Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

International and Global Studies Colloquium “Familial Capital and the Education of Refugee-background Youth: A local case study with global implications” by Shawna Shapiro, assistant professor of writing and linguistics, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 11/9 to rcga@middlebury.edu. Cosponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and the Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

International and Global Studies Colloquium: Presentations by four groups of students who received Center for Social Entrepreneurship’s MiddChallenge grants and Davis Projects for Peace summer grant in 2015. Join them as they share their experiences and reflection on their creative work around social issues and promotion of peace in communities around the world. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 10/12 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

International and Global Studies Colloquium “Schooling, Learning, and Earnings: Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Nicaragua after 10 Years” by John Maluccio, associate professor of economics, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 9/28 to rcga@middlebury.edu. Cosponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and the Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

International and Global Studies Colloquium “Let Freedom Ring? Ethnic Diversity and the Politics of Values in Today’s Europe” by Erik Bleich, professor of political science, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 11/16 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay” —Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” (1770) Inequality is on the rise in the contemporary global economy, both within prosperous economies and between developed and developing countries. Can democracy sustain itself while acquiescing in a growing gap between the world’s haves and have-nots? Does the American dream depend on a foundation of shared prosperity that is increasingly a historical artifact?

Roundtable Discussion: Peter LIndert, Paul Pierson, and David Rueda Chair: Will Pyle, Director, International Politics and Economics Event will also be “live streamed” to Crossroad’s Cafe. SPONSORS: International Politics and Economics Program, Jones Economics Enrichment Fund, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Academic Enrichment Fund, the Departments of History, Political Science, and Religion, the Programs in European Studies and in Privilege & Poverty, the Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, and Atwater, Brainerd, and Cook Commons

Panel Two: Who Wants What?

Panel Three: American Amnesia: The Forgotten Sources of our Shared Prosperity by Paul Pierson, John Gross Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Moderator: Allison Stanger, Political Science Student Chair:Brian Rowett Event will also be “live streamed” to Crossroad’s Cafe. SPONSORS: International Politics and Economics Program, Jones Economics Enrichment Fund, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Academic Enrichment Fund, the Departments of History, Political Science, and Religion, the Programs in European Studies and in Privilege & Pove

Panel One: Inequality from 1650-2050 by Peter Lindert, Distinguished Professor of Economicsm, University of California-Davis Moderator: Leticia Arroyo Abad, Economics Student Chair: Grecia De La O Abarca Event will also be “live streamed” to Crossroad’s Cafe. SPONSORS: International Politics and Economics Program, Jones Enrichment Fund, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Academic Enrichment Fund, the Departments of History, Political Science, and Religion, the Programs in European Studies and in Privilege & Poverty, the Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Li

International and Global Studies Colloquium “The Magnetic North and the Southern Gardens in the Poetry of Cesário Verde” by Mario Higa, assistant professor of Portuguese, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 1/12 to rcga@middlebury.edu. Despite the fact that Cesário Verde (1855-1886) wrote a small number of poems and never published a book during his short lifetime, he is presently one of the most influential poets of Portuguese language.