Speaking on Union in Newport, R.I., April 21
Salve Regina University Newport, RII'll be speaking on my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, and the battle between civic and ethno-nationalist visions of the country at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, where I am a Pell Center Senior Visiting Fellow. The event is free and open to the... Read more »
Presenting at Cornell IOP’s State of Democracy summit in NYC, May 24,
Cornell Club of New York City New York, NYI'll be presenting on the work we'll be doing at Nationhood Lab, the project I'm founding at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, at a "State of Democracy" summit being held I'm New York City May 24 by the Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs. Headliners include Reps. Adam Schiff... Read more »
Speaking on Union in Portland, Maine, Oct. 19
University of New England - Innovation Hall Portland, MEI'll be delivering the keynote address at the Maine Conservation Alliance and Maine Consideration Voters' annual Evening for the Environment on Oct. 19 at the University of New England in Portland, Maine. The topics are the issues raised in my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood with... Read more »
Speaking on saving our democracy, Freeport, Maine, Oct. 20
Meeting House Arts 40 Main Street, Freeport, MEI am pleased to be joining the fall line up of speakers at Freeport Speech, the speaker series held at the Meeting House Arts in downtown Freeport, Maine. I'll be speaking on How to Save U.S. Democracy, a topic I've been working on at the Pell Center informed by my recent books American Nations, American... Read more »
Speaking at the State of the Unions conference; Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 16
Foundation for European Progressive Studies BrusselsI'll be joining a panel of U.S. and European experts discussing the implications of the U.S. midterm elections on international relations and Transatlantic diplomacy in Brussels, Belgium on November 16. The event, co-hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Brussels-based think tank the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, is part... Read more »
Speaking on the American condition, past at present, at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. (Private)
Embassy of the Republic of France to the United States Washington, DCI'll be joining France's Ambassador to the U.S., Phillipe Etienne, to speak about the backstory to the present American condition and other relevant political and historical phenomena at the Embassy of France's annual meeting of Consul-Generals and Honorary Consuls January 13 in Washington, D.C. The presentation -- informed by my work at the Pell Center... Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.