2021 Fall Event Series Announced
We are pleased to announce our 2021 fall event series. Tickets to these events are free and will be available about two weeks prior to the event date. Please RSVP for each event on the Pell Center’s Eventbrite page and call 401-341-2927 or email [email protected] with questions. Scroll to the bottom of this page to sign up for our email list and be notified when tickets become available. While we currently plan to hold all of our fall events in person, they may be changed to a virtual format depending on the course of the pandemic.
Title: Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
Speaker: Tom Nichols, Ph.D., U.S. Naval War College
Date: September 13, 2021
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Salve Regina University, O’Hare Academic Building | Lawn – Cliff Walk*
In partnership with the Pell Honors Program and the League of Women Voters of Newport County
Title: 9/11 and Afghanistan: A 20-Year Retrospective
Speakers: Hayat Alvi, Ph.D. U.S. Naval War College & Mark Jacobson, Ph.D., Syracuse University
Date: October 13, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Salve Regina University, O’Hare Academic Building | Bazarsky Lecture Hall*
Title: Critical Race Theory and the End of Myth-Making: Into America’s Fear of Truth Telling (Part of Multicultural Education Week)
Speaker: David Stovall, Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago
Date: October 25, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Salve Regina University, O’Hare Academic Building | Bazarsky Lecture Hall*
In partnership with Salve Regina University’s Office of Multicultural Programs and Retention
Title: Presentation of the 2021 Pell Center Prize for Story in the Public Square
Honoree: Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times Dispatch
Date: November TBD, 2021
Location: Salve Regina University*
Title: End of the Evil Empire: 30 Years After the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Panelists: Evelyn Farkas, President, Farkas Global Strategies; George A. Krol, U.S. Ambassador (Ret.); & Peter Zwack, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Date: December 1, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Salve Regina University, O’Hare Academic Building | Bazarsky Lecture Hall*
*Location subject to change depending on the course of the pandemic.