Join us as we take you on a virtual tour around the world! Our journey will take you to the the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal, Petra, Angkor, Venice, the Acropolis, Pompeii and more… all without leaving your home! Join anytime during the week, pick your destination and enjoy your trip!

Virtual Tours:

Archaeological Institute of America Virtual Tours

Archaeology Travel Virtual Tours

60 Degree Virtual Tours: 

• China: 

  • The Great Wall

• Italy: 

  • The Colosseum,  Rome 

• France:

  • Catacombs, Paris  

  • Eiffel Tower  

• United Kingdom: 

  • Stonehenge, Wiltshire 

• United States: 

  • Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico 

Learn all things Singaporean culture and how they function in working and social environments, the most common culture shocks and how to adapt to them, what are the top industries for internships in Singapore and what students interning in Singapore say about the most global green city!

• How can you be a successful intern in Singapore?
• How to interview and network in this country?
• Q&A

Featuring Visual Studio, a marketing and advertising agency who represents companies such as HBO, Samsung, PwC, Singapore General Hospital and more.

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What do you know about the most prolific tech hub in Europe? Join us to listen to both students who interned in the Swedish capital and employers based in the city: Swedish working culture, top industries in Stockholm, culture shocks and best practices to succeed as an intern. How to apply? How to interview for a startup in Stockholm? How to network with supervisors and colleagues? Stay up until the end for the Q&A!

Featuring Ion Game Design, a Swedish board game developer, publisher, & board game consultant agency.

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Tuesday November 16th from 9AM - 10AM MST

While virtual exchange practitioners are experts in creating impactful programs, youth participants have a valuable perspective drawn from their virtual exchange experience that should be considered. Hear from three young people about their virtual exchange and what they think all education and exchange leaders should know when designing and implementing a program. They’ll reflect on their experience and provide tips, including how to communicate with young people about the value of participating in virtual exchange.

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Tobias Fischer currently works in Bolivia on Uturunku Volcano. This volcano is particularly interesting because it has been deforming massively in recent decades but has not erupted. Tobias and his team are working with an international group from other US Universities, the UK, and Bolivia. Tobias also works closely with a former Ph.D. student who is on the science staff at a volcano observatory in Costa Rica. Latin America has a very large number of active volcanoes and many population centers close to these volcanoes. Volcanic hazards are not theoretical there but an everyday reality.

Tobias Fischer is a volcanologist and geochemist who researches fluids discharging from active volcanoes and hydrothermal systems. He and his students also measure diffuse degassing in tectonically active areas such as the East African Rift. Current field areas include volcanoes in Central and South America and the East African Rift (Tanzania). Tobias obtained his Ph.D. in 1999 from Arizona State University. He had a post-doc position at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory working on noble gases in geothermal systems. He joined UNM in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and is currently Professor and Director of the Volatiles Laboratory in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences where his team uses mass spectrometry and gas chromatography to analyze volatiles.

For more information and to register for this event, please visit the LAII website.

As IIE embarks on its second century of leading international education worldwide, the Office of the CEO will continue to drive IIE’s mission in innovating and responding to the global needs of students, scholars, and the wider higher education community. Join us during International Education Week as we sit down with Allan Goodman, CEO; Sarah Ilchman, co-President; Jason Czyz, co-President; and Courtney Temple, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer to hear their priorities for the organization, vision for the international education field, and what “We Are International Education” means to them.

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Flamenco Performance & Information Session

• 12:00pm to 1:00pm 
• Located outside the SUB facing Mesa Vista Hall
• Performance by UNM's flamenco students 
• Speaker: Eva Encinias-Sandoval 

Is Spain as casual as people say? Does siesta really exist? What’s an average working time in Barcelona or Madrid? If you’re interested in the Spanish work life balance and the most popular culture shocks of students interning in Spain, this talk is for you!

• Top industries in Barcelona and Madrid
• Basic how-to when interviewing, meeting new colleagues and networking in Spain
• Q&A

Featuring Medicsen, a start-up medical device company for the smart treatment of diabetes and other chronic diseases.

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California university Monterey will screen the award-winning documentary, Sonita, followed by Q and A by the director, Roxareh Ghaemghami. Film synopsis: After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, Sonita, a young Afghan refugee in Iran, channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. After the film streaming, Sundance film festival winner, Ms. Gahemaghami, will attend the event virtually to answer the audiences' questions.

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Modeled after the famous T.E.D. Talks, our N.E.D. Talks (Nationalities Exchanging Dialogue) will feature a few speakers who will discuss various issues from around the world:

The Green Hell I call home: a few portrayals of the Amazon from the XXth century into contemporaneity - Luisa Geisler - Phd Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
PhD Student Luisa Geisler from Brazil will discuss portrayals and stereotypes of the Amazon and how Amazonians are taking back the narrative surrounding their home

Musings from Malaysia: Embracing Cultural Diversity- Grace Wong - Postdoc in forensic Radiology and Pathology
Post-doctoral researcher Grace Wong from Malaysia will share insights and recollections of the challenge and beauty of growing up in a multiethnic and multi-cultural society

Learn about the Real Kazakhstan- Aidana Bauyrzhan
Aidana Bauyrzhan a Fulbright student in Nuclear Engineering from Kazakhstan will highlight her culture and country

A Nigerian Student's Experience with Adjusting to Life in the US and ABQ- Tomide Oloruntobi - PhD in Communications
PHD student Tomide Oloruntobi talks about his own experience adjusting to life in the US.

Differences in the Educational Systems in Russia and USA - Iurii Frantsuz - Visiting Fulbright Scholar in Sociology
Fulbright Scholar in Sociology from Russia will present on Cronyism and Meritocratic norms and how they affect academics in Russia and the US

Bilingual Development in Multicultural Contexts - Mariana Marchesi - PhD in Linguistics
PhD student Mariana Marchesi from Argentina will explore bilingualism in New Mexico and how language use predicts linguistic development.  Included will be a brief overview of conceptions of bilingualism and the applicability that research can have in curriculum development.

This meeting will be held on Zoom from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, November 18th.

Ready for one of the most different working cultures compared to the West? Learn surprising things about Japanese work culture, how to adapt smoothly as an international intern, what are the top industries in Tokyo and what the interview process is like with an Asian employer. Come ready to fire your questions at the end!

Featuring Communion, a boutique PR & Communications agency who represents companies such as Cartier, New Balance, La Maison du Chocolat, JM Weston and more.

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Over the last decade, I’ve been exploring old traditional songs from different cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and West Africa. This research has opened my eyes in a fundamental way: I realized that there has always been a need for humans to seek the expansion of one’s own limits. In the sense of enlarging the experience of what we usually perceive as “myself”.

Following the impact of these old rhythms in my body, and personal needs to explore new horizons today I am involved in the creation of reggaeton music.

How did I get here?

Over the last decade I’ve been exploring old traditional songs from different cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa. This research has opened my eyes in a fundamental way: I realized that there has always been a need for humans to seek the expansion of one’s own limits. In the sense of enlarging the experience of what we usually perceive as “myself”.
Following the impact of these old rhythms in Following the impact of these old rhythms in my body, and personal needs to explore new horizons today I am involved in the creation of reggaeton music. How did I get here?

Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez is an Argentinean actor, theatre director, teacher, singer and song writer. His field of expertise includes devised theatre; community engagement; voice; movement; diverse styles and techniques within contemporary performance practice. He is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Engine, a Latin-alternative-cumbia-rock band based in Paris.

Recent global crises have diversified populations of refugees and displaced persons. As many will find resettlement in the United States, universities are often well positioned to offer various forms of support. This can be achieved through leveraging community partnerships, campus services, and university expertise to ensure student success. This webinar will explore strategies employed by Indiana University and Wake Forest University in coalescing networks of support and community engagement. Resources and tactics will be explored, and audience interaction is welcomed.

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GPSA and GEO invite you to an International Feast of Friends! We will be enjoying food, cultural games, and global friends!
Please RSVP by November 17.

November 19, 2021
6 PM - 10 PM
STAMM Commons Room and CEC Courtyard (Centennial Engineering Center)

Dr. Matthew Schmader will present his talk Worlds Forever Changed: TheVázquez de Coronado Expedition to the Rio Grande Valley, 1540-1542 on Friday, November 19 at 2 pm as part of the 2021 Fall Anthropology Colloquia Speaker Series.  You can access the talk here.  You can obtain the passcode by emailing Dr. Ian Wallace at iwallace@unm.edu

Hosted by the UNM Department of Anthropology, the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, and the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) the Department Colloquia Speaker Series will continue this semester.  Talks from this years series are available on our You Tube for your viewing.