Boulder school teacher Leanne Soucek and some of her students are blogging for Boulder Channel 1 at the Conference on World Affairs at C.U. this week. #CWA2015

About the Events:
A forum on international affairs since 1948, the Conference on World Affairs is hosted annually at the University of C.U. campus and encompasses the arts, media, science, diplomacy, technology, environment, spirituality, politics, business, medicine, human rights, and more.

All events are free and open to the public-and attended by students, faculty, staff, alumni, townsfolk, journalists and visitors from around the nation. Audiences range in size from an intimate 100 to over 2,000 at individual sessions, with a combined total of about 92,000 over the course of five days.

Find more on the Conferences and the #CWA2015 with continuing stories from students and C.U. professors!

Conference on World Affairs News

Sips from the Fire Hose: Distilled #CWA2015

April 10th, 2015

Malcolm Gibson: 2015 CWA attendance draws to a close--and before hearing reflections of 30 high school students tomorrow in Socratic Seminar, these are several of my first "sips," distilled from reflecting on a number of panelists' views. Over the next several days I'll share others.[READ|SHARE]

Sipping from the Fire Hose #CWA2015

April 10th, 2015

We need all the voices, all the knowledge and all the distilled wisdom. May we have the courage to sip and hydrate from the fire hose, not very comfortable....[READ|SHARE]

Thoughts on the CWA by Leanne Soucek

April 7th, 2015

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.[READ|SHARE]

Leonard Pitts talk

April 6th, 2015

Americans think "problem solved" because we are ruled by a black president named Obama and a black queen named Oprah.[READ|SHARE]

Student responses to globalization of terror

April 6th, 2015

Joanne Huskey talked about being in the EMBASSY bombing, she and her kids were in the basement and her husband was on the 4th floor. Everyone on the middle floors was killed. She strongly suggested using globalization against terrorism building understanding and connections with people of other cultures.[READ|SHARE]

Mind-blower #CWA2015

April 6th, 2015

As I stood in line to thank Joanne Huskey, I had the opportunity to visit with someone in line (since I didn't ask his permission, not saying his name or position). He, too, had survived in the '98 US Embassy bombing. I am humbled and praying for the safety of a child who is now working in Kenya...how do we create respect and trust? How do we release fear????[READ|SHARE]

Conclusion #CWA2015

April 6th, 2015

What is manageable degree of risk? Economy of security? Terrorists are winning because of money spent...[READ|SHARE]

Student Questions #CWA2015

April 6th, 2015

What is Rupert Murdoch's role in world problems?[READ|SHARE]

Joanne Huskey #CWA2015

April 6th, 2015

Media is culpable in creating us vs them..instead of responding after every incident ...[READ|SHARE]

Malou Innocent #CWA2015

April 6th, 2015

We have Allies in the region from whose security and economies we cannot extricate ourselves ...[READ|SHARE]

Jay Parker, continued #CWA2015

April 6th, 2015

Globalization is often described as "glories and advantages" of modern world, but often technologies bring I to contact cultures that don't yet know how to interact with each other. However, communication doesn't = understanding and understanding doesn't = agreement. Paradox that just by communicating and understanding, we won't necessarily "just all get along."[READ|SHARE]

Jay Parker #CWA2015

April 6th, 2015

Change = terrifying, and insecurity yields "doubling down" in fundamental beliefs, or seek out new centers of power.[READ|SHARE]

Continuing on global terror panel #CWA2015

April 6th, 2015

Fear generated by media-savvy tactics[READ|SHARE]

The Globalization of Terror #CWA2015

April 6th, 2015

Joanne Grady Huskey (Used to be a clown 🙂 ). She had taken her children for doc appt @ US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, 1998. Crawled out of basement hallway hole into wall of flames where car had been. 255 people killed. Al Qaeda debut. Husband survived because he was upstairs meeting with ambassador. For many in State Dept, that was 911....[READ|SHARE]

Conference on World Affairs

April 6th, 2015

A forum on international affairs since 1948, the Conference on World Affairs is hosted annually at the University of C.U. campus and encompasses the arts, media, science, diplomacy, technology, environment, spirituality, politics, business, medicine, human rights, and more.[READ|SHARE]

Macky Auditorium Live Stream of Conference on World Affairs April 7-11, 2014

April 7th, 2014

Live video Streaming for the Conference on World Affairs sessions at Macky Auditorium. Special thanks to Steve Jones, Bret Mann and Greg O'Brien.[READ|SHARE]

UMC Live Stream of Conference on World Affairs April 7-11, 2014

April 7th, 2014

Streaming for the Conference on World Affairs sessions at the UMC Center Ballroom. Special thanks to Steve Jones, Bret Mann and Greg O'Brien. Mon Apr, 7 2014 9:00 AM MST — Fri Apr, 11 2014 2:30 PM MST[READ|SHARE]

Conference on World Affairs online problems : Twitter let down Grays attend

April 9th, 2012

The one saving grace of this panel was to point out just what a waste of a persons life it can be. they couldn't stress how addictive Twitter and Facebook could be. The tone of this session was politically leftist with continuous barbs thrown at conservatives who use twitter. So much for CU chancellors new policy of fair and balanced. All of the panelists criticized main stream media for not covering the news. None of them could explain the business side of Twitter. They also seemed oblivious to the fact that Television and News papers lost their foothold[READ|SHARE]

CU Conference offers world affairs dialogue in its 64th year

March 28th, 2012

The University of Colorado Boulder’s annual Conference on World Affairs returns to campus for the 64th time April 9-13, with 200 events including panel discussions, performances and plenaries.[READ|SHARE]