Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Evidence that Whiteness is always weaponized is everywhere: the August 2017 Charlottesville, VA, march; dog walker Amy Cooper threatening to call the police on birdwatcher Christian Cooper in New York City’s Central Park (May 2020); US Capitol Police officers taking selfies with armed rioters and Richard Barnett sitting at the desk of the Speaker of the House of Representatives (January 2021) are just a few recent examples.

The International and Global Studies Colloquium presents Middlebury Professor Sarah Stroup’s talk, “Field of Dreams: Disconnections in democracy and human rights promotion.”

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Economics presents “Economic Impacts of COVID-19” with presentations by Middlebury College students.

Ellie Barney ’21 “Disproportionate Effects of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment”
Sam Kamau ’21 “Employment Resilience in the Age of COVID-19: Will we make it through?”
Eva Shaw ’20.5 “COVID and US Manufacturing: Implications for the US election”
John Mikus ’21 “The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Commercial Real Estate”
Sean Rhee ’21 “Coronavirus Blame Game and Its Policy Implications”

The Middlebury College Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020 to present TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Health Challenges presents “Reflecting on COVID-19 through an Environmental Lens” by Kate Crawford, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program in Power, Wealth and Global Political Economy presents Laura Seelkopf, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at the School of Economics and Political Science, University of St.Gallen.

“Creating a COVID RECOVERY: A European Approach”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global and International History presents Jeff Sahadeo, director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University.

“Ripped from the Headlines: How CNS Experts Use New Tools to Investigate Nuclear and Missile Programs Around the World” by Jessica Varnum. When reports of a mysterious explosion in Russia emerged on August 8, experts at Middlebury’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) were the first to state publicly that the explosion resulted from Russia’s failed test of a nuclear cruise missile.

Moriel Rothman-Zecher, ‘11, returns to Middlebury to read from his first novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, a coming-of-age novel of which the Jerusalem Post has said that it “conveys the complexities of Israeli and Palestinian life with passion, nuance and tenderness…” Rothman-Zecher “has shown a fearlessness and vulnerability on these pages that speak to his ability to explore difficult terrain without feeling the need to draw any neat or concise conclusions. It shuns certainty and is open, nuanced, inconclusive and often contradictory. Just like Israeli reality.”

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs (RCGA) Program on Global Health Challenges will host a talk by Olga Jonas, Senior Fellow, Harvard Global Health Institute and Former Economic Adviser at the World Bank.

“The Global Corona Pandemic: Lessons for Governments and Citizens of the
World”
Widely held beliefs about contagions—like that they are inevitable and thus not worth worrying
about or that the health sector is managing the risks—lead to underestimation of pandemic risk,