2023/24 Events

FALL
Tues Sept 12 Walk with Amal Event honoring displaced children. Hartford.
Tues Sept 12 A Discussion with the Ambassador of Pakistan H.E. Masood Khan. World Affairs Council of CT
Fri Sept 15 Rosh Hashanah in the Park Elizabeth Park, West Hartford
Wed Sept 20 Seminar with Dr. Bilal Sekou (University of Hartford) speaking about citizenship
Fri Sept 22 Stowe Prize Event with Dr. Ruha Benjamin author of Viral Justice: 
Wed Oct 11 The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination CT World Affairs Council
Wed Oct 11 China Town Hall
Thurs Oct 12 Half-Earth Day
Tues Oct 17 FIELD TRIP w/ CAP: Bethel Woods Center for the Arts **Required**
Thurs Oct 19 Seminar with Dance for Justice Workshop with Judy Dworin & CAP Program
Sat Nov 18 CT Forum: An Evening with Ken Burns
Fri Jan 12 Watkinson’s MLK Day Observance
Mon Jan 16 MLK Day Events- free, virtual events

SPRING
Wed Jan 31 University of Hartford 2023 MLK Event & Keynote Speaker
Mon Feb 26 Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts movies @ Real Art Ways
Tues Mar 5 International Women’s Day event with H.E. Roya Rahmani the Former Ambassador from Afghanistan 
Thurs Mar 7 ADL Never is Now Summit Javits Center NYC
Thurs Mar 14 CT Forum: Liz Cheney in Conversation 
Sat Mar 16 Taste of Ramadan Community Dinner Newington High School
Mon Mar 25 Seminar with Lawyers to Prep for CT Supreme Court Case @ Watkinson
Wed Mar 27 CT Supreme Court Case @ Watkinson
Wed Apr 17 FIELD TRIP w/ CAP: NYC Trip- Office visit & Briefing with Doctors Without Borders and Suffs! The Musical on Broadway **Required**
Thurs Apr 18 Social Justice Day at Watkinson
Mon Apr 22 & 25 Workshops on Khmer Magic Music Bus, Cambodia Music & Developing Effective Organizations with Tom Gromak & Steve Reige
Mon April 29 Movie Day with Creative Arts Program- Belfast
Mon May 6 Yom HaShoah Holocaust Observance at JCC 
Wed May 8 Optional Trip to see The Far Country at Yale Rep with CAP
Thurs May 16 Global Studies Evening Foisie Amphitheater
Sat May 18 Global Studies at the Night Market at Saint Andrew Dũng Lạc Parish, the Vietnamese Roman Catholic Quasi Parish at St. Mark the Evangelist, West Hartford
Sun May 19 Service at First Cathedral Baptist Church Service, Bloomfield
Mon May 20 Seminar with Wat & Global Studies Alum, Chance Carter- Senior Researcher, Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University & Appointed by Gov Lamont to CT Sitting Council
Tues May 21 CT Forum: Chefs! Top Chefs Dish on Food Flavor & Culture and Dinner at City Kebab House in Hartford
Fri 24 May Friday Prayers @ Farmington Valley American Muslim Center & Conversation with Imam
Mon June 3 Parkville Market, Hartford Final Exam: Year of End Activity & Lunch!

 

2022/23 Events​

Thurs Sept 22 2022 Stowe Prize Dr. Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America the Stowe Cente

Fri Sept 23 Global Security Forum  World Affairs Council of CT Goodwin College 

Sun Sept 25 Rosh Hashanah in the Park  Elizabeth Park, West Hartford 

Thurs Sept 29 30 Americans  New Britain Museum of American Art

Thurs Oct 6 My Children! My Africa! HeartBeat Ensemble Play 

Wed Oct 12 As Ukraine Goes, So Goes The World - Thoughts On Propaganda, Violence, And Democracy- Timothy Snyder, Ph.D.  UCONN Dodd Center for Human Rights 

Thurs Oct 13 Abraham Accords Virtual Talk  World Affairs Council of CT 

Thurs Oct 13 Half-Earth Day Virtual Conference 

Fri Oct 14 CT Forum: How Music Moves Us 

Thurs Oct 20 FIELD TRIP w/ CAP: MASS MoCA & William College Museum of Art *Required

Fri Oct 21 Climate and Environmental Justice in the 21st Century  UCONN Law 

Thurs Nov 10 ADL Never is Now Summit Leave campus for the Javits Center NYC 

Tues Nov 15 CT Forum: Evening with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor 

Wed Nov 16  China Town Hall (register here) with Jon M Huntsman Jr (Virtual)

Thurs Nov 17 Sustainable Design with the architect, Bruce Becker, Seminar Speaker

Thurs Dec 8 Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre with RJ Young Virtual- Mark Twain Center  

Mon Dec 12 Peniel E. Joseph on The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century Virtual Mark Twain Center 

Fri Jan 13 Watkinson’s MLK Day Observance 

Jan 16 MLK Day Events- free, virtual events

Fri Jan 1/27 Friday Prayers @ Farmington Valley American Muslim Center 

Sun Jan 1/29 Service at First Cathedral Baptist Church, Bloomfield 

Sun Jan 1/29 Service at ISKCON of Connecticut Hindu Temple 

Wed Feb 1 University of Hartford MLK Event Keynote Speaker: Rosa Alicia Clemente

Wed March  8 Global Changemakers International Women’s Day  World Affairs Council CT

Thurs Mar 23 CT Forum: Misinformation and Finding the Truth **Required**

March Seminar video conference with a refugee through the NaTakallam program

March Private movie showing at Real Art Ways **Required**

March Where There Be Dragons speaker 

Wed Apr 19  FIELD TRIP w/ CAP: NYC Trip- All Day event **Required**

Apr Social Justice Day at Watkinson 

Apr   Yom Hashoah Holocaust Observance (Required for seniors- B block)

Apr   Taste of Ramadan Community Dinner 

May Movie Day with Creative Arts Program

Thurs May 4 CT Forum: Husky Nation 

Thurs May 18 Global Studies Evening

June Parkville Market, Hartford  Final Exam: Activity & Lunch! 

2021/22

Sept 28 Migration & Motherhood Panel of refugees & NGOs. Virtual event w/ NaTakallam 

Sept 28-Oct 2 Global Security Forum: Competing for the Future  World Affairs Council of CT 

Goodwin College & Virtual  

Oct 10 ADL’s Walk Against Hate  **On-Campus REQUIRED** 

Oct 16- Nov 6 Miss Porters Global Seminar Series for Girls: Global Spread of Political 

Polarization: Saturdays 

Oct 18` FIELD TRIP w/ CAP: Bethel Woods Center at Woodstock, NY. American culture. 

Oct 19 China Town Hall & Teleconference Webinar with Fareed Zakaria

Oct 22 Half-Earth Day Virtual Conference Leave No Species Behind Talks through the day.

 Oct 23 Watkinson's Day of Community and Belonging, a virtual intraschool conference

Oct 28 Hagar as a Model of Faith: A Jewish and Muslim Perspective Hartford Seminary 

Nov 7-9 ADL Never is Now Summit. *Virtual* Please attend at least one event.

Nov 11 Arvin Singh, Seminar Speaker Fairy Creek Blockades, Where There Be Dragons

Dec 9 CT Forum: Creative Minds 

Dec 13 Seminar video conference with a Syrian refugee through the NaTakallam program

Jan 15 Watkinson’s MLK Day Observance 

Jan 18 MLK Day Events- free, virtual events

Feb 8 University of Hartford 2022 MLK Keynote Speaker: Yamiche Alcindor Online Event

Feb 25 CT Forum: The Fight For Racial Justice **Required**

March 2 Global Changemakers International Women’s Day  World Affairs Council CT

March 24 Flee Documentary private showing at Real Art Ways **Required**

Mon Apr 4 Seminar with Dr. Hazza Abu Rabia- Palestinian history and culture 

Tues Apr 5 Palestine Museum,  US & Dinner with Sanctuary Kitchen

Sat Apr 9 CT Forum: Life in 2042 

Mon Ari 25  Yom Hashoah Holocaust Observance (Required for seniors)

Mon May 2 Belfast Movie Day with Creative Arts Program

Tues May 10 A Night with President Lech Wałęsa CT World Affairs Council

Fri May 11 Freshly Squeezed with Dennis House - Sparking Joy Against the Odds @ Watkinson

Fri May 13 CT Forum: Brandon Stanton- creator of Humans of New York 

Sat May 14 Service at Emanuel Synagogue, West Hartford

Sun May 15 Service at First Cathedral Baptist Church, Bloomfield

Mon May 16 Seminar with Tom Gromak & Steve Reige- Khmer Magic Music Bus

Tues May 17 Social Justice Day at Watkinson **Required**

Thurs May 19 Global Studies Evening

Fri May 20 A Conversation with Andrew Young CT World Affairs Council

Fri May 20 Friday Prayers @ Farmington Valley American Muslim Center & Conversation 

with Imam Safwan Shaikh, Religious Leader & Youth Director

Fri June 3 Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition  

Mon June 6 Parkville Market, Hartford  Final Exam: Activity & Lunch! 

 

2020-21 Events

Thurs Sept 17  Welcome to the New World: with Jake Halpern & Michael Sloan webinar IRIS

Fri Sept 18** Erev Rosh Hashanah Service- online this year. Congregation Beth Israel 

Sun Sept 20 Environment, Justice, Identity, and the 2020 Elections webinar 

Wed Sept 23 Stowe Prize: An Intimate Conversation with Albert Woodfox: Incarceration in the US & legacy of slavery 

Sept 29-Oct 2 Global Security Forum: Battlefronts  World Affairs Council of CT.  

Sun Oct 4 Stowe Prize: An Interactive Experience with Albert Woodfo  on US Incarceration

Wed Oct 14 "Representation of Latino Art" workshop with Valentín Concha-Núñez 

Wed Oct 14* CT Forum: Debating Immigration 

Thurs, Oct 15 Gendered Justice: Female Perpetrators and Extremism  GW Program on Extremism

Sat, Oct 17 Global Seminar Series: Democracy Miss Porter’s Institute 

Sun, Oct 18 ADL Walk Against Hate & Concert Against Hate  

Through Oct 27 “This is Our Chance” film festival about the power of young people. 

Mon, Oct 19-23 The Jackson Laboratories Open House for Students  

Tues, Oct 20 Terrorism Prosecutions: Acting U.S. Attorney Seth D. DuCharme GWU Program on Extremism 

Wed Oct 21     Voting Rights & Voter Suppression in CT w/ Bishop John Selders & Laura Smits 

Wed Oct 21     Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote Film & Talk w/ Dr. Stefanie Chambers, Trinity Coll.

Thurs Oct 22     Half-Earth Day Virtual Event & Talks 

Mon Oct 26 Election 2020 U.S. Foreign Policy Forum Council on Foreign Relations 

Tues Oct 27 American Dreams Virtual Performance HartBeat Ensemble 

Nov 8- 22 ADL Never is Now Conference. You are encouraged to attend at least one event.

Nov 10-18 China Town Hall & Teleconference 

Nov 17-20 UN Tours & Briefings with UN, WHO, UNICEF, & ILO 

Sat, Nov 21 Open Border Virtual Conference 

Mon, Nov 23 Northeast Multimodal and Transit Summit 

Through Nov 28 The Who & The What TheaterWorks Hartford streaming play by Ayad Akhtar.

Mon Nov 30th Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar and author Azar Nafisi. Mark Twain House & Museum

Fri Dec 4 Friday Prayers with Farmington Valley American Muslim Center and Conversation with Safwan Shaikh, Religious Leader & Youth Director

Mon Dec 7 Seminar with Students from Hartford Seminary: Interfaith Dialogue

By Dec 7** Religious Services- during school or weekend online services. 

Mon Jan 18 MLK Day Events

Thurs Jan 21 The Capital Riot, QAnon, and the Internet

Tues Feb 2 Lessons From Apartheid: How Americans Can Join Across Racial Differences 

Wed Feb 10 Resistance, Activism, and Getting into Good Trouble with Dr. Yusef Salaam Hartford Black History Month

Wed Feb 24* Quincy Amarikwa, MLS Soccer player & founder of Black Players for Change 

Tues  Mar 2 Leadership Through Crisis: International Women’s Day  World Affairs Council CT

Thurs Mar 25 CT Forum: Our Favorite Authors  

Tues March 30* Loomis Chaffee’s Youth Climate & Environment Virtual Town Hall with Sen. Richard Blumenthal 

Thurs April 8 Yom Hashoah Holocaust Observance (required for seniors)

Thurs Apr 15 CT Forum: Happiness, Meaning & Fulfillment  

Fri April 23* Equity and Social Justice Day at Watkinson 

Wed Apr 28* From Hate to Hope: A Journey of Redemption Megan Phelps-Roper talk with ADL

Thurs Apr 29* Seminar Skype with Peterson Toscano: The Intersection of Religion & Climate Change 

May 18-20* Global Studies Evenings

Late May Seminar video conference with a refugee through the NaTakallum program

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2019-20 Events

Sun Sept 8   Welcoming the Stranger: Fundraiser & Talk with Refugees & IRIS West Hartford 

Fri Sept 20   CT Forum: Conversation with Seth Meyers 

Sat Sept 28     Global Security Forum World Affairs Council @ Goodwin College

Sun Sept 29**   Rosh Hashanah in the Park Congregation Beth Israel in Elizabeth Park 

Wed Oct 2*   Freshly Squeezed:  The Normalization of Hate  Watkinson  

Sat Oct 12   THE INVESTIGATION- A Crime in 10 Acts  HartBeat Ensemble @ Charter Oak Cultural Center 

Sun Oct 13***   American-Chinese Cultural Exchange: Fall Festival at Lyman Orchards

Wed Oct 16   Global Economy: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events CT World Affairs Council 

Fri Nov 1   An Evening with Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico  CT World Affairs Council 

Nov 1-3**   Religious Services at a local faith center- Attending with Wat or on your own

Mon Nov 4*    Assembly & Seminar w/ Dorje Dolma, author of Yak Girls

Thurs Nov 7   Bryan Stevenson winner of 2019 Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights @ UCONN

Nov 16 or 17***   American-Chinese Cultural Exchange: A Dong Supermarket

Mon Nov 18   China Town Hall & Teleconference   CT World Affairs Council  Trinity Coll 

Thurs Nov 21   ADL’s Never is Now National Conference- all day in NYC

Fri Nov 22   CT Forum: Climate Crisis 

Fri Dec 13*  Field Trip to NYC: Auschwitz Exhibit @  Museum of Jewish Heritage & Come From Away on Broadway

Sat Jan 11***   American-Chinese Cultural Exchange: American Grocery Stores 

Fri Jan 17   Just Mercy movie at a local theater on the afternoon of our MLK Day

Tues Jan 21*.  Empathy & Travel Seminar w/ Colleen Dougherty Where There Be Dragons Instructor  

Sun Jan 26   Welcoming Strangers to Our Tents: Honoring the Legacy of Abraham  Farmington Valley American Muslim Center Avon, CT

Sun Feb 2 Run For Refugees with IRIS in New Haven  

Sat Feb 8*** American-Chinese Cultural Exchange: Lunarfest at Yale  

Thurs Feb 13* Manahatta play at Yale Rep & Visit Native American Art Exhibit @ Yale Art Museum

Thurs Feb 20* Seminar Skype with a Syrian refugee, a NaTakallum program

Mon Mar 2 Disinformation, Propaganda, and Political Warfare World Affairs Council CT 

Tues Mar 3 Global Changemakers: Int’l Women’s Day World Affairs Council CT @ St Joe's Univ 

Wed Mar 4* Equity and Social Justice Day at Watkinson 

Thurs Mar 5 Seminar Skype with Mohammad Alabbadi, refugee expert in Germany 

Mon Apr 27 Yom Hashoah Holocaust Observance

May 11 & 14 Seminar Skype with Peterson Toscano, COVID & Climate Resiliency 

May 18-21 Global Studies Evenings

Sat May 2-23 Pandemic- A Call to Action A Global Meet-Up with Miss Porter’

Notes: 

* Mandatory Events off-campus or during school

**Religious Event: Each student is required to attend a religious service on their own or with Watkinson

***American-Chinese Cultural Exchange: Each student is required to one event