CFR Education hosts, co-presents, and attends virtual and in-person events for higher education and high school educators and students.
The Council on Foreign Relations offers two webinar series: Global Affairs Expert Webinars and Higher Education Webinars. The Global Affairs Expert Webinar series, formerly “CFR Academic Webinars,” provides a forum for college and university students and educators to interact with CFR fellows and other experts on foreign policy topics. A second series, CFR Higher Education Webinars, offers timely conversations for college and university leaders, administrators, and professors on issues impacting higher education. These sessions showcase insights from CFR fellows and thought leaders, facilitating informed discourse within the academic community.
Explore the library of events below:
Upcoming
Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at CFR and Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University, will lead the conversation on the war in Ukraine and U.S.-Russia relations.
Join this webinar to learn how CFR Education’s free, non-partisan materials can help your students to engage with today’s most pressing global issues and provide Iowa classrooms with a world-class education in history, government, geography, and social studies.
Join this webinar to discuss how teaching about climate change is central to preparing students to be informed citizens in our connected world.
Nicole Grajewski, fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and associate researcher with the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will lead the conversation on nuclear arms control and disarmament.
Join Alice C. Hill and CFR Education for a conversation on teaching climate change and an exploration of CFR Education’s forthcoming comprehensive library of dozens of accurate, accessible, and authoritative resources on climate change and its implication on global issues and foreign policy.
Inu Manak, fellow for trade policy at CFR, will lead the conversation on global trade policy.
Join two NCSS sessions with CFR Education and connect in person at Booth #621.
Join two CFR Education sessions at SXSW EDU 2025 in Austin, TX.
Past
Steven A. Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies and director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars at CFR, will lead the conversation on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Kat Duffy and Elaine C. Kamarck lead the conversation on technology and electoral dynamics in the 2024 election, moderated by Marcus Mabry.
In a controversial election year, how can you help students understand the global and foreign policy issues impacting the U.S. election using fact-based, non-partisan resources?
Watch Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee professor of U.S.-Asia relations at Harvard University, lead the conversation on U.S. China strategy. This webinar is presented in partnership with CFR’s China Strategy Initiative.
Watch Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, deputy director of the International Program at the Migration Policy Institute, lead a conversation on international cooperation on migration.
Watch Neil Britto, adjunct assistant professor of public service of New York University and lead on The Intersector Project in the Philanthropy and Social Innovation program at the Aspen Institute, lead the conversation on cross-sector collaboration in higher education.
Watch this back-to-school webinar to learn about award-winning, barrier-free educational resources that help your students to engage with today’s most pressing global issues.
This free, in-person, two-day professional development workshop is hosted in partnership with the Kansas State Department of Education and CFR Education from the Council on Foreign Relations.
Caroline Netchvolodoff, vice president for education at CFR, and Rania Salem Manganaro, senior manager for education marketing at CFR, lead a discussion on CFR Education resources for the higher education community.
In this 2024 Share My Lesson Virtual Conference session, participants learn new ideas for teaching about climate change and get free resources and lesson plans from CFR Education, SubjectToClimate, and Share My Lesson.
Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at CFR, and Rebecca L. Katz, professor and director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University, lead the conversation on global health security and diplomacy.
Moisés Naím, distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, leads the conversation on authoritarianism.