A Conversation with Madeleine Albright

PLEASE NOTE: The June 16 event with Madeleine Albright and Wellesley President H. Kim Bottomly is SOLD OUT; but the event will be streamed live.

On Monday, June 16, 2014, Madeleine Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State and Wellesley College Class of 1959, will return to Wellesley for a special conversation with President H. Kim Bottomly about her pin collection and foreign policy. Secretary Albright will discuss her jewel box diplomacy, take questions from the audience, and sign copies of her book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box (Harper Collins, 2009).  The event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, on view at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College from June 9 to July 20, 2014.

The conversation will take place in the Alumnae Hall Auditorium at 7:00pm, with a book signing to follow in the Alumnae Hall Ballroom. Doors open at 6:30pm.  Visitors attending the event should park in the Davis Parking Garage (first right after entering campus from the Route 135 entrance).

The event is ticketed, but is free and open to the public. To reserve tickets by phone, please call: 1.888.71.TICKETS (1.888.718.4253).

For information about the exhibition, please visit the Davis Museum website and for general inquiries, please call the Davis at 781.283.2051. 

Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection has been organized by the Museum of Arts and Design. Generous support for this exhibition was provided by Bren Simon and for the exhibition catalogue by St. John Knits.

Presented with major support from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis '28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership, and with additional funding provided by Wellesley College Friends of Art, and individual contributors Qi Gao and Ligang Jin P’16, Judith Gaillard Jones ‘60, and Mary Tebbetts Wolfe ‘54.