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RCGA Annual Conference: 1968, Fifty Years of Struggle

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Session 5: Mexico City! Scripts of Resistance

From Raising a Fist in 1968 to Taking a Knee in 2016: How US media discourses frame African-American athletes’ calls for racial justice: Shannon O’Sullivan, Green Mountain College Mexican Transition(s) and Youth Political Engagement after 1968 in Mexico City: Nicholas Crane, University of Wyoming
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RCGA Annual Conference: 1968, Fifty Years of Struggle

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Session 2: Race and Protest at Columbia and Beyond

Black Power at Columbia, 1968:  Stephen Donadio, Middlebury College “Two, three, many Columbias” or One Too Many San Francisco States?  Remembering the 1968 student protests:  Linus Owens, Middlebury College Available via livestream

The lecture is preceded by a dinner at 6:15. All are welcome to attend.

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From Afghanistan to Iraq and Syria The failures of US Middle East Policy

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Middle East Policy Lecture “From Afghanistan to Iraq and Syria: The failures of US Middle East Policy” by Ahmed Rashid, journalist; author of “The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism” and “Descent into Chaos.” The Middle East Policy Lecture Series aims to promote a more nuanced understanding of contemporary politics, economics, and security in the Middle East.

The series is generously funded by the Aronson Foundation.

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Lecture on the Uyghur community in northwest China by Aynur Kadir, media anthropologist

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Aynur Kadir is an interdisciplinary scholar, ethnographic film maker and doctoral researcher at the Making Culture Lab, Simon Fraser University, Canada. She works with the Uyghur community in northwest China. As a media anthropologist, she is interested in using digital media for the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage. Her research involves designing an applied digital archiving prototype to examine how digital technology might be used to transform institutional cultures, methods, and relationships with audiences.
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Reforming Frontier Banks and Economies

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Lado Gurgenidze was the prime minister of Georgia in 2007-2008. He attended Middlebury as an exchange student in the early 1990s. Mr. Gurgenidze will be speaking to students about his country’s economic challenges.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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