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"All the King's Horses, All the President's Men: The Transnational Politics of Yemeni Disintegration"

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
Dr. Philbrick-Yadav (Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges) has been writing about Yemen’s opposition politics for more than a decade. Dr. Philbrick-Yadav’s book, “Islamists and the State: Legitimacy and Institutions in Yemen and Lebanon” (2013), explores the dynamics of Islamist activism and alliance building. Dr. Philbrick-Yadav’s lecture will address the ongoing conflicts in Yemen and critique the international response to them.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Advocating for Animal Rights in China

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Environmental Studies, and East Asian Studies
“Advocating for Animal Rights in China,” by Zhang Dan. Ms. Zhang has served as China’s Ambassador for World Animal Day and is the vice chairman of the China Small Animal Protection Association and co-founder of the China Animal Protection Media Salon. She was awarded the first Andrew Award for Outstanding Media Contribution at the 7th Asia for Animals Conference in 2011. She is the editor of the 2012 “Dongwuji” (Animal Essays), which collects Chinese writing on non-human animals and has a preface by Hsing Yun, the founder of the Fo Guang Shan International Buddhist Order. Ms.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Open to the Public

A Queer Feminist in the Tech World: Leveraging Capital for Inclusive Sex Education in a White Man’s World

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Center for Careers & Internships, Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Andrea Barrica is a Filipina-American queer serial entrepreneur and activist. She co-founded inDinero, generating the company’s first $1M, a venture partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at 500 Startups. She is a powerful force in the tech start up world and is the founder of O.School, a shame-free platform for female and gender diverse pleasure education.

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A Fresh Start in Latin America? Drug War Policy Reform and Cuba-US Relations

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Int'l Politics & Economics, Portuguese, Political Science, and Latin American Studies
Panel “A Fresh Start in Latin America? Drug War Policy Reform and Cuba-US Relations” by Adam Schaffer ’12, program officer for drug policy at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), and Dan Egol ’13, chief of staff at Ross Cook, Inc.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

A Century of General Relativity: A Global Perspective

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
After an effort that started in 1907, Albert Einstein presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, on November 25, 1915, the final formulation of his new theory of gravitation. He called it the General Theory of Relativity, or General Relativity (GR), for short. Gravitation is the most intriguing among the fundamental interactions in the Universe.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Power and Protest: Global Responses to Atomic Energy

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Opportunities at Monterey with Jessica Varnum 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Session 2: Protest 12:15 – 1:45 p.m. Music and the Japanese Antinuclear Movement Noriko Manabe, Temple University 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Vermont Yankee and an Insider’s View of the Nuclear Industry Arnie Gundersen, Fairwinds Energy Education

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Power and Protest: Global Responses to Atomic Energy

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Power and Protest: Global Responses to Atomic Energy Session 1: A Nuclear Future? 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Exporting Nuclear Power to the Middle East Jessica Varnum, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Nuclear Power: A Future after COP 21? Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College 8:30 – 10:00 p.m. Film Screening: Nuclear Nation

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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17th & 18th Century Yemen: The Age of Religious Liberalism

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Presented by Mohammed Sharafuddin, Sana’a University & the Center of Middle East Studies, Harvard University. Dr. Sharafuddin is a recognized scholar whose lecture will focus on the profoundly influential Yemeni jurist and mujtahid, Mohammed al-Shawkani (d. 1839), whose call for Islamic doctrinal unity has been used to characterize him as an early advocate of a unified Yemen state - a legacy of deep relevance to the current state of affairs in Yemen - and has been the basis for a number of global Islamic schools of thought.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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“Thesis in Dialogue” series featuring Forest Jarvis ’15, winner of the IPE Thesis Prize

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
“Thesis in Dialogue” featuring Forest Jarvis ’15, winner of the IPE Thesis Prize for his thesis “Information and Exclusion as Barriers to Development in the Peruvian Andes,” and Sarah Pearlman, associate professor of economics at Vassar College, presenting on “Missing Men and Female Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Large-Scale Mexican Migration.” Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 2/16 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public