Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

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.

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

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.

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.

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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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.

A hybrid presentation of electronic and spoken word poetry, and a discussion on the #MeToo movement from the Luso-Hispanic Perspective by the University of Vermont’s Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Tina Escaja. The second lecture in conjunction with the 2019 Student-Organized Conference: Beyond #MeToo: Global Responses to Sexual Violence in an Age of Reckoning.

Speaker Janet E. Johnson discusses her research to begin a series of lectures as part of the 2019 Student-Organized Global Affairs Conference, entitled Beyond #Me Too: Global Responses to Sexual Violence in an Age of Reckoning

A two-day symposium to kickoff the DLA project Atlantic World Forum: Reimagining the Online Scholarly Roundtable, Reshaping the Global Digital Humanities, Reframing Circum-Atlantic Cultural Histories.

Find all of the symposium schedule here: http://awf.middcreate.net/category/program-schedule/

A two-day symposium to kickoff the DLA project Atlantic World Forum: Reimagining the Online Scholarly Roundtable, Reshaping the Global Digital Humanities, Reframing Circum-Atlantic Cultural Histories.

Find all of the symposium schedule here: http://awf.middcreate.net/category/program-schedule/