2024-25 Past Events

  • Center for Nonproliferation Studies Summer Internship Information Session

    Join this event to learn about some great Midd-friendly opportunities. There is currently an opening in our VT office (via Handshake, applications due Feb 22, includes 5k CCI stipend), as well as for 4 paid summer Middlebury College interns in Monterey, CA (applications due Feb 28). Students will have the opportunity to work with expert mentors on independent projects of their choosing, attend expert educational lectures, and work on CNS grants and contracts. Dr.

    Atwater Dining Seminar Room

  • Past, Present and Future of Democracy in America

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy (supported by the Cangiano Family Fund) presents “Past, Present and Future of Democracy in America” with Robert Mickey. 

    Organized by Prof. Sebnem Gumuscu.

    Axinn Center 229

    Open to the Public

  • Competition and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “Competition and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean” with Matias Busso.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

  • Hot Coffee and Global Tea with Prof. Daniel Fram

    Join us for Hot Coffee & Global Tea, with Professor Daniel Fram. We will discuss the core ideas that drive contemporary nationalist thought and the conceptual challenges they pose to liberalism.

    Daniel Fram is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Theory. His research and teaching interests include cosmopolitan and nationalist critiques of liberalism in contemporary political theory, the history of liberalism in modern political thought, and conceptions of moral education and democracy in classical and modern political philosophy.

  • India in the 1940s: War, Partition, and Decolonization

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Dr. Sunil Purushotham and “India in the 1940s: War, Partition, and Decolonization.”

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

  • 2025 IP&E Annual Symposium: Trump’s Trade Wars in Global and Historical Perspective

    The second Trump administration is implementing trade policies that have major impacts on international relations, supply chains, and more. This interdisciplinary symposium brings together leading scholars to assess how these policies are reshaping geopolitics and the global economy.

    Speakers

    Inu Manak, Fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

    Robert Staiger, Loren M. Berry Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

  • Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress - And How to Bring it Back

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents Marc Dunkelman and “Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress - And How to Bring it Back.”

    America was once a country that did big things—we built the world’s greatest rail network, a vast electrical grid, interstates, abundant housing, Social Security, and more. But today, even we feel stuck. Why?

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public