Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents “Giving Voice to the Voiceless? Contemporary Social Movements, Civil Society and Governments in Africa” by Edward McMahon visiting associate professor of political science, Middlebury College, and adjunct associate professor, Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, University of Vermont.

The RCGA program on Global Economics presents “The Economic Implications of Connections between Corporations and Politicians” by Cihan Artunc, assistant professor of economics, Middlebury College.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Anti-racism presents Sharon Austin and “The Caribbeanization of Black Politics.”

Sharon D. Wright Austin explores the impact of ethnic

Liz Kinnamon, PhD Candidate, University of Arizona, will give a guest lecture, titled, “Undoing the Property Form: Feminist Consciousness Raising as a Practice of Freedom”.

This talk examines 1960s and 70s feminist Consciousness Raising as an example of creating positive freedom. Kinnamon paints a picture of what radical feminist Consciousness Raising was; how it developed out of Third World liberation movements, such as in Vietnam and China, and Civil Rights; how it spread across the US and transnationally; and what kinds of effects these group practices had.

Mónica García Blizzard (Assistant Professor of Spanish at Emory University) will give a talk based on her recently published book The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age (Albany: SUNY Press, 2022).

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents a group of experts, students and faculty in a roundtable discussion regarding “The War in Ukraine.” Participants include Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas), Jeff Buettner (Middlebury), Sarah Bidgood (MIIS), Kevin Moss (Middlebury), Tatiana Smorodinska (Middlebury), Michael Kraus (Middlebury) Marila Dzholos (Class of ‘24) with Rebecca Mitchell (Middlebury) moderating.

Join the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs’ Student Advisory Board for an event highlighting the importance of diversity in global affairs work and several professionals in the field from diverse backgrounds and/or working to promote diversity. The event will be a hyflex panel with an in-person audience and Q&A. A brief reception will occur after the event.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics presents Frances Moore and her discussion “Understanding and Managing Climate Risk” via Zoom webinar.

This epic film by renowned artist Ai Weiwei is a detailed and heartbreaking exploration of the global refugee crisis. Captured over the course of a year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent stories that stretches through Afghanistan, Greece, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey, and beyond. From teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders, ‘Human Flow’ witnesses its subjects’ desperate search for safety, shelter, and justice. (2017, dir. Ai Weiwei, 140 min.) Free and open to the public.*

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Anti-Racism presents Yin Paradies speaking about “Indigenous perspectives on decolonial futures” via Zoom.

This presentation will explore key scholarship on Western culture, colonisation, modern societies as well as Indigenous worldviews, perspectives and philosophies. Decolonial approaches and actions that flow from this scholarship will also be considered, along with potential emergent de-colonial futures.