Conference on World Affairs
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The Conference on World Affairs is hosted annually at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. It was founded in 1948 to be a forum on international affairs and has featured numerous distinguished speakers including Patch Adams, Betty Dodson, Buckminster Fuller, Arianna Huffington, Molly Ivins, Henry Kissinger, Yitzhak Rabin, Eleanor Roosevelt and Ted Turner.[1]
It has since expanded to include a diverse array of other topics such as music, art, literature, environmental activism, business, science, journalism, diplomacy, technology, spirituality, the film industry, visual arts, politics, medicine, and human rights.
All events in the Conference are free and open to the public. Its running and planning depends heavily on the work of its volunteers, which include Boulder residents and students and faculty at the University of Colorado. All panelists attend at their own expense.
It was the source of film critic Roger Ebert's Boulder Pledge not to purchase anything offered through email spam.
