Virtual Globe | This Week’s WAC Network Offerings | 18-22 May

Good day:

Last week we introduced an email newsletter that brings you global affairs awareness programs like Webinars that are available to the network of World Affairs Councils of America.

Most of these programs from network councils are free (and welcome members and friends from sister councils). Some may ask a small donation. Most are virtual replacements for in-person events at world affairs councils.

We hope this list is helpful to understanding what’s going on in the world please let us know and we’ll continue to provide it among regular calendar of global affairs awareness posts, emails and social media.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Patrick Ryan
President, TNWAC

p.s. Don’t forget to signup for our “Two for Tuesday” Webinars this week at TNWAC.org

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• World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana hosts Judge Angela McCormick-Bisig, Judge on the Jefferson Circuit Court, and Bartosz Pilitowski, Founder and CEO of Court Watch Poland, for “Social Distancing and the Courts.”
• World Affairs Council of New Hampshire hosts Tom Hart, North American Executive Director of ONE, for “The ONE World Campaign: The Need for a Global Pandemic Response Plan.”
• World Affairs Council of Atlanta hosts Mary Streett, Senior Vice President of U.S. Communications & External Affairs at BP, for “What Do Negative Oil Prices Mean?”  
• World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth hosts Jonathan Karl, Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News, for “Front Row at the Trump Show.”
• Santa Fe Council on International Relations hosts Emile Nakhleh, Research Professor and Coordinator of National Security Programs at the University of New Mexico, and Todd Greentree, U.S. Navy Brigade Political Advisor in Afghanistan, for “Coronavirus in the Middle East.”
• Montana World Affairs Council hosts Udo Fluck, Director of Global and Cultural Affairs for the City of Missoula, for “Connect Montana.”
• WorldBoston hosts a panel of experts for “A Discussion With Fulbright Scholars: The Legacies of Two New England Trailblazers.”
• WorldOregon hosts a panel of experts for “Navigating International Trade & Export in the Time of COVID-19.”

• Montana World Affairs Council hosts trauma psychologist Fernanda Menna Barreto Krum, Co-Founder of Imagine Nation Brewing Co., for “Connect Montana.”
• Upstate International hosts David Edwards, Jr., President and CEO of the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District, and Elizabeth Feather, Director of Research & Strategic Initiatives for the Upstate SC Alliance, for “Flight Changed the World: Will COVID-19 Change the Way We Travel?”
• Global Minnesota hosts Margaret Myers, Director of the Asia & Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue, for “China’s Road Into Latin America.”
• World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts John Gans, Director of Communications and Research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House Global Policy Center, for “White House Warriors: Who Really Creates and Controls U.S. Foreign Policy?”
• World Affairs Council of Atlanta hosts Fred Hochberg, former Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., for “Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word.”
• World Affairs (Northern California) hosts Jessica Lee, Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute, for “International Career Mentor Webinar.”
• World Affairs Council of Maine hosts Andrea Stanley Hester, Vice President of the World Affairs Council of Maine and the Harvard Club in Maine, for “Great Decisions: China’s Road Into Latin America.”
• World Affairs Council of Greater Reading hosts professor Spencer Stober, Alvernia University, for “Climate Change.”
• World Affairs (Northern California) hosts professor Halil Yenigun, Stanford University, for “The Erosion of Turkish Democracy.”
• World Affairs Council of Connecticut hosts professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management, for “Private Sector Stepping Up.”
• San Diego World Affairs Council hosts Kacie Keiko Miura, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, for “China’s Challenges in a Post-COVID World.”
• World Affairs (Northern California) hosts a panel of experts for “Technology and Privacy in the Time of COVID-19.”
• Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall hosts a panel of experts for “Hong Kong on the Brink.”
• Foreign Policy Association hosts a panel of experts for “Competition or Cooperation: What’s on the Horizon of International Relations?”
• WorldOregon hosts a panel of experts for “Higher Education, Global Exchange, and COVID-19.”
• World Affairs Council of Hilton Head hosts a panel of experts for “Voices in the Pandemic: COVID-19 and Freedom of Expression in the Americas.”
• World Affairs Council of Seattle hosts a panel of experts for “The Public Health Response to COVID-19 in Zhejiang Province and Washington State.”

• World Affairs Council of Philadelphia hosts Ambassador (ret.) Nicholas Burns, Professor at Harvard University, for “How to Lead in the Time of Pandemic.” 
• World Affairs Council of Greater Hampton Roads hosts Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Ryan for “NATO’s Capabilities, Challenges, and Response to COVID-19.” 
• World Affairs (Northern California) hosts Lovely Umayam, Founder of Bombshelltoe, for “International Career Mentor Webinar.”
• Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall hosts Gary Reischel, Founder of Qiming Venture Partners, for “A Race to Innovate.”
• International Relations Council (Kansas City) hosts Marc Chandler, Managing Partner and Chief Market Strategist for Bannockburn Global Forex, LLC, for “The Global Economy: What Can We Reasonably Expect?”
• World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana hosts Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Fellow in the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute, and Lindsay Lloyd, Bradford M. Freeman Director of the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute, for “Choosing Freedom in the Time of COVID-19.” 
• Colorado Springs World Affairs Council hosts Ambassador (ret.) Gary Grappo, Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies at the Korbel School for International Studies, for “Exit or Immersion: The Future of America’s Presence in the Persian Gulf Amidst Feuding Regional Powers.”
• Montana World Affairs Council hosts Marja Unkuri-Chaudhry, Associate Director of the Global Engagement Office at the University of Montana, for “Connect Montana.”
• Indiana Council on World Affairs hosts Edward Fishman, Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, for “The World Order Is Dead. Here’s How to Build a New One for a Post-Coronavirus Era.”
• Santa Fe Council on International Relations hosts Ko-Yung Tung, former General Counsel of the World Bank, for “China’s Belt and Road Initiative.”
• International Relations Council (Kansas City) hosts Emir Yazici, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri, for “Secession Movements.”
• World Affairs Council of Sonoma County hosts Diann Kitamura, Santa Rosa Schools Superintendent, for “Coming Up Strong: How Santa Rosa Schools Face the Pandemic.”
• World Affairs Council of Charlotte hosts professor Graham Allison, Harvard University, for “COVID-19 and the China Challenge: Could the U.S. and China Be ‘Rivalry Partners’?”
• International Affairs Forum (Traverse City) hosts professor James McClintock, University of Alabama, for “From Penguins to Plankton.”
• Los Angeles World Affair Council & Town Hall hosts professor Dan Schnur, University of Southern California, for “Politics in the Time of Coronavirus.”
• Foreign Policy Association hosts a panel of experts for “How Are Government’s Encouraging Competitiveness in Artificial Intelligence?”
• WorldDenver hosts a panel of experts for “COVID-19 Across the Globe.”

• World Affairs Council of Seattle hosts Ambassador (ret.) Bonnie Jenkins, Founder and President of Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation, for “Global Health Security and COVID-19.” 
• International Relations Council (Kansas City) hosts Kevin Holland, Vice President of Global Solutions at Lockton Companies, for “Global Risk Management.”
• World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth hosts professor Ben Buchanan, Georgetown University, for his book The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics.

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