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A Century of General Relativity: A Global Perspective

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
After an effort that started in 1907, Albert Einstein presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, on November 25, 1915, the final formulation of his new theory of gravitation. He called it the General Theory of Relativity, or General Relativity (GR), for short. Gravitation is the most intriguing among the fundamental interactions in the Universe.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Power and Protest: Global Responses to Atomic Energy

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Opportunities at Monterey with Jessica Varnum 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Session 2: Protest 12:15 – 1:45 p.m. Music and the Japanese Antinuclear Movement Noriko Manabe, Temple University 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Vermont Yankee and an Insider’s View of the Nuclear Industry Arnie Gundersen, Fairwinds Energy Education

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Power and Protest: Global Responses to Atomic Energy

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Power and Protest: Global Responses to Atomic Energy Session 1: A Nuclear Future? 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Exporting Nuclear Power to the Middle East Jessica Varnum, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Nuclear Power: A Future after COP 21? Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College 8:30 – 10:00 p.m. Film Screening: Nuclear Nation

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17th & 18th Century Yemen: The Age of Religious Liberalism

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Presented by Mohammed Sharafuddin, Sana’a University & the Center of Middle East Studies, Harvard University. Dr. Sharafuddin is a recognized scholar whose lecture will focus on the profoundly influential Yemeni jurist and mujtahid, Mohammed al-Shawkani (d. 1839), whose call for Islamic doctrinal unity has been used to characterize him as an early advocate of a unified Yemen state - a legacy of deep relevance to the current state of affairs in Yemen - and has been the basis for a number of global Islamic schools of thought.

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“Thesis in Dialogue” series featuring Forest Jarvis ’15, winner of the IPE Thesis Prize

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
“Thesis in Dialogue” featuring Forest Jarvis ’15, winner of the IPE Thesis Prize for his thesis “Information and Exclusion as Barriers to Development in the Peruvian Andes,” and Sarah Pearlman, associate professor of economics at Vassar College, presenting on “Missing Men and Female Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Large-Scale Mexican Migration.” Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 2/16 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

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“Rabbinic Drinking: What Beer and Wine Teach About Rabbinic Literature”

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Lecture “Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach About Rabbinic Literature” by Jordan D. Rosenblum, University of Wisconsin - Madison, whose book “Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism” (Cambridge University Press, 2010), explores the intersection between early rabbinic food regulations and identity construction, and was the subject of an NPR interview with Jean Feraca.

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“Cursed Paradise: The Russian Annexation of Crimea” by Dimiter Kenarov ’03

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Russian, and European Studies
Dimiter Kenarov ‘03, is a freelance journalist and poet. He has covered the Balkans and the Black Sea region for a number of print and online publications, including Esquire, Foreign Policy, The International New York Times, The Nation, Outside, The Atlantic, and VQR. He is teaching the Winter Term course “Garden of the Empire”: History and Myth in Crimea.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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