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  • 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 […]

  • Cover to Cover – The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan

    ONLINE

    On the first anniversary of the U.S.-NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s takeover, WACA presents Elliot Ackerman to talk about his experience in the war-ravaged country. Ackerman left the U.S. military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. […]

  • Diana Negroponte, author of Master Negotiator: James A. Baker, III’s Role at the End of the Cold War

    ONLINE

    *****EVENT CANCELLED *** We are pleased to feature Diana Villiers Negroponte as our special guest speaker.   Author and professor, Diana Negroponte has focused on the Cold War and how it ended. In between teaching at Fordham, George Washington and Georgetown Universities, she researches and writes. In 2015 the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies offered […]

  • Kozmetsky Forum on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence

    ONLINE

    The World Affairs Council of Austin and the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance at St. Edward’s University host a series of Forums on Global Investment, Finance, Emerging Markets and Geopolitical Risk. Our next Forum will feature Amir Husain, CEO of Sparkcognition. Amir Husain is an entrepreneur, inventor, technologist, and author based in Austin. […]

  • ONLINE Lincoln, Democracy & The American Experiment with Princeton Professor, Allen Guelzo

    ONLINE

    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 […]

  • Afghanistan: Where are we now and what’s next?

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

    In 2021, the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. What followed was a period of turmoil, as they turned on those who were in the Administration of President Ashraf Ghani or supported it. Then, there was the diaspora of those associated with the Americans in any capacity. Rangina Hamidi, who served as the first female […]

  • WorldNow: End of Ambition with Steven Cook

    ONLINE

    What’s next for the U.S. in the Middle East? Join author Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East & Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations, in conversation with Jim […]

  • A Conversation with Lawrence Wright

    Join your fellow World Affairs Council of Austin members for a conversation with Lawrence Wright, author, screenwriter, and playwright. Mr. Wright received the Pulitzer Prize for this book, "The Looming […]

  • WorldNow: The Architect of Espionage – The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad

    ONLINE

    How did Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, come to be one of the world’s most notorious and prominent players in global intelligence? Just look to Meir Dagan, the Mossad’s former director who transformed the service into the leading force in counterterrorism and espionage it is today. Samuel Katz, bestselling author of The Architect of Espionage: The […]

  • WorldNow: The Great Firewall with Yi-Ling Liu

    ONLINE

    Journalist Yi-Ling Liu takes us behind the Great Firewall to the reality of 30 years of surveillance and censorship on the Chinese Internet. Thirty years ago, the world began to […]

  • WorldNow: The Future of War

    ONLINE

    On this special edition of WorldNow with Jim Falk, we sit down with Elliot Ackerman, author of 2084: A Novel of the Future of War. What will war look like […]