Welcome to a new program year with the
World Affairs Council of Rhode Island
We begin the 2025-26 Dinner/Speaker Programs
Thursday, September 11, 2025
6:00PM
at the Hope Club
Six Benevolent Street, Providence RI
with:
Democracy in India: The case for a Federal Union.
Our speaker is Dr. Sugata Bose

Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in History at Harvard and as the Founding Director of Harvard’s South Asia Institute. Prior to taking up the Gardiner Chair at Harvard in 2001, Bose was a Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of History and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Read Sugata's full bio here
Members and their Guests $56.00 per person
Non-members $66.00
Cocktails at 6:00 (cash bar)
Dinner served at 6:45
(Menu forthcoming)
Presentation following
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We hope you will join us!