Join us on Thursday, November 13 at 4 pm for AIA's next lecture: "From the Netherlands to Papua New Guinea and Back: Building Global Connections for New Mexico."
The program will feature Ernie C’deBaca with the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce discussing promoting Albuquerque and New Mexico on the global stage through his work with the Chamber’s Conventions and Tourism Department and its International Trade Committee. He will also share stories from his international travels—from the Netherlands, where his family lived while his sons pursued professional soccer, to Papua New Guinea, where he attended the World Indigenous Business Forum, and many destinations in between.
The talk will be held in Botts Memorial Hall in the Albuquerque Special Collections Library at 423 Central Ave. NE (Edith and Central).
$15 for AIA Members; $20 for Non-Members; Students are Free!
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Another great AIA lecture tomorrow, October 23 at 4 pm at the Albuquerque Special Collections Library. The lecture will feature immigration attorney Amber Weeks, Immigration Attorney and Partner at Vrapi Weeks, talking about how the U.S. immigration system works and examining changes to the system under the current administration. Her presentation is titled: “Beyond the News: Overview of the U.S. Immigration System and Current Hot Topics.”
Hope you’ll join us!
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The "Peace Mothers of Sierra Leone" to be discussed in Albuquerque International Association lecture.
UNM Law Professor Jennifer Moore will present the next talk in the Albuquerque International Association's continuing lecture series on Thursday, May 23 at 4 pm. Her lecture is titled "The Peace Mothers of Sierra Leone: Building Peace and Justice in War-Affected Communities" and will take place in Botts Hall at the Albuquerque Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE.
Prior to joining the UNM law faculty, Jennifer Moore worked for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, first as an associate protection officer in West Africa, then as a legal officer in Washington, D.C. At UNM she offers courses in International Law, Refugee Law, and Human Rights Law.
The Peace Mothers of Sierra Leone are farmers and micro entrepreneurs who survived the Rebel War that lasted from 1991 to 2002 and impacted their rural communities. Their vision of peacebuilding is based on restorative justice rather than retributive justice. They work to revitalize economic development, to foster the healing of community conflicts, and to promote understanding and respect for women’s rights to dignity, safety, wellbeing, and inheritance.
Professor Moore’s presentation will be based on interviews with ten Peace Mothers in five communities across Sierra Leone, conducted in successive years from 2016-2024, with a focus on Koinadugu District, Northern Sierra Leone.
$15 for AIA Members; $20 for Non-Members; Students– Free. Register at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/frsdm6h or on our website.
02/26/2024
New Mexico's Border Region Takes Center Stage at
Albuquerque International Association Lecture on March 14
Jerry Pacheco, Albuquerque Journal columnist, Director of the International Business Accelerator, and promoter of international trade will present a talk on March 14, 2024 at Botts Hall, Albuquerque Special Collections Library, 423 Central Avenue titled "New Mexico's Border Region: Transforming the State's Border Economy."
Mr. Pacheco will share his insights into current strategies aimed at revitalizing New Mexico's border economy. With his extensive experience as an industrial business recruiter and a key figure in attracting significant investments to the state, Pacheco will bring a wealth of knowledge to the discussion on fostering economic growth and job creation in the border region. He will explore the unique role the International Business Accelerator plays as the only state-wide international trade counseling program and how this program contributes to enhancing NM’s global economic presence.
Jerry Pacheco is the Executive Director of the International Business Accelerator, the only state-wide international trade counseling program, based in Santa Teresa, NM. He also is an industrial business recruiter based in Santa Teresa who is responsible for the recruitment and attraction of approximately $2 billion of investment, and the creation of more than 6,000 jobs to New Mexico’s border region. He is also a syndicated columnist on international affairs, whose column regularly appears in the Albuquerque Journal.
$15 for AIA Members; $20 for Non-Members; Students– Free. Register at https://conta.cc/42bCRPS or on our website at www.abqinternational.org or mail check made out to AIA by March 12 to: AIA, PO Box 92921, Albuquerque, NM 87199.
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07/13/2021
July 16, 3 pm - Nuclear Folly by Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University
For tickets go to : https://conta.cc/3hIfmqD
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis.
Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhii will talk about these lessons and the new pages of the Cuban Missile Crisis history that he has recreated using a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes.
Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. A leading authority on Eastern Europe and Russia, he has published extensively on the international history of Cold War. His books won numerous awards, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best English-language book on the international relations for The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (2014), Taras Shevchenko National Prize (Ukraine) for The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015), and Ballie Gifford Prize and Pushkin House Book Prize, UK for Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, (2018). His latest book, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis was released in April 2021.
Nuclear Folly - July 16 Friday, July 16, 2021 at 3:00 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Coming soon!
July 20, 11:30 am - 2021 Economic Update. Presented
by Paul Fedorko & Members Financial Services.
05/18/2021
Quick reminder! Mark your calendars for this Friday!
Zoom Lecture! Mark your calendars!
Will Mandela Approach Work in Russia?
May 21, 3:00 pm
Join us for a talk by Robert Hitchcock and Marina Oborotova about opposition leaders & protest movements in South Africa and Russia followed by discussion and Q & A.
Review our website and order tickets!!
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05/15/2021
Zoom Lecture! Mark your calendars!
Will Mandela Approach Work in Russia?
May 21, 3:00 pm
Join us for a talk by Robert Hitchcock and Marina Oborotova about opposition leaders & protest movements in South Africa and Russia followed by discussion and Q & A.
Review our website and order tickets!!
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05/05/2021
Yet another great Zoom lecture!!!!
Tickets available: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ehl4mjd665bcd4ad&oseq=&c=&ch=
By: by Judd Devermont, Director, Africa Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
What is the future of U.S. engagement in sub-Saharan Africa? CSIS Africa Program Director Judd Devermont will share his perspective on the defining factors of U.S. foreign policy in the region. He will cover the historical contours of U.S. policy, identifying points of continuity and change under the Biden Administration. Mr. Devermont will also discuss how a new division of responsibilities with global allies and regional powers can be envisioned and what the major lines of cooperation on the continent look like in the coming year. He will conclude with some thoughts on opportunities to strengthen ties between the United States and African partners.
Mr. Devermont served as the national intelligence officer for Africa from 2015 to 2018 & led the U.S. intelligence community’s analytic efforts on sub-Saharan African issues. From 2013 to 2015, he was the CIA’s senior political analyst on sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. Devermont served as the National Security Council director for Somalia, Nigeria, the Sahel, and the African Union from 2011 to 2013, and contributed to the U.S. Strategy toward Sub-Saharan Africa, signed by President Obama in 2012, and in particular managed the process that resulted in U.S. recognition of the Somali government for the first time since 1991. Mr. Devermont worked at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria from 2008 to 2010.
Mr. Devermont is a lecturer at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs where he co-teaches a class on U.S. intelligence analysis on sub-Saharan Africa. He is also a senior adviser at Kupanda Capital, a pan-African investment platform, and at Fraym, a data analytics firm. Mr. Devermont is a frequent commentator in print, on radio, and on television, and he has testified before Congress. He has published articles in a range of journals, such as Foreign Affairs and African Affairs, as well as newspapers and magazines like Bloomberg, the Hill, Lawfare, and Mail & Guardian in South Africa. In addition, Mr. Devermont hosts Into Africa, a biweekly podcast series on African politics and policy. The views expressed in publications authored by Mr. Devermont do not represent those of the U.S. government. Mr. Devermont has lived in South Africa and Cote d’Ivoire, and he has traveled widely across the continent. He has a master’s degree in African studies from Yale University and bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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