The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global and International History presents Julian Go and “Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US.”
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
To kick of SJP this year, we are screening the new film ‘Israelism’ which takes a deep dive into the growing American Jewish awareness of Israel Apartheid and analyzing the Zionist propaganda mechanisms in this country that try to combat Palestinian activism. The event will be proceeded by a Q&A with the co-director of the film, Eric Axelman, who will be sharing insights into the filmmaking process and advice for advancing the Palestinian cause at Middlebury and beyond!
https://www.israelismfilm.com/
Axinn Center 232
Closed to the PublicCommencement reception for International Politics & Economics and International & Global Studies seniors and their families.
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby
Remarks for seniors and their families in the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) Room 125.
Mahaney Arts Center 125
Lukas Kühne, a director at the Facultad de Artes at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay, will host a conversation about study abroad at his institution. He is an artist himself, a sculptor who works with sound. More information about Lukas Kühne is available right here.
The event is co-sponsored by the Associate Dean for the Arts.
Sunderland 130
Closed to the Public
By placing ethnicity at the center, this talk focuses on the stereotyping of Arabs by the Ottoman intelligentsia, first and later by the populizers of the Turkish state discourse from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Juana Gamero de Coca Day of Learning 2023
This annual event honors Juana Gamero de Coca (1959-2017), associate professor of Spanish at Middlebury College.
Virtual Middlebury
Open to the Public
Matthew Rojansky will discuss the current state of the war in Ukraine and take questions from the audience.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
World-renowned calligrapher Masako Inkyo will be giving a calligraphy performance based on Oborozukiyo from The Tale of Genji.
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby
Open to the Public
Speaker: Scott D. Rozelle, Stanford University
Title: Rural China’s Schools: Challenges and Potential Solutions
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
How does the state shape gender identity? Florence Ashley, drawing on their legal scholarship in Canada, explores how state power is used to regulate gender expression and presentation. Florence is the author of Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis, which was published by UBC Press in 2022.
Please click right here to join this webinar.
Virtual Middlebury
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents Daniel Barkhuff and “Transboundary Troops: US Military Training and Cooperation Across Borders.”
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
This event will place in conversation two high profile translators of Asian novels. Stephen Epstein, translator of The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha, and Stephen Snyder, translator of The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa will discuss their work as professional translators of novels in Asian languages. Epstein, Director of the Asian Languages and Cultures Programme at Victoria University in Wellington has translated multiple novels from Korean and Indonesian to English.
Axinn Center 229
Open to the Public
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.
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.”
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
