Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs RCGA

Making the International Mind: Social Engineering for U.S. Global Power, 1898-1950

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: International Programs & Off Campus Study and Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Lecture by Talya Zemach-Bersin, American Studies, Yale University.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Live Online Q&A with the Filmmakers of Border South/Frontera Sur, Raúl O. Paz Pastrana and Jason De León

5:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Museum of Art, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Education Studies, and Anthropology

Filmmaker Raúl O. Paz Pastrana and anthropologist/artist/activist Jason De León answer questions about their film documenting the stories of immigrants who have disappeared along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border.

Virtual Middlebury

Free
Open to the Public

Lecture on Post-genocide Rwanda by Carl Hobert, Middlebury College '83

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

25 Years After Rwanda’s Genocide: Incredible Accomplishments & Continuing Challenges.
Carl Hobert has worked in Rwanda since the height of the genocide there in 1994. Along with Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health (PIH), whose focus was on medical reform, Hobert has helped the Rwandan government’s Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs to improve nursery to grade-12 education, and to create a national, youth-focused conflict resolution program.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Coming Home to the Global by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, USC, Santa Barbara

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and International & Global Studies

“Coming Home to the Global” by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, USC, Santa Barbara.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

"From the Sight of Extraction: Thinking Globally with Indigeneity" by Macarena Gómez-Barris

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

“From the Sight of Extraction: Thinking Globally with Indigeneity” by Macarena Gómez-Barris, chair social science and cultural studies, Pratt Institute; director, Global South Center.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Lecture by Zohar Gazit, Israel Institute Teaching Fellow, Modern Hebrew

12:15 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Zohar Gazit, Israel Institute Teaching Fellow in Modern Hebrew, Middlebury College.
Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 2/25 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Lecture by Sebnem Gumuscu in RCGA International and Global Studies Colloquium

12:15 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

“Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia” by Sebnem Gumuscu, assistant professor of political science, Middlebury College; part of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs International and Global Studies Colloquium. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 11/4 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Lecture by Natalie Eppelsheimer in RCGA International and Global Studies Colloquium

12:15 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Lecture “Magnets from Auschwitz: Reflections on Holocaust Tourism” by Natalie Eppelsheimer, associate professor of German, Middlebury College; part of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs International and Global Studies Colloquium. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 3/9 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Open to the Public

RCGA International and Global Studies Colloquium: Lecture by Damascus Kafumbe

12:15 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

“Recording and Remixing ‘Teach Me to Love’: Musical, Cultural, and Temporal Paradoxes in My Music”
by Damascus Kafumbe, associate professor of music, Middlebury College; part of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs International and Global Studies Colloquium. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 2/10 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Lecture by Carrie Anderson in RCGA International and Global Studies Colloquium

12:15 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

“Between Optic and Haptic: Tactility and Trade in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” by Carrie Anderson, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, Middlebury College; part of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs International and Global Studies Colloquium. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 10/7 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public