EVENTS ARCHIVE

Pomfret School welcomes many distinguished guests to the school each year. The Schwartz Visiting Fellow Program began in 1988, when brothers Michael L. Schwartz ’66 and Eric A. Schwartz ’69, both former trustees, awarded Pomfret a generous annual grant to begin a visiting fellowship program. The Schwartz brothers’ aim was to design a program to […]

event | January 25, 2016 Peter Bergen Islam, Gender, and Extremism : Muslim Women in the Fight Against ISIS and Beyond Monday, January 25, 2016 12:15 PM – 01:45 PM New America 740 15th Street NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 RSVP Map it ISIS has attracted an unprecedented number of women to jihadist extremism […]

New America holds a book discussion on “Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women who are Transforming the Arab World.”TIME: 12:15 p.m.LOCATION: New America, 740 15th Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, D.C.CONTACT: Maria Elkin, 202-596-3368, elkin@newamerica.org [Note: RSVP at https:// ]PARTICIPANTS: author Katherine Zoepf, fellow at New America; and Peter Bergen, vice president of New AmericaSUBJECT: ||MIDEAST/DAUGHTERS/BOOK|| Foreign Affairs; LOAD-DATE: January 14, 2016LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

January 11, 2016 Monday FINALEVENT: DISCUSSION – NEW AMERICA; LOCATION: New America, 740 15th Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, D.C. — January 11, 2016 3:00 PMSECTION: GENERAL NEWS EVENTSLENGTH: 66 words SUBJECT: New America holds a discussion on “Guantanamo Bay: Year 14.” PARTICIPANTS: Karen Greenberg, director of Fordham University’s Center on National Security; Close Guantanamo co-founders Thomas Wilner and Andy Worthington; […]

EVENT: DISCUSSION – THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION (NAF); LOCATION: NAF, 740 15th Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, D.C. — December 4, 2015 12:15 pm SECTION: GENERAL NEWS EVENTS – FUTURES LENGTH: 88 words SUBJECT: The New America Foundation (NAF) holds a discussion on a new report, “The Islamic State vs Al Qaeda: The War Within the Jihadist Movement.” PARTICIPANTS: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, […]

Senate Homeland Security Ctte. November 19, 2015, at 2 p.m. at a hearing titled “The Impact of ISIS on the Homeland and Refugee Resettlement.” PARTICIPANTS: Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Ann Richard; Leon Rodriguez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Peter Bergen, director of the New America Foundation’s National Security Studies Program; Brian Jenkins, […]