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100 Years of Influenza: The Ongoing Challenge for Science and Society" by Bob Cluss

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Future of the Past series lecture “100 Years of Influenza: The Ongoing Challenge for Science and Society” by Bob Cluss, professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
The Rohatyn Center’s Future of the Past series highlights a historical idea, invention, or event calling attention to how it has shaped our lives—thus ensuring that the past has a future, not only in the material world, but also in our intellectual lives. Refreshments provided.

Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Free Online Film Screening of Border South/Frontera Sur

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Education Studies, and Anthropology
Fragmented stories from individuals crossing through southern Mexico assemble a vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who have disappeared along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border. “Border South” reveals the immigrants’ resilience, ingenuity, and humor as it exposes a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death. (Guatemala, Mexico, USA, 83 minutes. Director: Raúl O. Paz Pastrana.)

Virtual Middlebury

Free
Open to the Public

Ethnic Minority Poetry in China: A Conversation with Aku Wuwu and Mark Bender

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Chinese
Aku Wuwu is a poet of the Yi ethnic group, one of the largest ethnic minority groups in southwest China. His poems, mixing traditional and contemporary imagery, often inspired by visions and dreams, are written in Northern Yi and Mandarin. He says he is a “cultural hybrid” who writes in “two mother tongues.” Professor Mark Bender of The Ohio State University specializes in traditional Chinese performance literature.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Screening & Discussion of UN Sex Abuse Scandal, a Frontline Documentary as part of the 2019 Student-Organized Conference

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Sarah Stroup, Associate Professor of Political Science, will lead a discussion following the documentary. This event is part of a series on the topic of sexual violence on the world stage, in conjunction with the 2019 Student-Organized Conference entitled Beyond #MeToo: Global Responses to Sexual Violence in an Age of Reckoning

Axinn Center 232

Open to the Public

Cinema of the Crisis: Feminist and Queer Filmmaking in Puerto Rico in 2018

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Film & Media Culture, Spanish Department, Latin American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
Screening of two short documentaries

“The Feminine Creature Within,” is an experimental short film directed by Lorraine Jones of FemTrap, a project that focuses on feminine empowerment through breaking norms and stigmas. FemTrap is a collective of female artists who came together after Hurricane Maria, and collaborate with other women and men: artists, dancers, photographers, DJ’s, trap singers, and skaters.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

Open to the Public

CANCELLED: "You’re Japanese?": Race and citizenship through the lens of the household register system in Japan

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Lecture by Linda White, associate professor of Japanese studies, 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 3/30 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Closed to the Public

Can Asia Be a Growth Pole in the Global Economy in the 21st Century

Sponsored by:
Middlebury College Activities Board, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, and Political Science
Changyong Rhee, Director of the Asia Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will talk about Asia’s response to near-term global headwinds such as escalating trade tension, monetary policy normalization of advanced economies and global financial market tightening as well as medium-term challenges arising from declining productivity growth and aging population.

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Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Beyond the Politics of Exposure: Notes on Violence and Democracy from India by Moyukh Chatterjee

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Lecture by Moyukh Chatterjee, visiting scholar, Department of Anthropology, 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 11/18 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public