When: August 14, 2010

From: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Where:   Eldorado Community Center
1 La Hacienda Loop, Eldorado

It’s time again for CIR’s annual potluck picnic!  And this year we will be convening at a new location – the patio of the Eldorado Community Center (directions below).
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As usual, CIR will provide plates, forks, spoons, knives, napkins, plastic glasses and bottled water.  You will pack a personal picnic for yourself, and if you’d like, bring a dish to share with others.  (If you have prepared a dish to share, please bring a serving dish and utensil for it.)  Alcohol is permitted.  You may bring your own preferred beverages (with openers).

RESERVATIONS:  This is a free event, but we still need to know who is coming and how many so we can provide nametags, adequate table service, etc.  So, please let the CIR office know if you are planning to attend by calling  982-4931 or email:  sfcir@newmexico.com.

DIRECTIONS:  The Eldorado Community Center is 15 minutes from downtown Santa Fe.  From I-25, take the Hwy 285 Exit #290 going South towards Clines Corners.  Immediately after exiting the freeway, turn right at the first light onto Avenida Amistad.  Follow Avenida Amistad until you arrive at La Hacienda Loop on your right.  Parking is in front of the Community Center, the picnic will be on the patio at the back of the building.

When: August 28, 2010

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Rogues and Rogue Nations is the topic of the Fall 2010 International Lecture Series.  The series of three lectures focus on individuals and nations that are perceived as having failed to abide by or deliberately flouted international standards of conduct. Two prime examples are Iran and North Korea, both of which appear determined to develop and deploy nuclear weapons as key elements in their military arsenals. The United Nations has approved a number of economic sanctions and urged its members to impose them on these “rogue” nations. Although Venezuela has so far avoided such sanctions, at least from the American point of view, it is a less than desirable hemispheric neighbor. Our speakers are experts on these three nations and on the leaders who currently cause considerable alarm not only in the United States but in many other parts of the world.

• Saturday, August 28 – Iran under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Saturday, September 18 – Venezuela under Hugo Chavez
• Thursday, October 7 – North Korea under Kim Jong-il

As with previous International Lecture Series, Members can save money by advance purchase of  tickets to all three lectures.  See detail in the posting below.

When: August 28, 2010

From: 03:00 PM - 05:00 AM

Subject:  Iran under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Speaker:  Bahman Baktiari

Location:  The Forum, College of Santa Fe
                 1600 St. Michael’s Drive

Cost: $15/CIR Members 
          $20/Non-members & Guests

Professor Bahman Baktiari is an associate professor at the University of Utah where he serves as Director of its Middle East Center. He received his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Before moving to University of Utah in 2009, he was the Director of the School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) at University of Maine. Earlier he served as Director of Research for the William S. Cohen Center for International Policy and Commerce. He recently published “Iranian Society 30 Years after the Revolution: A Surprising Picture” in the Spring 2009 special issue of The Middle East Journal.

Purchase your tickets by calling the Office or by using this secure website.  (Note that, if purchasing tickets here, you will need to return to this page or the calendar multiple times to add tickets with differing Fee Types to your shopping cart.)

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When: September 7, 2010

From: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM

Location:  Estancia Primera Clubhouse

Selected Book:  The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley

Bradley seeks to explore the origins of America’s bloody 20th-century history. Operating as a two-man diplomatic tag team, President Teddy Roosevelt and Secretary of War William Taft would green-light secret treaties that would negatively impact future generations and are still adversely influencing our foreign policy.

Estancia Primera Club House is located at 450 Avenida Primera South off of Hyde Park Road.

When: September 8, 2010

From: 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM

Topic:  Iraqi Kurdistan:  Towards a
New Democracy and Economy

Location: Santa Fe Hilton, 100 Sandoval Street

Speaker: Mr. Qubad Talabani

Cost: $26/CIR Members 
          $32/Non-members & Guests

As attention shifts away from Iraq to focus further east on Pakistan and Afghanistan, there is little discussion in the U.S. media of the situation on the ground. In particular, the press and political commentators largely ignore the landmark strides toward democracy and economic development in the Iraqi Kurdistan area in the north of the country. Qubad Talabani, as Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to the United States, will describe those strides and how they will shape the future of the Iraq and Kurdistan Region.

Talabani, son of Jalal Talabani, President of the Republic of Iraq, served as Senior Foreign Relations officer for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (one of the leading Kurdish political parties in Iraq), He worked closely with the U.S-led Coalition Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), and was PUK’s top liaison to the Coalition after it became the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and to US forces in Iraq. He was also a key negotiator in drafting the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), Iraq’s first post-Saddam constitution.

During the period 2001 – 2003, Mr. Talabani served first as a Special Assistant to the then PUK Representative in Washington and then later he served as the Deputy PUK Representative in Washington D.C.

Through CIR’s Student Outreach Support program, interested students and teachers are invited to attend World Affairs Discussion events for free.  You can donate to this fund by selecting Student Outreach Support at the bottom of the Shopping Cart. 

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