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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs RCGA

Thesis in Dialogue featuring Tim Fraser '16 and Richard Samuels, Ford International Prof of Political Science, MIT

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
“Thesis in Dialogue” featuring Tim Fraser ’16, winner of the IGS Award for his thesis “Restarting the Sendai Reactor: Ecology of Japanese Civic Activism Post-Fukushima” and current Fulbright Scholar in Japan; and Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for International Studies at MIT, who will present his research on “Disaster and Change in Japan.” Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 2/21 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Free
Open to the Public

The Taming of Democracy Assistance

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Few government programs that aid democracy abroad today seek to foster regime change. Technical programs that do not confront dictators are more common than the aid to dissidents and political parties that once dominated the field. What explains this ‘taming’ of democracy assistance? To understand this question, Sarah Bush has analyzed large datasets of democracy assistance projects and conducted field research in Tunisia and Jordan. She offers a new way of thinking about foreign influence and NGOs in world politics and in the Middle East.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

The Myth of French Republican Universalism

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, French and Francophone Studies, Political Science, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, and European Studies
Officially, France does not recognize ethnic, religious, or linguistic minorities. Yet, France is the European country with the most varied origins among its population. How can we explain the disjuncture between a political discourse that claims to be difference-blind and the reality of day-to-day life of French citizens? What is the future for minority citizens in France?

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Closed to the Public

The Middle East: How To Think About It; What To Do About It

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Political Science
Dr. Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2013, he served as the chair of the multi-party negotiations in Northern Ireland that provided the foundation for the 2014 Stormont House Agreement. For his efforts to promote peace and conflict resolution, he received the 2013 Tipperary International Peace Award. From January 2001 to June 2003, Dr. Haass was director of policy planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell. From 1989 to 1993, he was special assistant to President George H.W.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Closed to the Public

“Hello, World: Computers and the Dawn of a New Human Era” Future of the Past Series

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Future of the Past series panel: “Hello, World: Computers and the Dawn of a New Human Era” with Chris Andrews, assistant professor of computer science, Middlebury College: “From Clockwork to Twitter: How did we get here?”; and Brian Fung ’10, reporter, The Washington Post: “Democratization and Inequality in the Computer Age.”

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

The Chinese Safari: Cultural Identity and Wildlife Conservation in Kenya’s Tourism Industry

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Environmental Studies, and East Asian Studies
“The Chinese Safari: Cultural Identity and Wildlife Conservation in Kenya’s Tourism Industry,” a talk by Amanda Kaminsky (class of ‘13). Ms. Kaminsky will talk about the social and environmental consequences of Chinese tourism in Kenya, which she has been studying as a graduate student at the Univesity of Michigan. In her Master’s thesis Ms.

Adirondack Coltrane Lounge

Open to the Public

Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, Political Science, Religion, Russian, Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, European Studies, and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
This talk follows the trajectories of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders after the signing of the 1918 Mudros Armistice (and during the Allied occupation years of Istanbul) and after the 1923 establishment of the new country as the Turkish Republic. How did the Kemalist state treat the remaining Armenians? What were Armenians’ responses to the new (but also old) Turkish regime?

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public