CWA Celebrates 70 Years of Conversation
The 2018 Conference on World Affairs marked the 70th year of the event on the CU Boulder campus. Join us as we look back at some of our favorite moments and memories from the past seven decades.
CWA 70th Year Photo Gallery
Take a look back at some of our favorite photographs of the conference and it's most popular attendees over the past 70 years.
A Student/Community Collaboration
All program design and speaker selection is done by the CWA Program Committee. The committee is comprised of CU students and Boulder community members, all who volunteer their time to produce the event.
"United Nations Week"
The Conference on World Affairs was originally titled "United Nations Week" as it celebrated the birth of the UN. The flags lining Norlin Quad during the conference represent the UN, and are symbols of the CWA's international scope.
First CWA Program: 1948
Read the program from the first ever Conference on World Affairs held in 1948 on the CU Boulder campus; 12 events were held.
CWA Speaker Biographies: 1968
Among the attendees at the 1968 CWA was American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller. See his biography in the 'Who Is Who".