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”

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Student-Run Conference

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Student-Run Conference

Conference Summary

Available via livestream

Session 6: Revolutionary Fatigue

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
Available via livestream

Session 4: Acting Out the Struggle

Session 3: Icons, Identity, and Liberation

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.