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Join us for an elegant dinner evening and talk at Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort

Featuring: Dr. Richard Bulliet of Columbia University

Political Islam, Iran and the Arab Spring

Location:  Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort,
1297 Bishop’s Lodge Road

Cost: $60 CIR members
$85 Non-members (Non-member tickets purchased at this price include one year free membership to CIR)

Reservations must be made by Tuesday, May 15!

Richard W. Bulliet is a professor of history at Columbia University who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions, the history of technology, and the history of the role of animals in human society.

He writes about Muslim religious politics in both the contemporary world and in earlier periods of Islamic history.  He first visited the Middle East in 1965.  On his many subsequent trips he has spent time in virtually every region of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and South Asia.  He has abilities in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish along with several European languages.

Bulliet has given several hundred interviews to the print and broadcast media.  His commentaries have appeared in Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Arizona Republic, and he has served as a consultant on Islamic matters for Time Magazine.  His books include The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (2004), The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (ed., 1998), The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (co-ed., 1996), Islam: The View from the Edge (1994), Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period (1979), The Camel and the Wheel (1975) and The Patricians of Nishapur (1972).

Bulliet’s 20 session  course on Arab history from Columbia has been  widely shown on YouTube.  He was honored with the Outstanding Teacher Award from Columbia University and has been nominated for the same award again this year.  He is a well known commentator on Arab issues and  has often been  featured on  TV shows including  Today, NPR, PBS Evening News with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose CBS Morning Show and many others. 

Purchase your tickets by calling the Office 982-4931.  In the COMMENTS box when checking out, be sure to give us the names of attendees and each attendee’s meal choice:  Beef, Fish, Chicken, or Vegetarian. Your name(s) will be added to the list of attendees and meal-choice-coded tickets will be given at the door.

Location: Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort, 1297 Bishop’s Lodge Rd.

Topic: Global Child Survival - The Past 30 Years

Speaker: Stephen C. Joseph, M.D.

Cost: $26 CIR Members
Cost: $32 Non-members and Guests
Cost: Please note on your order if you would like a vegetarian meal.

Reservation Deadline: Tuesday, June 5

Stephen C. Joseph’s life in medicine has taken him to residential assignments in Nepal, Central Africa, Indonesia and Newfoundland, with shorter stints in more than a score of countries in Africa and Asia.
His home-based efforts have included Neighborhood Health Centers and appointments as New York City’s Commissioner of Health, Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and senior positions with UNICEF and the US Agency for International Development. He is a former Chair of the American Public Health Association, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine. His previous books include Dragon Within the Gates: The Once and Future AIDS Epidemic and Summer of Fifty-Seven: Coming of Age in Wyoming’s Shining Mountains. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Elizabeth Preble.

Dr. Joseph currently serves as Team Leader for AID-funded and other organization assessments, and maintains clinical skills with short-term pediatric volunteer assignments, most recently in Haiti in the weeks following the earthquake.  He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, American Academy of Pediatrics, former Chair of American Public Health Association and elected member of Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and serves on Board of Directors of AMREF (African Medical Research and Education Foundation: Africa’s Flying Doctors).

Stephen Joseph’s latest book is entitled River of Stone, River of Sand: A Story of Medicine and Adventure.

You may purchase tickets here by clicking on the title of this posting to bring up a ticketing capability or by calling the office at 982-4931.  When purchasing tickets, be sure to give us the names of attendees and if you would like a vegetarian meal. Your name(s) will be added to the list of attendees; no tickets will be issued.  Note that through CIR’s Student Outreach Support program, interested students and teachers are invited to attend World Affairs Discussion events for free.  You can donate to the fund that pays for these guests by ordering Student Outreach Support at the bottom of the Shopping Cart.

Speaker:  Ambassador Claudia Fritsche
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Topic: How a Small State Asserts Its Presence in Washington
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Location:  Santa Fe Historic Foundation, 545 Canyon Road 

Cost:  $25 CIR Members & Invited Guests (505) 982-4931  Attendance limited:  advance reservations required.

Ambassador Fritsche assumed her duties as the first resident Ambassador of Liechtenstein in Washington at the beginning of October 2002, after leaving her post in New York, where she had served as the Permanent Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations from 1990 to 2002.

Ambassador Fritsche served as Vice-President and Member of the General Committee of the United Nations General Assembly during its 48th Session. From June 1999 to September 2002 she served as President of the International Association of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations. Ambassador Fritsche headed the Liechtenstein delegation at major UN conferences.

She joined the Office for Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Liechtenstein on 1 June 1978 and served in a variety of diplomatic functions, inter alia as Secretary to the Liechtenstein parliamentary delegations to the Council of Europe and to the European Free Trade Association, as well as within the Liechtenstein Embassies in Berne and Vienna and the Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Mrs. Fritsche represented the Liechtenstein Government on the European Committee on Equality between Women and Men (CEEG) from April 1987 until August 1990, while also chairing the Liechtenstein National Committee on Equality between Women and Men.

Mrs. Fritsche was the personal secretary to the Liechtenstein Head of Government from 1970 to 1974 and to the Deputy Head of Government from March to August 1974.