Are you interested in learning more about the Rohatyn Global Scholars Program? Join us for one of our Information Sessions to find out more.
Choose one of the following Info Sessions:
Wednesday, September 16th from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm (with pizza)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Closed to the Public
How has geography become the central infrastructure of political authority in Putin’s Russia? Dr. Sofia Gavrilova (Fung Global Fellow, Princeton and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography), argues that that propaganda in Russia operates less through persuasion than through participation — by enrolling ordinary people in the everyday work of imperial reproduction. At the heart of the project is the concept of the “Volunteer Empire”: an empire reproduced through organized presence, care, and curated experience.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Did you study abroad in 2025-26? Come meet up with other Middlebury students who did too at our returnee reception. IGST faculty and study abroad staff will be on hand to welcome you back, raise a glass, and listen to your stories. [Bring your government ID for 21+ libations.]
Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center
Are you interested in learning more about the Rohatyn Global Scholars Program? Join us for one of our Information Sessions to find out more.
Choose one of the following Info Sessions:
Wednesday, September 16th from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm (with pizza)
Tuesday, September 22nd from 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm (snacks provided)
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Closed to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents “Slavery, Abolition, and the Antebellum Origins of Modern Business Ethics” with Seth Rockman, the George L. Littlefield Professor of American History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Brown University.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents “How ‘America First’ Changed US Foreign Policy” with Elizabeth Shackelford.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents “Globalizing Traditional Medicine and Knowledge into the Future” with Sena Voncujovi ‘17.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
On the second day of the symposium, Mexican director Michelle Garza Cervera will answer questions (in English) about her acclaimed debut film Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022). This will be followed by a conversation in Spanish between Michelle and Rita Segato, offering a broader dialogue on gender-based abuse and violence against women in Latin America. The conversation between Michelle and Rita will be translated into English for the audience.
Cookies and drinks will be provided.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
Presented in Spanish with real-time translation to English
The symposium will kickoff with a keynote presentation by Argentine anthropologist Rita Segato, followed by an open discussion with students, faculty, and community members. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided in Sunderland Lobby beginning at 4:00 PM.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
The United States has used economic sanctions many times to try to achieve foreign policy goals. Sanctions were used extensively on Russia after it invaded Ukraine. How effective were these sanctions and what can we learn from their use going forward? Elizabeth Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes in the Biden Administration, played a key role in the sanctions effort and will discuss these issues with Q and A afterwards.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Assembling Networks of Care in Global Maternal Health; Technologies, Tasks, and Traditional Birth Attendants” with Prof. Margaret MacDonald.
Virtual Middlebury
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents “Resilient Democratization: Social and Political Change in Iran and Beyond” with Norma Claire Moruzzi.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Reporting on Public Health In Uncertain Times” with Apoorva Mandavilli.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents “The Manchu Conquest of China in World History” with Nicola Di Cosmo.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy presents “Democratic Decline: What Happens to Minority Representation When Section II Protections are Gone” with Loren Collingwood.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
