Windham World Affairs Council

Watch videos of past lectures here. Below is the beginning of the 2008 Falk Lecture Series talk at World Learning in Brattleboro, presented by Ronald Fernandez, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Central Connecticut State University. He spoke to the WWAC membership on March 1 about America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide.

Upcoming Events

Fall 2008 Durfee Lecture Series
Dr. David Lampton
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
September 26, 2008
7:00 pm
Refreshments served at 6:00 pm.
Brooks Memorial Library.

The Three Faces of Chinese Power .

Welcome!

As Chairperson of The Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont (WWAC), I welcome you to our website.

The Windham World Affairs Council is an all-volunteer, non-partisan, non-profit, educational organization with approximately 125 dues paying members. We are an active member of the World Affairs Councils of America (WACA), the largest foreign affairs organization in the country with over 86,000 members and 22 associated organizations.

The Windham World Affairs Council has served Southeastern Vermont, Southwestern New Hampshire and Northwestern Massachusetts since 1961. Our mission is to inform and educate the community in all aspects of U.S. Foreign Policy and global concerns. We sponsor a lecture series in the fall and another in the spring. Our winter program, formatted differently, usually provides small group settings for discussions. Our activities attract 600 – 800 attendees per year. They are free and open to the public.

We also sponsor an annual Academic World Quest competition. Six high schools in the area participate in a quiz program that requires extensive study of foreign affairs. Teams from those high schools then gather for an exciting competition in February. We send the winning team from our local competition to Washington, D.C. for the national Academic World Quest. There, in addition to participating the national quiz, our team has the opportunity to meet members of the press and representatives from the State Department as well as students from all over our country who share similar interests.

We are developing our outreach activities still further with the construction of this website and the publication of a newsletter.

We urge you to consider membership in the Windham World Affairs Council. Please note that there is a “Membership” link in this website that tells you how to join. Membership allows us to send you personal notification of each of our activities and a copy of our quarterly newsletter. In addition, you are offered discounts on periodicals that might be of interest to you such as The Economist and the Foreign Affairs Quarterly. Mostly, though, becoming a member enables you to join with us in a dialogue about world affairs and to support other Council projects.

Margo B. Neale
Chairperson,
Windham World Affairs Council

EVENTS UPDATE

2008 Durfee Lecture Series
September 26 & October 10, 2008
7:30 pm
Click here for information
Brooks Memorial Library. and World Learning

NEWS FLASH

Area High School Teachers Eligible for Turkish Study/Tour Program
Windham World Affairs Council Sponsors Project

The Turkish Cultural Foundation and the World Affairs Councils of America have invited the Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont, a non-partisan educational organization active in the Brattleboro area, to participate in a project to expose up to four area high school teachers to the culture and modern life of Turkey, including an expense paid tour there next summer.

"We are delighted that our application to participate in the program, and to sponsor four area teachers, was accepted," said Windham Council President Margo Neale on Saturday. "It'll be a wonderful opportunity for the teachers to learn about an important and ancient country...and to share their findings with people in our area."

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