Where Ideas Matter

Welcome

Welcome to The Salisbury Forum! We are a nonprofit organization based in the northwest corner of Connecticut whose mission is to host speaker forums that foster a deeper understanding of issues that affect our lives globally and locally. As the list of our past speakers below indicates, our forums cover a very wide range of topics, from wealth inequality to climate change to cybersecurity. Many of our speakers have ties to this community, and all of them present timely issues that inform us and even promote action.

While most programs were offered via Zoom webinars during the pandemic, we returned to live forums in the spring of 2022. They are free to the public and presented at one of three area schools: Hotchkiss, Salisbury, or Housatonic Valley Regional High School. You can view many of the recent programs at our Events Archive.

We welcome your ideas and comments and as a publicly supported organization, we appreciate your contributions. Please explore this website and join us soon at an upcoming Salisbury Forum program.

Pat Jenny
President

Our Upcoming
Events

Featured
NUCLEAR ENERGY – A SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE with Joshua Goldstein, PhD
May 11
NUCLEAR ENERGY – A SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE with Joshua Goldstein, PhD

In person event: Saturday, May 11th, 6:30 PM at Salisbury School. Register here for the event.

Free screening of Nuclear Now: The Salisbury Forum also invites you to stream Nuclear Now, a film co-written by Oliver Stone and Joshua Goldstein, free of charge between May 3 and May 19. Click here to register for the screening using the invite code: NNT-TSF

Joshua S. Goldstein is an award-winning scholar of international relations who has written and spoken widely on war and society, including war's effects on gender, economics, and psychological trauma, and on peace and diplomacy. His book, A Bright Future (with Staffan Qvist) is on international responses to climate change, especially Sweden's success in rapid decarbonization using nuclear power. It is the basis of the new Oliver Stone documentary, Nuclear Now!

Goldstein’s book War and Gender won the International Studies Association's "Book of the Decade" award. He is coauthor (with Jon C. Pevehouse) of the widely used textbook International Relations. Goldstein's book Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide (2011) was the Conflict Research Society's "Book of the Year" in 2013.

Goldstein has published articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, American Political Science Review, and Journal of Conflict Resolution, among others, and Op Ed pieces in The New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere.

For interesting background on current nuclear power policy and pending legislation in Congress, see this March 1 article from the NY Times.

History &
Mission

The Salisbury Forum is a nonprofit organization in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut founded in 2005 whose vision is a world where knowledge and information can bring about positive change.

Our mission is to foster deeper conversations and wider understanding on issues that affect our lives globally and locally by hosting speaker forums. They may give you a deeper understanding of an issue of importance, delight you with poetry or humor or challenge you to consider an unfamiliar subject.

Donations to The Salisbury Forum are most welcome! Your generosity will help us continue to invite exciting speakers from across the country, while permitting the Forum to make all events open to the public at no charge.

We are grateful for the continuing support of our organizational sponsors, Salisbury School and The Hotchkiss School, and the many community members who have donated regularly to the Forum. We hope you will consider making a donation if you have not already done so this season.

Please visit our Donor Page
For questions, suggestions, or comments, please email the Forum: info@salisburyforum.org