Once best known for its cows and coal mines, the Spanish region of Asturias has become a cultural capital in recent years. Rural pueblos are at the epicenter of this renaissance, challenging urban-centric ideas of cultural production. Musicians, writers, and other artists look to the region’s agrarian and industrial past to imagine new futures. They incorporate folklore and ways of knowing inspired by older generations, constructing alternative notions of rurality grounded in queerness, inclusivity, and sustainability.
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy present “Empowering Young Citizens through the Practice of Accountability: An Experiment in Bangladesh” with Akshay Dixit.
International and Global Studies’ Global Migration and Diaspora Program presents “Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy” with Justin Gest.
This is a talk on “human-forest mutualisms” exemplified by small-scale, forest conservation efforts in Mexico’s Yucatán. These efforts link conservation of globally-important forest ecosystems with production of natural, non-timber, forest products (vanilla and honey) that can help support local communities involved in conservation.
2024, Maria Pevchikh and Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation released Traitors, a provocative documentary series asking how Russia’s democratic opening of the 1990s ended in Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. The film places much of the blame on the political and economic elites surrounding Boris Yeltsin, focusing on corruption, privatization and the rise of the oligarchs, the controversial 1996 presidential election, and ultimately the choice of Putin as Yeltsin’s successor.
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Global Fellows Program presents “Interactive Peacemaking and Coordination in Complex Peace Processes” with Susan Allen.
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents “Chasing Bandits, Disrupting Order: Terrorism and Imperialism in the Long American Century” with Michael E. Neagle.
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “Globalization and its Discontents: Stories from the Factory Floors of China and Egypt” with Leslie Chang.
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “A Chinese Education: Teaching and Learning from Two Generations of Students in China” with Peter Hessler.
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy presents “Bright Line Watch: Tracking the Health of U.S. Democracy” with Brendan Nyhan.
