Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Hosted by the National Committee on US-China Relations, China Town Hall connects leading China experts with Americans around the country for a national conversation on the implications of China’s rise on U.S.-China relations and its impact on our towns, states, and nation.?Please join us on Wednesday, November 16, at 5:30 p.m. for a pre-webinar faculty-led talk on the history of Sino-US relations. Dinner to follow. The webinar will then be screened at 7:00 p.m. EST, and will feature former U.S. ambassador to Russia, China, and Singapore, Jon M. Huntsman Jr.

This inaugural event will feature two alums from Wellington Management Company LLP in a discussion about Applying Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Factors in the Capital Markets:

Sandhya Subramanian Douglas ’93, P’25, Partner, Senior Managing Director, Director of Strategic Analysis and Implementation Soyibou Sylla ’20, Investment Science Associate The conversation will be moderated by Amanda Frank ’23.5 and Samuel Sullivan ’23.

Professor Stafano Mula of the Italian department will give a talk on the results of the recent Italian election and the implications of the election of Giorgia Meloni on the state of democracy in both Italy and the EU as a whole. The talk, as with all “Hot Topics” lunches organized by the Rohatyn Center, will be for students only. Lunch will be provided from Noonie’s. Following the talk, Professor Mula will lead a Q&A.

Please RSVP by Oct. 25 to ensure that an adequate amount of food is provided.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics presents Martin Saavedra. As the COVID-19 pandemic is turning into an endemic after three years, it is more urgent than ever to think about its long-term consequences. A comparison with the 1918 influenza provides that perspective.

In this presentation Professor Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (KCL) will present the key argument from her book The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity (2020) about the political transformation that Russia has undergone over the past 10 years. Specifically, the focus will be on the socio-psychological analysis of the central pillars of Putin’s leadership including the propagation of ressentiment in the society by constructing the trauma of the 1990s and appealing to the main pillars of Soviet collective identity.

The RCGA program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy presents Staffan Lindberg and his lecture and discussion “Cause for Alarm? Global Data on Democracy and Autocracy.”

Information Session for the Rohatyn Global Fellows Program. Open to post first year students.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program for Global Health and Medicine, in collaboration with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Jan Knippers Black Fund, and Middlebury College Departments and Programs of Anthropology, Global Health, Black Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity warmly invite you to a public lecture by Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke.

The RCGA program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy presents James Morone ‘75 and presentation “Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal.”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Power, Wealth and Global Political Economy presents Dr. David Laborde of the International Food Policy Research Institute, who will examine the different drivers that have contributed to create a global food price crisis in 2022. In particular, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused turmoil in three highly interconnected markets – food, fuel, and fertilizer – leading to serious food security concerns globally. Dr. Laborde will discuss various policy responses considered by policy makers in 2022 and propose potential scenarios for 2023.