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SUMMARY:NATO and the Future of American Security Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join the World Affairs Council of Austin\, the Atlantic Council\, NATO ACT\, the Canadian Consulate General\, and UT-Austin’s Center for European Studies\, Strauss Center for International Security and Law\,\nand Clements Center for National Security for a public conference of NATO officials\, former policymakers\, and scholars engaging in a critical discussion about the role of the transatlantic alliance and its enduring value for Texans\, featuring keynote remarks from General Philippe Lavigne\, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation\, and Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison\, Former U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO and United States Senator for the state of Texas. \nThis year’s historic NATO Summit will take place in the United States from July 9 to 11. As Allies gather to celebrate 75 years of NATO\, the future of the world’s strongest military alliance will be a key topic of discussion for Heads of State and Government preparing for an era of unprecedented strategic competition and endemic geopolitical disruption. \nJoin us at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required and does not guarantee admission. Parking is available for a fee at Manor and Brazos garages.  Complimentary lunch will be available. \n \nAgenda: \n9:30 am – 10:00 am   •   Registration \nCoffee available \n10:00 am – 10:15 am   •   Welcome Remarks \nRobert Chesney\, Dean of UT-Austin School of Law \n10:15 am – 10:30 am   •   Keynote 1 \nGeneral Philippe Lavigne\, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation \n10:30 am – 12:00 pm   •   Panel 1: Securing NATO’s Future: The Challenges of a New Era  \nAudra Plepytė\, Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the United States \nGeneral (Ret.) Robert Neller\, former Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps \nChris Skaluba\, Director\, Transatlantic Security Initiative\, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security\,  Atlantic Council \nKevin Rex\, Former Ambassador of Canada to Latvia\, Lithuania and Estonia \nModerator: Sewell Chan\, Editor-in-Chief\, Texas Tribune \n12:00 pm – 1:00 pm   •   Lunch \n1:00 pm – 2:30 pm   •   Panel 2: North America and NATO: Fostering Political and Policy Dialogue \nMarie-Doha Besancenot\, Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Public Diplomacy \nLieutenant General (Ret.) Christine Whitecross\, Former Commandant of NATO Defense College \nValbona Zeneli\, Nonresident Senior Fellow\, Transatlantic Security Initiative\, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security\, Atlantic Council \nModerator: Adam Klein\, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law \n2:30 pm – 3:00 pm   •   Keynote 2 \nSenator Kay Bailey Hutchison\, Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO \n3:00 pm   •   Conference Adjourns \nPlease note\, this agenda is subject to change. 
URL:http://wacaustin.org/event/nato-and-the-future-of-american-security/
LOCATION:University of Texas
CATEGORIES:Ambassador,Europe,Geopolitics
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SUMMARY:ONLINE Lincoln\, Democracy & The American Experiment with Princeton Professor\, Allen Guelzo
DESCRIPTION:Hosted in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Connecticut and Global Santa Fe\, the World Affairs Council of Austin invites you to this ONLINE event on Lincoln’s birthday with award-winning historian and author Allen Guelzo. Mr. Guelzo will join a conversation with Jim Falk on the American President whose firm and powerful beliefs in democracy guided him through one of the most tumultuous periods in American history – and how his beliefs continue to shape our country. \nAbout the Book\nOur Ancient Faith: Lincoln\, Democracy\, and the American Experiment \nAn intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy\, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize. \nAbraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament\, judgment\, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War\, we know less about Lincoln’s penetrating ideas and beliefs about democracy\, which were every bit as important as his character in sustaining him through the crisis. \nAllen C. Guelzo\, one of America’s foremost experts on Lincoln\, captures the president’s firmly held belief that democracy was the greatest political achievement in human history. He shows how Lincoln’s deep commitment to the balance between majority and minority rule enabled him to stand firm against secession while also committing the Union to reconciliation rather than recrimination in the aftermath of war. In bringing his subject to life as a rigorous and visionary thinker\, Guelzo assesses Lincoln’s actions on civil liberties and his views on race\, and explains why his vision for the role of government would have made him a pivotal president even if there had been no Civil War. Our Ancient Faith gives us a deeper understanding of this endlessly fascinating man and shows how his ideas are still sharp and relevant more than 150 years later. \nPurchase Our Ancient Faith here. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\nAllen C. Guelzo is Senior Research Scholar at the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of several books about the Civil War and early-nineteenth-century American history. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize for Military History and has been awarded the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize three times. He lives in Pennsylvania. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Moderator\nJim Falk is President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. Now residing in Santa Fe\, New Mexico he is member of the Board of Global Santa Fe where he chairs the program committee. Jim co-hosts Perspectives Matter\, a McCuistion Program\, that airs weekly on KERA-Dallas (PBS). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\n\n 
URL:http://wacaustin.org/event/lincoln-democracy-the-american-experiment-with-princeton-professor-allen-guelzo/
LOCATION:ONLINE
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SUMMARY:Climate and Global Change: What to Expect
DESCRIPTION:Climate and Global Change: What to Expect and How to Build Resilient Infrastructure and Lives Throughout the World. \nClimate and weather extremes have been called an “existential threat” to life as we know it.  What can we expect as the associated extreme weather and changing weather patterns threaten infrastructure and lives throughout the world?  What opportunities might exist for the role of transnational organizations such as the UN to address this crisis? Finally\, what about the EU\, China\, India\, the US\, and their leadership roles? Prof. Dev Niyogi will present a program on what we\, and the world\, can expect in the decades ahead\, and possible options for our response. \n \nDr. Dev Niyogi is the William Stamps Farish Chair with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Jackson School of Geosciences. He is also part of initiatives such as Planet Texas 2050\, Good Systems for AI and Smart Cities\, and the Oden Institute Computational Engineering and Sciences and Center for Space Research\, Energy and Earth Resources.  Dr. Dev Niyogi is also an Emeritus Professor at Purdue University\, Indiana\, where he was a Professor in Atmospheric Sciences and served as the State Climatologist for Indiana.  He has also worked with the United Nations and UNESCO.
URL:http://wacaustin.org/event/climate-and-global-change-what-to-expect/
LOCATION:Neill-Cochran House Museum\, 2310 San Gabriel Street\, Austin\, TX\, 78705\, United States
CATEGORIES:climate change,educational
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SUMMARY:2024 Central Texas Academic WorldQuest™ Competition
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER your high school team before February 14th at 5:00 pm if your team is ready to compete in the Central Texas Academic WorldQuest™ (AWQ) competition. \nEach year\, Academic WorldQuest™ seeks to inform and engage high school teens and their teachers across the country in global affairs. More than 4\,000 students participate and test their knowledge of international affairs\, global current events\, and foreign policy. The winning high school teams at each local competition becomes eligible to participate at the Carlos and Malú Alvarez National Academic WorldQuest™ Competition in Washington DC (April 19-20\, 2024).  Our competition consists of 10 rounds of 10 questions about specific global themes.  Each team is comprised of currently enrolled students from the same high school.  All high schools located in our five-county metro region (Bastrop\, Caldwell\, Hays\, Travis and Williamson) are eligble to send a team to compete. \nThe partner organizations for the competition are the World Affairs Council of Austin\, Austin Community College\, the Center for European Studies\, and Hemispheres: The International Outreach Consortium at the University of Texas at Austin. \nWhat is it? \nAcademic WorldQuest™ is a flagship youth education program of the national network of World Affairs Councils. It is a team competition that engages more than 4\,000 high school students annually across the United States to test their knowledge of global issues and foreign policy. In the competition\, four-person teams compete by answering multiple-choice questions divided into ten unique and engaging thematic categories.  AWQ is a terrific opportunity to engage students in global affairs in a competition against fellow high school students in the Austin metropolitan area.  We have had great success and participation in this competition in past years and want to make it even bigger! \nJoin the competition! \nDate: Saturday\, February 22\, 2024 at Austin Community College’s Highland Campus from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm \n  \nRegistration Information \nTeams consist of four high-school students and at least one alternate team member.  High Schools may register teams of 4 students in grades 9 – 12\, however; the contest is especially relevant to students in World Geography\, AP Human Geography\, and Economics.  REGISTER YOUR TEAM BEFORE 5:00 pm on February 14\, 2024. \nHow do we prepare? \nAcademic WorldQuest™ competition student study guide is available here. \n2023-2024 AWQ Topics \n\n\n\nThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): Alliance and Collective Defense in a Changing World\nDemographic Dividends – Population Shift in Africa\nThe Global South\nPromoting a Green Europe\nSports and Diplomacy\nWomen’s Contributions to Track II Diplomacy\nNavigating AI: The Global Workforce\nCountry in Focus: South Korea\nGreat Decisions\nCurrent Events
URL:http://wacaustin.org/event/2024-central-texas-academic-worldquest-competition/
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SUMMARY:Globalist Coffeehouse: Climate and Global Change
DESCRIPTION:Climate and weather extremes have been called an “existential threat” to life as we know it.  What can we expect as the associated extreme weather and changing weather patterns threaten infrastructure and lives throughout the world?  What opportunities might exist for the role of transnational organizations such as the UN to address this crisis? Finally\, what about the EU\, China\, India\, the US\, and their leadership roles? \nThis is a follow-up conversation to a presentation by Dr. Dev Niyogi to the World Affairs Council on February 13th. Please see the link below to register. \n \n 
URL:http://wacaustin.org/event/globalist-coffeehouse-climate-and-global-change/
LOCATION:5280 Burger and Taphouse\, 7032 Wood Hollow Dr\, Austin\, TX\, 78731\, United States
CATEGORIES:climate change,Member Social
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