Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Two Sessions
Between 11:30 am to 12:30 pm and 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Robert A. Jones ’59 Conference Room (RAJ CON)

Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors, this year-long program brings students from diverse disciplines together to examine, discuss, and enhance their understanding of world events through formal affiliation with one of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs six thematic programs.

Through the Rohatyn Global Scholars Program students can:
• Enhance their academic experience
• Explore career options

2023 International Politics and Economics Symposium
In-person event in Robert A. Jones ‘59 Conference Room or join the livestream right here.

Effects of Technology and AI on Inequality

Please join the Rohatyn Student Advisory Board to celebrate the release of this year’s volume of the Middlebury Journal of Global Affairs! This event will be on May 19th from 12:30-1:30pm in the conference room of the Robert A. Jones House. Drinks and snacks will be served. Please RSVP by May 18th at go/journal2023.

Speaker: Joshua Kalla, Yale University

Join the Rohatyn Student Advisory Board for our May Hot Topics Lunch on recent developments in the Yemeni Civil War. Professor Samuel Liebhaber of the Arabic Department will give a lecture, touching on the recent prisoner swaps and the possibility of a cessation of hostilities. Following the lecture there will be a Q&A portion. Lunch will be provided from a local restaurant to those who RSVP before the deadline. To RSVP, fill out the google form at go/rsab22/ before 10am on May 5th. 

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy presents Professor of Government at Georgetown University Qatar, Mehran Kamrawa.

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.”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents “Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: Gender, Power and Resistance under the Kemalist Regime” by Sevgi Adak, aAssistant professor of Gender and Middle East Studies and Head of Research at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents Jack Gill ‘77 and “The Role of Intelligence in US Foreign Policy.”

Colonel Jack Gill ‘77 will talk about the role that intelligence plays in US foreign policy. How does the intelligence community operate? How does it relate to the policy community? What are the problems in this relationship? How is intelligence evolving today?

In 1973, the UK joined the European Union. In 2016, UK citizens were asked if they wished to Remain in the EU or Leave. On a 72% turnout, Leave won by 1.3 million votes, 51.9% to 48.1% and Brexit prevailed. When the UK left the EU on January 31, 2020—and the Single Market and Customs Union on December 31, 2020—decades of pro-EU British Foreign Policy orthodoxy ended too. Three years on as COVID recedes, Toby Fenwick ’95 will assess Brexit’s impact on the UK’s economic and political fortunes.