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A Chinese Education: Teaching and Learning from Two Generations of Students in China

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “A Chinese Education: Teaching and Learning from Two Generations of Students in China” with Peter Hessler.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Globalization and its Discontents: Stories from the Factory Floors of China and Egypt

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents  “Globalization and its Discontents: Stories from the Factory Floors of China and Egypt” with Leslie Chang. 

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

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Rohatyn Global Scholars Information Session

Are you interested in learning more about the Rohatyn Global Scholars Program? Join us for one of our Information Sessions to find out more. 

Choose one of the following Info Sessions:
     Wednesday, September 16th from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
     Tuesday, September 22nd from 12:30 pm -  1:15 pm (with pizza)
     Tuesday, September 22nd from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Alternative Cultures: Visions of Futurity in Rural Asturias

Once best known for its cows and coal mines, the Spanish region of Asturias has become a cultural capital in recent years. Rural pueblos are at the epicenter of this renaissance, challenging urban-centric ideas of cultural production. Musicians, writers, and other artists look to the region’s agrarian and industrial past to imagine new futures. They incorporate folklore and ways of knowing inspired by older generations, constructing alternative notions of rurality grounded in queerness, inclusivity, and sustainability.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Traitors: Russia’s Interrupted Opposition Reckoning with the 1990s

2024, Maria Pevchikh and Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation released Traitors, a provocative documentary series asking how Russia’s democratic opening of the 1990s ended in Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. The film places much of the blame on the political and economic elites surrounding Boris Yeltsin, focusing on corruption, privatization and the rise of the oligarchs, the controversial 1996 presidential election, and ultimately the choice of Putin as Yeltsin’s successor.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Volunteer Empire: Participatory Propaganda in Putin’s Russia

How has geography become the central infrastructure of political authority in Putin’s Russia? Dr. Sofia Gavrilova (Fung Global Fellow, Princeton and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography), argues that that propaganda in Russia operates less through persuasion than through participation — by enrolling ordinary people in the everyday work of imperial reproduction. At the heart of the project is the concept of the “Volunteer Empire”: an empire reproduced through organized presence, care, and curated experience.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

The Politics of Securitization: Tariffs, Entity Lists, and Export Controls in the US-China Trade War

Jack Zhang, University of Kansas, is the founder and director of the Trade War Lab, a social science lab dedicated to dual mission of understanding

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room