Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

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

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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.

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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.

Paul van Hooft’s talk will examine the current relationship between the United States and the European Union, analyzing how the Trump administration weakened that relationship, how each of the two powers think about a rising China, and how the two think about each other.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Badges Without Borders: 120 Years of the Cross-Fertilization of U.S. Empire and Urban Policing by Stuart Schrader.

This panel will describe the ways in which COVID-19 has disrupted routine health services (for non-COVID conditions) around the world, particularly in resource-poor areas. The presenters will also share insights into vaccine refusal based on lessons from the polio eradication campaign. Svea Closser is a medical anthropologist who uses ethnographic methods to explore the complexities of public health policymaking and implementation. Most of her work focuses on infectious disease control, including vaccination.

Steven Klein is a lecturer of political theory in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. This lecture will be on his first book, The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (CUP 2020), which examines the democratic potential of struggles over welfare institutions. His research has focused on democratic theory, critical social theory, theories of political economy and the welfare state, the theory and politics of European integration, and the history of European social and political thought (especially of 19th- and 20th-century Germany).

Dr. Ma is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky. Her primary research area lies in environmental economics with a focus on non-market valuation. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 2014. This event is sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Economics.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health Challenges presents International Communication during COVID-19 by Professor Jean Claude Kwitonda.

Professor Jean Claude Kwitonda will share his perspective on international communications during the COVID-19 pandemic and how discourse about aid and development has shifted as countries are competing for resources to fight the pandemic. He will also discuss the role of positive deviance during the pandemic.

Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global and International History. Professor Villarosa will talk about her work as a journalist covering public health and inequality. She will take us behind the scenes of her award-winning 2017 New York Times cover story “America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic.” Villarosa will discuss how what she uncovered while writing about HIV/AIDS resurfaced when reporting on COVID-19 and African Americans several years later. She is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a former executive editor at Essence magazine.