by Gordon Perlmutter | Feb 21, 2025
Excursion 2025: An in-depth tour of the U.S. Army War College and Dickenson College April 10, 2025. 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Seating limited to first 50 reservations. Reservations required by March 31, 2025. Cost: Members $85.00 Non-members: $100.00...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Feb 21, 2025
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...
by WAC Reading | Feb 18, 2025
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Feb 13, 2025
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Jan 22, 2025
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Jan 18, 2025
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Dec 31, 2024
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Sep 30, 2024
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Sep 30, 2024
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...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Sep 30, 2024
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...
