Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

The media plays a powerful role in shaping and reflecting societal attitudes and opinions toward minority groups. Coverage of minorities in recent high-profile events has invigorated public scrutiny of how minority groups are framed in the news. Scholars, journalists, and students will examine the topic at the student-run conference, “Media & Minorities in the West: Revealing Trends & Biases” on Thursday and Friday, January 19–20.

The media plays a powerful role in shaping and reflecting societal attitudes and opinions toward minority groups. Coverage of minorities in recent high-profile events has invigorated public scrutiny of how minority groups are framed in the news. Scholars, journalists, and students will examine the topic at the student-run conference, “Media & Minorities in the West: Revealing Trends & Biases” on Thursday and Friday, January 19–20.

Dr. Edward Laurance is Professor and Gordon Paul Smith Chair in International Policy and Development at MIIS. He currently serves as expert for a UN-led effort to develop global standards for controlling the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons. The lecture will bring his policy expertise to our students and discuss a new international treaty on small arms that resulted from the extensive efforts of a global NGO campaign.

Presented by Marisol Rodríguez Rosabel, former director of the Office of Artistic Creation and Director of the Muestra Joven (Young Directors Film Festival) and the development program for emerging filmmakers at ICAIC. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center, and the departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Film and Media Culture, and Latin American Studies. Spanish with English subtitles Q and A after screening

The Rohatyn Student Advisory Board presents an Atwater Dinner with internationally themed trivia.

The Rohatyn Student Advisory Board presents an internationally-themed Atwater Dinner.

Jake Faber ’16.5, environmental studies major, will present his thesis “The (Green?) Machine(s?) in the Garden: Sustainable development and social equity in Eeyou Istchee-James Bay, Québec”; and Grace Monk ’18, Brown University, comparative literature and classics major, will present her research “Memorias del Territorio,” conducted while a student at the Middlebury C.V. Starr School in Chile. Both students received research grants from the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.