International & Global Studies

Over three decades, Robert Nickelsberg shot photos of insurgents and counter-insurgents in El Salvador, Iraq and Afghanistan for Time magazine.  For this event, he will present B&W images of the Salvadoran civil war and go into what they tell us about the choices facing Salvadorans.  U.S. support for a rightwing dictatorship not only motivated many to flee to the U.S., Nickelsberg will argue, but also laid the groundwork for present-day chaos at the southern border.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Autocracy and Democracy presents Michael Kugelman and “India’s Democratic Backslide: Manifestations, Drivers, and Implications.”

This will be a conversation and a curated Q&A with the leading historian of modern Palestine in the world. Topics of the discussion will range from the history of US foreign policy to Israel/Palestine to the current war in Gaza and Lebanon to what the implications of the new Trump administration may be for the conflict.

In this panel, Middlebury faculty explore how religious traditions, political movements, activist networks, and social justice campaigns across the Global South have advanced various forms of Palestine advocacy in modern and recent history. Panelists will explore how resistance and solidarity have been theorized and expressed through diverse ideological and regional frameworks.

Amira Hass, Jerusalem born and daughter of two Jewish holocaust survivors,  joined Haaretz daily in 1989 and has been the paper’s correspondent in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1993.    She lived in Gaza between 1993-1997 and since then in El-Bireh, the West Bank.   Her book “Drinking the Sea at Gaza” was published by Henry Holt in 2000.  Two other books, in various languages, are compilations of her articles in Haaretz and the Italian weekly Internazionale.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics presents Peter Andre and “A Behavioral Economics Perspective on Climate Action: Turning Concern into Change.”

The Promise and Peril of Big Dams in Africa and the Middle East, 1955-1970

HYBRID EVENT: Robert A. Jones ‘59 Conference Room and Zoom
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents “Japan, 1972: Consumer Nation” by Yoshikuni Igarashi.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Global Health Governance: Emergent Practices, Policy, and Research in Canada and the World” by Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Power, Wealth, and Global Political Economy presents “From Growth to Glut: The Four Ds Shaping China’s Economy and Global Geopolitics” by Zongyuan Zoe Liu.

This talk will present a framework - 4 Ds (debt, demand, demographics, and de-risking/de-coupling) - for understanding China’s economic challenges and their implications for the rest of the world. It will also explain the structural forces that have led to China’s recurring overcapacity challenge and how Chinese firms are coping with these challenges.