Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program in Power, Wealth and Global Political Economy presents Laura Seelkopf, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at the School of Economics and Political Science, University of St.Gallen.

“Creating a COVID RECOVERY: A European Approach”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global and International History presents Jeff Sahadeo, director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University.

“Ripped from the Headlines: How CNS Experts Use New Tools to Investigate Nuclear and Missile Programs Around the World” by Jessica Varnum. When reports of a mysterious explosion in Russia emerged on August 8, experts at Middlebury’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) were the first to state publicly that the explosion resulted from Russia’s failed test of a nuclear cruise missile.

Moriel Rothman-Zecher, ‘11, returns to Middlebury to read from his first novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, a coming-of-age novel of which the Jerusalem Post has said that it “conveys the complexities of Israeli and Palestinian life with passion, nuance and tenderness…” Rothman-Zecher “has shown a fearlessness and vulnerability on these pages that speak to his ability to explore difficult terrain without feeling the need to draw any neat or concise conclusions. It shuns certainty and is open, nuanced, inconclusive and often contradictory. Just like Israeli reality.”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs (RCGA) Program on Global Health Challenges will host a talk by Olga Jonas, Senior Fellow, Harvard Global Health Institute and Former Economic Adviser at the World Bank.

“The Global Corona Pandemic: Lessons for Governments and Citizens of the
World”
Widely held beliefs about contagions—like that they are inevitable and thus not worth worrying
about or that the health sector is managing the risks—lead to underestimation of pandemic risk,

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Anti-Racist Theory and Action around the Globe presents Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, speaking about “Black Spring, White Winter: Reflections on the Long History of the Black Radical Tradition in a Fascist World.”

Through her decades-long ethnography of Hindu temple rituals in the city of Bangalore, India, Tulasi Srinivas analyzes wonder as an anthropological concept; moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder- a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. In this talk, Srinivas asks— What is the purpose of wonder and how does it link with creativity? Can it inform our practices of ethnography, our understanding of India, and of ourselves?

Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins will be discussing “Will COVID-19 Kill the Liberal International Order” as part of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs (RCGA) Program Lecture Series on Security and Global Affairs.

In 1970 the filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin were commissioned by Fatah (with funding from the Arab League) to create a film about the Palestinian Revolution. The footage they shot eventually became the well known essay film Ici et Ailleurs. In 1971 Masao Adachi and Koji Wakamatsu visited the region to shoot footage for their film Japanese Red Army/PFLP Declaration of World War. These works have received considerable critical attention since they first appeared.

Future of the Past series lecture “HIV Is a Mirror: How a Virus Helps Us See Ourselves More Clearly” by Timothy P. Lahey, Director of Clinical Ethics, Infectious Disease Physician, and Professor, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont.