Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Dr. Ma is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky. Her primary research area lies in environmental economics with a focus on non-market valuation. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 2014. This event is sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Economics.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health Challenges presents International Communication during COVID-19 by Professor Jean Claude Kwitonda.

Professor Jean Claude Kwitonda will share his perspective on international communications during the COVID-19 pandemic and how discourse about aid and development has shifted as countries are competing for resources to fight the pandemic. He will also discuss the role of positive deviance during the pandemic.

Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global and International History. Professor Villarosa will talk about her work as a journalist covering public health and inequality. She will take us behind the scenes of her award-winning 2017 New York Times cover story “America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic.” Villarosa will discuss how what she uncovered while writing about HIV/AIDS resurfaced when reporting on COVID-19 and African Americans several years later. She is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a former executive editor at Essence magazine.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, International and Global Colloquium Lecture presents “Value of agricultural information: Soil fertility testing in Malawi” by Julia Berazneva, assistant professor of economics, Middlebury College.

Ian Urbina has been an investigative reporter at the New York Times for over two decades. Several of his stories have been adapted into major feature films, including The Outlaw Ocean. Ian has won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting, and his work has been nominated for an Emmy Award. Before joining the Times, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Cuba and he also wrote about the Middle East and Africa for various outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s and Vanity Fair.

Evidence that Whiteness is always weaponized is everywhere: the August 2017 Charlottesville, VA, march; dog walker Amy Cooper threatening to call the police on birdwatcher Christian Cooper in New York City’s Central Park (May 2020); US Capitol Police officers taking selfies with armed rioters and Richard Barnett sitting at the desk of the Speaker of the House of Representatives (January 2021) are just a few recent examples.

The International and Global Studies Colloquium presents Middlebury Professor Sarah Stroup’s talk, “Field of Dreams: Disconnections in democracy and human rights promotion.”

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Economics presents “Economic Impacts of COVID-19” with presentations by Middlebury College students.

Ellie Barney ’21 “Disproportionate Effects of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment”
Sam Kamau ’21 “Employment Resilience in the Age of COVID-19: Will we make it through?”
Eva Shaw ’20.5 “COVID and US Manufacturing: Implications for the US election”
John Mikus ’21 “The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Commercial Real Estate”
Sean Rhee ’21 “Coronavirus Blame Game and Its Policy Implications”

The Middlebury College Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020 to present TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Health Challenges presents “Reflecting on COVID-19 through an Environmental Lens” by Kate Crawford, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College.