Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

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

Today, no society is immune from the effects of capitalism. In Haiti “Batay La,” or the struggle, has been ongoing since before the slave revolution that founded the Caribbean nation. Batay La examines the current anti-imperialist movement in Haiti, led for decades by grassroots workers’ rights organization Batay Ouvriye (Workers Fight). Founded in 1994, Batay Ouvriye is known throughout Haiti as a fierce, uncompromised organization dedicated to overturning the system of exploitation of poor workers.

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Pageantry and Power: Gold in the Realm of Women during China’s Six Dynasties and Tang Periods” by Sarah Laursen, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 4/29 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Samar Haddad King and Zoe Rabinowitz
“Reclaiming and Redefining Space in Conflict Zones” addresses issues relevant to students and professionals working in the fields of: dance, theater, music, education and art education, global policy, human rights, international conflict and relations, Middle East studies, non-profit administration and management, political science, and others.

Henry Burnett ‘18.5, Kelsie Hoppes ‘18.5, and Will Simpson ‘18.5 will present their senior theses for which they conducted overseas research funded by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Summer Research Grants.

Adam Druckman, Garda Ramadhito, Travis Sanderson, and Lulu Zhou (members of the class of 2019) will present their senior theses for which they conducted overseas research funded by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Research Grants.

They often provide vital information for national security, but the secrets they possess can also be used against their own masters. Matteo Faini’s new book, Spies and Their Masters: Intelligence-Policy Relations in Democratic Countries, delves into the secret histories of the CIA, the FBI, and British and Italian intelligence to study how policymakers can control intelligence agencies and when these agencies will try to remove their own government.