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Translating Alterity in Syria and Lebanon

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Arabic
We often think of translation as a curative to conflict and miscommunication, but what happens if we understand translation as a site of conflict? In this conversation between Beirut-based writer and translator Lina Mounzer and University of Chicago Professor of Arabic literature and translator Ghenwa Hayek, the speakers will seek to interrogate the connection between translation, war zones, and migration.

Twilight Auditorium 101

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Todd Miller Lecture: Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Political Science, and Sociology/Anthropology
Todd Miller is an independent journalist who has written about border issues and civil liberties. He writes for The Nation, Mother Jones, and many other periodicals. His latest book is Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security. He is also the author of Border Patrol Nation. In this latest book, which will be the focus of his lecture, he details the way governments across the world are preparing a more militarized response to climate refugees, rather than focusing on mitigation of climate change.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Immigration and the Swedish Welfare State: A Test of a Modified "Progressive Dilemma"

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Thesis in Dialogue with Jennifer Sundstrom ’17 (IPE), who will present her IPE Prize-winning thesis “Immigration and the Swedish Welfare State: A Test of a Modified ‘Progressive Dilemma’” to panelists Anthony M. Messina, John R. Reitemeyer Professor, Department of Political Science, Trinity College; and Peter Nelson, Professor of Geography, Middlebury College. Her presentation will be followed with analysis by the panelists and dialogue with the audience.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Sixth Annual International Politics and Economics Symposium

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
2017 International Politics and Economics Symposium The United States and Global Trade: Winners, Losers and the Way Forward Welcome and Opening Remarks 1:00 Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College “Protectionism and Economic Populism: Lessons from US History” Student moderator: Eleanor Eagan (’18), International Politics and Economics major 2:15 Edward Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania “American Attitudes toward Trade” Student moderator: Andrew Plotch (’18.5), International Politics and Economics major 3:30 Peter Schott, Yale University “The Distributional Implications of Trad

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Russian women as mothers, consumers and citizens: childbirth in St. Petersburg

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Russian, Sociology/Anthropology, Russian and East European Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
European University professor Anna Temkina, one of Russia’s leading gender theorists and sociologists, will discuss her research on childbirth practices in contemporary Russia and their relationship to producing women as both citizens and consumers.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

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Hanna Laird, Sylvia Lynch, Ana Sanchez Chico - RCGA Grant Presentations

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Research Grant Presentations:
* Hanna Laird: “’What Happened Last Night in Sweden?’ A Comparative Assessment of Housing and Settlement Policies in Norway and Sweden and their Impact on Integration”
* Sylvia Lynch: “’La Vie en Blanche’: The Gendered Experience of Women with Albinism in Cameroon and Tanzania”
* Ana Sanchez Chico: “The Impacts of a Violence Prevention Intervention in Kibera, Kenya”

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Toni Cross, Tim McGovern, Naing Thant Phyo - RCGA Grant Presentations

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Research Grant Presentations:
* Toni Cross; “A Tale of Two Ethnic Groups: The Legacies of Colonialism, Communism, Imperialism, and Nationalism in the Construction of Moroccan Amazigh and Russian Volga Tatar Identities”
* Timothy McGovern: “Originality and Tradition: Finding Dante’s Poetic Hand in the Divine Comedy’s Presentation of the Soul”
* Naing Thant Phyo: “Understanding the Anglo-Burmese Relations during the Late 18th and 19th Century: The Structural and Political Causes of the Three Anglo-Burmese Wars”

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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