Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs RCGA

The Chinese Safari: Cultural Identity and Wildlife Conservation in Kenya’s Tourism Industry

12:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Environmental Studies, and East Asian Studies

“The Chinese Safari: Cultural Identity and Wildlife Conservation in Kenya’s Tourism Industry,” a talk by Amanda Kaminsky (class of ‘13). Ms. Kaminsky will talk about the social and environmental consequences of Chinese tourism in Kenya, which she has been studying as a graduate student at the Univesity of Michigan. In her Master’s thesis Ms.

Adirondack Coltrane Lounge

Open to the Public

Terror in Africa

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

“Terror in Africa” panel discussion

Open to the Public

Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, Political Science, Religion, Russian, Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, European Studies, and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies

This talk follows the trajectories of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders after the signing of the 1918 Mudros Armistice (and during the Allied occupation years of Istanbul) and after the 1923 establishment of the new country as the Turkish Republic. How did the Kemalist state treat the remaining Armenians? What were Armenians’ responses to the new (but also old) Turkish regime?

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

"Media & Minorities in the West: Revealing Trends & Biases" Conference

11:00 AM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

The media plays a powerful role in shaping and reflecting societal attitudes and opinions toward minority groups. Coverage of minorities in recent high-profile events has invigorated public scrutiny of how minority groups are framed in the news. Scholars, journalists, and students will examine the topic at the student-run conference, “Media & Minorities in the West: Revealing Trends & Biases” on Thursday and Friday, January 19–20.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

"Media & Minorities in the West: Revealing Trends & Biases" Conference

12:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Small Arms, Violence, and Global Development

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Dr. Edward Laurance is Professor and Gordon Paul Smith Chair in International Policy and Development at MIIS. He currently serves as expert for a UN-led effort to develop global standards for controlling the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons. The lecture will bring his policy expertise to our students and discuss a new international treaty on small arms that resulted from the extensive efforts of a global NGO campaign.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Sample of Short Films by Cuban Filmmakers

12:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Film & Media Culture, Spanish Department, Latin American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

Presented by Marisol Rodríguez Rosabel, former director of the Office of Artistic Creation and Director of the Muestra Joven (Young Directors Film Festival) and the development program for emerging filmmakers at ICAIC. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center, and the departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Film and Media Culture, and Latin American Studies. Spanish with English subtitles Q and A after screening

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

Free
Open to the Public