Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Philip Ackerman-Leist will give a presentation based on his recent book, A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage and Started a Movement, accompanied by film and photos. The presentation will be followed by a reception.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Anti-Racist Theory and Action around the Globe presents Ghyslain Vedeux, who will discuss the shared history of racism in the US and France and challenge the myth of difference between two countries. He will also unpack normalized, symbolic, and structural racism in France, and what CRAN has done to address different forms of racism from police violence to discrimination in employment, education, and healthcare.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs along with the International and Global East Asian Studies Program, present Aaron Guy Leroux, “Disperse, Or We Fire.”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Economics presents a talk with Claudia Sahm, founder of Stay-at-Home Macro (SAHM) Consulting and a Senior Fellow at
the Jain Family Institute.

In The Dissent Channel former diplomat Elizabeth Shackelford chronicles how the problems facing U.S. diplomacy—exacerbated under the last administration—aren’t new. One is impunity: the U.S. turned a blind eye to gross injustices and human rights abuses by South Sudan’s government, and—determined to see South Sudan a success—failed to prioritize accountability. This not only insulated Sudan’s government from consequence, but contributed to a deterioration that ended in war. U.S.

Clayton Thomas-Muller is a member of the Treaty #6 based Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, also known as Pukatawagan, located in in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Based in the prairie city of Winnipeg, Clayton is the “Stop It At The Source” Campaigner with 350.org as well as a founder and organizer with Defenders of the Land. Clayton is involved in many initiatives to support the building of an inclusive movement globally for energy and climate justice.

Participants: Jim Bittermann(Senior International Correspondent CNN) & Nicolas Roussellier (Sciences Po Paris & Middlebury College School in France)

Visit: http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/french for zoom link.

Nicolas Roussellier, Professor of Political History at Sciences Po Paris & Middlebury College School in France and Anne Simonin, Historian & Senior Researcher with the CNR

Please email jynewton@middlebury.edu or atondu@middlebury.edu for zoom link info.

Sponsored by Stephen A. Freeman Funds, the Department of French and Francophone Studies, the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, and the Middlebury School in France

International and Global Colloquium lecture by Edward Vazquez, associate professor of history of art and architecture, Middlebury College.

To join this webinar, use this Zoom Link (password = 141150) or visit the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs events.

Image: Alfredo Jaar, Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness: 1979-1981), 1981.

The open, rules-based international order that the US championed and defended for seven decades after World War II is under severe strain. China and Russia are promoting competing world order visions and challenging longstanding multilateral norms and rules. Meanwhile, the system is under siege from within, as Western societies feel the pull and sometimes succumb to populism, nationalism, and protectionism. Some fear that the Trump foreign policy sounded the liberal order’s death knell, yet such obituaries are premature.