Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

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.

Macarena Gómez-Barris is author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives that theorizes social life, art, and decolonial praxis through five extractive scenes of ruinous capitalism upon Indigenous territories (Duke University Press, 2017). Her recent book Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (UC Press 2018) asks us to imagine politics beyond the nation state. She is working on a new book project called At the Sea’s Edge: Life and Extinction in the Era of the Colonial Anthropocene.

The first edition of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs’ monthly Hot Topics Lunch series! Professor Dan Suarez will be presenting on environmental justice and global responses to both natural and human-caused destruction, including humanitarian aid in the wake of natural disasters, and the impacts of unnatural events like the burning of the Amazon rainforest.

This is a student-only event. Lunch will be served. RSVP by 10/8.

Future of the Past panel “The League of Nations: 100 Years since its founding” with Susan Pedersen, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Columbia University, and Nicholas Sambanis ’90, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 1/20 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Paul Monod, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of History, Middlebury College, will give a talk via Zoom in the International and Global Colloquium series.