Recordings
Beginning in 2025, all recordings of previous WACCI programs, will be available on the following site:
Building Global Agricultural and Rural Capacity: Experiences from Brazil and Surrounding Countries
Speaker: Dr. Colby Silvert, Assistant Professor and Co-Director, University of Maryland
Recorded: November 13, 2024
Poland: An In-depth Conversation with Ambassador Daniel Fried
Speaker: Ambassador Daniel Fried, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland
Recorded: September 25, 2024
Unraveling Rule-based World Order
Speaker: Dr. Roy Wehrle and Dr. Chris McDonald
Recorded: May 1, 2024
Fast Fashion: Understanding Consumer Behavior to Create a More Sustainable & Ethical Clothing Industry
UIS Earth Week Keynote Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Shipra Gupta, University of Illinois Springfield
Recorded: April 10, 2024
The Shifting Tides of Influence in the South Pacific
Speaker: Dr. Gordon Peake, Senior Advisor for the Pacific Islands
Recorded: March 20, 2024
Security in the Cyber Age: An Introduction to Policy and Technology
Speaker: Derek S. Reveron, Chair, National Security Affairs Department, US Naval War College
Recorded: March 7, 2024
SIU’s Student-led Global Brigade Makes an Impact
Speaker: Ashley-Ann Walker, Sophia Mounce, and Julie Guaglianone
Recorded: February 21, 2024
U.S. Initiatives in the Arctic: Dealing with Changing Realities
Speaker: Mary Thompson-Jones, Ed.D.
Recorded: December 5, 2023
What is Russia’s Wagner Group Doing in Africa?
Speaker: Ambassador Susan D. Page
Recorded: September 19, 2023
American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Speaker: Gawdat Bahgat
Recorded: May 4, 2023
The UN Climate Negotiations: A Complex Space for Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change and Determining Pathways Forward
Speaker: Dr. Brandon Barclay Derman
Recorded: April 26, 2023
Bridging Global Health Disparities
Speaker: Dr. Edem Agamah
Recorded: February 22, 2023
There is No Future Here: Refugee Education and Forced Migration in Northern Ethiopia
Speaker: Dr. Amanda Poole, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Recorded: December 6, 2022 at Illini Country Club
Redefining Nepal: Two Ambassadors Perspectives
Speakers: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Sridhar Khatri of Nepal and
Ambassador (ret) Scott H. DeLisi, former U.S. Ambassador to Nepal
Recorded: November 16, 2022
International Criminal Justice Today: Challenges and Prospects
Speaker: Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague
Recorded: October 26, 2022
The War in Ukraine: Russian context, Western policies, International implications
Speaker: Robert Goeckel
Recorded: September 13, 2022
Closing Chapter in Afghanistan
Speaker: Ambassador Ross Wilson
Recorded: May 2, 2022
International Human Rights Violations and Russia
Speaker: Ambassador David Scheffer
Recorded: April 28, 2022
Sustainable Architecture
Speaker: Aaron Brakke
Recorded: April 18, 2022
Ukraine and the New Refugee Crisis in Europe
Speaker: Dr. Laura Dean
Recorded: March 26, 2022 (in collaboration with the Lithuanian-American Club)
U.S and Turkey Relations
Speaker: Dr. Sibel Oktay
Recorded: March 23, 2022
Mexican Women Today: Entrepreneurship and Activism From Digital Strategies to COVID Responses
Speakers: Dr. Karla Kral and Dr. Claudia Prado-Meza
Recorded: February 24, 2022 (in collaboration with the UIS ECCE Series)
Global Health
Speakers: Dr. Edem Agamah, Dr. Careyana M. Brenham, and Dr. Wendi Wills El-Amin
Recorded: February 17, 2022
Sweden: From Viking Age to Peace and Democracy
Speaker: Karin Abercrombie and Anna Engstrom Patel
Recorded: December 15, 2021
International Education in the Land of Lincoln
Speaker: Jolene Vollmer
Recorded: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
The Need for R2P: Addressing Atrocity Crimes in Myanmar
Speaker: Dr. Andy Knight, University of Alberta
Recorded: Wednesday, September 29, 2021
“Viruses, Vaccines, and Vaccination Bringing an End to a Global Pandemic” was presented by Dr. Rajesh Govindaiah on 2/18/21. Click this link to access the video on YouTube.
“Roses from Kenya: Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers” was presented by Dr. Megan Styles on 12/3/2020. Click this link to access the video on YouTube.
“Water Diplomacy in the Middle East” was presented by Dr. Rachel Havrelock on 11/9/2020. Click this link to access the video on YouTube.
“The Saudi-Iranian Rivalry and the New Middle East Cold War” was presented by Dr. Gregory Gause on 9/9/2020. Click this link to access the video on YouTube.