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UPCOMING HAPP EVENTS POSTPONED

The Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program continues to monitor the developments with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The health and safety of our speakers, guests, and staff is a top concern. Because of this, we regret to inform you that the following events have been postponed due to heightened caution surrounding COVID-19:

  • March 23: A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States with Eric Weitz
  • March 30: Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 with Eileen Boris
  • April 6: Gateway State: Hawaii and the Cultural Transformation of America with Sarah Miller-Davenport
  • April 13: Post Wall Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989 with Kristina Spohr
  • April 16: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher: How Their Relationship Mattered and Why the Cold War Ended When it Did with Archie Brown
  • April 20: What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War with Sarah Wagner
  • April 27: The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation with Thavolia Glymph
  • May 4: The Cigarette: A Political History with Sarah Milov
  • May 11: From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe with John Connelly
  • May 18: Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State with Benjamin Hopkins

The Wilson Center will continue to follow guidelines recommended by the White House, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), U.S. Department of State (DOS), World Health Organization (WHO), Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the DC Department of Health.

We apologize for the inconvenience. We very much hope that you will be able to join us once the events are rescheduled, and will update you as to the status of events planned for later this spring as the situation develops.

HAPP’s publication output will continue, including new blogs, new additions to the Digital Archive, and other research findings.

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