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
Adam Segal and Carla Anne Robbins will lead the conversation on how tech firms shape geopolitics.
Join this webinar in partnership with Retro Report to examine the key historical events in U.S.-China relations and understand the crucial foreign policy questions of today.
Join this introductory webinar to learn tips and tricks for teaching geography with CFR Education's resources on regions of the world.
Join two CFR Education sessions at SXSW EDU 2025 in Austin, TX.
Giovanni Peri and Edward Alden will lead the conversation on migration and labor economics.
Luciana L. Borio, senior fellow for global health at CFR, will lead the conversation on complex public health emergencies.
Past
Learn about free simulations that invite educators and their students to step into the roles of decision-makers on the U.S. National Security Council or UN Security Council.
Join two NCSS sessions with CFR Education and connect in person at Booth #621.
Watch Inu Manak, fellow for trade policy at CFR, lead the conversation on global trade policy.
Watch Alice C. Hill and CFR Education lead a conversation on teaching climate change and an exploration of CFR Education’s new collection of accurate, accessible, and authoritative resources on climate change and its implications for global issues and foreign policy.
Watch 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, lead the conversation on nuclear arms control and disarmament.
Watch this webinar to learn how teaching about climate change is central to preparing students to be informed citizens in our connected world.
Watch 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, lead the conversation on the war in Ukraine and U.S.-Russia relations.
Watch 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.
Watch Steven A. Cook, CFR's Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies and director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars, 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.