Churchill and Russia

Angela Stent to Keynote 2022 Churchill Conference in Kansas City. Register Now: Early Bird Pricing Ends May 31!

The International Churchill Society is pleased to announce that Prof. Angela Stent will be the Keynote Speaker at this year’s International Churchill Conference taking place October 6–8 in Kansas City, MO. Prof. Stent is a world-renowned expert on Vladimir Putin and will be speaking on the war in Ukraine. Register before the end of this month and save. For full conference details and to register, please CLICK HERE.

Prof. Stent spoke to the 2019 Churchill Conference in Washington, D.C. Born in London, she was educated at Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls and Girton College, Cambridge before earning her MA at the London School of Economics and her Ph.D. at Harvard. Since 1979 she has taught at Georgetown University.

This year’s conference will begin with an opening reception on the evening of Thursday, October 6 at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City. On Friday, October 7, conference attendees will be transported by luxury coach from Kansas City to Fulton, where America’s National Churchill Museum is located on the campus of Westminster College. In addition to touring the museum, lunch will be served. Guests will then gather in the historic Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury for the 2022 Enid and R. Crosby Kemper Lecture. Coaches will return to Kansas City following the lecture.

On Saturday, October 8, all events will take place at the World War I Museum. Speakers will include: Candice Millard, author of Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill; Katherine Carter, Property Curator at Chartwell; and Dr. Sean McMeekin, author of July 1914: Countdown to War and Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II. The conference will conclude that evening with the annual Gala Banquet inside the museum.

Please join us for what promises to be a thought-provoking examination of how the past is meeting the present.

National WWI Museum and Memorial, Kansas City

Join us at the National WWI Museum for the 39th International Churchill Conference. Kansas City, October 6-8, 2022Please join us for what promises to be a timely topic at poignant and thought-provoking venues during what has already become a year of both war and peace.

Bulletin #167 — May 2022