• The World Affairs Council of Jacksonville announced that Frank Trotter, president of EverBank Direct, and author Michael Mandelbaum will speak at March events. Trotter will speak at noon March 6 at The River Club about “Geopolitical Events & Sovereign Debt: Ideas to Cover the Risk.” Mandelbaum, the Christian A. Herter Professor and director of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, will speak at 7 p.m. March 13 at the University of North Florida University Center about “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back.” For information, visit www.worldaffairscounciljax.org.