2024.Past Events

Saturday, March 7th at the Henry A. Wallace Center / Franklin D. Roosevelt Historic Site. This international affairs quiz bowl will feature close to 20 high school teams from our…

Monday, April 20th 7:00-8:30 pm, Boardman Road Library, Poughkeepsie Facilitators: Umar Ahmad and Mirza Ashraf, WACMHV How will the Kashmir situation affect the region, both economically and politically? India’s Prime…

Monday, May 11th 7:00-8:30 pm, Boardman Road Library, Poughkeepsie Facilitator: Malia Du Mont, Bard College Almost every nation has enacted laws criminalizing human trafficking, and international organizations, governments, and NGOs…

Dear WAC-MHV member:   The Fall 2019 Annual Meeting Members Dinner will be held on Monday, December 2nd at 6 pm at Cosimo's Poughkeepsie (Delafield Street) in their second floor Wine…

October 30, 2019 at Marist College - HC2023 at 7pm. Talk co-sponsored by Marist College and WAC-MHV. Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas, Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Birmingham…

Monday, October 21st, 2019  7:00 – 8:30 p.m., Boardman Road Branch of the Poughkeepsie Library Facilitator: Jean-Claude Fouere. Though arguably the most advanced economy in the world, the United States still…

Monday, June 3rd, 2019  7:00 - 8:30 p.m., Boardman Road Branch of the Poughkeepsie Library Facilitator: Michael O'Sullivan, Professor of History at Marist College Today, no countries have open borders.…

Monday, May 13th, 2019,  7:00 - 8:30 p.m., Boardman Road Branch of the Poughkeepsie Library Facilitator: Martin Charwat.  Mass migration, and the problems associated with it, have directly abetted the…