Weekly Club Meeting to be held at CCY and on Zoom.
During a career that spanned 26 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, John Dickson served in five different countries, advancing American interests and working to enhance cooperation with our international partners. Since leaving the Foreign Service in 2010, he completed graduate studies in the Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts. There, John explored the relevance of historical understanding to our relations with other countries, the subject of his book, History Shock, When History Collides with International Relations, published by the University Press of Kansas in 2021. His contributions on history and foreign affairs have been published in both the Berkshire Eagle and History News Network. He teaches foreign affairs at the Osher Lifelong learning Institute and is founder and President of Encore de la Paix, a service organization for returned Peace Corps Volunteers from Gabon.