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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

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What Happened on the Road to Mexican Democracy?

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium “What Happened on the Road to Mexican Democracy?” by Roderic Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 9/12 to rcga@middlebury.edu. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Gloria Estela González Zenteno lecture “Arribada”— short fiction”

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium “Arribada”— short fiction” by Gloria Estela González Zenteno, associate professor of Spanish. With the Mexican word arribada, the scientific community refers to the synchronized nesting of Olive Ridley sea turtles. During winter and spring, a handful of beaches in Costa Rica, India, Mexico, and Nicaragua welcome arribadas—the monthly arrival of thousands of sea turtles who lay their eggs under the full moon’s glow.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Julien Weber (French) lecture "Animal Voices and Tragedy in Wajdi Mouawad’s Novel Anima"

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium “Animal Voices and Tragedy in Wajdi Mouawad’s Novel Anima” by Julien Weber, assistant professor of French, Middlebury College. Prof. Weber will discuss the way in which the Lebanese-Canadian writer Wajdi Mouawad uses animal voices in order to bear witness to war violences in his recent novel Anima. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 4/18 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Febe Armanios lecture: "Jesus, Football, and the Apocalypse: A History of Christian Television in the Middle East"

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium “Jesus, Football, and the Apocalypse: A History of Christian Television in the Middle East” by Febe Armanios, associate professor of history, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 3/14 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Dancing the National Idea: The Reception and Appropriation of the Lezginka in Russia

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium “Dancing the National Idea: The Reception and Appropriation of the Lezginka in Russia” by Tatiana Smorodinska, professor of Russian, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 10/26 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Soccer of the Secluded: Race, Triumph, and Tragedy in the 1950s FIFA World Cup in Brazil

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Presented by Hannah Reeve ‘15 International and Global Studies Colloquium panel with Hannah Reeve ’15, winner of the International and Global Studies Award for her thesis “Soccer of the Secluded: Race, Triumph, and Tragedy in the 1950s FIFA World Cup in Brazil,” and Gregg Bocketti, associate professor of history, Transylvania University, “Immigrant Identity and Football Citizenship in 1930s Brazil.” Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 11/2 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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