CU’s Conference on World Affairs announces online viewing of sessions

The Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder will livestream selected sessions online April 7-11 and also will make them available for viewing on-demand once the event has concluded.

CWA will livestream sessions in Macky Auditorium and in the University Memorial Center’s central Glenn Miller Ballroom. The sessions will remain available for viewing through Friday, April 18.

To view sessions beginning on Monday, April 7, go to http://www.colorado.edu/cwa and click the “streaming” button on the bottom of the homepage.

The 66th CWA will commence with its traditional participant march through the historic Norlin Quadrangle and into Macky Auditorium at 11:10 a.m. on April 7.

Leading the march will be CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano; keynote speaker Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; CWA Director James Palmer, CWA co-chair Jane Butcher and CWA Conference Coordinator Maura Clare.

They will be followed in the second row by College of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Leigh, incoming CWA Director John Griffin, CU-Boulder Alumni Association Director Ryan Chreist, and CWA student volunteer coordinators Piper Jackson-Sevy, Isaiah Rifkin and Lucie Rosner. Following them will be CWA participants, students and volunteers.

The procession will travel from south to north along a walkway lined with more than 80 international flags and will proceed into Macky Auditorium for the 11:30 a.m. keynote address by Sebelius titled “The Globalization of Health.”

The keynote address is free and open to the public, as are all 200 CWA events being held April 7-11.

A complete schedule and biographies of all conference participants are available online at http://www.colorado.edu/cwa.

Contact:
Bryan New, 303-492-2515
cwapress@colorado.edu