International and Global Studies’ Global Migration and Diaspora Program presents “Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy” with Justin Gest.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Jack Zhang, University of Kansas, is the founder and director of the Trade War Lab, a social science lab dedicated to dual mission of understanding
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Jeff Dayton-Johnson will present his latest book, “Understanding Latin America’s Economy in the Twenty-First Century.” Professor Dayton-Johnson is an economist and scholar who has published extensively on Latin American economic development. He also serves as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
This is a talk on “human-forest mutualisms” exemplified by small-scale, forest conservation efforts in Mexico’s Yucatán. These efforts link conservation of globally-important forest ecosystems with production of natural, non-timber, forest products (vanilla and honey) that can help support local communities involved in conservation.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
2024, Maria Pevchikh and Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation released Traitors, a provocative documentary series asking how Russia’s democratic opening of the 1990s ended in Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. The film places much of the blame on the political and economic elites surrounding Boris Yeltsin, focusing on corruption, privatization and the rise of the oligarchs, the controversial 1996 presidential election, and ultimately the choice of Putin as Yeltsin’s successor.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Global Fellows Program presents “Interactive Peacemaking and Coordination in Complex Peace Processes” with Susan Allen.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “Globalization and its Discontents: Stories from the Factory Floors of China and Egypt” with Leslie Chang.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “A Chinese Education: Teaching and Learning from Two Generations of Students in China” with Peter Hessler.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Once best known for its cows and coal mines, the Spanish region of Asturias has become a cultural capital in recent years. Rural pueblos are at the epicenter of this renaissance, challenging urban-centric ideas of cultural production. Musicians, writers, and other artists look to the region’s agrarian and industrial past to imagine new futures. They incorporate folklore and ways of knowing inspired by older generations, constructing alternative notions of rurality grounded in queerness, inclusivity, and sustainability.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The IGS program welcomes majors, prospective majors, and faculty to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. The reception is also meant as a way for students returning from abroad to reconnect with friends and professors.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Are you interested in learning more about the Rohatyn Global Scholars Program? Join us for one of our Information Sessions to find out more.
Choose one of the following Info Sessions:
Wednesday, September 16th from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm (with pizza)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Closed to the Public
Are you interested in learning more about the Rohatyn Global Scholars Program? Join us for one of our Information Sessions to find out more.
Choose one of the following Info Sessions:
Wednesday, September 16th from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm (with pizza)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Closed to the Public
How has geography become the central infrastructure of political authority in Putin’s Russia? Dr. Sofia Gavrilova (Fung Global Fellow, Princeton and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography), argues that that propaganda in Russia operates less through persuasion than through participation — by enrolling ordinary people in the everyday work of imperial reproduction. At the heart of the project is the concept of the “Volunteer Empire”: an empire reproduced through organized presence, care, and curated experience.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Are you interested in learning more about the Rohatyn Global Scholars Program? Join us for one of our Information Sessions to find out more.
Choose one of the following Info Sessions:
Wednesday, September 16th from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm (with pizza)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Closed to the Public
Please join the departments of History of Art and Architecture, International and Global Studies, International Politics and Economics, and Music for a reception celebrating graduates in these disciplines.
The following departments invite grads and their guests to join them in the locations listed below.
History of Art and Architecture | Seeler Studio Theater | 2:30-3:15 pm
International and Global Studies | MAC 232 | 2:30-3:15 pm
Mahaney Arts Center
Research on law in authoritarian countries has revealed that authoritarian leaders are masters at creatively and pragmatically using law and courts to achieve their political goals. Putin’s Russia is a stark example.
Warner 100
Open to the Public
Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited to join the members of the artistic collective, Art Lords, to paint a mural in Proctor on the theme of art, migration, and belonging. No artistic experience required! Come for as little or as long as you like! Painting will take place between 9am-8pm on April 24-25th.
Sponsored by the Committee on Art in Public Spaces, Committee on the Arts, International & Global Studies-Middle East and North Africa, Office of Equity, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, and the Innovation Hub.
Proctor Dining Room
Closed to the Public
Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited to join the members of the artistic collective, Art Lords, to paint a mural in Proctor on the theme of art, migration, and belonging. No artistic experience required! Come for as little or as long as you like! Painting will take place between 9am-8pm on April 24-25th.
Sponsored by the Committee on Art in Public Spaces, Committee on the Arts, International & Global Studies-Middle East and North Africa, Office of Equity, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, and the Innovation Hub.
Proctor Dining Room
Closed to the Public
St. Francis of Assisi is celebrated as the patron saint of animals and is also recognized as a symbol of pacifism and brotherhood. How then could the figure of St. Francis end up serving the Fascist political project, most tellingly by being declared the Patron Saint of (Fascist) Italy in 1939? Why, and how, would this scrawny Saint become the emblem of a nation dedicated to war?
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents “Globalizing Traditional Medicine and Knowledge into the Future” with Sena Voncujovi ‘17.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
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
