Portfolio

Our World in Ferment: Views from China. Russia, Europe and Mexico

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April 16-17, 2012

Dr. Dieter Dettke, Foreign and Defense Policy Professor; Teri Schultz, Brussels-based, freelance international reporter for NPR, CBS, News Radio and EU correspondent for “Global Post”; Dr. Raymond F. Smith, University of North Texas, former State Department political analyst specializing in Russian affairs; Dr. Douglas Spelman, Deputy Director of the Kissinger Institute on China, former State Department Foreign Service Officer, expert on China; Dr. Lois Meyer, Linguist and Professor, School of Education, University of New Mexico, specialist on indigenous resistance movements in Mexico and the Americas.

Most recent commentary on the state of the world deals with revolution in one country or turmoil in a single geographic or cultural area. The Santa Fe World Affairs Forum believes that it is time to examine these challenges and upheavals as part of a global phenomenon. This symposium presented views of the clash between change and status quo in Europe, China, Russia, and Mexico, asking how they differ, what they have in common.
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Spotlight on Iran

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January 25, 2010

Mozafer Banihashemi, Consultant to Sandia National Laboratories Middle East Program; Arvid Lundy, Adviser to the International Atomic Energy Committee.

This all-afternoon program featured two speakers. Speakers’ Dialogue on Iran Today. General Discussion.
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Meeting Minds in the Muslim World

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April 1, 2008

Kenton Keith, US Ambassador to Qatar (1992-1996), Senior Vice President of the Meridian International Center and Vice Chair of the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange. U.S. Department of State’s Special Envoy to Islamabad and Spokesperson on Coalition Activity in Afghanistan (2001-2002); Dr. Emile Nakhleh, Senior Intelligence Officer and Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Director of Intelligence, CIA (1991-2006); Alexandra Huddleston, documentary photographer and Fulbright grantee, Timbuktu, Mali (2006-2007); Peter Sebastian, (1926 – 2011) was United States Ambassador to Tunisia from 1984-1987. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Rabat, Morocco, and served in the Central African Republic, Ethiopia and Paris. In Washington, D.C. he was Director for North Africa with the Department of State and Desk Officer for Mauritania, the Gambia, Senegal and Algeria. David Grimland, joined the U.S. Information Agency in 1967 and served as press spokesman, cultural officer or office director at American embassies in Greece, Cyprus. Turkey, Bangladesh and India; Patricia Lee Sharpe, studied Islam at the University of Chicago and was a Fulbright lecturer on American Literature in Lahore, Pakistan before joining USIA, handled press and/or cultural affairs in Indonesia and Pakistan, as well as India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Tanzania and Sierra Leone, all with major Muslim populations.

An all-day program in cooperation with the Santa Fe Institute. (more…)

Window on Russia

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March 20, 2006

Randall R. LeCocq, US Consul General Vladivostok (1991-1994), political officer, Soviet Union (1979-81), Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’Affaires, Minsk, Belarus (1998-2000), U.S. Department of State, Office of Legislative Affairs handling Russia, 1994-1996; Dr. James L. West, Professor of Humanities and History, Middlebury College (1995 -), Professor of History, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1971-1995, lecturer on Russian culture and music.

All-day program in cooperation with the Santa Fe Institute.