Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Lee Schlenker and Marcel Lueiro Reyes, a Cuban popular educator, will talk about their work with Witness for Peace and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center in Havana, Cuba. Both are engaged in the struggle for a more inclusive and democratic socialism. Marcel is eager to discuss the perception of U.S. policies on the island as well as the influence of people from the U.S. on Cuban baseball, music and film.

Michael Katz, professor emeritus of Russian, will speak about his new translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment” (Liveright/Norton, 2017).

We often think of translation as a curative to conflict and miscommunication, but what happens if we understand translation as a site of conflict? In this conversation between Beirut-based writer and translator Lina Mounzer and University of Chicago Professor of Arabic literature and translator Ghenwa Hayek, the speakers will seek to interrogate the connection between translation, war zones, and migration.

Todd Miller is an independent journalist who has written about border issues and civil liberties. He writes for The Nation, Mother Jones, and many other periodicals. His latest book is Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security. He is also the author of Border Patrol Nation. In this latest book, which will be the focus of his lecture, he details the way governments across the world are preparing a more militarized response to climate refugees, rather than focusing on mitigation of climate change.

Thesis in Dialogue with Jennifer Sundstrom ’17 (IPE), who will present her IPE Prize-winning thesis “Immigration and the Swedish Welfare State: A Test of a Modified ‘Progressive Dilemma’” to panelists Anthony M. Messina, John R. Reitemeyer Professor, Department of Political Science, Trinity College; and Peter Nelson, Professor of Geography, Middlebury College. Her presentation will be followed with analysis by the panelists and dialogue with the audience.

Brian Hurley assistant professor of Japanese literature, film & culture at Syracuse University

2017 International Politics and Economics Symposium The United States and Global Trade: Winners, Losers and the Way Forward Welcome and Opening Remarks 1:00 Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College “Protectionism and Economic Populism: Lessons from US History” Student moderator: Eleanor Eagan (’18), International Politics and Economics major 2:15 Edward Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania “American Attitudes toward Trade” Student moderator: Andrew Plotch (’18.5), International Politics and Economics major 3:30 Peter Schott, Yale University “The Distributional Implications of Trad