April 08, 2003

Contact: Sarah Ray
802-443-5794
sray@middlebury.edu
Posted: April 08, 2003

Wednesday,
April 16, 7:30 p.m.

Lecture:
“Human Rights and U.S. Military Assistance to Latin America:
Training Protectors or Perpetrators?” by Father Roy Bourgeois,
a Maryknoll priest who has been imprisoned numerous times for non-violently
protesting United States military policy in Central America. In particular,
he has often demonstrated against the training carried out at the U.S.
Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Ga. Among the school’s
alumni are numerous Latin American military officers. As the director
of SOA Watch, Bourgeois was featured in the documentary “School
of Assassins,” (1994) which was nominated for an Oscar for Best
Documentary Short Subject.
Free
Conference room, Robert A. Jones House, Hillcrest Road off College Street
(Route 125)
For more information, contact Charlotte Tate of the Middlebury College
Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at 802-443-5795 or tate@middlebury.edu.

Friday,
April 25, 12:15 p.m.

Lunchtime
lecture: “Reform versus Tradition in Iran”
by Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and chair
of the Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department at Columbia
University.
Conference room, Robert A. Jones House, Hillcrest Road off College Street
(Route 125)
Free but reservations required
Lunch will be served throughout. RSVP by Monday, April 21.
To make reservations or for more information, contact Martha Baldwin of
the Middlebury College Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at 802-443-5324
or baldwin@middlebury.edu.

Thursday,
May 1, 4:30 p.m.

Lecture:
“Election 2000 and the Limits of American Democracy”
by Alexander Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History
and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Free
Conference room, Robert A. Jones House, Hillcrest Road off College Street
(Route 125)
For more information, contact Charlotte Tate of the Middlebury College
Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at 802-443-5795 or tate@middlebury.edu.