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Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries are Reshaping Emerging Economies

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, International & Global Studies, Global Health Minor Program, and Food Studies
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries are Reshaping Emerging Economies” by Eduardo J. Gómez, professor in the Department of Community and Population Health and director of the Institute of Health Policy and Politics, Lehigh University.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public
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United for Ukraine 2024

Sponsored by:
Mahaney Arts Center, President of the College, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Music, Russian and East European Studies, and International & Global Studies
A Beneficiary Showcase of Ukrainian Resilience through Art

This third annual event celebrates the culture and resilience of the nation of Ukraine with music, poetry, film, and more.  Featuring the New York Crimean Tatar Ensemble, with a parade of performances by the Middlebury College Choir, the student band Chapel Hill, Middlebury College’s Ukrainian students, and other special guests. Admission is free, and information about donating to Ukrainian relief organizations will be provided.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Free; donation information will be provided
Open to the Public

Our Palestine Question

Sponsored by:
History, Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, African Studies, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, International & Global Studies, Jewish Studies, and Global Migration & Diaspora
Title: Book talk: Our Palestine Question

Geoffrey Levin (Emory University) will discuss his new book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 (Yale 2023), a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel, which focuses on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, Axinn Center for the Humanities, South Asian Studies, International & Global Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Aparna Kapadia, associate professor of history at Williams College and ” Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life.”

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

"20 Days in Mariupol" Film Screening

Sponsored by:
Russian, Russian and East European Studies, and International & Global Studies
Free screening of 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL (documentary, dir. Mstyslav Chernov, 2023), sponsored by Middlebury Russian Department and IGS-REES. An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public

Challenges to Sustainable Development: Chinese Investment in Gambia

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Political Science, African Studies, East Asian Studies, and International & Global Studies
Over the past two decades, China has increased its investment across the African continent, leading to economic development. As much of this economic development is located, where fragile ecosystems intersect with weak governance, the resultant environmental costs can be high. Mustapha Manneh, West Africa Regional Editor of the China Dialogue Trust, will speak about the social, financial, and environmental impact that Chinese fishing investments are having in The Gambia.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

The Oil Machine: Film Screening and Director Chat

Sponsored by:
Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, Biology, Environmental Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Writing and Rhetoric Program, Axinn Center for the Humanities, International & Global Studies, Global Health Minor Program, and Anthropology
Join us for a screening of the much-buzzed about film, “The Oil Machine,” followed by a Q&A with Director, Emma Davie. Facilitated by James Sanchez.

Oil has been an invisible machine at the core of our economy and society. It now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil?

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Canceled: Global Indigenous Politics and Environmental Governance

Sponsored by:
International & Global Studies and Global Environmental Change
Indigenous nations are, under international law, not considered full legal persons. However, Indigenous nations have been actively engaged in global politics in a variety of issue areas, including environmental and water governance. For example, over the past 2 years, First Nations from around the world, including the Maori, Hopi, and Tohono O’odham, have been participating in the international Meeting of Sacred Waters, through which various Nations advance new understandings of society’s relationship to water and land, and new approaches to sustainable governance.
Open to the Public

Contemporary Russia Through a Diplomat's Eye

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Russian, International & Global Studies, and Russian and Eastern European Society
Diplomat Thomas Leary served in Russia at two very different periods: 1999-2004 and 2015-2019. His first term there came during the growing decline in U.S.-Russian relations and the difficult aftermath of Russia’s 1998 financial crisis. By the time Mr. Leary returned to St. Petersburg as U.S. Consul General in 2015, the freeze between the two countries was deepening because of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Meanwhile at home Russia had become both much more prosperous and more authoritarian.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public