The Tennessee World Affairs Council is proud to present The Lithuanian Perspective on Russian Aggression in Ukraine via Zoom Wednesday, June 19, 2024 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. CT Lithuania’s political past and borders have been anything but stable since the 13th century when the semblance of a cohesive state began. Now, with Russia’s war in Ukraine,...Read More
JOIN / GIVE / GIFT Get your name in the hat for a drawing of two tickets to Saturday’s Nashville SC game at beautiful Geodis Park in Nashville. Saturday will be perfect spring weather for an evening at the game. Don’t miss your chance to score two tickets. To be eligible for the NSC game...Read More
The 2023 Anne Smedinghoff Academic WorldQuest HS Global Affairs Challenge Practice Match #1 December 4, 2022 @ 1:00pm Via Zoom Academic WorldQuest teams join us for the first of two practice matches to prepare for the 2023 Tennessee Championship match. The December 4th match will be via Zoom and will give teams an opportunity to...Read More
The Tennessee World Affairs Council has announced that the Academic WorldQuest championship match for 2013 has been rescheduled to March 10, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. All other details are as previously announced in the AWQ program information.Read More
Thank you for your support. TNWAC is a public service bringing you global affairs awareness and education! Tennessee World Affairs Council’s Academic WorldQuest championship team cracked the Top Ten in competition with World Affairs Councils of America network teams in Washington, DC. Students from the Gwinnett School of Math, Science and Technology (GSMST) represented TNWAC...Read More
TNWAC This Week March 9, 2022 Dear Members and Friends: What’s up this week? The unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine slogs into a third week and the war criminal in the Kremlin is backed into a corner. Vladimir Putin’s likely hoped for lightning strike into Kyiv to decapitate the Zelensky government and subjugate the country...Read More
TNWAC This Week March 1, 2022 Dear Members and Friends: What’s up this week? Your World Affairs Council continues to bring you insights, perspectives and analyses on the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin and Russia. We’re fortunate to have Ambassador John Kornblum join us regularly for his take on developments. Kornblum is an eminent...Read More
TNWAC This Week February 15, 2022 Dear Members and Friends: What’s up this week? A question that doesn’t really need to be asked as the world is watching the start of war in Europe. A Russian invasion of Ukraine, which appears imminent, would upend decades of peace and stability on the continent that propelled two...Read More
The 2022 Anne Smedinghoff Academic WorldQuest HS Global Affairs Challenge To all High School teachers: As you start a new semester in 2022 and are thinking of ways to challenge your students to increase their global literacy and knowledge of international affairs, IT’S NOT TOO LATE to participate in the Tennessee World Affairs Council global...Read More
Updated: Dec 28, 2021 The 2022 Anne Smedinghoff Academic WorldQuest HS Global Affairs Challenge The Tennessee World Affairs Council (TNWAC) Anne Smedinghoff Academic WorldQuest (AWQ) is the flagship youth education program of the Tennessee World Affairs Council and the national network of World Affairs Councils of America (WACA). High school students from across Tennessee are...Read More