Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

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.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affair Program on Security and Global Affairs presents James Morrison and his talk on “The UK and the World from Brexit to Boris: Toward ‘Global Britain’ or Back to ‘Little England’?”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents Lisa Curtis and the “Impact of athe Fall of Afghanistan on the US in Asia” via Zoom.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs progarm on Global Health Challenges presents Meg McLaughin and “Digital Health: Supporting the Decentralization of Health Care to Increase Access to Quality Care Globally.”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global History presents Victor Seow and “Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia.”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global History presents Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk and “The War over History: Russia and Ukraine on the Brink of Defining Their Identities.”