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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs RCGA

Lecture on the Uyghur community in northwest China by Aynur Kadir, media anthropologist

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Aynur Kadir is an interdisciplinary scholar, ethnographic film maker and doctoral researcher at the Making Culture Lab, Simon Fraser University, Canada. She works with the Uyghur community in northwest China. As a media anthropologist, she is interested in using digital media for the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage. Her research involves designing an applied digital archiving prototype to examine how digital technology might be used to transform institutional cultures, methods, and relationships with audiences.
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Reforming Frontier Banks and Economies

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Lado Gurgenidze was the prime minister of Georgia in 2007-2008. He attended Middlebury as an exchange student in the early 1990s. Mr. Gurgenidze will be speaking to students about his country’s economic challenges.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Lecture by Ioana Uricaru, Barksdale Jr. Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture, Middlebury College

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Making Lemonade” by Ioana Uricaru, Barksdale Jr. Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture, Middlebury College.

Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 4/2 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Lecture "Race Matters in France" by Pap Ndiaye

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Pap Ndiaye is an acclaimed historian at the Institut d’études politiques (Sciences-Po, Paris), author of several works on Blacks in France and African Americans. He has been a visiting professor at NYU’s Institute of French Studies, is currently a professor at Middlebury’s French Summer school, and will be visiting at Northwestern University in the fall.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Refugees in the USA - Law and Politics

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Political Science
International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Refugees in the USA - Law and Politics” by Rebecca Hamiln, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 4/26 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. Department of Political Science. 

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Lecture by Guntram Herb, Professor of Geography, Middlebury College

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Crossing the Line: Indigenous Nations along the US-Canada Border” by Guntram Herb, professor of geography, Middlebury College.

Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 3/12 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Lecture by Cynthia Packert, Christian A. Johnson Professor, Middlebury College

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “A Self-Made God: Devotional Portraits of Lord Swaminarayan” by Cynthia Packert, Christian A. Johnson Professor, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Middlebury College.

Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 2/12 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Lecture by Karin Hanta, Director of Chellis House and Visiting Lecturer in Linguistics

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Back to the Mother Tongue: Exile Author Lore Segal in the Austrian Literary Field, 1993-2013” by Karin Hanta, director of Chellis House and visiting lecturer in linguistics, Middlebury College.

Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 11/27 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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