Upcoming Alworth Institute Programs:
Tuesday, March 24th, Noon, Kathryn Martin Library Rotunda (4th floor) - "Travel Talk: Greenland Sailing Adventure with Mark & Katya Gordon."
Description: In this presentation, Mark and Katya Gordon from Two Harbors will share stories from their adventure with Lonnie Dupre and Pascale Marceau aboard sailing vessel Nord Hus last summer, crossing the Labrador Sea and cruising along the Greenland coast. They will share their impressions of Greenland as a spectacular country and its unique people caught in a global crossfire.
Tuesday, April 7th, Noon, Kathryn Martin Library Rotunda (4th floor) - Dr. Liz Wright, "The Jewish Diaspora in the Caribbean, the American Revolution, and an 18th century Graveyard."
Description: Dr. Elizabethada Wright will speak about a project she is beginning with members of the Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas to restore a Jewish cemetery in the United States Virgin Islands. Before discussing the project, she will overview the history of the Jewish diaspora in the Caribbean--and how many of the eighteenth-century Jewish people of St. Thomas came to the island because of the American Revolution. She will also discuss seventeenth-, eighteenth, and nineteenth century Jewish graveyards and history in other parts of the Caribbean.
Tuesday, April 14th, 8am-2pm - Global Colloquium (co-sponsored with International Programs & Services). See more info & register here.
Tuesday, April 21st, 6PM, Kirby Ballroom- WORLDQUEST Trivia Game (more info to come)
Thursday, April 23rd, 6PM, Marshall W Alworth Hall 195 - Royal Alworth Jr Memorial Lecture: Douglas Nord, "Building Bridges: Learning from Duluth's Experiences in Pursuing Community-Based Diplomacy."
Description: This talk will discuss Duluth’s conduct of its sister-city diplomacy over the past four decades. Its primary focus will be on the manner in which this effort at community engagement in international affairs was initiated and conducted during this period. Consideration will be given to the several types of initiatives that were pursued and their consequences. Special attention will be directed to the evolution of the community’s linkages with Petrozavodsk in Russia and how this relationship has been shaped by both local and external forces. An effort will be made to explain what lessons can be learned from these undertakings of diplomacy at a local level and what may be the current and future challenges encountered by any municipality desiring to build and maintain connections with the broader global community.