CWA 70th Celebration

Watch some of our favorite CWA videos

47th Vice President Joe Biden

[video:https://youtu.be/LqFFb5P58Pk]Joe Biden gives a plenary address at the 2007 Conference on World Affairs titled "America's Interests, Iraq's Future".

Molly Ivins CWA Tribute

[video:https://youtu.be/foKXC2_p5G4]A tribute to author and political commentator Molly Ivins who attended the CWA for 15 years.

Patch Adams: Best Possible Worlds

[video:https://youtu.be/Vlx_42WLtKY]Physician, Comedian, Social Activist, Clown, and Author Patch Adams speaks at the 2002 Conference on World Affairs.

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak

[video:https://youtu.be/ZIlBFhz9wTg] Steve Wozniak presented by the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Cultural Events Board, gives the keynote addressÌýat the 2015 CWA.

Roger Ebert: Hear, Speak, See No Evil

[video:https://youtu.be/Kf-f3pSg5O8]Roger Ebert, who attended the CWA for over 30 years, gives a Plenary address in Macky AuditoriumÌýin 2009.

Molly Ivins: How to be cheerful about the American political system

[video:https://youtu.be/PPqUVd7U77A] Molly Ivins gives a plenary address in Macky Auditorium at the 2001 Conference on World Affairs on the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder campus.

Take a look back at some of our favorite photographs of the conference and it's most popular attendees over the past 70 years.

All program design and speaker selectionÌýis done by the CWA Program Committee. The committee is comprised of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ students and Boulder community members, all who volunteer their time to produce the event.

The Conference on World Affairs was originally titled "United Nations Week" as it celebratedÌýthe birth of the UN. The flags lining Norlin Quad during the conference represent the UN, and are symbols of the CWA's international scope.

Read the program from the first ever Conference on World AffairsÌýheld in 1948 on the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder campus; 12 events were held.

Among the attendees at the 1968 CWA wasÌýAmerican architectÌýand inventorÌýBuckminster Fuller. See his biography in the 'Who Is Who".