Dartmouth-Oxford Exchange Summer Barbecue
[back row: Catriona Witcombe (from Keble College), Erik Landgraff '11, Graham Healy-Day ‘11, Riddhi Dasgupta (from Keble College), Tomas Jagelka '11, Vlad Dobru '10, Joel Stockton (from Keble College) Front row: Richard Yates (from Keble College), Duc Mai '11, Brian Freeman '11, Jonathan Choi '11, Reyad Allie '11, and Elena Falloon '11, not pictured:Lillian Xia '11, Peter Keshtkar '11, Cacey Tang '11, Lindsey Beckett '11, and Michael Fields '11 ]
Among the attendees was Graham Healy-Day ‘11, who shared his experiences as a recent participant in the program. Learn more about the Dartmouth-Oxford Exchange.
Anna Post speaks on "Business Etiquette for the Digital Age"
[Shown here are Karen Doster '11, Lindsey Beckett '11 and Anna Post]
Anna Post is Emily Post's great-great-granddaughter and an author, spokesperson and presenter for The Emily Post Institute. A graduate of the Emily Post Business Etiquette Train the Trainer Program, Anna gave a lecture on Tuesday in the Rockefeller Center titled "Business Etiquette for the Digital Age," which was part of the Dartmouth Professional Student Workshop, a three-week program designed to help students hone their business skills during the Summer term. Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
On Wednesday, July 1 students from the Rockefeller Center participated in an "On the Green" ice cream social welcoming President Jim Yong Kim as Dartmouth College's 17th president. Shown here are students Michael Fields '11, Zach Stolzenberg '11, Caroline Ward '11 talking with Dr. Kim about the Rockefeller Center's programs.
CQ WEEKLY VANTAGE POINT -June 29, 2009 ¬ Page 1502. "Boot Camp Helps Washington's Summer Interns" By Susannah Clark, CQ Staff. The Rockefeller Center's Civic Skills Training program is mentioned in the article. Rockefeller Center Associate Director for Student and Public Programs Sadhana Hall and students Zoe Friedland '12 and Andrew Ferrera '10 are quoted. CQ Weekly is available online with a subscription. Dartmouth users may access through the Dartmouth College Online Catalog
Nine students recently took part in a five-day intensive internship training program in Washington that helps them become more effective in their internships. Learn more about the Center's Civic Skills Training program, and read the profiles of those students who attended.
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center is proud to present the 2009 - 2010 Rockefeller Leadership Fellows (RLF). Learn more about the RLF Program.
Matthew S. Alkaitis of the Dartmouth Class of 2009 has received a prestigious Keasbey Scholarship, which he plans to use to study at Oxford University. Alkaitis is a Rockefeller Leadership Fellow. Read the Dartmouth press release. [photo by Joseph Mehling '69]
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Devin M. O'Connor of Demarest, N.J., is one of Dartmouth's three salutatorians for 2009. O'Connor is a history major and public policy minor. Congratulations to all the 2009 graduates who participated in the Center's programs. Read the Dartmouth press release. [photo by Joseph Mehling '69]
Dr. Meg Gerrard presented "A Dual Process Approach to Adolescent Decision Making" at the final spring term SPRIG Faculty Workshop. Dr. Gerrard is Co-Director of the Cancer Control Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. The goal of the Cancer Control Research Program is to reduce cancer risk and mortality and to enhance the quality of care and quality of life through research designed to understand and improve the health of individuals and populations. Gerrard has been a research scientist with the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research at ISU since 1990. Over the past ten years, she has studied adolescent health risk behaviors such as drinking, smoking, and reckless driving and how they relate to adolescent thinking about the dangers associated with these behaviors. Learn more about the Center's Faculty Workshops.
"Debtor Nation: The Threat to America's Future"
- A panel discussion Moderated by Marjorie Rose, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College. Three renowned fiscal experts discussed America's looming fiscal crisis. The panelists included: James Poterba, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research, Mitsui Professor of Economics, MIT; Andrew Samwick, Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; Jonathan S. Skinner, John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, and Professor, Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy.
The panelists focused on the following topic: The United States is expected to run massive and growing fiscal deficits over the coming decades. Can America afford increasing public expenditures on social security and health care? Read a review of the discussion in The Dartmouth.
Todd Cranford '85 has been appointed as the newest member of the Rockefeller Center's Board of Visitors, effective July 1, 2009. Read more about Mr. Cranford.
On Thursday, May 21st, Mark Duggan, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, gave a presentation on "Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry." The presentation was part of the Rockefeller Center's faculty workshop series on Health Policy Research.
Gordon Zacks, Middle East Consultant and Advisor to Presidential Campaigns presented a lecture on "In Defense of Israel's Right to Defend Itself: The Case for the Fence and Preemptive Actions." Mr. Zacks examined the pretext for the fence and preemptive actions. He then examined their effectiveness in mitigating violence, as well as adverse consequences. Ultimately, he argued that the fence and preemptive actions are necessary for security purposes. Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
Amaney Jamal, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University presented a lecture on "The Gaza Crisis- How We Got Here and Where Do We Go Next?" This lecture was co-sponsored with The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, The Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, Hillel and Students Concerned for Palestine. Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
Rockefeller Leadership Fellows for 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 were feted with a reception in the 1930 Room.
[Outgoing Fellow John Beck '09, accompanied by his a cappella group the Dartmouth Cords, serenades his Fellows]
[Sadhana Hall the Associate Director for Student and Public Programs says farewell to the Fellows of 2008-2009 and formally welcomes the Fellows of 2009-2010]
[Outgoing Fellow Lense Gebre-Mariam '09 greets incoming fellow Jessica Guthrie '10]
Obama Administration's Trade Policy: Old Wine in New Bottles? Douglas Irwin, Robert E. Maxwell '23 Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College andMatthew J. Slaughter, Associate Dean for the MBA Program; Professor of International Economics, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College.The Obama administration faces unprecedented economic policy challenges. One of those challenges is U.S. trade policy. Will the world's current economic crisis lead to greater protectionism? Should the Obama administration renegotiate NAFTA and review previous trade agreements? How should the large U.S. trade deficit be addressed?
Professor Irwin discussed these topics as well as why trade is unpopular with the public, and why the talk of "failed trade policies of the past" is wrong. Primary focus of this discussion was on the trade deficit and it underlying determinants (savings and investment, here and China) and how they will be affected by the current economic crisis. Professor Slaughter discussed the current condition of the U.S. and global economies, and the policy options the United States could pursue regarding international trade, investment, and immigration. Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
"Why does America have the Constitution of 1787? New Historical Perspectives" - A panel discussion moderated by Joseph Cullon, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College. The panel included Pauline Maier, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, MIT; Jack Rakove, Coe Professor of History and American Studies, and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Woody Holton, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, University of Richmond; Max Edling, Research Fellow, History Department, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Why did America's Founding Fathers create the Constitution of 1787? Was it to establish a strong central government? Was it to protect property holders from the propertyless? A new wave of historical scholarship has recently addressed these questions. This distinguished panel of historians will discuss and debate the various rationales for the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Read coverage of the discussion in The Dartmouth.
Scheherezade Faramarzi, Associated Press Correspondent, 2009 Harvard Nieman Fellow spoke on"Obama Administration's Middle East Policy: What Should it Look Like?" Scheherezade Faramarzi is a 2009 Nieman Fellow and a correspondent for The Associated Press. For the past three decades she has covered various conflicts around the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan and North Africa. She began her career in 1978, a few months before the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Two years later, she moved to Beirut, Lebanon to work for the AP, covering Lebanon's civil war, the 1982 Israeli invasion and later its occupation of the country, the birth of Hezbollah, the 1983 suicide bombings of the U.S. Embassy and the Marine headquarters, the kidnapping of Westerners and the secret Iran-U.S. arms for hostages negotiations that later came to be known as the Iran-Contra Affair.
In the fall of 1987, she moved to Pakistan to cover the Western-backed Afghan Mujahedeen guerrilla war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Based in Jerusalem, she covered the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as the Oslo Agreement fell apart in 1995. Later, from her base in Cairo, she traveled the Middle East, including Iran to cover various breaking stories. In 2003, she moved to Baghdad and two years later, she went to Rabat, Morocco as the AP's reporter on terrorism and Islam in Europe, covering the 2005 London suicide bombings and the Paris riots. In the fall of 2006, she transferred to Beirut focusing on Hezbollah and Iran's regional influence. Read the coverage of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor, Harvard Law School;Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society spoke on "Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet." This program was sponsored by the Institute for Security, Technology and Society, in cooperation with the Rockefeller Center.
Professor Peter Burns, professor of political science at Loyola University of New Orleans, was a visiting research associate during the 2007-2008 academic year. During his appointment at the Rockefeller Center, Burns was actively involved in the Center's Policy Research Shop [PRS]. Now back at Loyola Burns has developed a PRS based on the Dartmouth model. Read about Loyola's PRS activities in the most recent Loyola News article " Political science students present policy reports to New Orleans City Council."
Dr. Daniel Brockington, Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Development and Policy Management [University of Manchester's School of Environment and Development] and Dr. James Igoe, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, Dartmouth College after the Environment and Development Faculty Workshop: "Celebrity and the Environment." Learn more about the Center's Faculty Workshops.
In the last week of April two groups of Policy Research Shop students traveled to Concord to testify before the Executive Departments and Administration Committee in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Read the full report.
Annie Rittgers '09 was featured in the April 2009 issue of Dartmouth Life. "Leading the Way" highlights the ways four students are honing their leadership skills in preparation for their post-Dartmouth lives. Annie is a member of the 2009 Rockefeller Leadership Fellows. [Photo by Joseph Mehling '69]
Nathan Empsall '09 was featured in the April 2009 issue of Dartmouth Life. In the article "Dartmouth Experience: Faith and Politics with Nathan Empsall '09" he discusses his views on the intersection of faith and politics. Empsall has been a Rockefeller Center Intern in Washington, D.C. [Photo by Joseph Mehling '69]
Nancy Polikoff, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law spoke on"Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law" as part of Dartmouth's Law Day events. For more than 30 years, she has been writing about and litigating cases involving lesbian and gay families. Her articles have appeared in numerous law reviews, and her history of the development of the law affecting lesbian and gay parenting appears as a chapter in Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights, J. D. Emilio,W. Turner, and U. Vaid, eds., (2000). She helped develop the legal theories in support of second-parent adoption and visitation rights for legally unrecognized parents, and she was successful counsel in In re M.M.D., the1995 case that established joint adoption for lesbian and gay couples in the District of Columbia, and Boswell v. Boswell, the 1998 Maryland case overturning restrictions on a gay noncustodial father's visitation rights. Her book Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law was published by Beacon Press in 2008. Read a review of the lecture in The Dartmouth.
Professor Polikoff's lecture was part of Dartmouth's 2009 Law Week events, and was the Rockefeller Center's 2009 Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture.
2nd Annual Rockefeller Center New Hampshire State of the State Poll-From Monday, April 27 through Friday, May 1, more than two dozen Dartmouth students participated in the 2nd Annual Rockefeller Center NH State of the State Poll. Read the press release outlining the Survey Results [pdf.] Read more articles about the survey.
Sonu Bedi, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College spoke on "Rejecting Rights: Reframing the Debate." The language of rights stands at the core of almost every social and political controversy in the United States such as abortion, affirmative action, same-sex marriage, and domestic security. For instance, some look to the right to choose while others to the right to life. Some champion individual rights while others favor the rights of groups. All such debates take place within the framework of rights, a framework that all too often proves frustrating and unproductive. After all, if I have a right to something, how do you argue against that? Disagreement may be inevitable. Yet why do we insist on debating these issues through the lens of rights? Rights dilute democratic debate needlessly intensifying conflict. We do better to reject them. We should look instead to reasons. A turn away from rights and towards reasons stands as our better option for structuring such debates. Read a review of the talk in The Dartmouth.
In support of the Martin Luther King Celebration events and the Dartmouth Centers Forum 2009 theme, "Conflict and Reconciliation."In support of the Martin Luther King Celebration events and the Dartmouth Centers Forum 2009 theme, "Conflict and Reconciliation."
"Call To Serve: Exploring Federal Government Careers," a talk by Brooke A. Markley, a "Call to Serve" speaker through a partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service. Learn More about the Partnership for Public Service "Call To Serve Program". This program was co-sponsored by Career Services and the Rockefeller Center First Year Forum discussion group.
"Flickr is the place where we store our collective sense of what we see," with these words Flickr co-founder Steward Butterfield began a discussion of the ideas behind Flickr's development. Butterfield presented his comments at a public program hosted by the Rockefeller Center. While on campus Butterfield also did a Radio Tuck Interview, addressed several Tuck student groups, and attended a reception hosted by the Rockefeller Center. Read a review of the talk in The Dartmouth.
On Wednesday, April 15, 2009, four Dartmouth students from Policy Research Shop at the Rockefeller Center testified before the Vermont House and Senate Transportation Committees in the historic Vermont Senate Chamber. Dartmouth seniors Kahlie Dufresne and Tara Wohlgemuth and sophomores Chase Raines and Christine Souffrant presented the key findings in their report, "Public Transportation in Vermont: An Assessment of Applicable Methods of Improvement and Funding for Vermont Transportation." Read the full report.
"I.O.U.S.A. One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt" -Film Showing was held on April 13, 2009. Co-sponsored by The Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth, International Business Council, Kappa Delta Epsilon Sorority, Women in Business, SEEDS, Sigma Delta Sorority, Women in Leadership, College Libertarians, Dartmouth Society of Investment & Economics.
" The United States has been spending its way deeper and deeper into the red, and saddling future generations with the mess—but who's paying attention?
To answer that question, the companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A. talks with some of the most revered voices in the nation, including Warren Buffett; former Treasury Secretaries Paul O’Neill and Robert Rubin; Pete Peterson, CEO of The Blackstone Group; Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas); and bestselling Empire of Debt author Bill Bonner.
Armed with these interviews, historical references, and damning statistics, the book takes a lively and entertaining romp through the four deficits the nation faces: the budget deficit, the personal savings deficit, the trade deficit—and what former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, who resigned abruptly in 2008 over Congress’s lack of action, calls the “leadership deficit” in Washington.
Defiantly non-partisan, the empowering solutions outlined in these pages are a must-read for any American who wants to help change “business-as-usual” in Washington as a new administration heads towards the Oval Office. “We the People” can get our politicians to stop spending, promote responsible economic programs, and hand our children and grandchildren the secure future they deserve. " -- [as described on DVD]
Dr. Bruce D. Bartholow, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia talks with Jeremy Huckins, graduate student from the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine, after the SPRIG Faculty Workshop: "Violent and Nonviolent Video Game Effects on Cognition, Motivation, and Aggression." Learn more about the Center's Faculty Workshops.
Stephen J. Morse spoke on "The Neuroscientific Challenge to Criminal Responsibility". Professor Morse is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a renowned expert in criminal and mental health law, whose work emphasizes individual responsibility in criminal and civil law. Professionally trained in both law and psychology at Harvard, Professor Morse has written for law reviews, journals of psychology and psychiatry and edited collections. He has contributed numerous op-ed articles. Most recently, he published Foundations of Criminal Law, (Foundation Press, with Leo Katz and Michael S. Moore), and he is currently working on a book, Desert and Disease: Responsibility and Social Control.
Professor Morse is a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology; a past president of Division 41 of the American Psychological Association (the American Psychology-Law Society); a recipient of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology's Distinguished Contribution Award; a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and Law (1988-1996); and a trustee of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C. (1995-present). Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1988, Professor Morse was the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California. Read a review of the talk in The Dartmouth. Watch the video on Dartmouth's YouTube channel. ""The Neuroscientific Challenge to Criminal Responsibility."
While on campus Professor Morse visited Professor John (Larry) Crocker's class on Philosophy and the Law. He was also a guest at a student luncheon hosted The Daniel Webster Legal Society.
Daniel Webster Legal Society Discussion Leaders Chris Green '09 and Zachary Moore '09 with Professor Morse]
On February 28 Career Services sponsored a program on “How to Get a Job in Foreign Policy,” held in the Rockefeller Center. The speaker, Josh Marcuse '04, is president and founder of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. To learn more about this event, see the article published in The Dartmouth.
While at Dartmouth Josh Marcuse was a recipient of the Rockefeller Center's Class of 1952 internship, which funded work at the Institute of National Strategic Studies. He also founded the Dartmouth College Undergraduate Law Journal, now the Dartmouth Law Journal, and during his senior year, Josh participated in the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows program.
Gregory G. Garre '87 the 44th Solicitor General of the United States spoke on "The Solicitor General and the Supreme Court." He was nominated by President George W. Bush on June 19, 2008, confirmed by the United States Senate on October 2, 2008, and took the oath of office on October 6, 2008. Mr. Garre served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General from October 2005 until October 2008. He was formerly a partner at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson LLP in Washington, D.C., where he headed the firm's Supreme Court and appellate practice section. He served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General from 2000-2004. Mr. Garre has argued 25 cases before the United States Supreme Court and numerous additional matters before the federal courts of appeals. Read a review of the talk in The Dartmouth.
While on campus Garre visited Professor Shaiko's Introduction to Public Policy class, and was a guest at a luncheon hosted by PoliTALK, a Rockefeller Center discussion group.
[Gregory Garre '87 with Rockefeller PoliTALK Discussion leaders Meridith Gringer '09 and Nathan Bruschi '10]
Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University spoke on "Change and Continuity in U. S. Foreign Policy." Bacevich is known as an authority on American Foreign Policy and is the author of several books on the subject: American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy; The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War; The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II; and The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Although describing himself as a “Catholic conservative” and initially having his writings published in a number of traditionally conservative American political magazine, his recent writings have professed a dissatisfaction with the Bush administration and its supporters on matters of American foreign policy. Read the story in The Dartmouth.
[Andrew Bacevich with Rockefeller First Year Forum Discussion leader Kahlie Dufresne '09 and students Nathan Bruschi '10 and Meridith Gringer '09]
Isabel Ng (center), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College answering questions at the SPRIG Faculty Workshop titled "Psychological Dynamics of Power: A cross-cultural Study." Learn more about the Center's Faculty Workshops.
David Leonhardt, columnist for the New York Times spoke on "After the Recession: Can the Obama Administration Fix the Economy?". David Leonhardt's column on economics and business appears on Wednesday in The New York Times. Leonhardt has been writing about economics for The Times since 2000. He was one of the writers who produced the paper's recent series on social class in the United States. He has written frequently about economic policy, real estate and the job market, as well as about the corporate scandals of recent years. In 2004, Leonhardt founded an analytical sports column, called Keeping Score, which runs on Sundays. Since joining The Times in 1999, he has also written about culture, science and travel. Leonhardt previously worked for Business Week and The Washington Post. A New York native, he studied applied mathematics at Yale. Read the story in The Dartmouth. Watch the video on Dartmouth's YouTube channel, "After the Recession: Can the Obama Administration Fix the Economy?".
While on campus Leonhardt attended Professor James Feyer's class on Macroeconomics, and Professor Parama Chaudhury's class on The Price System. He also attended a luncheon hosted by the Rockefeller Center's student organization Voxmasters, with invited students from Social Enterprise and Economic Development , and the Society of Investment and Economics.
[Stephen Greif '11, David Leonhardt, and Berk Ozturk '11]
Congresswoman Kristin Gillibrand ‘88 From a New York Times (2/14/09) article:"Gillibrand's Affinity for Asia Becomes an Asset ". Congresswoman Gillibrand was an Asian Studies major at Dartmouth, has served as a Rockefeller Center internship mentor, and has participated in the Center's “New Voices in Washington” series. In 2006 the Center honored her election to the Congress by including her name on the Public Service Wall in the Class of 1930 Room, Dartmouth's first alumna to be so honored.
Former Congressman Marvin Dawson Mathsis (D-GA) "The Road Ahead: Rocky, Steep and Hopeful" The Congress to Campus program sends bipartisan pairs of former members of Congress — one Democrat and one Republican — to visit college, university and community college campuses around the country. Over the course of two days, the former members conducted classes, held forums, met informally with students and faculty, and held interviews with local press and media. The program provides a distinctive, powerful and personal means to educate the next generation about American government, politics and public affairs. The former Members provide students with insights into the realities of American democracy through sharing their real-life experiences as candidates and office holders. The former members also deliver an important message about bipartisan cooperation. This program was co-sponsored with the Government Department. Read the story in The Dartmouth. Former Rep. Sue Kelly, R-N.Y., who had also been scheduled to speak, was unable to attend the program due to illness. In her absence, Kelly sent written remarks for the audience to read. Read Former Rep. Sue Kelley's remarks "The Road Ahead: Rocky, Steep and Hopeful." Watch the video on Dartmouth's YouTube channel, "The Road Ahead: Rocky, Steep and Hopeful."
Careers in International Affairs: Dartmouth students were invited to attend a two-part series on careers in international affairs. Panelists shared the realities of life/work in the field and were available for networking and questions. Part I focused on careers in government, and Part II was devoted to careers in nongovernmental organizations. Co-organized by the Rockefeller Center and the Dickey Center for International Understanding.
Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey spoke before an overflow crowd at the Rockefeller Center on the theme of freedom and responsibility as part of Dartmouth's Martin Luther King celebration. "Stand in Newark and you see and feel the dynamic change, the power and potential, you see that the future of America is happening here. We are not the Big Apple or Atlanta’s Georgia Peach. We are America’s Brick City — and this isn’t about our architecture. We’re Brick City because we’re tough, we’re resilient, we’re strong, we’re enduring and, most importantly, when we come together there’s nothing we can’t create." During his stay on the Dartmouth campus, Mayor Booker met with students in and out of the classroom, presented a public lecture, and was the guest-of-honor at a post-lecture reception hosted by the Rockefeller Center. Read the story in The Dartmouth. The program is not available on YouTube, but is available from the Baker-Berry Library's Jones Media Center. Learn more about Cory Booker and the revitalization of Newark.
Gov. David A. Paterson has selected Representative Kirsten Gillibrand '88, a 42-year-old congresswoman from upstate who is known for bold political moves and centrist policy positions, to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Representative Gillibrand has served as a Rockefeller Center internship mentor, and has participated in the Center's “New Voices in Washington” series. In 2006 the Center honored her election to the Congress by including her name on the Public Service Wall in the Class of 1930 Room, Dartmouth's first alumna to be so honored. Read the story in the New York Times.
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Charles Wheelan ‘88 described life on the campaign trail to a group of Dartmouth students, including several of his former pupils, at a lunch held in the Rockefeller Center on Friday afternoon. Read the full story in The Dartmouth.
Rockefeller Center Co-Sponsors Live Coverage of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration
Over 500 students and residents from the Upper Valley gathered on January 20th to watch Barack Obama be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. A hallmark of the Inaugural Address was the call to citizens to face the challenges ahead. "Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this America: They will be met."
“For the political process to be successful, citizens have to work together to solve problems and improve outcomes for society as a whole,” said Andrew Samwick, director of the Rockefeller Center, which organized the event with the Hop. “Hosting watch parties like we did for the debate, or for the inauguration, so that people can be together for the historic events, helps to reinforce the need to continue to work together.” Read the story in The Dartmouth. Watch a video from the Inaugural Ceremonies and read President Obama's Inaugural Address.
"Sorry States: Apologies and International Reconciliation"
Does international reconciliation require that states atone for past violence? Analysts argue that West Germany's contrition for its World War II crimes promoted reconciliation in Europe, whereas Japan's failure to atone has kept tensions high in East Asia. In this lecture, Professor Lind examines the role of apologies and other gestures of contrition in the process of international reconciliation. Examining the cases of Japan and Germany, she argues that a country's acknowledgment of past misdeeds is essential to restore relations after war, but that offering apologies is a domestically polarizing, and potentially counterproductive, process. Lind argues that remembrance that is less accusatory—conducted bilaterally or in multilateral settings—holds the most promise for international reconciliation. This lecture is based on her book, Sorry States: Apologies and International Politics, (Cornell, 2008). This lecture was given in support of the Dartmouth Centers Forum 2009 theme, “Conflict and Reconciliation.” Read the story in The Dartmouth. The program is not available on YouTube, but is available from the Baker-Berry Library's Jones Media Center.
"The Unintended Lessons of Revolution: School Teachers in the Mexican Countryside, 1940-1975"
Supported by a faculty research grant from the Rockefeller Center, Tanalis Padilla presented an exploration of Mexico's normales rurales, training schools for rural teachers. Originally conceived of as agents of state consolidation and dispatched to remote corners of the country, rural school teachers became some of Mexico's most radical political actors. Her work seeks to explore their alliance with peasants and the way in which they became formal and informal actors transmitting and often facilitating the resistance, appropriation, melding and even rejection of the very principles they were charged with imbuing... Normales rurales, centers that linked the urban and rural worlds, convened diverse ethnic groups, gave women a professional opportunity and taught civic rights and responsibilities, became hotbeds of political radicalism. Learn more about the Center's Faculty Research Funding Opportunities.
Past service awards include Woman of the Year by the Urban League and Pioneering Woman by the Chicago Historical Society. In 2003, she was elected Secretary General of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. She is the Chair Elect of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care, and is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. She holds a B.A and an LL.M from the University of Wisconsin and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. Watch the video on Dartmouth's YouTube channel, "Baby Markets: Faith, Class, and Race in Contemporary Adoptions."
