2018-2019 Events

September 2018

Monday, 9/3, 1–3 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Open House during MiddView. 

Thursday, 9/13, 4:30 p.m.

Atwater Dining Hall

Reception for returned study abroad students; IGS and IPE faculty.

Wednesday, 9/19, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Hot Topics Lunch and Discussion - Exclusively for Students.

Tuesday, 9/25, 4:30 p.m.

Hillcrest 103 - The Orchard

Lecture “Can a Corrupt Company be Green? The Volkswagen Scandal” by Jack Ewing, Germany correspondent for the New York Times reporter and author of Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal.

Wednesday, 9/26, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Towards a Palestinian Third Cinema” by Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Thursday, 9/27, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Healers, Witches or Women: Intercultural health and urban folk medicine in Quito” by Mario Portugal Ramirez.

Friday, 9/28, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Global Fitness Culture and White Masculine Corporality” by Daniel Silva, assistant professor of Portuguese, Middlebury College.

October 2018

Monday, 10/1, 12:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Who Gets To Drink? The history and future of drinking water” by James Salzman, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, UCLA Law School and the UC, Santa Barbara, School of Environment.

Thursday, 10/4, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Gibran in Brazil” by Wail S. Hassan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.

Monday, 10/8, 12:15 p.m.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

Film Screening - Cinema of the Crisis: Feminist and Queer Filmmaking in Puerto Rico in 2018.

Monday, 10/8, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Great Men, Counternarratives, and Subcultures: Approaches to Narrating History and Identity in Twenty First Century Puerto Rican Documentaries” by Mary Leonard, professor of English, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

Tuesday, 10/9, 4:30 p.m.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

Lecture “Decoding Robert Mueller’s Russia Investigation” by Garrett Graff, director of the Aspen Institute’s cybersecurity and technology program, contributor to WIRED, Longreads, and CNN.

Wednesday, 10/10, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Hot Topics Lunch and Discussion - Exclusively for Students.

Monday, 10/15, 4:30 p.m.

Abernethy Room, Axinn Center

Lecture “Refugee Tales” by David Herd, University of Kent, and Anna Piccus, Gatwick Detention Centre.

Wednesday-Thursday, 10/16-10/17

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Atlantic World Forum: “Intercultural Scholarly Dialogues About Atlantic World Cultural Histories, Reframing Circum-Atlantic Cultural Histories.”

Thursday, 10/18, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

A public conversation between Ruby Lal, Emory University and President Laurie Patton about Lal’s latest book “Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan.”

Friday, 10/19, 4:00 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Panel “1948 Palestine and Beyond” with Laila Parsons, McGill University, and Abdel Razzaq Takriti, University of Houston.

Monday, 10/22, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Memory, Identity, and Style: How to write about Peruvian Reality in the 21st Century” by Iván Daniel Thays Vélez, author.

Monday, 10/22, 7 p.m.

Twilight Auditorium

Lecture “Exile, Home, and Migration in Kuwaiti Fiction: Saud Alsanousi in conversation with translator Jonathan Wright.”

Tuesday, 10/23, 4:30 p.m.

In front of Davis Family Libary

Installation of “Minimum Monument” ice sculpture by Néle Azevedo

Thursday, 10/25, 3 p.m.

Mahaney Center for the Arts 110

“Global Dance Dialogues: Contemporary Choreography Conversations from Melbourne to New York to Lyon” with Lee Serle, Rolex Arts Fellow (2010) and an Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Australia Fellow (2012).  A participatory movement lecture with live music.

Friday, 10/26, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Seventh Annual International Politics and Economics Symposium “Environmental Policy in and Unequal World.”

Saturday, 10/27, 12-4 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

First Annual Day of Learning on Global Cultures “Prostitution, Violence and Social Change: the Legacy of Juana Gamero de Coca’s scholarship” with presentations by Carmen de la Guardia-Herrero and Laura Agustín.

Tuesday, 10/30, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture on Luso-Hispanic Linguistics by Gabriel Rei-Doval, associate professor, University of Winsconsin-Milwuakee.

November 2018

Friday, 11/2, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Italian Food, Family, and Table on Film:  Ivano De Matteo’s The Dinner (I nostri ragazzi, Our Kids, 2014)” by Patricia Zupan, C.A. Dana Professor of Italian.

Monday, 11/5, 12:15 p.m.

Axinn 229

Lecture “We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria” by Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University.

Thursday, 11/8, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Hot Topics Lunch and Discussion - Exclusively for Students.

Friday, 11/9, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Coisas Nossas: Foreign Labor and the Emergence of Film Industries in Latin America” by Nicolas Poppe, assistant professor of Spanish, Middlebury College.

Tuesday, 11/13, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Future of the Past series lecture “100 Years of Influenza: The Ongoing Challenge for Science and Society” by Bob Cluss, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Middlebury College.

Thursday, 11/15, 4:30 p.m.

MCFA Sabra Fields Lecture Room

Lecture “Emperor and Poet: Mansa Musa, Al Saheli, and the Unlikely 1325 Friendship that Built Timbuktu and the Mali Empire” by Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University.

Thursday, 11/15, 7:30 p.m.

Dana Auditorium

Panel “Trauma and the U.S. Immigration System: Immigrant Detention, Family Separation, and Undocumented Work” with Sarah Rogerson, Albany Law School; Andrea Green, UVM Medical School; Migrant Justice; Hannah Krutiansky ‘19; and Meron Benti ‘19.

Friday, 11/16, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Thesis in Dialogue with Mari Tanioka ’18 about her International and Global Studies Award-winning thesis “The Collective Memory Construction of the ‘Ianfu’ System in Mainland China.”

Thursday, 11/29, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Making the International Mind: Social Engineering for U.S. Global Power, 1898-1950” by Talya Zemach Bersin, Yale University.

Thursday, 11/29, 8:00 p.m.

Gamut Room

Multilingual Poetry Slam.

Friday, 11/30, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “The Lodger Problem: Crisis of the Modern Age” by Erin Sassin, assistant professor of history of art & architecture, Middlebury College.

December 2018

Wednesday, 12/5, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Hot Topics Lunch and Discussion - Exclusively for Students.

Friday, 12/7, 12:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “The New Language of Capitalism” by John Pat Leary, Wayne State University.

January 2019

Wednesday-Thursday, 1/9–27

Kirk Center

Winter Term faculty seminar on “the global”

Thursday, 1/10

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Coming Home to the Global” by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, USC, Santa Barbara.

Monday, 1/14

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Teach for Arabia: American universities, liberalism, and transnational Qatar” by Neha Vora, associate professor of anthropology, Lafayette College.

Tuesday, 1/15

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Panel “Are Domestic Political Threats Putting Transatlantic Security at Risk?” with panelists Lawrence Chalmer, professor of international relations, National Defense University, Rowen Price ’19, Travis Sanderson ’19, and Grace Vedock ‘20; moderated by Stan Sloan, Middlebury College winter term instructor.

Wednesday, 1/16, 12:45 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Hot Topics Lunch and Discussion - Exclusively for Students.

Tuesday, 1/22

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “David and Goliath: How Israeli Science Manouvers in a World of Giants” by Gad Yair, Israel Institute Visiting Faculty, MIT; The Louis and Ann Wolens Chair in Educational Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Tuesday-Thursday, 1/22–24

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Student-Run Global Affairs Conference “Beyond #MeToo: Global Responses to Sexual Assault in an Age of Reckoning.”

Thursday, 1/24

Axinn 229

Lecture “Is that Kimchi in my Taco?: A Vision of Korean American food in one bite” by Ji-Song (Robert) Ku, associate professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University.

Tuesday, 1/29

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Thesis Forum with presentations by Henry Burnett ‘18.5, Kelsie Hoppes ‘18.5, and Will Simpson ‘18.5

February 2019

Tuesday, 2/19, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “From the Sight of Extraction: Thinking Globally with Indigeneity” by Macarena Gómez-Barris, chair social science and cultural studies, Pratt Institute; chairperson, SSCS; director, Global South Center.

Wednesday, 2/20, 7:00 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Listening Acts: Contemporary Tunisian-Andalusi Musical Politics” by Rachel Colwell, doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology, University of California, Berkeley.

Friday, 2/22, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Latin American Stories of Resistance: A Literary Reading”by Gloria Estela González Zenteno, professor of Spanish, Middlebury College.

Tuesday, 2/26, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

“The Practices of Privilege: a Conversation with Engaged Scholars” with Errol Henderson, political science department, Penn State University, and James Davis, professor of religion, Middlebury College.

Thursday, 2/28, 12:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Hot Topics Lunch and Discussion - Exclusively for Students.

March 2019

Friday-Saturday, 3/1-3/2

Common Ground Symposium “Justice, Diversity, and Inclusivity in the Environment” organized by the Sunday Night Environmental Group.

Friday, 3/1, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture ”Fighting Fire with Fire: Promoting and Opposing Cremation in Israeli Society” by Zohar Gazit, Israel Institute Teaching Fellow in Modern Hebrew, Middlebury College.

Friday, 3/1, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Can Asia Be a Growth Pole in Global Economy in the 21st Century? Short- and Medium-term Challenges and Opportunities” by Changyong Rhee, director of the Asia and Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund.

Monday, 3/4, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

“Ethnic Minority Poetry in China: A Conversation with Aku Wuwu and Mark Bender.”

Monday, 3/4, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Plots against Russia: Cultural Contamination and the Language of Conspiracy” by Eliot Borenstein, professor of Russian and Slavic studies, New York University.

Monday, 3/4, 7:00 p.m.

Axinn Center 109

“Aku Wuwu: Poems in Yi and Mandarin, with English Translation”

Wednesday, 3/6, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Between Realism and Science Fiction” by Edmundo Paz Soldán, professor of Spanish, Cornell University.

Thursday–Saturday, 3/7-9

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

RCGA’s Annual International Conference ”Migration, Displacement, and Belonging: Challenging the Paradigms.”

Tuesday, 3/12, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Wondering About Wonder: Hindu Temple Ritual, Aesthetics and Creativity” by Tulasi Srinivas, associate professor of anthropology, Emerson College.

Monday, 3/18, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Putin’s Russia and Youth Resistance” by Artemy Troitsky, Radio Liberty.

Thursday, 3/21, 12:30 p.m.

Hillcrest 103, The Orchard

Environmental Studies Colloquium lecture “Agriculture on the Brink: Climate Change, Labor, and Smallholder Farming in Botswana” by Bill Moseley, professor of geography, Macalester College.

April 2019

Thursday, 4/4, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Border of Lights: Writing the Haitian-Domincan Frontier” by Megan Jeanette Myers ‘11, assistant professor of Spanish and Latinz studies, Iowa State University.

Tuesday, 4/9, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Future of the Past series lecture “HIV Is a Mirror: How a Virus Helps Us See Ourselves More Clearly” by Timothy P. Lahey, Director of Clinical Ethics, Infectious Disease Physician, and Professor, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont.

Wednesday, 4/10, 7:00 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Book reading by Emmanuel Iduma, author of A Stranger’s Pose.

Thursday, 4/11, 4:30 p.m.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room

Lecture “Sadness Is a White Bird” by Moriel Rothman-Zecher ‘11, novelist and poet.

Monday, 4/15, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Slowing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons” by Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, scientist-in-residence and adjunct professor, at Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Tuesday, 4/16, 4:30 p.m.

Dana Auditorium

Panel “Populism, Homophobia, and Illiberal Democracy”with Middlebury faculty panelists Gary Winslett, political science, Kevin Moss, Russian, and Katherine Aha, political science; moderator Erik Bleich, political science.

CANCELED:  Wednesday, 4/17, 4:30 p.m.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

Lecture “The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies” by Ryszard Legutko, professor of philosophy, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

Thursday, 4/18, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Memory of the Gulag in Contemporary Russia” by Steven Barnes, associate professor of history, George Mason University.

Monday, 4/22, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Will China Save the Planet?” by Barbara Finamore, Senior Strategic Director for Asia at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Tuesday, 4/23, 7:30 p.m.

Axinn Center 229

Screening of “The Trial” (dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2018).

Wednesday, 4/24, 7:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture by Annelise Orleck, professor of history, Dartmouth College, based on her book “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages.

Thursday, 4/25, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Disorder and Disaggregation: The Middle East in 2019 and the Pursuit of US Interests under the Trump Administration”by Ambassador Barbara Leaf, U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 2014-2018.

Thursday, 4/25, 7:30 p.m.

Twilight 101

“Arabic Music: Beyond the Exotic” contemporary Arabic music concert by Huda Asfour, Asha Santee, Derek Bond.

May 2019

Wednesday, 5/1, 6:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Issuing Reception for Volume 3 of the student academic journal “Global Reader.”

Thursday, 5/2, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Lecture “Addressing Gender Discrimination around the World: Challenges and Opportunities” by Rangita de Silva de Alwis, associate dean for international programs, University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Friday, 5/3, 12:15 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Pageantry and Power: Gold in the Realm of Women during China’s Six Dynasties and Tang Periods” by Sarah Laursen, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, Middlebury College.

Friday, 5/3, 8:00 p.m.

Wilson Hall

Korean Culture Show

Monday, 5/6, 4:30 p.m.

Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Thesis Forum presentations by Adam Druckman ‘19, Garda Ramadhito ‘19, Travis Sanderson ‘19, and Lulu Zhou ‘19.

Tuesday, 5/7, 4:30 p.m.

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Lecture “Ways to School” by Zohar Kfir, independent artist.