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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Greater Reading World Affairs Council’s local AWQ competition is scheduled for March 11th, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Schmidt Training and Technology Center at Reading Area Community College. Ten Berks County school districts (Antietam, Boyertown, Conrad Weiser, Governor Mifflin, Exeter, Muhlenberg, Schuylkill Valley, Twin Valley, Wilson, Wyomissing) ten advisors and eighty-nine […]
Linda Robinson is senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) where she writes about women's political and economic leadership, the relationship between gender equality and democracy, technology-facilitated violence, and current international affairs. She was previously a senior international researcher and director of the Center for Middle East Public […]
Glenn Fine is a nonresident fellow in the Governance Studies program at The Brookings Institution. Fine served as the Inspector General for the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations. As the Inspector General, he supervised and issued reports of investigations and audits on many high-profile issues facing […]
The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading presents: A Tale of Two Colleges. The U.S. Army War College and Dickinson College. An in-depth tour of The War College. APRIL 10, 2025, ITINERARY8:30 a.m.: Tour bus departs from Walmart, Wyomissing.10: a.m.: Arrive at Dickerson.11:30 a.m.: Depart for luncheon at Fiddler’s Bar & Grill.1:30 p.m.: Depart Fiddler’s […]
Sherri Goodman, Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute, and Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security, is credited with educating a generation of US military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, “threat multiplier,” […]
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 will oversee […]
Bring your family and meet other members of the World Affairs Council of Greater Reading for a night at the all new Redners Event Center in the First Energy Stadium, aka “Baseballtown” . Watch the R-Phils play the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in a brand new climate controlled event center located above the home run […]