Animal: Dayanita Singh's "House of Love" by Ajay Sinha, art historian at Mount Holyoke College. Sponsored by South Asian Studies Program.
Friday, 10/25, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
An Alumni Achievement Award presentation (title TBD) by Aditya Raval '98 . Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 10/21, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324.
NOVEMBER
Friday, 11/1, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
(Title TBD), an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Patricia (Pat) Zupan, Charles A. Dana Professor of Italian. Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 10/28, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Friday, 11/8, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
(Title TBD) an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Robert S. Schine, Curt & Else Silberman Professor of Jewish Studies. Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 11/4, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Wednesday, 11/13, 4:30 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
The Franco-Algerian War and the Dispute between Camus and Sartre, a lecture by Alek Toumi, assistant professor of French and Francophone studies, University of Wisconsin at Steven's Point. A poet and playwright, he is the author of the Sartre-Beauvoir trilogy "MadahSartre", "Taxieur" and “De Beauvoir à beau voile” (on the question of veil, school and secularism), as well as "Albert Camus: entre la mère et l’injustice". The English version of Madah-Sartre was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2007 while the French version has been reedited by Editions du Marais in Canada in 2009. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, African Studies Program, and Department of French.
Friday, 11/15, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
(Title TBD) an International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Nina Wieda, assistant professor of Russian. Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 11/11, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
Friday, 11/22, 12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room
(Reservations required)
An International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation (TBD). Lunch will be available for those who RSVP by Monday, 11/18, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802.443.5324. Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
DECEMBER
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 13-15, 2014
Second Annual Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Symposium:
The Young and the Jobless--Youth Unemployment in Times of Crisis
Full schedule TBD
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