The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Dr. Sunil Purushotham and “India in the 1940s: War, Partition, and Decolonization.”
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
The second Trump administration is implementing trade policies that have major impacts on international relations, supply chains, and more. This interdisciplinary symposium brings together leading scholars to assess how these policies are reshaping geopolitics and the global economy.
Speakers
Inu Manak, Fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Robert Staiger, Loren M. Berry Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Join Toby for this informal talk about post-Middlebury career options and his own career. Toby is a UK civil servant with a background in international relations, development and trade. He was a RAF reserve intelligence officer, ran defense and foreign policy for the CentreForum think tank, and teaches at the Cambridge University’s Institute for Continuing Education. Bring your questions. All students welcome.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy presents “Defending Democracy in Authoritarian Systems” with Nicholas Opiyo.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health presents “Health, Security and Diplomacy in 2025” with Ambassador Jimmy Kolker.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Science, Technology, Environment and Global Affairs presents “Bridging Science and Community for Climate Solutions” with Kyla Westphal.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Come hear how village residents, local officials, and urban investors draw on customary norms, family networks, and bureaucratic documents in order to conduct land sales and to produce vast areas of commercial forestry in Tanzania.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 338
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, Ukrainians remain more determined than ever to resist the Russian invasion. The defense of their country is happening beyond the front lines: ordinary people are going to extraordinary lengths to support the military, enrich democracy in their country, learn and practice emergency medicine, and preserve national culture. There is a sophisticated civic resistance that is largely female, tech savvy, decentralized, nonhierarchical, multilingual, and highly innovative. This is the new Ukraine.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
In this talk, Greenhalgh (Professor of Chinese Society Emerita at Harvard University) tells the story of how, during 1995-2015, industry leader Coca-Cola mobilized allies in academia to create a soda-defense science that would protect profits by advocating exercise, not dietary restraint, as the priority solution to obesity, a view few experts accept.
Munroe 311
This lecture by Jason Springs (Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame) introduces a novel understanding of what restorative justice is and how it should be implemented. It explores the ways in which restorative justice ethics and practices exhibit moral and spiritual dynamics, and what difference such “lived religious” dynamics can make in transforming structural violence.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
