Students and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held on most Tuesdays from 12:30-1:20 pm EST. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome.
This is both an in-person and a virtual event. To register to attend via Zoom, please contact Prof. Dickinson.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents Carlos Faerron Guzmán, co-founder and director of the InterAmerican Center for Global Health (CISG).
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
John Peter Diiulio, the James N. Perry Scholar of Philosophy, Politics, and Society in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss his book on J.S. Mill, Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill. It provides an original and unified reconstruction of Mill’s practical philosophy, and advances a sympathetic yet critical argument for the cogency and potency of his Utilitarian liberalism.
Co-sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Forum.
Axinn Center 229
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affair International and Global Colloquium Series presents “Drawing on Dharma to Define Religion in the Humanities and Social Sciences” by Jen Ortegren, assistant professor of Religon, Middlebury College.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy presents Tamar Mayer, Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences and “Israel’s Democracy in Peril.”
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Students and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held on most Tuesdays from 12:30-1:20 pm EST. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome.
This is both an in-person and a virtual event. To register to attend via Zoom, please contact Prof. Dickinson.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy presents Professor of Government at Georgetown University Qatar, Mehran Kamrawa.
Virtual Middlebury
Open to the Public
Michael Leo Owens, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Emory University
Portions of the U.S. public focus on reducing police violence, particularly police shootings of civilians. Journalists and activists sustain that focus by documenting and publicizing annual numbers of police shootings. Does providing numeric information about police shootings influence public support for police reforms? The talk will address empirical challenges of answering the question and offer insights about numeric-based initiatives to reduce police shootings in the U.S.
Axinn Center 103
Open to the Public
Advancing Climate Solutions through Venture Capital - the vital role of early-stage investment in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement
Peter Hirsch ‘12, Head of Sustainability at 2150, a climate tech-oriented venture capital firm in London, will return to campus for a conversation moderated by students Kavina Amin ‘24 (Economics and History) and Gianna Palli ‘23.5 (Art History and Economics).
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the PublicAssistant Professor Gary Winslett has published Competitiveness and Death: Trade and Politics in Cars, Beef, and Drugs with the University of Michigan Press.
Assistant Professor Sebnem Gumuscu has published “Dominance and Democratic Backsliding under AKP Rule in Turkey” in the Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa.
Assistant Professor Sebnem Gumuscu has also published “Intra-Party Conflicts and Democratic Crises: Lessons from Islamist Parties” in the American Political Science Association Comparative Politics Newsletter.
Associate Professor Kemi Fuentes-George has won a Whiting Fellowship to support his sabbatical project “Decolonizing IR through Pan-African Political Theory.”
Associate Professor Sarah Stroup and her colleague George E. Mitchell have published their article “Domestic Constraints on the Global Impact of US Development Transnational NGOs” in Development in Practice.
Associate Professor Sarah Stroup has also published “Principles or Practices?” in Inside Higher Ed.
Associate Professor Jessica Teets has been selected to serve on the advisory board for the National Committee of US-China Relations.
Associate Professor Jessica Teets and her colleague Xiang Gao have published “Citizen Participation in China,” in The Oxford International Handbook of Public Administration for Social Policy: Promising Practices and Emerging Challenges.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich has been selected as the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair to support his sabbatical project “The Media and the Marginalized: Representations of Racial Justice Movements in the US and France,” for which he has also received support from the French Institutes of Advanced Study and the Collegium de Lyon.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and Middlebury graduate Neha Sharma ’18.5 along with colleagues Thomas Keck and Claire Sigsworth have published “Diplomats in Robes? Judicial Career Paths and Free Speech Decision-Making at the European Court of Human Rights” in Law & Social Inquiry.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and Middlebury graduates James P. Callison ’17.5, Georgia Grace Edwards ’18, Mia Fichman ’19, Erin Hoynes ’19, Razan Jabari ’18, and colleague A. Maurits van der Veen have published “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Corpus Linguistics Analysis of US Newspaper Coverage of Latinx, 1996-2016” in Journalism.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and Middlebury graduate Sylvia Al-Mateen ’17 have published “Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Ideas and Judicial Decision-Making” in the Michigan State International Law Review.
Charles A. Dana Professor Erik Bleich and colleague A. Maurits van der Veen have also published “Atheism in US and UK Newspapers: Negativity about Non-Belief and Non-Believers” in Religions.
Russell J. Leng ’60 Professor Allison Stanger was selected as the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress and SAGE Sara Miller McCune Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University for the 2020–21 academic year.
Russell J. Leng ‘60 Professor Allison Stanger has published “Edward Snowden, Donald Trump and the Paradox of National Security Whistleblowing,” in National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press: The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On.
