• Navigating Business Overseas—Without Falling on Your Assumptions

    AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center 1900 University Ave, Austin, TX, United States

    Intercultural communication can complicate business practices. Here’s your chance to practice and learn to recognize your own cultural orientation; notice and identify cultural tendencies in any environment; predict problems culture-based difference will cause in the workplace; and develop management strategies. McCombs School of Business faculty members Deirdre Mendez, Orlando Kelm, and John N. Doggett will use […]

    $25
  • Truth Stranger Than Fiction? How Thrillers are a Window into how U.S. Foreign Policy Really Works

    ACC Eastview Campus MultiPurpose Room 8500 3401 Webberville Road, Austin, TX, United States

    In collaboration with the Austin School Lecture Series, the World Affairs Council of Austin is pleased to feature a presentation by Todd Moss, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, now senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC and a nonresident scholar at Rice University’s Baker Institute in Houston.  […]

  • Hot Topic: China’s Increasing Role in the Middle East

    ACC Highland Business Center 2nd Floor Boardroom 5930 Middle Fiskville Road, Austin, TX, United States

    The World Affairs Council of Austin is pleased to have David Oualaalou (pronounced Walalou, known also as Dr. O) discuss China's growing influence in the Middle East.  Dr. O is […]

  • Democratic Reform in Europe

    Bass Lecture Hall 2315 Red River Street, Austin, TX, United States

    The LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the Center for European Studies - the University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Austin present a conference on Democratic Reform in Europe. This conference will bring to Austin the leading figures of the new movement for Democratic Reform in Europe, including […]

  • Invisible: Surviving the Cambodian Genocide

    St. Edwards University, Carter Auditorium 3001 S. Congress Ave, Austin, TX, United States

    In collaboration with the Kozmetsky Center at St. Edward's University, we will offer a lecture by Dr. Fran Pilch, Professor Emeritus of the United States Air Force Academy.  Dr. Pilch’s […]

  • Disruptive Astronomy: How Technology, Serendipity, and the Weirdness of Nature Have Changed What We Know About the Universe

    AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center 1900 University Ave, Austin, TX, United States

    The World Affairs Council of Austin, in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business, is proud to present the Texas Enterprise Speaker Series. Join us on 22 February for a presentation by Daniel Jaffee, Ph.D.Vice President of Research; Professor of Astronomy College of Natural Sciences. "We had our Universe literally […]

    $25
  • Trump-Putin, US-Russia and World Order

    Neill-Cochran House Museum 2310 San Gabriel Street, Austin, TX, United States

    The World Affairs Council of Austin is pleased to host Sharyl Cross, PhD, Director of the Kozmetsky Center at St. Edward’s University and Global Policy Scholar at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Cross will provide an overview of US-Russia relations and the impact on geopolitics. Agenda 6:00 […]

  • Yemen: Failed State and Dire Tragedy

    Neill-Cochran House Museum 2310 San Gabriel Street, Austin, TX, United States

    Yemen is another front that openly exhibits Iran-Saudi Arabia geopolitical rivalry. History has come full circle: Yemen has become to Saudi Arabia what Vietnam was to the United States. How […]

  • World Spins Series: An Assessment of U.S.-China Relations Midway in the Trump Administration

    Neill-Cochran House Museum 2310 San Gabriel Street, Austin, TX, United States

    Two years into the Trump Administration, what is the current state of the U.S.-China relationship?  The U.S.-China “trade war” has dominated headlines in both the United States and globally throughout 2018 and into 2019. But in what ways is the U.S.-China relationship of today different from that of early 2017?  In addition, to trade and […]

  • The Shifting Role and Impact of Diplomacy in a World in Disarray

    St Edwards University St Andre Apartments Multipurpose Room 3001 South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX, United States

    The World Affairs Council of Austin welcomes Nicholas Kralev, Executive Director of the Washington International Diplomatic Academy, who will discuss the shifting role and impact of diplomacy in a world in disarray. Nicholas Kralev is an author, journalist and entrepreneur specializing in diplomacy and international affairs, whose work of more than 20 years has taken […]

  • The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy

    TX, United States

    EVENT POSTPONED DUE TO EUROPEAN TRAVEL LIMITATIONS   The World Affairs Council of Austin, the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence at St Edwards University, and Center […]

  • Author Lesley Blume among Speakers in August

    August -- 6th at 1pm Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World featuring Lesley Blume, award-winning journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author // 11th […]

  • Cover to Cover: A Voice Out of Poverty

    ONLINE

    The World Affairs Councils of America’s Cover to Cover webinar features author Jillian Haslam as she speaks about her new book: A Voice Out of Poverty. A Voice Out of […]