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Kalpen Trivedi, senior vice provost for global affairs, has been invited to present during the 80th Annual Hamilton Hall Lecture Series on World Affairs. Trivedi will present “Strategic Positioning in Global Higher Education: Partnerships, Student Mobility, and Geopolitics” at historic Hamilton Hall in Salem at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 5.

Designed by architect and woodcarver Samuel McIntire, Hamilton Hall was built in 1804-05 and is a designated Registered National Historic Landmark. The hall was built to be an assembly hall used for meetings, dances, receptions, banquets, musical performances, lectures and other social events, and has an unbroken history of hosting such events.

The lecture series dates to 1946 when, after World War II, a group of Salem women who knew of the need for improvements, restoration and general maintenance of the hall formed a Current Events Committee to organize a weekly lecture series on world affairs. The lectures were planned to take place on the eight Thursdays in February and March at 11 a.m. The series continues to be offered today, at the same time and place, with the modern addition of remote replays made available to ticket holders.

Tradition plays a large part in the series and little has changed since its inception, including the serving of bouillon in the hall’s Lafayette Room before each lecture. 

Tickets for Trivedi’s presentation, and more information about the hall, its history and the history of the Lecture Series, can be found at HamiltonHall.org.