All events are in the Boulder Public Library 鈥� Main, Boulder Creek Room, 1:00 鈥� 3:00pm
1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder CO 80302
Thursday, March 21st 鈥� Venezuela
Details to follow.
Thursday, March 28th聽 - 鈥淭ajikistan, the 鈥淪tans鈥� and The Silk Road and Chinese plans.鈥�
Resource person: Peter Kleinman.聽Peter and several Boulder friends spent three weeks in Tajikistan this summer biking and visiting Dushanbe, the capital, which is a Boulder Sister City and the source of our famous tea house.聽Before and after the trip Peter has spent time studying this often ignored area of the world.
Thursday, April 18th - 鈥淐olombia - Five years through the eyes of a reporter.鈥�
Resource Person: Taran Volckhausen, Freelance Writer and Editor, has recently returned from five years in Colombia.聽While there his particular focus was environmental stories in the context of the peace deal鈥�
Thursday, April 25th - 鈥淲atson Scholar鈥檚 projects to help their native countries.鈥�
Resource Persons: Several Watson Scholars will discuss the projects they are developing to implement in their home countries. They are working on these projects while studying here in Boulder.聽There will also be comments on growing up in their homelands and their first perspectives on the US. Johanam Abdalla, Guatmala and聽Yousra Kherkhache,聽Algeria, have already accepted and UN专C is talking to other students from Haiti and Rwanda and possibly others.