REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED!
Last day to Register for this in-person event:
Tuesday, February 13
This in-person event will be held at:
The Sheraton Madison Hotel, 706 John Nolen Dr, Madison, WI
Be sure to register on time!
Registrations and payments will not be accepted after Tuesday, February 13.
Chris Kolakowski will present on the conflict across the Taiwan Straits and in the South China Sea that regularly appears in the news. What is this conflict and how did it start? This presentation will give a background and basic overview of the situation, its origin, and recent developments.
Christopher L. Kolakowski is Director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, a position he has held sinceJanuary 6, 2020. He was born and raised in Fredericksburg, Va, but his mother’s family has very deep roots in the Badger State. Chris received his BA in History and Mass Communications from Emory & Henry College, and his MA in Public History from the State University of New York at Albany.
Chris has spent his career interpreting and preserving American military history with the National Park Service, New York State government, the Rensselaer County (NY) Historical Society, the Civil War Preservation Trust, Kentucky State Parks, the U.S. Army, and the MacArthur Memorial. He has written and spoken extensively on various aspects of military history and leadership from 1775 to the present, and was the inaugural Director of the General George Patton Museum and Center of Leadership at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Chris has published three books on the Civil War and two on World War II in the Pacific. He is a reviewer and contributor to the Air Force Journal of Indo-Pacific Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers. His latest book, titled Nations in the Balance and released March of 2022, is about the 1944 India-Burma battles.
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