TNWAC This Week May 4, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: We’re hoping you are well and that the ready availability of Covid-19 vaccinations has eased your worries some. Like many others we have always looked forward to the next travel adventures in the USA and abroad. Next week we’ll talk more about the joys of...Read More
TNWAC This Week April 27, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: The Internet has blown up with global affairs programming of every stripe. Our World Affairs Council along added 90 virtual programs to the inventory of international speakers, panels, seminars and other forums. The 90+ councils of the World Affairs Councils network produces an incredible amount...Read More
TNWAC This Week April 21, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: In a year where much of our activity has been driven online the annual Championship Match of the World Affairs Academic WorldQuest global affairs competition was no different. Instead of a room at the National Press Club in Washington teeming with students from around the...Read More
TNWAC This Week April 13, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: It’s Academic WorldQuest Team Week at the World Affairs Councils of America in Washington so there won’t be their usual superb compilation of the scores of programs you can visit in this week’s “This Week.” Instead WACA is presenting special programs for students around the...Read More
TNWAC This Week April 6, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: Two weeks ago your World Affairs Council hosted U.S. Foreign Service Officer Allen DuBose, Diplomat in Residence for this region, as part of our Spring 2021 International Careers Program. [Link] We thank him for the program in which he described the process to become an...Read More
TNWAC This Week March 30, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: Tennesseans are again picking up the pieces from the latest catastrophe to strike the Nashville area. Just as we were observing the first anniversary of the Super Tuesday tornado and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic the clouds opened up and dropped record rains that...Read More
TNWAC This Week March 16, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: This month we observe the anniversary of Covid-19 being designated a global pandemic and the increases in public health efforts and social measures. As we mark the beginning of this life changing catastrophe we also remember and mourn the loss of over a half million...Read More
TNWAC This Week February 9, 2021 Dear Members and Friends: Our 2021 Anne Smedinghoff Academic WorldQuest global affairs challenge champions have been crowned. A team from the Martin Luther King, Jr., Magnet High School in Nashville took top honors, the CIEE scholarships and a trip to the National Championship match in April. Congratulations to teacher/coach...Read More
International Careers and Jobs Panel March 23 & 25, 2021 The Tennessee World Affairs Council announced two new panels in its International Careers and Jobs series of seminars. Twice a year we present professionals from a wide spectrum of international affairs jobs – at home and abroad – to provide students and young professionals with...Read More
