Great Decisions 2025 at Manitowoc Public Library

Description

Manitowoc Public Library is proud to present Great Decisions 2025, our eighteenth year of hosting this preeminent eight-week grassroots lecture series that provides the citizens of the Lakeshore area with the opportunity to discover, discuss, and decide how to meet some of the world’s greatest challenges head-on. Increasingly, global events have become domestic concerns and Great Decisions takes you beyond the headlines with essential background information, relevant facts, ever-shifting policy options and impartial analysis.
 
PLEASE NOTE: Great Decisions 2025 will be presented in a hybrid format—offered in-person in MPL’s Balkansky Community Room, as well as livestreamed simultaneously online on both our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/manitowoclibrary) and YouTube channel (unless otherwise indicated)
 
The lecture schedule is as follows:
 
February 3       U.S. Changing Leadership of the World Economy, Pablo Toral, PhD, Beloit College
February 10     After Gaza: American Policy in the Middle East Beth Dougherty, PhD, Beloit College
February 17     The Future of NATO and European Security, Martin Farrell, PhD, Ripon College (Retired)
February 24     International Cooperation on Climate Change, Elizabeth Wheat, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
March 3           AI and American National Security, Dave Schroeder, MS, MA, CISSP, CEH, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 10         US-China Relations, Judd Kinzley, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 17         India: Between China, the West, and the Global South, Amitabh Pal, Journalist/former Editor of The Progressive, Adjunct Professor at Edgewood College, Madison
March 24         American Foreign Policy at a Crossroads, Martin Farrell, PhD, Ripon College (Retired)
 
The Great Decisions Series is FREE and open to the public. No registration is required. For a more detailed description for each of the above topics, please head to www.manitowoclibrary.org/events/great-decisions.