International Lecture Series
Every year CIR presents two series consisting of three or four lectures each that are designed to provide background and help put newspaper headlines in context. Speakers, who are typically experts brought from outside of New Mexico, address topics of current international interest. Speakers include academics, ambassadors, cabinet members, governors and journalists, most of whom are familiar from appearances on nationally televised talk and analysis shows.
Lectures are open to all, and members receive discounted admission and a discount for the purchase of the series of lectures. Students are admitted FREE.
Our last series in September-October 2009 was entitled The Muslim World and Beyond: Evolving Relationships and Possibilities and featured four lectures: Perspectives on the Middle East and Asia with Bill Stewart, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Terrorism with Nicholas Schmidle, Political Islam with Emile Nakhleh, and The Conundrum of Israel and Palestine with Dr. Charles D. Smith.
When: March 20, 2010 - April 17, 2010
The focus of the Spring 2010 International Lecture Series program is on four nations that appear to be doing remarkably well despite the impact of the global recession. BRIC is an acronym often applied to the subjects of the spring series: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. While each of them has a unique political structure, cultural make-up and history, the BRIC nations have generally done far better than others including the United States and much of the Western World in generating remarkable rates of economic growth. The speakers in our series will help us understand what factors and strategies these nations have utilized to outdistance their rivals. There may well be important lessons for our own country in examining the successes of the BRIC group. The program is:
- Lecture 1, Brazil: The Latin American Giant, January 23
- Lecture 2, China: Monster, Menace or Fragile Superpower, February 20
- Lecture 3, India: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, March 20
- Lecture 4, Russia: Rising Ambitions, Growing Challenges, April 17
Read the postings below for more information.
When: March 20, 2010
From: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Location: Santa Fe Preparatory School
Title: India: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Speaker: Dr. Stanley Wolpert
Professor Wolpert will analyze India’s remarkable economic development, the opportunities created by the youthful majority of its population, and the challenges posed by the lagging rural sector. He will also discuss India’s strategic partnership with the United State and the terrorist threats the country faces, paying special attention to India-Pakistan relations and the long-standing conflict over Kashmir. Wolpert will consider both the nightmare scenario of nuclear conflict between these two countries as well as suicide bombings, and the prospects for peace and progress.
Stanley Wolpert is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is affiliated with UCLA’s Asia Institute. He earned his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania and has published several books including A New History of India (4th edition, Oxford University Press, 1993). His visit to New Mexico was arranged in conjunction with the Albuquerque International Association where he will be speaking on Sunday, March 21st.
Student attendance is FREE with proper identification.
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When: April 17, 2010
From: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Location: Santa Fe Preparatory School
Title: Russia: Rising Ambitions, Growing Challenges
Speaker: Dr. Allen C. Lynch
Professor Lynch’s talk will reflect on the growing gap between Russia’s rising ambitions and assertiveness in the international arena, the country’s economic growth, and oil and gas wealth on the one side, and shrinking human and natural resources on the other. He will answer the broader question of whether Russia has the social and economic foundation she needs to maintain her status as a great power in the international arena.
Allen Lynch occupies the Hugh S. & Winifred B. Cumming Memorial Chair in International Affairs in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia where he also serves as Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University and is a prolific author whose his most recent book is How Russia is Not Ruled: Reflections on Russian Political Development (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Student attendance is FREE with proper identification.
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.)
