Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

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.

Lunch served starting at 12:15p - please RSVP to gogreen@middlebury.edu
 

In between study sessions, take a break with the Rohatyn Student Advisory Board. We’ll have winter treats and hot cider to warm you up. Get a chance to learn about the many opportunities the Rohatyn Center has to offer, including the upcoming Global Reader submissions. Stop by and meet the friendly faces of RSAB to learn more!

More than an abstract concept or controversial topic, privilege is a set of practices and ideologies that pervade our lived experiences. We hope to unpack what privilege is, how it manifests, and its impact through a conversation with Professor James Davis (Middlebury College, Religion Department) and Professor Errol Henderson (Penn State University, Political Science). Both scholars have approached the topic of privilege from a number of vantage points but this discussion will focus on privilege in the academy, at Middlebury and beyond.

Josh Rudolph (Fellow for Malign Finance, Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States) will be discussing “Subverting Elections: A Toolkit of Foreign Interference” as part of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs (RCGA) Program on Security and Global Affairs.

Michael Scott Moore is a journalist and a novelist, author of a comic novel about L.A., Too Much of Nothing, as well as a travel book about surfing, Sweetness and Blood, which was named a best book of 2010 by The Economist. He’s won Fulbright, Logan, and Pulitzer Center grants for his nonfiction, and a MacDowell Colony fellowship for his fiction. He worked for several years as an editor and writer at Spiegel Online in Berlin. He was kidnapped in early 2012 on a reporting trip to Somalia and held hostage by pirates for 32 months.

A film screening to contextualize the culture of sexual assault in conjunction with the 2019 Student-Organized Global Affairs Conference entitled: Beyond #MeToo: Global Responses to Sexual Violence in an Age of Reckoning