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2021 International Lecture Series
US Foreign Policy and Global Leadership
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ALBUQUERQUE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION PRESENTS
India/Pakistan Nuclear Issues
Friday, October 1 from 3-5pm. MIT Professor Vipin Narang, a leading US expert on the subject, will discuss the evolution of India and Pakistan’s security competition since they became nuclear weapons powers in 1998 and the destabilizing nuclear developments both have pursued since then.
Sleepwalking Toward the Nuclear Precipice
October 8, 3:00pm by Dr. Ernest J. Moniz – CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CEO of the Energy Futures Initiative, former Secretary of Energy who negotiated the Iran agreement. He will discuss evolving nuclear threats and elaborate on his collaborative work with Senator Sam Nunn.
ARTS AND CULTURE LECTURE SERIES
Great Museums in the US and the World
The series will cover a diverse range of collections – new & old, encyclopedic & specialized, big & small – on four different continents. We will feature Asian art in US, Indonesia, Japan, Cambodia, India, Taiwan, Middle Eastern collections in Egypt & Iraq, Hispanic – in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Brazil; European in Russia & France, Afro-American collections in US & Brazil, Native-American art in US Southwest, as well as some of the new museums in the US, such as the San Francisco MOMA and Crystal Bridges in Arkansas.
This series takes place at the Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center – 7521 Carmel Ave NE Wyoming & Carmel, N of Paseo
The Russian Museum
October 14, 5:30 pm – Dr. Marina Oborotova will take you on a special tour of the museum and show you its masterpieces. She will share with you some of the most important and interesting chapters of the history of Russian fine arts.
Treasures of Peru: A Look at some Extraordinary Museums
October 21, by Diana McDonald, Ph.D., Boston College – Peru has some of the greatest art and archaeological sites of the Western Hemisphere. With art-making cultures that stretch back thousands of years before the Inca, there are treasures – including gold and silver artifacts, colorful pottery, sculpture, and truly amazing textiles – that were found in almost every bit of land. We will take you on a tour of some of these cultures’ greatest works – collected in some of the most overlooked museums in Lima, as well as Santiago, Chile.
Other Announcements
Dinners Under the Skies!
If we can’t go to Spain, we will bring Spain to Albuquerque!
$100/person.
This is AIA’s creative response to our new reality – when nothing works as before, when small gatherings are better than the large ones, when outside is better than inside, and when we can’t travel as we used to! More Information
AIA Book Club Meeting
Oct. 28 -Haass, Richard. The World: A Brief Introduction
Foreign Movie Club
TBD
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