2025-2026 Events
These are past events sponsored or co-sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.
The Perilous State of US Public and Global Health Funding and Policy
Lecture by Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University School of Public Health. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global Health and Medicine.
Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of Muslim Marginalization in India
Lecture by Feyaad Allie, assistant professor of government, Harvard University. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy.
Recent Patterns of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Latin America
Lecture by Joaquín Serrano, assistant professor of applied economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global Economics, Development, and Political Economy.
Alter-Temporalities of the Futurist Right
Lecture by Benjamin Teitelbaum, associate professor of ethnomusicology and international affairs, University of Colorado Boulder. Sponsored by Rohatyn Global Fellows Program.
Health, Security, and Diplomacy in 2025
Lecture by Ambassador Jimmy Kolker. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global Health and Medicine.
Family Trees and Paper Uncles: Customary Land Rights, Hybrid Formalization, and the Forestry Boom in Southern Tanzania
Lecture by, Ewan Robinson, postdoctoral fellow, Pulte Institute for Global Development Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. Organized by Department of Geography.
Protest and Policy
Lecture by David Cortright, Professor Emeritus of the Practice, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Security and Global Affairs.
The Levers of U.S. Foreign Policy Today
Hot Coffee and Global Tea event with Caileigh Glenn, assistant professor of political science, Middlebury College. Sponsored by RCGA Student Board.
Restorative Justice and Lived Religion: Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago
Lecture by Jason Springs, professor, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. Organized by Department of Religion.
The War on Ukraine: How the Civic Resistance Is Defining the New Ukraine
Lecture by Paul Hockenos, prize-winning author of five books on European politics and culture. Organized by Department of Political Science.
Defending Democracy in Authoritarian Systems
Lecture by Nicholas Opiyo, award-winning human rights attorney and democracy and justice advocate from Uganda. Sponsored by RCGA Program in Global Autocracy and Democracy.
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
Lecture by Marc Dunkelman, Fellow at Brown University’s Watson School for International and Public Affairs. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global Economics, Development, and Political Economy.
India in the 1940s: War, Partition, and Decolonization
Lecture by Sunil Purushotham, associate professor of history, Fairfield University. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global and International History.
Bridging Science and Community for Climate Solutions
Lecture by Kyla Westphal, vice president of external affairs, Ebb Carbon. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Science, Technology, Environment and Global Affairs.
Competition and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Lecture by Matias Busso, principal economist, Inter-American Development Bank. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Economics, Development, and Political Economy.
Past, Present and Future of Democracy in America
Lecture by Robert Mickey, associate professor of political science, University of Michigan. Sponsored by RCGA Program in Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy.
Label First, Evidence Later: Terrorism Designations, Venezuela, and Trump’s War on "Antifa"
Lecture by Jason Blazakis, professor of the practice, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and Director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism.
Regenerative Economics: Revolutionarily Thinking for a World in Crisis
Conversation with John Fullerton, founder of the Capital Institute, and Donna Ramirez-Harrington, chair, UVM Department of Economics. Organized by the Franklin Environmental Center.
Nothing New Under the Golden Dome: Space-Based Interceptors and Strategic Defenses in the Trump Administration
Lecture by Jeffrey Lewis, director, East Asia Nonproliferation Program, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; and Sam Lair, research associate, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Alumni Career Conversation
With Phillip Consentino ’00 on life in the CIA and national intelligence world. Organized by Center for Careers and Internships.
Extending Financial Services to the Unbanked Around the World and in Addison County
Lecture by Elizabeth Toder ‘90, former US Treasury Department’s Resident Advisor in Madagascar.
Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail
Lecture by Stephen Herzog, professor of the practice, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Russia's Invasion, Ukraine's Resistance, and Prospects for Peace
Lecture by Oxana Shevel, associate professor of comparative politics, Tufts University. Organized by International and Global Studies-Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Adaptation Game: Russia’s Wartime Foreign Policy
Lecture by Hanna Notte, director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Forty Years of Public Health Work in Ethiopia
Lecture by Rick Hodes ’75, medical director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Ethiopia. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global Health and Medicine.
Arctic at the Crossroads: Greenland, Geopolitics, and the Importance of Indigenous Sovereignty
Lecture by Melody Burkins, director, Institute of Arctic Studies and senior associate director, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College. Sponsored by RCGA Program in Global Security.
Watching Power Politics in the UN Security Council at Close Quarters
Lecture by Richard Gowan, program director, Global Issues and Institutions, International Crisis Group. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Security and Global Affairs.
The Media and Other Blockades: The U.S. Invasion of Venezuela
A conversation with Alina Duarte, international journalist. Organized by Department of Luso-Hispanic Studies.
The Little Things (0-3 Year Olds) that Can Have Big Impacts on China’s Human Capital and Economic Development
Lecture by Scott Rozelle, faculty co-director of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions; Helen F. Farnsworth Endowed Professorship. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global Economics, Development, and Political Economy.
Application-driven Machine Learning for Climate Action
Lecture by David Rolnick, assistant professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, School of Computer Science, McGill University and Mila – Quebec AI Institute. Sponsored by the RCGA Program on Science, Technology, Environment, and Global Affairs
Migration between Justice and Democracy: Rethinking Border Openness
Lecture by Nathan Pippenger, associate professor of political science, United States Naval Academy. Organized by International and Global Studies-Global Migration and Diaspora.
Certainty Is Overrated
Workshop with Alzo Slade, Peabody & 3x Emmy Winner, Journalist, Storyteller, Teacher, Work seen on: HBO, Showtime, Amazon, NatGeo, ViceTV. Organized by Department of Dance.
The Fort Bragg Cartel
Conversation with Seth Harp, investigative reporter and foreign correspondent, contributing editor at Rolling Stone. Sponsored by Rohatyn Global Fellows Program.
Democratic Decline: What Happens to Minority Representation When Section II Protections are Gone
Lecture by Loren Collingwood, associate professor of political science, University of New Mexico. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Autocracy and Democracy.
The Manchu Conquest of China in World History
Lecture by Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Professor of East Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Study. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global and International History.
Reporting on Public Health In Uncertain Times
Lecture by Apoorva Mandavilli, reporter for the New York Times. Sponsored by RCGA Program on Global Health and Medicine.
Resilient Democratization: Social and Political Change in Iran and Beyond
Lecture by Norma Claire Moruzzi, professor of political science and gender and women’s studies, University of Illinois Chicago. Sponsored by the RCGA Program on Security and Global Affairs.
Assembling Networks of Care in Global Maternal Health; Technologies, Tasks, and Traditional Birth Attendants
Lecture by Margaret MacDonald, associate professor and graduate program director, Department of Anthropology, York University, Toronto. Sponsored by the RCGA Program on Global Health and Medicine.
Economic Sanctions: Lessons Learned from Ukraine and Future Use
Lecture by Elizabeth Rosenberg, assistant secretary of the treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes in the Biden Administration. Organized by the Department of Political Science.
Juana Gamero de Coca Symposium in Hispanic Studies: Femicides and Gendered Violence in Latin America
Keynote presentation by Argentine anthropologist Rita Segato and conversation with Mexican director Michelle Garza Cervera about her acclaimed debut film Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022). Organized by Department of Luso-Hispanic Studies.
Globalizing Traditional Medicine and Knowledge into the Future
Lecture by Sena Voncujovi ‘17, a third-generation healer steeped in the Ewe Vodu and Afa (Ifa) herbal traditions of West Africa. Sponsored by the RCGA Global Scholars Program.
How "America First" Changed US Foreign Policy
Lecture by Elizabeth Shackelford, distinguished fellow in international affairs, Dartmouth College, and career diplomat in the U.S. State Department.
Hawaii beyond the Postcard: A Living Legacy of Language and Heritage
Lecture by Kananinonohea Mākaʻimoku and Keiki Kawaiʻaeʻa, University of Hawaii at Hilo. Orgzanized by Linguistics Program.