• America’s Air Force: An Overview Featuring Lt. Gen. Marshall B. Webb

    TX, United States

    THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED   The World Affairs Council of Austin is honored to have Lt. Gen. Marshall B. "Brad" Webb provide an update on U.S. Air Force operations.   Lt. Gen. Webb is the Commander, Air Education and Training Command, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. He is responsible for the recruitment, training and […]

  • 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 for Russian, East European and Eurasian Sudies at the University of Texas are pleased to present the Kennan Conversation with Andrei Kozyrev.  Mr. Kozyrev will […]

  • CxC Amplified Week of Global Issues Webinar Programming

    World Affairs Council of Austin members have access to several daily webinars during the week of May 4th including: 4th Ambassador (ret.) Bill Taylor, EVP, U.S. Institute of Peace, and Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine 5th Global Leadership in Crisis featuring General (ret.) David Petraeus, Chairman, KKR Global Institute 5th Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking […]

  • US and Iran: Sanctions, Oil and the Global Pandemic

    Online

    The World Affairs Council of Austin, in partnership with the World Affairs Council of San Antonio and the World Affairs Council of South Texas, invite you to a conversation on the current situation in Iran.  This program will feature Dr. Paul Pilar, Iran Project and Dr. Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity University.  

  • H.E. Dirk Wouters, Ambassador of Belgium to the USA among featured speakers in July

    ONLINE

    July -- 13th at 3:15pm Making Sense of a World in Crisis -- Through the Eyes of a Foreign Policy Expert featuring Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations // 16th at 10am Intelligent Manufacturing in Europe Series featuring Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Czech Republic // 16th at 1pm Qatar and the Gulf […]

  • 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 […]

  • State of the Middle East

    ONLINE

    The World Affairs Council of Austin is pleased to welcome back distinguished author and professor of Government at Austin Community College, Roy E. Casagranda, PhD  for a discussion on the State of the Middle East. Attendees will obtain answers to these questions: What has three and of half years of Trump brought the Middle East? […]

  • Coping with COVID19

    In collaboration with the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence at St. Edward's University, the World Affairs Council of Austin is pleased to present Andrew S. Natsios, Executive Professor  and Director of […]