Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs RCGA

Restorative Justice and Lived Religion: Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago

This lecture by Jason Springs (Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame) introduces a novel understanding of what restorative justice is and how it should be implemented. It explores the ways in which restorative justice ethics and practices exhibit moral and spiritual dynamics, and what difference such “lived religious” dynamics can make in transforming structural violence.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Politics or Morality? Normative Responses to Refugee Crises

Professor Bender of Northumbria University in Newcastle will deliver a Zoom talk addressing key issues related to human rights and refugees— particularly the limited role of morality in the refugee regime and the political function of refugeehood in international politics.

URL to virtual event: https://middlebury.zoom.us/meeting/register/kKUCLeMrSxeaGxHCDey3LA

Virtual Middlebury

Marc Dunkelman looking at the camera smiling.

Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress - And How to Bring it Back

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents Marc Dunkelman and “Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress - And How to Bring it Back.”

America was once a country that did big things—we built the world’s greatest rail network, a vast electrical grid, interstates, abundant housing, Social Security, and more. But today, even we feel stuck. Why?

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public