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2025 Lecture Archive
Silk Road Unveiled: The Enduring Artistic Heritage of Central Asia
Rikki L. Quintana, founder and CEO of HoonArts Fair Trade, a local business selling Central Asian handicrafts. Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 - 4:00 p.m. Please note change of venue!International District Library at 7601 Central Ave NE AIA’s May lecture will feature Rikki...
April Global Discussion Dinner
April Global Discussion Dinner to Focus on the Rule of Law AIA Hosts Dinner at D.H. Lescombes Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 - 6:00 p.m.D.H. Lescombes901 Rio Grande Blvd NW The Albuquerque International Association is pleased to announce that its next Global Discussion...
Shoring up New Mexico’s Economic Future; Bringing Manufacturing Activities back to our State from Overseas
Dale Dekker, Founding Principal, Dekker/Perich/Sabatini Thursday, April 24th, 2025 - 4:00 p.m.Botts Hall, Albuquerque Special Collections Library,423 Central NE, Albuquerque, NM. “Reshoring” - or the process of bringing manufacturing activities back to the United...
My University of the World: Adventures of an International Film and Media Maker in Countries Across the Globe
Neill McKee, award-winning author, communication specialist, and international development professional Thursday, March 27th, 2025 - 4:00 p.m. Botts Hall, Albuquerque Special Collections Library, 423 Central NE, Albuquerque, NM. In his March 27 presentation for the...
Israel-Palestine: A Historical Context to the Current War
Amit Sadan, post-doctoral fellow and instructor at the InternationalStudies Institute at the University of New Mexico Thursday, February 13th, 2025 - 4:00 p.m.Botts Hall, Albuquerque Special Collections Library,423 Central NE, Albuquerque, NM. The October 7th...
2026 Spring Lecture Series
More information and registration details will be posted soon!
Thursday, January 29 – Philip Hultquist, Director, Global & National Security Policy Institute and Research Professor, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico. “The Challenge of Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait: From Biden to Trump 2.0.”
Thursday, February 26 – Doug Turner, Founding Partner and CEO of Agenda Global.
“Information Operations and Strategic Communications on the Global Stage”
Thursday, March 19 – Diana McDonald, art historian, curator, author, and lecturer.
“Art, Architecture and Authoritarianism: How Antiquity is Recast to Serve Power”
Thursday, April 23 – Robert & Monika Ghattas, longtime local business owners, community leaders, AIA members, and creators of the Lebanon and Beyond garden.
“An Overview of ‘Lebanon and Beyond’ at the Albuquerque Botanic Garden.” Meeting will be held at the ABQ BioPark in the beautiful new garden.
Thursday, May 21 – Chris Duvall, Professor & Department Associate Chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of New Mexico.
“The Global Significance of African Cannabis”
Past 2025 Events
From Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Iraq & Kurdistan: Journey through the Cradle of Civilization
Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, Diana McDonald, art historian, curator, author, and lecturer.
Past 2024 Events
Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and What to Make of France’s and China’s Competing Roles in Africa in the 21st Century
Thursday, Jan. 25th, 2024 – Dr. Stephen Bishop will discuss France’s postcolonial attempts to maintain economic, political, and even military influence across much of its former African colonial empire, how that influence has waned in recent decades, and the role China has played both in hastening France’s diminished influence and in establishing its own ascendant influence across the continent.
Past 2023 Events
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