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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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Rohatyn Grant Presentations by Matt Floyd, Rachel Iacono, Sebastian Zavoico

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Seniors will present their thesis projects, which were supported by overseas research grants from the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. The thesis presenters and titles are:
Matt Floyd: “The New Great Game in the Caucasus: Hydropower and Energy Security in the Republic of Georgia”
Rachel Iacono: Die Entwicklung der Willkommenskultur (Germany’s Changing Relationship with Refugees and Asylum-Seekers from the 1990s to the Present Day)
Sebastian Zavoico: “Small-scale Spring Migrations of Svalbard Reindeer”

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public