Come join us on Wednesday, February 8th at 7pm to participate in a discussion lead by Jānis Mažeiks, the Latvian Ambassador to the United Nations. This event will be held in Hancock Hall 2023 at Marist College. In response to the increasingly-assertive Russian foreign policy, and growing tensions between Russia and many European countries and […]
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Great Decisions: “The Kurds”
Monday, June 6th, 2016, 7 pm at the Boardman Road Branch of the Poughkeepsie Public Library Great Decisions Program Discussion, “The Kurds” with Martin Charwat, Past President of the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley, as facilitator.
Member-Only Dinner and “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: New Kid on the Block”
Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 6 pm at the American Bounty Room of the Culinary Institute of America Join us for our Member-Only Dinner and a presentation by World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley Board member and Professor of Economics at Dutchess Community College talk about “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: New Kid on the Block”.
Great Decisions: “International Migration”
Monday May 9th, 2016, 7 pm at the Boardman Road Branch of the Poughkeepsie Public Library Great Decisions Program Discussion, “International Migration” with Juris Pupcenoks, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marist College, and World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley Board member, as facilitator. As a record number of migrants, fleeing conflicts in Syria, […]
China’s Naval Build-up
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016, 7pm in Room 2023 Hancock Hall, Marist College Hear Professor Lyle Goldstein, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College talk about “China’s Naval Build-up”.
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016, 7 pm at The Henry A. Wallace Center of the FDR Library, Hyde Park Join us to hear Professor Sean McMeekin, from Bard College talk about “The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923”. Sean McMeekin is Professor of History at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, […]
Student World Affairs Conference: “Global Poverty and Development”
Saturday, April 16th, 2016 at Dutchess Community College Area college students organize and run a conference dedicated to world affairs. A key note speaker will present and there will be small workshops with papers presented by students on the Global Poverty topic. Come enjoy their enlightening presentations and discussions. http://www.hvworldaffairscouncil.org/swac-call-for-papers/
Great Decisions: “The Rise of ISIS”
Monday, April 4, 7-8:30pm at the Boardman Road Branch of the Poughkeepsie Library. James Ketterer, Director of International Academic Initiatives and Senior Fellow Institute of International Liberal Education, Bard College, and World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley Board member, will facilitate a discussion on “The Rise of ISIS”. Born out of an umbrella organization […]
Academic World Quest 2016
In 2016, Spakenkill High School team members, Courtney Noll, Neil Errickson, Jon Shwoerer, and Jacob Webster won the Regional Academic World Quest Competition, thus landing them a position at the National competition in Washington, D.C. to compete with the guidance of their coach, Jim Daley. Christopher Weida from the World Affairs Council accompanied the team […]
Timbuktu: An Illustrated Talk by Alexandra Huddleston
Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 7pm at Vassar College, Rockefeller Hall 200 Supported by a Fulbright grant, the photographer, Alexandra Huddleston, lived in Timbuktu, Mali, for ten months in order to photograph the city’s culture of Arabic language scholarship, a tradition of learning and teaching that has been passed down from teacher to student since the […]
