February 2015
“India Awake? The Promise and Peril of Recent Elections in the World’s Largest Democracy”
The public is invited to attend a World Affairs Forum Great Decisions event featuring Dr. Manu Bhagavan, Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, where he is Chair of the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. Mr. Bhagavan will speak on “India Awake? The Promise and the Peril of Recent Elections in the World's Largest Democracy” at the Greenwich Library on February 23, 2015. Dr. Bhagavan is a specialist…
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“Human Trafficking in the 21st Century”
The public is invited to attend a World Affairs Forum Great Decisions event featuring Joseph Chamie, Former Director, United Nations Population Division. Mr. Chamie will speak on “Human Trafficking in the 21st Century” at the Greenwich Library on April 27, 2015. Chamie is currently an independent consulting demographer. As recently as 2011 he was research director at the Center for Migration Studies, New York and editor of the International Migration Review. Formerly, he was the director of the United Nations…
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The Koreas
The public is invited to attend a World Affairs Forum Great Decisions event featuring Charles Armstrong, PhD, professor at Columbia. Armstrong will speak on “The Koreas” at the Greenwich Library on Feb. 22, 2016. Dr. Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Columbia University. He has taught at Princeton, the University of Washington, and Seoul National University, and joined the Columbia faculty in 1996. He is the author,…
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“ISIS”
The public is invited to attend a World Affairs Forum Great Decisions event featuring Dr. Stuart Gottlieb, professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Gottlieb will speak on “ISIS” at the Greenwich Library on Apr. 25, 2016. Gottlieb teaches courses on American foreign policy, counterterrorism, and international security. He also is a member of Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and teaches part-time for New York University’s graduate program in International Relations. Prior to…
Find out more »October 2016
‘Healing Hearts, Mending Minds’ Fundraiser to Kick Off Mental Health Awareness Week
A benefit concert to celebrate the healing powers of art will be presented by NAMI Southwest CT to kick off Mental Health Awareness Week, which takes place the first week of October. Singers, songwriters, dancers, choreographers, pianists, and storytellers from Fairfield and Westchester counties will perform in a concert of hope and recovery for those challenged by mental health issues. The benefit concert, entitled Healing Hearts and Mending Minds, will be held October 1 at Cole Auditorium in Greenwich Library. Proceeds will benefit the…
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Wither France and the EU in a Time of Resurgent Nationalism
The World Affairs Forum, dedicated to expanding understanding of global affairs and America’s role in the world, presents a Great Decisions Series event: “Wither France and the EU in a Time of Resurgent Nationalism” Hosted by Herrick Chapman, Associate Professor of History and French Studies, Dept. of History and Institute of French Studies, New York University. Herrick Chapman teaches history and French studies at New York University. He is the author of France's Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern…
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