听The 71st Conference on World Affairs听featured听roughly 200 panels, events and speakers.
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听听were available for dozens of events through the week.
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The original conference was so popular, Howard Higman, a sociology professor, was able to make it into an annual event. Since its inception, the Conference on World Affairs has welcomed Eleanor Roosevelt, film critic Roger Ebert, and hundreds of other speakers. You can listen to those speeches, view photographs and even old programs听via the conference鈥檚 archives.
