Upcoming Events

  • McDonald’s and the Opening and Closing of Russia? with special guest Kristy Ironside

    The opening of the first McDonald’s in Moscow on January 31, 1990, was widely seen as proof of the Soviet Union opening up to the outside world after years of Cold War isolation. McDonald’s decision to pull out of Russia within months of its full-scale attack on Ukraine in early 2022 was thus naturally seen as the end of an era. This talk will look at how we got from Point A to Point B. Why did Soviet leaders agree to allow McDonald’s in, first as a joint venture with the Moscow city soviet, and what did they hope to get out of it?

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

  • Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: reflections on the prevalence, prevention of, and policy response to this public health and human rights crisis, with Sophie Morse, Philip R. Lee Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco and Women’s Health Policy Researcher.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Aparna Kapadia, associate professor of history at Williams College and ” Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life.”

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Putin’s Wars : How once the West’s Sweetheart got us into WWIII

    Yevgenia Albats, Yevgenia Albats, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

    — a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host — will talk about Russian society and politics in the context of Russia’s invasion of, and ongoing war in, Ukraine.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Combative Decoloniality and the Abolition of the Humanities

    Building from the approach to decolonization and abolition in the Haitian Revolution as well as from Frantz Fanon’s view of combative decolonization and decoloniality, the presentation makes the case for the abolition of the humanities as a crucial component of the project for decolonizing knowledge today.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries are Reshaping Emerging Economies

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global Health and Medicine presents “Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries are Reshaping Emerging Economies” by Eduardo J. Gómez, professor in the Department of Community and Population Health and director of the Institute of Health Policy and Politics, Lehigh University.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Welfare Benefits from Agricultural Extension Services in Nigeria

    Toyib Aremu is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vermont’s program in sustainable development policy, economics and governance. His dissertation focuses on the use of scientific evidence to support the agricultural development policy-making process in Nigeria. He has experience in analyzing nationally representative household surveys, supporting multi-stakeholder processes and researching the welfare impact of smallholder farmer access to advisory services.

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104

    Open to the Public

Past Events

  • Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy presents “Leaders in the Middlebury East and North Africa: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy” with Dr. Sercan Canbolat, inaugural director of Abrahamic Programs at the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) Global Affairs and a postdoctoral research associate UConn’s Department of Political Science.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

    Fritz Bartel is a diplomatic historian at Texas A&M University. His book on the end of the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2022), The Triumph of Broken Promises, has been widely praised for its political-economic interpretation of the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of neo-liberalism in the United States.

    Co-sponsored by the International Politics & Economics program

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Photographer in a Foreign Land: Kevin Bubriski’s Documentary Projects in Nepal, Tibet and Xinjiang

    Kevin Bubriski’s fifty year career as a documentary photographer began in the mid 1970s with his years in the Peace Corps as a community water supply technician in Nepal’s remotest mountain villages. He has returned to Nepal numerous times, done extended documentary work in South Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia and the USA and has published a number of photographic books. He will be speaking retrospectively about his work in Nepal, the USA, Syria, Tibet and Xinjiang.

    Johnson Classroom 204

  • Rwanda: 30 Years since the Genocide

    In this lecture, Susan Thomson, focuses on a single life story to reflect on the Rwandan government’s unfulfilled promise of ethnic reconciliation in the thirty years since the country’s traumatic genocide of 1994.

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

    Open to the Public
  • Our Palestine Question

    Title: Book talk: Our Palestine Question

    Geoffrey Levin (Emory University) will discuss his new book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 (Yale 2023), a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel, which focuses on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
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    United for Ukraine 2024

    A Beneficiary Showcase of Ukrainian Resilience through Art

    This third annual event celebrates the culture and resilience of the nation of Ukraine with music, poetry, film, and more.  Featuring the New York Crimean Tatar Ensemble, with a parade of performances by the Middlebury College Choir, the student band Chapel Hill, Middlebury College’s Ukrainian students, and other special guests. Admission is free, and information about donating to Ukrainian relief organizations will be provided.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public
  • Canceled: Global Indigenous Politics and Environmental Governance

    Indigenous nations are, under international law, not considered full legal persons. However, Indigenous nations have been actively engaged in global politics in a variety of issue areas, including environmental and water governance. For example, over the past 2 years, First Nations from around the world, including the Maori, Hopi, and Tohono O’odham, have been participating in the international Meeting of Sacred Waters, through which various Nations advance new understandings of society’s relationship to water and land, and new approaches to sustainable governance.

    Open to the Public
  • White Supremacy and Global Accelerationism

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Security and Global Affairs presents “White Supremacy and Global Accelerationism” by Amy Cooter, Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation (RADI) at CTEC, MIIS.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Contemporary Russia Through a Diplomat's Eye

    Diplomat Thomas Leary served in Russia at two very different periods: 1999-2004 and 2015-2019. His first term there came during the growing decline in U.S.-Russian relations and the difficult aftermath of Russia’s 1998 financial crisis. By the time Mr. Leary returned to St. Petersburg as U.S. Consul General in 2015, the freeze between the two countries was deepening because of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Meanwhile at home Russia had become both much more prosperous and more authoritarian.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Gaza in Context: Tracing Violence and Reconciliation in Palestine/Israel

    In this lecture, Dr. Sa’ed Atshan will provide an overview of the hostilities between the Israeli military and Hamas, reflecting on the past, present, and future of this crisis. The talk will also address the impact on Palestinian and Israeli civilians, the provision of international humanitarian aid, the role of the United States, and prospects for reconciliation.

    Twilight Auditorium 101

    Closed to the Public

News


 

Matt Martignoni IGST 2021-2022 Thesis Aware Recipient

Congratulations Matt Martignoni, for being selected as the 2022 winner of the International Global Studies Award!

Awarded to the graduating senior who, in the judgment of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Advisory Committee, has written the best senior thesis in the area of international and global studies, broadly conceived.


 

IGST Cecilia Needham Award Pic 2022

Congratulations Cecilia Needham, for being awarded funding from Middlebury’s Senior Research Project Supplement and Hoskin Family Fund to support research on public health in Haiti for her senior thesis work, “How NGO & State Interactions Influence Public Health Outcomes.”


IGST 2022-23 Kellogg Fellows

Rain Ji ‘23 (IGST, Middle East & North African Studies)

Hitting Below the Belt? Official and Youth Perceptions of the Belt and Road initiative in Jordan

 

Mira Vance ‘23 (IGST, Global Gender & Sexuality Studies)

The Body of a Nation: Ableism and Constructions of Masculinity Through Primary School Education in Modern China

 

 


Recordings of Past Events

Reproductive Justice NOW – Juana Gamero de Coca 2022 Day of Learning

April 26, 2022
4:30–6:00 PM ET