American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Terrorism Topic of Next Distinguished Visitor Presentation
The UPEI Distinguished Visitor Speaker Series resumes Wednesday, August 9th with Dr. David B. Woolner. The presentation is entitled "American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Terrorism"
Woolner is Executive Director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, New York, and Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from McGill University, and a B.A. summa cum laude in English Literature and History with a minor in Latin from the University of Minnesota. A specialist in Anglo-American relations and U.S. foreign and economic policy in the 1930s and 40s, Dr. Woolner has delivered papers on FDR's foreign policy at conferences in Canada, the United States, Russia, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France and Korea.
He is the co-editor of FDR and the Environment, (Palgrave 2005); FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945 (Palgrave, 2003); editor of The Second Quebec Conference Revisited (Palgrave/St. Martin's, 1998); and is the author of Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden and the Search for Anglo-American Cooperation, 1933-1938, forthcoming Praeger Press.
Dr. Woolner has recently developed a new course for Marist College entitled America and the Challenge of Terrorism that will serve as the basis for his talk at UPEI.
The Distinguished Speaker Visitor Speaker Series takes place Wednesdays at 3 pm, with historic campus tours at 4 pm, throughout the summer and early fall.
Admission is free. In addition to Wednesday lectures, presentations are being scheduled at other times based on the availability of speakers. For more information contact Julie Mutch at 894-2834 or visit www.upei.ca/summer.
