International & Global Studies IGST

International and Global Studies Majors Reception

Current and prospective IGST Majors, please join us to socialize with fellow IGST Majors, Program Director, Track Directors and other IGS faculty. We will also talk about the various tracks, navigating through the major and the IGST website, study abroad, writing a thesis, among other topics. 

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

The View from the Border: US Migration Policy and the Presidential Election

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents “The View from the Border: US Migration Policy and the Presidential Election” by Dr. Gabriella Sanchez.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora

In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. In her new book, Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University) draws upon hundreds of interviews conducted across more than a decade to probe an intimate and universal question. What is home? Syrians now on five continents share stories of leaving, losing, searching, and finding (or not finding) home.

Johnson Classroom 204

Open to the Public

Place Attachment and the Geographies of Being

The Middle of Somewhere: Place Attachment and the Geographies of Being
Place attachment is a burgeoning field of scholarship that investigates place identities and their relation to mobility and migration. Professor Alexander Diener’s research project considers people’s varied capacities to make and remake place attachments, and how this shapes everyday routines, social interactions, major life choices, and identities at different scales. His talk will engage with topics such as home/homeland, mobility/immobility, biological geographies, sacred place, and moral geographies.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104

Open to the Public

Combative Decoloniality and the Abolition of the Humanities

Building from the approach to decolonization and abolition in the Haitian Revolution as well as from Frantz Fanon’s view of combative decolonization and decoloniality, the presentation makes the case for the abolition of the humanities as a crucial component of the project for decolonizing knowledge today.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Photographer in a Foreign Land: Kevin Bubriski’s Documentary Projects in Nepal, Tibet and Xinjiang

Kevin Bubriski’s fifty year career as a documentary photographer began in the mid 1970s with his years in the Peace Corps as a community water supply technician in Nepal’s remotest mountain villages. He has returned to Nepal numerous times, done extended documentary work in South Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia and the USA and has published a number of photographic books. He will be speaking retrospectively about his work in Nepal, the USA, Syria, Tibet and Xinjiang.

Johnson Classroom 204

Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy presents “Leaders in the Middlebury East and North Africa: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy” with Dr. Sercan Canbolat, inaugural director of Abrahamic Programs at the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) Global Affairs and a postdoctoral research associate UConn’s Department of Political Science.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public