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Sly Fox Taphouse 820 Knitting Mills Way (Parking/entry in rear), Wyomissing, PA, United States

TEAM REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 14TH An evening of fun with the proceeds benefiting scholarships for outstanding Berks County High School Senior students interested in International Relations, Political Science, Public Administration, and Global Studies.[et_pb_image src="https://wacreading.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PDFXEdit_0Bzh8MZ8Yq-265x300.png" alt="Raffles: Craft Beer Liquor Wine Golf Silent Art Auction" title_text="PDFXEdit_0Bzh8MZ8Yq" _builder_version="4.27.0" _module_preset="default" width="100%" custom_margin="0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false" custom_padding="0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false" global_colors_info="{}"]Scholarships are in recognition […]

Globally Adept: How Lifelong Learning Shapes a Better World with Carol Jenkins

McGlinn Conference Center 460 Saint Bernardine Street, Reading, PA, United States

Carol Jenkins is the CEO of World Learning Inc., which encompasses three distinct branches: The Experiment in International Living; School for International Training, which includes SIT Study Abroad and SIT Graduate Institute; and the nonprofit global development and exchange unit World Learning. Jenkins also serves as president of the global development and exchange division, where […]

Bringing Order to Anarchy – Governing the World to Come with Charles Kupchan

Virtual Event PA, United States

Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government. From 2014 to 2017, Kupchan served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the staff of the […]

Don’t Give Up on Haiti- There is a Way Forward with Keith Mines

McGlinn Conference Center 460 Saint Bernardine Street, Reading, PA, United States

Keith Mines is vice president of the Latin America program at USIP. Mines joined USIP after a career at the State Department, where he was most recently director for Andean and Venezuelan affairs. In 32 years of diplomatic and military service, he has worked on governance and institution building in Central America and Colombia; Middle […]

The War in Ukraine in 2025 and Beyond-Tell Me How This Ends with Michael O’Hanlon

Virtual Event PA, United States

Michael E. O’Hanlon is a senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy. He directs the Strobe Talbott Center on Security, Strategy and Technology, as well as the Defense Industrial Base working group, […]

Sudan with Dr. Randall Fegley – EVENT CANCELLED

McGlinn Conference Center 460 Saint Bernardine Street, Reading, PA, United States

EVENT CANCELLED Dr. Randall Fegley, Associate Professor of History at Penn State Berks, was named Executive Director of the Sudan Studies Association (SSA) during the organization?s 32nd Annual Conference on May 24, 2013, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. This followed his completion of a two-year term as SSA President. In this role, Fegley […]

North Korea under Kim Jong Un-A Security Challenge with a Few Good Options – with Dr. Terrence Roehrig

Virtual Event PA, United States

This will be a virtual event. Professor of national security affairs, Terrence Roehrig has been a research fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University in the International Security Program and the Project on Managing the Atom. He is a non-resident expert at the Center for Korean Legal Studies at Columbia University. He has published […]

American Foreign Policy: The Next Four Years

McGlinn Conference Center 460 Saint Bernardine Street, Reading, PA, United States

The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading will hold a forum on “American Foreign Policy: The Next Four Years”, Wednesday, January 15, 2025,  4-5 p.m., the McGlinn Conference and Spirituality Center, 460 Bernardine Street, Reading, PA.   The event is free of charge.  Advanced registration is encouraged but not required. Dr. Irene Langram, vice president for […]

How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impacts of Economic Warfare with Dr. Narges Bajoghli

Virtual Event PA, United States

Narges Bajoghli (pronounced: Nar-guess Baa-jogh-lee) is a scholar, public intellectual, and award-winning author whose work explores the intersections of media, power, and resistance in global politics. She serves as the Faculty Lead of  Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and is the co-director of the Rethinking Iran Initiative. Narges is also the […]

Oversight of Government Programs and Funds: Domestic and International Structures and Challenges – with Ann Calvaresi Barr

McGlinn Conference Center 460 Saint Bernardine Street, Reading, PA, United States

This event is rescheduled for Thursday February 20 due to an inclement weather forecast. Former Inspector General Ann Calvaresi Barr led the oversight of activities conducted by USAID, the U.S. African Development Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. In fiscal year 2017, USAID alone managed nearly $30 […]