Instant Issues Lunch: Dr. Laura Reed on "Avoiding World War III"

Instant Issues Series:

Our return to in-person events will be an Instant Issues brown bag lunch discussion on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at Noon EDT, featuring Council favorite Dr. Laura Reed on Avoiding World War III: Nuclear Threats in Europe, in the 3rd Floor Community Room at 1350 Main Street in downtown Springfield

Dr. Reed is a lecturer at the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst. She served as Assistant Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, a Fellow in the Managing the Atom Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and as a Research Scientist in MIT’s Security Studies Program. Her research interests include U.S. national security policy; implications of globalization for peace and security; nuclear security, nonproliferation, and disarmament initiatives; emerging norms of humanitarian intervention and collective responses to transnational problems.

• All attendees must register and pay in advance. No walk-ins.
• Every attendee will be required to present proof of vaccination for COVID before entering the program space. This can be a photograph or photocopy of your vaccination record card.
• Every attendee who wishes to wear a mask is welcome to do so.
• If you are not feeling well on the day of the event, please do not attend. We will make our refund policies as liberal as possible.

These protocols may change depending upon CDC, state and local guidelines

For those who purchase a meal, box lunches with a choice of sandwich--turkey, tuna, roast beef, vegetarian-- will be available (first come, first served). Lunches also include deli salad, a cookie, chips, and soda or water. (Attendees may bring their own lunch or choose not to eat.)

Registration is for the in-person event. Laura Reed’s talk will also be available virtually. Council board member Jeremy Cole and his company, Jdcole-TV, will be providing the equipment and personnel to stream her talk on YouTube Live. A link will be sent out to everyone on our mailing list closer to the date of the event. You can view the program live or stream a recording of the event at a later time on the World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts’s YouTube channel.

The Instant Issues series is generously sponsored by Wilbraham & Monson Academy, Glenmeadow, & Sir Speedy

Special thanks to NAI Plotkin