This lecture by Jason Springs (Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame) introduces a novel understanding of what restorative justice is and how it should be implemented. It explores the ways in which restorative justice ethics and practices exhibit moral and spiritual dynamics, and what difference such “lived religious” dynamics can make in transforming structural violence.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Come hear how village residents, local officials, and urban investors draw on customary norms, family networks, and bureaucratic documents in order to conduct land sales and to produce vast areas of commercial forestry in Tanzania.
Join Toby for this informal talk about post-Middlebury career options and his own career. Toby is a UK civil servant with a background in international relations, development and trade. He was a RAF reserve intelligence officer, ran defense and foreign policy for the CentreForum think tank, and teaches at the Cambridge University’s Institute for Continuing Education. Bring your questions. All students welcome.
In this talk, Greenhalgh (Professor of Chinese Society Emerita at Harvard University) tells the story of how, during 1995-2015, industry leader Coca-Cola mobilized allies in academia to create a soda-defense science that would protect profits by advocating exercise, not dietary restraint, as the priority solution to obesity, a view few experts accept.
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “Recent Patterns of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Latin America” by Joaquín Serrano, Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy presents Feyaad Allie and “Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of Muslim Marginalization in India.”
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health presents Dr. Ashish Jha and “From Crisis to Readiness: Resilient Health Systems for a Safer World.”
Elena Kostiuchenko will talk on the state of journalism in Russia today, her work at Novaia Gazeta, and her book, “I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country.” (2023)
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents “War and Forced Displacement: A Global Reckoning” with David Vine.
