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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs RCGA

Fictions of Human Rights: Power, intervention, and universality in Arab novels

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Thesis in Dialogue featuring Oakley Haight ’17, who will present and discuss his IGS Prize-winning thesis “Fictions of Human Rights: Power, intervention, and universality in Arab novels” with Fernando Rocha, Associate Professor of Portuguese, Middlebury College; and Alexandra S. Moore, Professor, Department of English, General Literature, & Rhetoric, Binghamton University.

Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 4/23 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

free for current Middlebury College students/fac/staff; suggested $5 donation
Open to the Public

Lecture byJeff Buettner, Associate Professor of Music, Middlebury College

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Gypsy Choirs: Music of the Romani Community in Ukraine and Russia” by Jeff Buettner, associate professor of music, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 10/5 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

"Nelson Mandela": State Song Patronage and Censorship in Tanzania

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Music
Frank Gunderson, associate professor of ethnomusicology at Florida State University, discusses how Radio Tanzania invested in song composition and censorship from 1973–1993. Two different songs entitled “Nelson Mandela,” now considered examples of zilipendwa (golden oldies), express a revolutionary sentiment that addresses workers and party leaders alike. 

A Music Department event. Free

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Historical Legacies and Ethnic Conflict: Evidence from 12 Centuries of Hindu-Muslim Violence in India

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Ajay Verghese is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. His research is focused on Indian politics, ethnicity, political violence, and historical legacies. His book, The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. From 2017-18 he will be a Fulbright scholar in India to study the effects of socioeconomic development on Hindu and Muslim religiosity.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Climate Hegemony as Bad Governance: Negligence, Intentions and Mounting Environment Threats

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Lecture “Climate Hegemony as Bad Governance: Negligence, Intentions and Mounting Environment Threats” by Mark Boyer, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut; Executive Director, International Studies Association; Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE).

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

Open to the Public

Black is Beautiful in Arabic: Radwa Ashour and Al-Aswad al-Jamil

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Arabic
This lecture introduces the feminist activist intellectual and novelist Radwa Ashour in the context of Egyptian Black-Arab solidarity in the 1970s, and the literary production that expresses it. It also develops an analytical framework to think through issues of race by using the insights of translation studies to explore one of Ashour’s works, her novel Al-Rihla and its translation into English as The Journey.
Closed to the Public