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 Die in Miami.  The Honors Center at College Hall, SUNY New Paltz.  Parking in the Main Lot on Rte. 32, Lot 28.

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 a collaboration with the Poughkeepsie Public Library District and are held at the Boardman Road Branch Library.

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 women’s rights.  American Bounty Rm., Culinary Institute of America, and Eco-Lab Theater. Please register for this event here. Thank you.

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 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 fifteenth […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 workshops with papers presented by students on the Global Poverty topic.  Come enjoy their enlightening presentations and discussions. https://wacmhv.org/swac-call-for-papers/

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 a Professor of History at Bard College in […]

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016, 7 pm 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".

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, […]

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 […]