Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Journaling the Pandemic: What 25,000+ Journal Entries Can Tell Us about the COVID-19 Pandemic – and Ourselves
How can a trove of first-person reflections on the changing texture of pandemic life – created with the ordinary tools of 21st century digital life – enrich, and challenge, our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact close to home and around the globe?

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents “The Pandemic Journaling Project.”

“Football in Latin America: Cultural and Political Contexts” is a Rohatyn Student Advisory Board Hot Topics Lunch with a lecture by Professor Mario Higa of the Luso-Hispanic department. It will build off of the recent World Cup and Argentina’s win to discuss the significance of football in Latin America. This event will be held on Thursday, January 12th at 12:15 pm in the Robert A. Jones House Conference Room. The student-only event will consist of a brief lecture followed by a guided discussion and Q&A on the talk and the topic at hand.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affair International and Global Colloquium Series presents “Drawing on Dharma to Define Religion in the Humanities and Social Sciences” by Jen Ortegren, assistant professor of Religon, Middlebury College.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affair International and Global Colloquium Series presents “Vision and Varietas in Ottonian Manuscript Illumination” by Eliza Garrison, professor of History of Art & Architecture, Middlebury College.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affair International and Global Colloquium Series presents “Trauma and PTSD: Individual and Global Perspectives” by Matthew Kimble, professor of psychology, Middlebury College.

In-person event in the Robert A. Jones ’59 conference room.

Lunch provided beginning at 12:15 pm (lunch by RSVP to rcga@middlebury.edu by 2.20.23). Presentation begins at 12:30 pm.

Matthew Rojansky will discuss the current state of the war in Ukraine and take questions from the audience.

Matthew Rojansky, the President and CEO of the U.S. Russia Foundation and a Distinguished Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, is as much a regular at Congressional briefings and on prime-time news shows as he is on the streets of Moscow, Kyiv, or Berlin. One of the country’s leading analysts of US relations with Russia, Ukraine, and the region, he has advised governments and international organizations and leads track two diplomacy on Eurasian conflicts.

“Writing Crime: Transmigrated, Border Subjects and International Violence,” a talk by Professor Ileana Rodriguez, Distinguished Humanities Professor of Spanish at Ohio State University. “In this talk, I examine the case of Doris Ivania Jimenez, a woman who was raped and murdered on November 21, 2006, in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. Implicated in the crime are Eric Stanley Volz, Julio Martin Chamorro Lopez, Armando Agustin Llanes Navarro and Nelson Antonio Lopez Danglas. Volz and Chamorro were indicted; Llanes and Danglas were exonerated.

“World Cup Soccer and the Global South: From South Africa 2010 to Brazil 2014” a presentation by Peter Alegi, professor of history at Michigan State University. He is the author of African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game (2010) and co-editor with Chris Bolsmann of Africa’ World Cup: Critical Reflection on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space (University of Michigan Press, 2013).

Filmmaker Marilyn Solaya will travel all the way from Havana, Cuba to present her documentary In the Wrong Body (2010, 55 mins, Spanish with English subtitles). The film tells the story of Mavi Susel, who underwent the first gender reassignment operation in Cuba in 1988. In the Wrong Body explores such timely issues as the meaning of femininity in the macho and patriarchal society in Cuba where many stereotypes and prejudices still exist. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow screening.

A lecture by Aviv Chomsky, Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Salem State College. She is the author of A History of the Cuban Revolution (2010) and Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (2008). Sponsored by Latin American Studies Program.