Upcoming events

Switch to Calendar View

• Dinner With Presentation “American Leadership Matters”

  • When
    Tuesday, September 07, 2021
  •  
    5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    The Madison Club, 5 E Wilson St

  Register

  Registration is required and ends September 2!

  Ambassador Mark Green will be in Madison to speak on why “American Leadership Matters”.
  
  Ambassador Green’s Wisconsin roots run deep.  He is a graduate of the UW-Madison Law School, was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, represented Wisconsin’s 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, and served as Ambassador to Tanzania and as Administrator of USAID.
  
  Green has also served in leadership positions at several prominent institutions, including Malaria No More, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, the Initiative for Global Development, the International Republican Institute, and the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
  
  In March of this year, he became the President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  This center is the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum and one of the top 10 think tanks in the world.

  Dinner details:

  • First course will be served promptly at 5:30pm
  • Dinner (chef's selection) and presentation to follow
  • $40 for all attendees
  • PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.  We will not allow walk-ins for this dinner event.
    

  
  

  Members, do you have questions about registering?  Check out our "Registration Tips For Members".

  Show details
• The Kurds: Must Stateless Mean Friendless?

  • When
    Tuesday, October 19, 2021
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

  Dr. David Romano holds the Thomas G. Strong Chair in Middle East Politics at Missouri State University.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and B.A. from McGill University.  Dr. Romano was a visiting doctoral student at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey and he held post-doctoral fellowships with the Canadian Department of National Defence, during which time he lived in Iraq and conducted research there.  Dr. Romano received the 2015 Missouri Governor’s award for teaching.
  
  Dr. Romano is a foremost scholar on Turkey, Iraq, the Kurds, and other Middle Eastern minority groups.  His interests in these areas are centered on nationalism, social movements, theories of peace and conflict, political violence, politicized Islam, Middle-East and Mediterranean politics and foreign policy.
  
  His work has appeared in journals such as International Affairs, The Oxford Journal of Refugee Studies, Third World Quarterly, International Studies Perspectives, the Middle East Journal, Middle East Policy, Ethnopolitics and the Journal of Kurdish Studies.  He is the author of The Kurdish Nationalist Movement (Cambridge University Press, 2006 - also translated into Turkish and Persian) and the co-editor of Conflict, Democratization and the Kurdish Issue in the Middle East (Palgrave Mamillan, 2014) and The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics (Lexingtoon, 2020).  From 2010 to 2020 he wrote a weekly political column for Rudaw, the largest Kurdish media site.  He currently writes political analysis pieces for Arab News.

  Zoom call details will be shared closer to the event.

  Show details
• Global Aspects of Trade and Security

  • When
    Thursday, November 11, 2021
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (CST)
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

  Jay P. Nash, President of Madison International Trade Association, will speak to us about “Global Aspects of Trade and Security”.
  
  Mr. Nash has worked in the field of international trade compliance for 15 years with experience in over a dozen countries in the Asia Pacific, Central Asia, Latin American, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
  
  As President of MITA, he is committed to helping Wisconsin companies succeed in the global economy.  He believes that international trade will continue to be a critical part of local, national, and global international growth.  MITA is well positioned to be a major player.

  Zoom call details will be shared closer to the event.
  

  Show details