05/19/2026
Save the Dates — CWC’s 2026 Contemporary Issues Forum Schedule!
Speaker: Dennis Wilder, Former Senior American Intelligence Official and Policymaker, Professor
Topic: “Washington’s Spies: Espionage in the Revolutionary War”
🗓️ July 4 at 3pm (Hall of Philosophy)
Speaker: Deborah Heiligman, Award-Winning Author
Topic: “Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story)”
🗓️July 11 at 3pm (Hall of Philosophy)
Speaker: Eunice Lin Nichols, Co-CEO, CoGenerate
Topic: “Better Together: Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society”
🗓️ July 18 at 3pm (Hall of Philosophy)
Speaker: Pedro Reis, Founder, Production & Artistry Strategist at The Circus Arts Conservatory
Topic: “Sawdust in the Veins: A Circus Artist, Producer, and Founder Shares”
🗓️ July 25 at 3pm (Hall of Philosophy)
Speaker: Sarai Johnson, Award-Winning Author
Topic: “Grown Women — Intergenerational Healing through Fiction”
🗓️ August 1 at 3pm (Hall of Philosophy)
Speaker: Jim Rasenberger, Author and Journalist
Topic: “Adams and Jefferson: Friendship, Rivalry, and the most ‘Perfect Coincidence’ in American History”
🗓️ August 8 at 3pm (Hall of Philosophy)
Speaker: Jonathan Deutsch, Ph.D., Drexel University
Topic: “How Chefs are Key to the Future of Food”
🗓️ August 15 at 3pm (Hall of Philosophy)
Speaker: Heather Ann Thompson, Ph.D., Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Historian at the University of Michigan
Topic: “Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage”
🗓️ August 22 at 3pm (Hall of Philosophy)