Upcoming Events

  • "Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza," A conversation with Prof. Peter Beinart

    Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY. He is also a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times, a political commentator on MSNBC, and Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents. Over the years he served as Editor of The New Republic and wrote for publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Die Zeit, and the Financial Times. He is the author of four books including The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris (Harper, 2010) and The Crisis of Zionism (Times Books, 2012).

    Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

    Open to the Public

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    Io Capitano Movie Screening

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on International and Global Security presents the film screening of “Io Capitano.”

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public

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    War and Forced Displacement: A Global Reckoning

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents “War and Forced Displacement: A Global Reckoning” with David Vine.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

Past Events

  • Mikhail Zygar poster for lecture March 6, 2025 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. at Robert a Jones House.  Title:  Putin and the Rewriting of Russian History.

    Putin and the Rewriting of Russian History

    Russian journalist and author Mikhail Zygar will discuss how the official historical narrative has changed in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and what might happen with it further.  He will also present his own work on creating new historical narratives to challenge the official one.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

  • A black and white photograph of three Salvadoran men standing in front of a stone building, each looking in a different direction.

    Legacy of Lies: From the Salvadoran Civil War to the U.S. Border Crisis

    Over three decades, Robert Nickelsberg shot photos of insurgents and counter-insurgents in El Salvador, Iraq and Afghanistan for Time magazine.  For this event, he will present B&W images of the Salvadoran civil war and go into what they tell us about the choices facing Salvadorans.  U.S. support for a rightwing dictatorship not only motivated many to flee to the U.S., Nickelsberg will argue, but also laid the groundwork for present-day chaos at the southern border.

    Axinn Center 229

    Open to the Public

  • Guest Lecture: Dr. Ki-young Shin, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo

    While #MeToo movement has emerged as a significant global phenomenon since late 2017, Japan initially exhibited a notably muted response. This stands in stark contrast to neighboring South Korea, where the movement ignited a powerful wave of revelations, empowering women to break their silence. However, the persistent efforts of courageous women like Shiori Ito, coupled with a series of controversial not-guilty verdicts in sexual assault cases, eventually catalyzed a shift in Japan.

    Axinn Center 232

    Open to the Public

  • Photograph of a black wall with white painted letters reading "Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan." Statue of a person raising a fist can be seen above the wall against a blue sky with clouds.

    Restorative Criticism and Communal Writing in Times of NiUnaMenos

    Mexican women writers are driving an affective rearrangement of aesthetic practices, places of enunciation, and the “lettered city” — a shift that is shaking up ideas about the canon, the functioning of national literature, and the role of the intellectual in the 21st century. As Cristina Rivera Garza has pointed out, we are witnessing a transformation in literature where the book is no longer the endpoint, nor is there a singular figure of the author.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

  • Think like a Hacker: Proactive security in the cloud

    Join us for an engaging discussion on Cyber Crime and Adversarial Cybersecurity with special guest Roei Sherman, an Israeli information security professional, an expert in Cloud Incident Response and adversarial cybersecurity.

    Explore the evolving threats in the digital world and the strategies used to combat them.

    Virtual Middlebury

  • Academic Freedom in Higher Education - Prof. Asli Ü. Bâli, Yale Law School

    Asli Ü. Bâli is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is an expert in international human rights law and comparative constitutional law focused on the Middle East. Dr. Bâli received her doctorate in Politics from Princeton University in 2010 and her law degree from Yale. Before her academic career, she worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb. Shen then went on to UCLA where she was a founding faculty director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Dr.

    Axinn Center 229

    Open to the Public

  • Gaza, Israel, and US Foreign Policy: A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi

    This will be a conversation and a curated Q&A with the leading historian of modern Palestine in the world. Topics of the discussion will range from the history of US foreign policy to Israel/Palestine to the current war in Gaza and Lebanon to what the implications of the new Trump administration may be for the conflict.

     

    Virtual Middlebury

  • Palestine: Perspectives from the Global South

    In this panel, Middlebury faculty explore how religious traditions, political movements, activist networks, and social justice campaigns across the Global South have advanced various forms of Palestine advocacy in modern and recent history. Panelists will explore how resistance and solidarity have been theorized and expressed through diverse ideological and regional frameworks.

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

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    From Growth to Glut: The Four Ds Shaping China’s Economy and Global Geopolitics

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Power, Wealth, and Global Political Economy presents “From Growth to Glut: The Four Ds Shaping China’s Economy and Global Geopolitics” by Zongyuan Zoe Liu.

    This talk will present a framework - 4 Ds (debt, demand, demographics, and de-risking/de-coupling) - for understanding China’s economic challenges and their implications for the rest of the world. It will also explain the structural forces that have led to China’s recurring overcapacity challenge and how Chinese firms are coping with these challenges.

    Virtual Middlebury

    Open to the Public


News


 

Matt Martignoni IGST 2021-2022 Thesis Aware Recipient

Congratulations Matt Martignoni, for being selected as the 2022 winner of the International Global Studies Award!

Awarded to the graduating senior who, in the judgment of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Advisory Committee, has written the best senior thesis in the area of international and global studies, broadly conceived.


 

IGST Cecilia Needham Award Pic 2022

Congratulations Cecilia Needham, for being awarded funding from Middlebury’s Senior Research Project Supplement and Hoskin Family Fund to support research on public health in Haiti for her senior thesis work, “How NGO & State Interactions Influence Public Health Outcomes.”


IGST 2022-23 Kellogg Fellows

Rain Ji ‘23 (IGST, Middle East & North African Studies)

Hitting Below the Belt? Official and Youth Perceptions of the Belt and Road initiative in Jordan

 

Mira Vance ‘23 (IGST, Global Gender & Sexuality Studies)

The Body of a Nation: Ableism and Constructions of Masculinity Through Primary School Education in Modern China

 

 


Recordings of Past Events

Reproductive Justice NOW – Juana Gamero de Coca 2022 Day of Learning

April 26, 2022
4:30–6:00 PM ET