Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Hot Topics Lunch & Discussion - Exclusively for Students

Hot Topics Lunch & Discussion - Exclusively for Students

Presentation of the second edition of the Global Reader, the annual student academic journal. Please join us to celebrate and discuss this unique initiative, sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.

Future of the Past series lecture “What Did Marx Have to Say about Cooking Dinner? Marxism and gender in the twenty-first century” by Tithi Bhattacharya, professor of history and director of global studies, Purdue University. Celebrating 150th anniversary of “Das Kapital.”

Thesis in Dialogue featuring Oakley Haight ’17, who will present and discuss his IGS Prize-winning thesis “Fictions of Human Rights: Power, intervention, and universality in Arab novels” with Fernando Rocha, Associate Professor of Portuguese, Middlebury College; and Alexandra S. Moore, Professor, Department of English, General Literature, & Rhetoric, Binghamton University.

Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 4/23 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Gypsy Choirs: Music of the Romani Community in Ukraine and Russia” by Jeff Buettner, associate professor of music, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 10/5 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Frank Gunderson, associate professor of ethnomusicology at Florida State University, discusses how Radio Tanzania invested in song composition and censorship from 1973–1993. Two different songs entitled “Nelson Mandela,” now considered examples of zilipendwa (golden oldies), express a revolutionary sentiment that addresses workers and party leaders alike. 

A Music Department event. Free

Ajay Verghese is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. His research is focused on Indian politics, ethnicity, political violence, and historical legacies. His book, The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. From 2017-18 he will be a Fulbright scholar in India to study the effects of socioeconomic development on Hindu and Muslim religiosity.