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Barbara Ofosu-Somuah ‘13, both a Watson and a Fulbright recipient, is a published and recognized translator from Italian, an activist, and currently a PhD student at Duke University. Her talk will discuss the work of current Black Italian authors and the role of translation

Kwanza Musi Dos Santos is an italian-afrobrazilian activist raised in Rome, co-founder of the cultural association QuestaèRoma that has been operating since 2013 to erase any type of discrimination through culture and art. Her talk will focus on colonial-era public art in Rome, and its relationship with current erasure of Italian colonial past.

Asli Ü. Bâli is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is an expert in international human rights law and comparative constitutional law focused on the Middle East. Dr. Bâli received her doctorate in Politics from Princeton University in 2010 and her law degree from Yale. Before her academic career, she worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb. Shen then went on to UCLA where she was a founding faculty director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Dr.

Come see our brand new building which holds the Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Community Engagement and the Programs on Creativity and Innovation in the Liberal Arts. Enjoy apple cider and other refreshments while learning about these exciting student programs and opportunities. On hand will be students involved with the new “Privilege & Poverty” initiative, a curricular integration of internships and classroom learning that invites students to apply their liberal arts education to the address of domestic and global poverty.

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.

Trica Keaton, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College, will deliver a lecture on her new book, #You Know You’re Black in France When… The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness, published by MIT Press in 2023.

FOR FACULTY: This three-day symposium will kick off a new series called Writing in the Changing Academy, inviting our campus community to talk about writing both within and beyond traditional academic norms.

“Writing Crime: Transmigrated, Border Subjects and International Violence,” a talk by Professor Ileana Rodriguez, Distinguished Humanities Professor of Spanish at Ohio State University. “In this talk, I examine the case of Doris Ivania Jimenez, a woman who was raped and murdered on November 21, 2006, in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. Implicated in the crime are Eric Stanley Volz, Julio Martin Chamorro Lopez, Armando Agustin Llanes Navarro and Nelson Antonio Lopez Danglas. Volz and Chamorro were indicted; Llanes and Danglas were exonerated.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program for Global Health and Medicine, in collaboration with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Jan Knippers Black Fund, and Middlebury College Departments and Programs of Anthropology, Global Health, Black Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity warmly invite you to a public lecture by Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke.