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Monday, March 19

World Affairs Council of Western Michigan hosts Desiree Cormier, Senior Director for Africa Practice at Albright Stonebridge Group, for "South Africa at a Crossroads: Implications for U.S.-South Africa Relations." Details

South Dakota World Affairs Council hosts Molly Enz, Coordinator of the Global Studies program at South Dakota State University, for "Senegal's Creative Class: Intersections of Cultural Production, Political Engagement and Social Change."  Details

International Institute of Buffalo hosts David Rankin, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at SUNY Fredonia, for "Media and Foreign Policy."  Details

Naples Council on World Affairs hosts Jamie Horsley Esquire, Senior Fellow of the Pal Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, for "China's Internal Affairs."  Details

Santa Fe Council on International Relations hosts Siegfried Hecker, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, for "A Tour of the Nuclear World." Details

Tuesday, March 20

World Affairs Council of New Hampshire hosts Governor Bill Richardson, Founder of the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, for "The Need for Diplomacy in North Korea and the Crisis in Myanmar: Two Major Challenges for America." Details

WorldOregon hosts Lourdes 'Lulu' Garcia-Navarro, Host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, for "Reporting the News in an Age of Noise." Details

World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts hosts Mark Hambley, Managing Director of International Matters at Apollo Security, for "Developments on the Arabian Peninsula."  Details

World Affairs Council - DC hosts Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, former Principal Officer of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, to discuss her book, Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba.  Details

World Affairs Council of Seattle hosts Rula Asad, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Syrian Female Journalists Network, and Anna Fleischer, Advocacy and Communications Manager at Women Now for Development, for "On Behalf of Themselves: Syrian Women Organize for Justice."  Details

World Affairs Council of Connecticut hosts a panel of Consuls General for "Diplomat Reception." Details

World Affairs Council of Philadelphia hosts Ram Mudambi, Perelman Senior Research Fellow for the Department of Strategic Management at Temple University, for "Emerging India: A Growing Economic and Geopolitical Force."  Details

World Affairs Council of Palm Beach hosts Randy Pestana, Senior Policy Analyst at Florida International University's Gordon Institute, for "Corruption and Conflict in Central America."   Details

Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy hosts Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Professorial Lecturer in African Studies at John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, for "Natural Resources: A Boon or Curse for the Democratic Republic of Congo?" Details

Indiana Council on World Affairs hosts Ed Delaney, Democratic Representative in the Indiana House of Congress, for "Russia and Foreign Policy." Details

Colorado Foothills World Affairs Council hosts Tenzin Dickyi, Editor of The Treasury of Lives, for "Tibetan Stories: Homeland, Exile, Diaspora." Details

World Affairs (Northern California) hosts Alaina Percival, Chief Executive Officer of Women Who Code, and Trish Tierney, Co-Founder of Women's Alliance for Knowledge Exchange, for "Tech for Women Across the Globe." Details

Wednesday, March 21

World Affairs Forum (Stamford) hosts Catherine Lotrionte, Director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security at Georgetown University, for "Establishing a Stable World Order for Cyberspace."  Details

World Affairs Council of Tacoma hosts Steve Niva, Professor of Global and International Studies at The Evergreen State College, for "The Refugee Crisis and the Re-Bordering of Europe."  Details

World Affairs Council of South Texas hosts Jennifer Epley, Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, for "U.S.- Asia Relations: Rising to Challenges Ahead." Details

World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Anna Freeman, Field Nurse with Doctors Without Borders, for "A Voice From the Field." Details

International Relations Council (Kansas City) hosts a panel of experts for "Um Retrato Atual: Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives on Brazil in 2018." Details

World Affairs Council of Connecticut hosts panels of experts on Germany and Peru for events that span two days: "Meet the Market Germany, Opportunities for Advanced Manufacturing", and "Meet the Market Peru, Infrastructure, Mining, and Construction."  Details  

World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth hosts Casimir Yost, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, for "The Art of the Deal: Our Foreign Policy One Year Later." Details 

World Affairs (Northern California) hosts Gemi Gonzalez Jose Gonzalez Lopez , Consul General of Mexico in San Francisco, for "NAFTA at the Negotiating Table." Details  

Thursday, March 22

WorldOregon hosts Alexander Montgomery, Co-Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Political Networks, for "Networks, Nukes, and North Korea: Or, How You Might Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." Details

World Affairs Council of Greater Hampton Roads hosts Daniel Fried, Distinguished Fellow in the Future of Europe Initiative and the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council, for "The State of World Affairs." Details

World Affairs Council of Sonoma County hosts Wei Liang, Program Co-Chair of the International Trade and Economic Diplomacy Department at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, for "Dragon in the Room: Is China Good or Bad for Africa?" Details

World Affairs Council of Atlanta hosts Kathy Walters, Executive Vice President for Consumer Products Group at Georgia Pacific LLC, for "Choices That Matter in Your Life and Career." Details

Alaska World Affairs Council hosts a panel of storytellers for "Foreign Faux Pas - Stories of Navigating Cultural Differences."  Details

Sarasota World Affairs Council hosts Jonathan Reiber, Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, for "The Future of Cybersecurity and Trends in Technological Risk: Impacts for U.S Foreign Policy and Politics." Details

Colorado Springs World Affairs Council hosts David Hendrickson, Chair of the Political Science Department at Colorado College, for "The Fate of an Empire: America's Russia Problem." Details