Wed. Sept. 9, 7 p.m.  Thomas M. Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, R.I.  Henry Wallace Center, FDR Library, Hyde Park.

Mon. Oct. 19, 7 p.m.  Discussion Facilitator:  M. Glen Johnson, India expert and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Vassar College. Great Decisions discussions are a collaboration with […]

Thurs. Oct. 22, 7 p.m.  Faith Okpotor, Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar, U.S. Institute of Peace.  Hancock Hall, Rm. 2023, Marist College.

Mon. Nov. 2, 7 p.m.  Carlos Eire, T. Lawrence Riggs Professor of History & Religious Studies, Yale University and prize-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana and Learning to […]

Mon., Nov. 16, 7-8:30.  Facilitator:  Dr. Andrew Reiser, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Dutchess and President of the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley.  Great Decisions discussions are […]

Tues., Dec. 15, 6 p.m.  Members-only Annual Dinner.  Liza Donnelly, cartoonist, and writer with New Yorker and Forbes.com and Cultural Envoy for the U.S. State Department, specializing in politics and […]

Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 7 pm at Vassar College, Rockefeller Hall 200 Supported by a Fulbright grant, the photographer, Alexandra Huddleston, lived in Timbuktu, Mali, for ten months to photograph […]

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 […]

Monday, April 4, 7-8:30 pm 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 […]

Saturday, April 16th, 2016 at Dutchess Community College Area college students organize and run a conference dedicated to world affairs.  A keynote speaker will present and there will be small […]