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.
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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.
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For Members, we have a special rate for the purchase of the entire series of three lectures.
When: September 18, 2010
From: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Subject: Venezuela under Hugo Chavez
Speaker: Brian A. Nelson
Location: The Forum, College of Santa Fe
1600 St. Michael’s Drive
Cost: $15/CIR Members
$20/Non-members & Guests
Brian A. Nelson earned an MFA from the University of Arizona as well as degrees in International Studies and Economics. He first arrived in Venezuela in 1988 as an AFS high school exchange student and has lived there for many years. In 2002 he received a Fulbright grant to study Venezuela’s cultural transformation under Hugo Chávez. He currently teaches at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and, in the summers, at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent publication is The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela (Nation Books, May 2009) about the 2002 coup. It was named one of the Best Books of 2009 by The Economist.
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When: October 7, 2010
From: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Subject: North Korea under Kim Jong-il
Speaker: Bruce Cumings
Location: The Forum, College of Santa Fe
1600 St. Michael’s Drive
Cost: $15/CIR Members
$20/Non-members & Guests
Bruce Cumings is a Professor of History and Department Chair at The University of Chicago. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University and is a recognized expert on Korean history. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, NEH, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, and the Abe Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council. He has published several books and numerous articles on various aspects of Korea. His most recent book is Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (Yale University Press, forthcoming.)
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