Harvard Club of Georgia

Sunday Supper - May 22

with guest: Mia Bloom, International Security Fellow at the New America and Professor at Georgia State University

DETAILS:

Sunday Suppers are casual gatherings where new ideas and stimulating conversation are the main fare. The guest speaker leads an informal discussion based on their work or topic of interest. Reservations are open to current Harvard Club of Georgia members and their guests on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendance is limited to 12 people in addition to the guest speaker so that the conversation is more personal and happens around the dinner table. 

NEW FORMAT: The dinners will be Pot-luck, so please bring a dish that you can share with the other guests. The May dinner will be at the home of Kathy Huyghe (Buckhead). 
If you are interested in hosting a Sunday Dinner, please contact Robert ( rahahn5@gmail.com )
You must be fully immunized against Covid to attend.

COST: Free, but you must register in advance.

RSVP: Open to first 12 HCG members

SPEAKER: Mia Bloom, International Security Fellow at the New America and Professor at Georgia State University

Guest Speaker

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  Meet Mia Bloom, International Security Fellow at the New America and Professor at Georgia State University

Mia Bloom conducts research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. She is the author of six books and over 70 articles on violent extremism including:

- Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (Columbia 2005),

- Living Together After Ethnic Killing (Routledge 2007)

- Bombshell: Women and Terror (UPenn 2011)

- Small Arms: Children and Terror (Cornell 2019)

- Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon with Sophia Moskalenko (Stanford 2021)

Her next book, scheduled for a 2022 release is Veiled Threats: Women and Jihad. Bloom is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has held appointments at Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and McGill Universities. She serves on the Counter-Radicalization boards of the Anti Defamation League, the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (UNCTED), Women Without Borders, and WASL - Women’s Alliance and Security Leadership Network. Bloom has her PhD in political science from Columbia University, Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and Bachelors in Russian, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from McGill, and her Pre-Doctorate from Harvard’s Center for International Studies and a Post-Doctorate from Princeton.