Video and Audio of Past Programs
Here you can listen/ view past programs. If you haven’t been able to come to hear our Brown Bag luncheon speakers, you can catch them here and then join in the online discussion.
Special Dinner Event, November 12, 2012
A Conversation with Former Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
Topic: Lessons from a Long War: The US and the Strategic Challenges of the Broader Middle East.
Video: View on YouTube.com (1:34)
You can also listen to the audio here on the New England Public Radio Audio/Files site.
Instant Issues Luncheon Event: Monday, October 22, 2012.
Dr. U Ba Win, Vice President of Early College Policies and Programs at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and Photographer, Jonathan Doster.
Topic: What’s Going on in Burma/Myanmar?
Video: View on YouTube.com (1:24)
Annual Meeting of the World Affairs Council
October 10, 2012, Sheraton Springfield
Presentation by Jonathan Lash, President of Hampshire College on Living Beyond our Means: Do Global Issues of Sustainability Require Institutions of Global Governance?
Audio Podcast: Jonathan Lash’s Presentation
Instant Issues After Hours, October 4, 2012
The Glass Room at Elegant Affairs
Presentation by Douglas H. Johnson on Oil, People and the Border Conflict between Sudan and South Sudan
Douglas H. Johnson is a scholar specializing in the history of North East Africa, Sudan and the Southern Sudan. He is a former member of the Abyei Boundaries Commission established by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005, and the author of When Boundaries Become Borders (2010) and The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars: Peace or Truce? (2011). Dr. Johnson is currently a visiting scholar at Haverford College.
Audio Podcast: Douglas H. Johnson’s Presentation
Instant Issues 4-18-12: Ken Furst on the World Affairs Council Delegation Trip to Afghanistan
Audio Podcast: Ken Furst’s Presentation
Instant Issues: Conservationist John Cain Carter on 4-5-12
View his presentation: The Texas Chain Saw Stopper: One Man’s Mission to Save the Amazon.
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Annual Meeting of the World Affairs Council
October 4, 2011, Sheraton Springfield
Ambassador Ronald E. Neumann,
President of the American Academy of Diplomacy
Topic: “Afghanistan: Can We Succeed? At What Cost?”
Audio podcast of his talk (a little over an hour in length)
Biography (pdf)
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Brown Bag Luncheon, April 13th, 2011
Dr. Javier Corrales
Associate Professor of Political Science at Amherst College
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Topic:
The U.S.-Brazil Rapprochement:
What Does it Mean, Why Now, Will It Last?
Listen to a podcast
or
View the video