April 9-13, 2018 years 1 9 4 8 – 2 0 1 8 Download the CWA App Enjoy this free resource provided by the CWA to help enhance your conference experience! Features • Interactive campus map • Create your own schedule April 9-13, 2018 • Transportation & parking info • Live Q&A in sessions years • Schedule notifications 1 9 4 8 – 2 0 1 8 • Speaker information • Sharing to social media April 9-13, 2018 April 9-13, 2018 years years 1 9 4 8 – 2 0 1 8 To Download: 1 9 4 8 – 2 0 1 8 Visit your App or Google Play store & search for ‘Conference on World Affairs.’ If you already have the app: Please delete and re-download to view updated 2018 content. Welcome Download the CWA App Welcome to the 70th Conference on World Affairs! Enjoy this free resource provided by the CWA We’ve come a long way since 1948, when Howard Higman brought together a group of ambassadors and other policy leaders to discuss the state of the world! The University of Colorado has grown into a world-class institution to help enhance your conference experience! with four campuses, Nobel Laureates, MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellows, and National Medal of Science winners, and the Boulder community has become an internationally connected population, leading the world in technology, science, space exploration, natural foods and innovation. Our challenge is to maintain and grow the magic of a 70-year tradition even as we acknowledge the acceleration of change around us. Celebrating and Features leveraging the special town/gown relationship undergirding the CWA is fundamental to meeting this challenge. We owe our success to the generosity of hundreds of volunteers, both • Interactive campus map John Griffin, CWA Faculty Director students and community members, who research candidates, plan the Betsy Hand, CWA Community Chair program, and help to implement it by providing transportation, housing, Poppies + Paisley Photography production, and good cheer. Our success also depends on the generosity of • Create your own schedule the speakers and performers who come to Boulder without the promise of an honorarium and usually on their own dime. Thank you all! We pause this year to look back for a moment, but we are focused on looking forward. This week, we’ll learn about the • Transportation & parking info accelerated pace of technological advancements from futurist Tony Seba. We’ll celebrate giant steps forward for women, hope for the planet, and sufficient food for the 10 billion people expectedon Earth in 2050. Along the way, many of us will become newly (or more deeply) familiar with blockchain, Big Data, MOOCs, memes, catfishing and gaslighting. A Google DeepMind expert will show us how Artificial Intelligence can have a positive impact, Pixar’s Lighting Director • Live Q&A in sessions of the Oscar winning film Coco will tell us why girls should code, and we’ll spend the week with one of the women responsible for the ICAN Nobel Peace Prize. Our speakers and performers will arrive from every corner of the country and from 22 countries. Many will be familiar to you from • Schedule notifications past years, and 60% will be new. Nearly half are women, including the first Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. We’ll wonder if Mueller is “Russian” to conclusions, and if we are tired of “winning” yet, and we’ll have fun, at the Jazz Concert and the Jazz Jam. We’ll relax under the glorious lights of the Aurora Borealis at Fiske Planetarium, we’ll dissect Mad Max Fury • Speaker information Road, but we’ll also worry about the Koreas, the Middle East, Russia and China…immigration and refugees. As we look forward to an amazing week, we thank so many friends of CWA: the volunteers, the wonderful office team that makes it happen, our University partners, and the corporate, foundation, and individual donors who contribute so generously to the • Sharing to social media Conference. Thank you, one and all. Enjoy this special week! John & Betsy To Download: Visit your App or Google Play store & search for ‘Conference on World Affairs.’ Contents If you already have the app: Timeline ................................................ 4 Transportation ......................................... 15 CWA Team and Program Committee ..................... 6 Schedule of Events ..................................... 16 Please delete and re-download to view Donors ................................................. 8 Concurrent Events ..................................... .41 updated 2018 content. Sponsor Appreciation .................................. 11 Speaker Biographies ................................... .42 Navigating the CWA Pages ............................. .12 Guest Speakers ........................................ .64 Campus Map .......................................... .14 Index .................................................. .66 3 Timeline Celebrating 70 Years of Conversation Molly Ivins United Nations Week American newspaper columnist, The Conference on World author, political commentator, and Affairs was originally titled humorist first attended the CWA in “United Nations Week” as it 1984. Ivins spoke at the CWA for celebrated the birth of the 15 years and is the namesake of UN. The flags lining Norlin our annual Molly Ivins Quad during the conference Memorial Plenary. represent the UN, and are symbols of the CWA’s international scope. Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, activist, and former First Lady of the United States, speaks at the 8th CWA. 1955 1984 1948 1970 CWA Founder Howard Higman Roger Ebert Higman was a professor of sociology at the Film critic and long-time CWA speaker joins his first University of Colorado and a beloved citizen conference in 1970. In 1975, Ebert and CWA founder of Boulder. The conference was originally Howard Higman launched “Cinema Interruptus.” designed as a one-shot tribute to the United Nations, but it proved so popular that the “Here more than anywhere university offered Mr. Higman the else I have heard for the first opportunity to make it an annual event. time about more new things, met more fascinating people who have nothing to do with the movies, learned more about debate, and trained under fire to think on my feet.” 4 Timeline Amanda Gorman Amanda Gorman, the inaugural youth poet laureate of the United States, attends the 2018 CWA. She will give a poetry performance titled: The Power of the Words of Women on the final day of the conference Patch Adams Adams is an American Joe Biden physician, comedian, social Joe Biden, the 47th Vice President activist, clown, and author. of the United States and former U.S. He attended the CWA in Senator, gave a plenary address titled 2002, 2003, and 2006. America’s Interests, Iraq’s Future. 2002 2007 2018 2004 2016 Steve Wozniak Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak served as the keynote speaker at the 2016 CWA. Wozniak’s appearance was presented by the Cultural Events Board and the CWA Student Committee Arianna Huffington Arianna Huffington, business- woman, co-founder, and former editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, gave a plenary address at the 2004 CWA titled Game Plan for Taking Back America. For more stories, photos and video celebrating the CWA’s 70th year, visit our 70th Celebration Page at: colorado.edu/cwa/cwa-70th-celebration 5 CWA Team and Program Committee IN MEMORIAM PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gerry Hickman Chuck Loeb Bruce Kahn Ruth Shanberge The CWA Program Committee is composed of students and Frank Kreith Helen Weil community members who volunteer their time, often weekly, over the fall and winter to consider the crucial issues of the day, research candidates for CWA, and create exciting panels that will challenge our CWA TEAM audiences. These committee members are truly the heart of the CWA, and we are thankful for their contributions. FACULTY DIRECTOR BOARD If you would like to help plan the 2019 Conference on World Affairs, John Griffin Charlene Coutre please visit our website at colorado.edu/cwa to learn more. Tracy Ferrell, Vice-Chair COMMUNITY CHAIR Bruce Fredrickson Arts Subcommittee Science & Technology Betsy Hand John Griffin Co-Chairs Subcommittee Co-Chairs Betsy Hand Michael Anthony, Student Bruce Fredrickson, COMMUNITY VICE-CHAIR Manuel Laguna (Fall) Anya Berlova, Student Community Laurie Hathorn Tina Marquis, Chair Adam Griff, Community Rashel Gandhi, Student Tess Rose Laurie Leinonen, Community Margaret Hollingsworth, DIRECTOR OF Peter Spear Emily Volk, Student Community OPERATIONS AND Tom Zeiler (Spring) Winston Swicord, Student MARKETING Boulder High Oak Thorne, Community Alan Culpepper DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS Subcommittee Co-Chairs Emily Villasenor, Student Stephenie Purnell Holly Gossard SENIOR MANAGER, Todd Crimmel Becky Vancura Keynote Speaker MARKETING AND MEDIA Subcommittee RELATIONS FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE Business Subcommittee Betsy Block Erin Rain Kay Clagett Co-Chairs Gary Dolsen, Chair Alan Culpepper, Chair Charlene Coutre, Leslie Eaton CONFERENCE Bruce Fredrickson Community John Griffin COORDINATOR Betsy Hand Kelsey Erickson, Student Betsy Hand Katie Grady Laurie Hathorn Randy Schultz, Community Laurie Hathorn Tina Marquis Nick Sodnicar, Student Jon Hinebauch FINANCE AND Paul McLoughlin Meredith Maney Film Subcommittee Chair Paul McLoughlin ADMINISTRATION Mark Meyer Michael Casey, Community Erin Rain Vicky Nelson Della Van Heyst COMMUNITY Human Condition STUDENT VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT Subcommittee Co-Chairs “Future of Food” Theme COORDINATORS COMMITTEE Betsy Block, Community Committee Meredith Maney Janet Beardsley, Co-Chair Julia Debell, Student Sara Brito Tess Rose