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Student World Affairs Conference: “Global Poverty and Development”

Saturday, April 16th, 2016 at Dutchess Community College Area college students organize and run a conference dedicated to world affairs.  A key note speaker will present and there will be small workshops with papers presented by students on the Global Poverty topic.  Come enjoy their enlightening presentations and discussions. http://www.hvworldaffairscouncil.org/swac-call-for-papers/

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Great Decisions: “The Rise of ISIS”

Monday, April 4, 7-8:30pm at the Boardman Road Branch of the Poughkeepsie Library. James Ketterer, Director of International Academic Initiatives and Senior Fellow Institute of International Liberal Education, Bard College, and World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley Board member, will facilitate a discussion on “The Rise of ISIS”. Born out of an umbrella organization […]

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Academic World Quest

Academic World Quest 2016

In 2016, Spakenkill High School team members, Courtney Noll, Neil Errickson, Jon Shwoerer, and Jacob Webster won the Regional Academic World Quest Competition, thus landing them a position at the National competition in Washington, D.C. to compete with the guidance of their coach, Jim Daley. Christopher Weida from the World Affairs Council accompanied the team […]

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Mahamoudou Baba Hasseye - Imam of Sidi Yahia; see research notes

Timbuktu: An Illustrated Talk by Alexandra Huddleston

Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 7pm at Vassar College, Rockefeller Hall 200 Supported by a Fulbright grant, the photographer, Alexandra Huddleston, lived in Timbuktu, Mali, for ten months in order to photograph the city’s culture of Arabic language scholarship, a tradition of learning and teaching that has been passed down from teacher to student since the […]

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