Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media. “America’s Future in the Global Economy”- Springfield Public Forum.
Author Mitch Albom, speaking engagement at Springfield College.
Jelani Cobb, staff writer for The New Yorker. “The Half-Life of Freedom: Race and Justice in America” - Springfield Public Forum.
91st Annual Meeting & Dinner with US Representative Richard Neal on Ireland & Brexit. The World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts at Springfield Sheraton Hotel.
Mt. Holyoke Weissman Center for Leadership. "The Media and Race: "Why It matters"“ by Tanzina Vega, CNN Money's national reporter.
Author Loung Ung, co-writer of “And Then They Killed My Father." On-campus speaker at WMA, lunch/breakout session for Global Scholars.
Michael Steele, former RNC Chair and political analyst on MSNBC. “The New Political Scene” - Springfield Public Forum.
Eagle Hill School to bring award-winning, best-selling novelist Viet Nguyện to Central Massachusetts.
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, Viet Nguyện received critical acclaim for his 2016 novel The Sympathizer and the short story collection, The Refugees. The Sympathizer earned him the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for First Novel, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction.
"Critical Connections: Trump Presidency and Foreign Policy in Middle East" lecture in Amherst.
To better understand the current direction of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, join us for a conversation with UMass Professor David Mednicoff and Professor Osamah Khalil, Syracuse University.
"Educate a Girl, Change the World" lecture by Shabana Basij-Rasikh, co-founder of SOLA, the School of Leadership in Afghanistan. Held at Symphony Hall in Springfield, as part of the Springfield Public Forum.
Mt. Holyoke's Weissman Center for Leadership - hosting Carmen Yulin Cruz Sotor, Mayor of San Juan.
The World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts, panel discussion on "The Refugee Experience in Western Massachusetts"
Springfield Public Forum, Adam Minter "Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion Dollar Trash Trade"
The World Affairs of Western Massachusetts, lecture by journalist and author Okey Ndibe "Does Nigeria Have a Fighting Chance Against Boko Haram?"
Springfield Public Forum, John Hunter "BluePrint for Peace"
Mt. Holyoke Global Resident in Scholar lecture "Women's Leadership: ending Wars and Building Peace".
Springfield Public Forum, Edith Widder "Light in the Dark of the Depth"
Springfield Public Forum, Fredrik Logevall "Embers of War, The Fall of an Empire in the Making of America's Vietnam"
Springfield Public Forum, Meet the Author breakout student session and lecture with Michael Moss, author of "Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us"
World Affairs Council Annual Dinner, lecture by Ambassador Marc Grossman, former U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan & Pakistan
Lecture, Mt. Holyoke College Global Scholar in Residence Olga Speranskaya "Toxic-Free Future: Health and Environmental Justice for Chemical Safety"
Dinner at WMA with Dr. Xiangming Chen, Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College
Springfield Public Forum, Isabel Wilkerson "The Warmth of Other Suns: Journeys of the Great Migration"
Springfield Public Forum, Senator Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: Fixing the Stalemate in Congress"
Springfield Public Forum, Sherry Turkle "Alone Together, The Flight from Conversation"
Global Scholar Holiday Dinner, Sharing our Cultures
Visit Wellesley College Art Museum
