Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Directed by Michael Lockshin, ‘The Master and Margarita’ is an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic satire of Stalinist-era Soviet dictatorship. Released in Russia in January 2024, the film has both drawn large audiences and been attacked by pro-Putin Russian nationalist propagandists, who have declared the film anti-regime and called for a criminal investigation into Lockshin. The film is not commercially available outside Russia, but Lockshin will offer a private screening for the Middlebury College community. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the director.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Global Fellows Program presents Dr. Yannek I. Leiderman and “A.I. in Medicine and Surgery- Unprecedented Benefit to Humanity or Extinction Event?”

In the “How Democracies Die” Seminar, we explore democratic backsliding and collapse in different contexts, the main driving forces behind them, and what we can do to stop them. In this all-student panel, students will share their findings from their semester-long research projects on how and why democracies die in different parts of the world.

Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy.

Join former ambassador P. Michael McKinley (Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, Brazil, and currently a nonresident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC) to discuss careers in international affairs and work in the government and foreign service world. All students welcome, all majors and class years. Bring your curiosity and questions.  

Guided conversations over dinner, with students who have been abroad leading discussions such as: - Stereotypes affirmed/broken - Culture shocks & surprises - Lost & Found - Image of the US abroad - Identity of Place - Living and studying among strangers - Current events

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Power, Wealth and Global Political Economy presents “Beyond Winners and Losers: What Can Behavioral Science Teach Us About the Puzzles of Economic Reform?” with Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Acting Director-General, Evaluation, World Bank Group

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy presents “Autocracy Rising: Transitions to Authoritarianism in Venezuela and Beyond” with Javier Corrales of Amherst college

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs, presents Ambassador P. Michael McKinley (ret) and “Foreign Policy Implications of the U.S. Presidential Election.”

Ambassador McKinley (ret) will provide an overview of the continuities and contrasts in foreign policy during the Trump and Biden administration, and the implications for the United States in the context of today’s challenging global environment.

Building from the approach to decolonization and abolition in the Haitian Revolution as well as from Frantz Fanon’s view of combative decolonization and decoloniality, the presentation makes the case for the abolition of the humanities as a crucial component of the project for decolonizing knowledge today.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics presents “Identification, Polarization, and Their Behavioral Consequences” with Luca Henkel, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago and University of CEMA.