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Lecture by Peter Nelson, Professor of Geography

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Peter Nelson, Professor of Geography. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 4/10 to rcga@middlebury.edu. Over the last decade or so, the field of rural studies has become increasingly concerned with illuminating the myriad webs of connectivity continuously producing and reproducing rural space.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Lecture by Jacob Tropp, John Spencer Professor of African Studies

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation by Jacob Tropp, John Spencer Professor of African Studies. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 4/4 to rcga@middlebury.edu. Most accounts of how the United States became a major force in international development in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in the Global South, neglect an important dimension of the story: the impact of America’s enduring colonial relationship with its own indigenous peoples.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Lecture by Kemi Fuentes-George, Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation “Consensus, Uncertainty, and Catastrophe: Geoengineering and the Governance of the Oceans” by Kemi Fuentes-George, Assistant Professor of Political Science. States, transnational networks of scientists, corporate actors, and institutions in the climate change regime have known for decades that iron ore, when dumped in the ocean, can stimulate the growth of plankton. In the 1990s, a network of oceanographers argued that doing so could capture atmospheric carbon and fight global warming.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Lecture by Shalom Goldman, Pardon Tillinghast Professor of Religion

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Lecture “ ‘Singing Archaeology’: Creating AKHNATEN, an American opera set in Ancient Egypt” by Shalom Goldman, Pardon Tillinghast Professor of Religion. In 2016 AKHNATEN was performed to great acclaim in London and Los Angeles. The opera, first performed in the mid-1980s, was written by composer Glass in collaboration with Shalom Goldman and other writers. In this lecture I will describe the collaborative process that shaped the final work and will highlight the process in which I worked to interpret and translate Ancient Egyptian culture into modern American musical and theatrical idioms.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Mimetic Bodies: Repetition, Replication, and Simulation in the Marriage Charter of Empress Theophanu

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium “Mimetic Bodies: Repetition, Replication, and Simulation in the Marriage Charter of Empress Theophanu” by Eliza Garrison, associate professor of the history of art and architecture. As an object and as a collection of text and images, the Marriage Charter of Empress Theophanu (Wolfenbüttel, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, 6 Urk 11) relies on replication, repetition, and doubling to reinforce the meanings relayed in its text and to enhance its function as a legal document.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Images of the US in Putin's Russia: High policy and popular geopolitics

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Sputnik, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, and Russian
International and Global Studies Colloquium “Images of the US in Putin’s Russia: High policy and popular geopolitics” by Victoria Zuravleva, professor of history, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow.

Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 11/7 to rcga@middlebury.edu. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Departments of Russian and History, Russian and East European Studies Program.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Between Repression and Rehabilitation: Reforming Political Criminals in 1930s Japan

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium “Between Repression and Rehabilitation: Reforming Political Criminals in 1930s Japan” by Max Ward, assistant professor of Japanese history. Between 1925 and 1945, the Japanese imperial state utilized an anti-radical law called the Peace Preservation Law (Chianijih”ï) to arrest tens of thousands of people for purportedly threatening Japan’s “national polity,” or kokutai.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Truth of Fiction? Reading Medieval Religious Short Stories

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium “Truth of Fiction? Reading Medieval Religious Short Stories” by Stefano Mula, associate professor of Italian. Stephen Jay Gould suggested that we should have been called “homo narrator”, and not “homo sapiens”, to highlight our propensity for telling stories. In the twelfth century, a new religious order, the Cistercians, developed their own particular way of telling stories as a way to teach rules, spirituality, history, and foster a sense of community.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public