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SUMMARY:2022 MSP International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Returning live and in-person at the newly refurbished cinema\, MSP Film at The Main\, MSP International Film Festival 41 presents more than 200 films from around the world and an array of exciting parties\, panels\, and filmmaker networking events and discussions. Some films will also be available to screen virtually\, in keeping with MSP Film Society’s mission to increase audience access. \nFounded in 1962\, The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul (MSP Film) is Minnesota’s foremost film exhibition organization\, bringing the best of international and independent cinema to Minnesota audiences. MSP Film promotes the art of film as a medium that fosters cross-cultural understanding\, education\, entertainment\, and exploration. \nGlobal Minnesota is proud to be a co-sponsor of the International Film Festival. \nLEARN MORE\n\n\nGlobal Minnesota members have been offered a discount on film festival screenings. Please contact Alex Albrecht\, Membership & Gala Manager\, at aalbrecht@globalminnesota.org for Global Minnesota member’s discount code.
URL:https://globalminnesota.org/event/2022-msp-international-film-festival/
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SUMMARY:Edina Great Decisions: Russia and the USA
DESCRIPTION:Russia and the United States have many areas of conflict\, especially after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Are there any possible areas of mutual interest? Arms control\, Russian interference in U.S. elections\, cyberattacks\, the status of Ukraine\, and the fate of opposition politicians in Russia all continue to be concerning. How will the administration in Washington approach these issues? \nThis program is presented by Edina Community Ed through a partnership with the Edina Senior Center\, the Edina Library\, and Edina Community Center. \nThe Great Decisions program addresses nine of the most critical foreign policy issues facing the United States each year and serves as the focal text for discussion groups across the country. Global Minnesota facilitates one of the largest statewide Great Decisions programs in the country by providing access to a roster of local foreign policy experts and to discussion materials produced by the Foreign Policy Association. Join Global Minnesota and the Friends of the Edina Library at the Edina Community Center for an in-depth discussion of the fast-moving dynamics of the U.S.-Russian relationship. \nAndrew Latham\, presenter \nProfessor Latham’s primary scholarly interests are in the areas of international relations and political thought. He regularly teaches courses on international security\, Chinese foreign policy\, regional conflict in the Middle East\, regional conflict in the Asia-Pacific\, medieval political thought\, U.S. foreign policy\, and conservative political theory. His most recent publication is Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics: War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades. He has also recently published a novel about the Third Crusade entitled The Holy Lance. \nSpecial thanks to the Friends of the Edina Library for hosting this program. \nIf you would like to register\, please use the button below. \nRegister
URL:https://globalminnesota.org/event/edina-great-decisions-russia-and-the-usa/
LOCATION:Edina Community Center\, 5701 Normandale Rd\, Edina\, MN\, 55424\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: Libraries without Borders
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exclusive\, free event for Global Minnesota members! \nOur Lunch & Learn series continues with a virtual visit from Libraries Without Borders\, an international NGO that provides access to information and digital technology to underserved communities. Jeremy Lachal\, Executive Director of Bibliothèques Sans Frontières and Aaron Greenberg\, Executive Director of Libraries Without Borders US will speak about their work building pop-up libraries for refugees fleeing the violence in Ukraine and for residents of mobile home communities in Northern Minnesota. \nJeremy and Aaron will talk about the history and work of their organizations\, and the innovative tools that they use to bring the 21st century library and its resources to people around the country and around the world – from refugee camps in Jordan and Bangladesh to laundromats in San Antonio and Baltimore. \nThere will be time for a Q&A after the Zoom presentation. \nWatch one example of the work of Libraries without Borders here. \nRegister to engage in this exciting opportunity. Not a member? Join today!
URL:https://globalminnesota.org/event/lunch-learn-libraries-without-borders/
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SUMMARY:Trade & Investment Opportunities in Tanzania
DESCRIPTION:Africa’s booming population and rapid development is creating substantial opportunities for economic investment throughout the continent. Join Minnesota Africans United and Global Minnesota for a webinar on new opportunities of trade and investment in Tanzania within a variety of sectors including mining\, healthcare\, agriculture\, technology\, energy\, tourism\, infrastructure\, finance\, and education. The presentation will address the needs and concerns of both African diaspora and US businesses interested in conducting international business in Tanzania. \nMinnesota Africans United (MAU) is a coalition and statewide organization for all African immigrants’ communities in Minnesota. MAU supports Minnesota’s African Immigrant community with representation from 55 African countries. MAU acts as a connection for the network of African immigrants in Minnesota\, and for local African immigrant community organizations\, and small businesses. \nLEARN MORE
URL:https://globalminnesota.org/event/trade-investment-opportunities-in-tanzania/
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SUMMARY:International Roundtable: Responsible Supply Chain Sourcing and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Multiple factors have converged in recent years to cause significant disruptions to global supply chains. With so many difficulties\, how can we ensure that we maintain ethical standards in supply chain sourcing? Join us for a discussion of responsible sourcing and human rights issues impacting U.S. supply chains. \nTopics will include: \n\nU.S. federal government efforts to combat human trafficking and how the private sector can help in those efforts\nImport restrictions on goods made wholly or partly from forced labor and the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act (“UFLPA”)\nHow companies can implement best practices to avoid inadvertently supporting persons or companies involved in human rights violations\nPerspectives from past experiences dealing with forced labor and human rights issues in supply chains\, including a panelist that has long been involved in the cocoa industry.\n\nSPEAKERS / PANELISTS \nMaria Goodman\, Speaker \nCoordinator – President’s Interagency Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking\, U.S. Department of Commerce \nRobin Phillips\, Speaker\nExecutive Director\, The Advocates for Human Rights \nJames Gyenes\, Panelist\nSenior Policy Coordinator on Business and Human Rights\, U.S. Department of Labor  \nSteve Wallace\, Panelist\nFounder and President\, the Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company \nJessica Libby\, Panelist\nPrincipal\, KPMG LLP \nDave Townsend\, Moderator\nPartner\, Dorsey & Whitney LLP \nRegister \n\nPresented in partnership with Dorsey & Whitney LLP\, KPMG LLP\,  the U.S. Commercial Service\, and the Minnesota Trade Office.
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SUMMARY:SDG Roundtable: Spring 2022
DESCRIPTION:THE EVENT DATE HAS BEEN UPDATED. NEW DATE IS MAY 24.  \nGlobal Minnesota hosts the Minnesota SDG Roundtable every quarter\, highlighting the great work underway in our state and region that is advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their targets for achieving success by the year 2030. This virtual session will focus on “Localization of the SDGs” and feature a roundtable discussion by participants in a workshop led by the Brookings Institute and UN Foundation designed to review and stimulate more robust use of the SDGs here in our community. \nThe 17 SDGs are a United Nations plan to build a better world for people and our planet by 2030. These goals recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth\, address social needs such as education\, health\, and equality\, and tackle climate challenges by working to preserve oceans and forests. \nSpeakers\nKaren Brown\, Director\, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change\nTony Pipa\, Senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development\, Global Economy and Development program\, Brookings Institute \nPresented in partnership with the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. \nIf you are registering for this event from outside the United States\, please go here.
URL:https://globalminnesota.org/event/sdg-roundtable-spring-2022/
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SUMMARY:Community Conversations: World Expos
DESCRIPTION:Minnesota is in the final stages of submitting a bid to host the 2027 Expo in Bloomington\, Minnesota. Join us for a conversation on a groundbreaking oral history project to explore the future of International Expositions and the United States’ role in them. The event will also feature voices from the U.S. Department of State and U.S. citizens who recently took part in the USA Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai. \nExpos\, also known as World’s Fairs\, are the world’s oldest and largest mega event\, held every three-five years in host cities around the world since their inception in 1851 in London. Similar to the Olympics\, which are world festivals of sports\, Expos are festivals of culture\, technology\, innovation\, design\, and human excellence. Past Expos have seen a multitude of countries showcase innovations such as the mobile phone\, the X-Ray Machine\, and the ice cream cone. \nThe physical legacies of Expos in New Orleans\, New York\, San Antonio\, and Seattle—four of the last ones hosted inside the United States\, between 1960-1984—are well established. But the “felt” legacies are underexplored and powerful. With geopolitics rapidly shifting\, these soft power platforms are critical to illuminating U.S. values to international audiences. We also have an opportunity to rethink how we bring Expos back to the United States and do so in a more inclusive way that highlights our country’s diversity as a strength of our democracy. \nSpeakers\nAnna F. Kaplan\, PhD\, (she/her) is a scholar and oral historian in Washington\, DC. She earned her PhD in History at American University and MAs in Oral History and Anthropology at Columbia University\, studying memory and race in the US South. She has worked on projects with the National Park Service\, the DC Oral History Collaborative\, and several Smithsonian Institution museums. In addition to working with Global Ties\, US\, to research the socio-cultural impacts of Expos\, Kaplan is the oral historian documenting the history of the State Department’s Cultural Heritage Office and the Secretary of State’s Register of Culturally Significant Properties. In addition\, she is an adjunct professor and Resident Public Historian at American University and the University of the District of Columbia. She also serves as Vice President of the Board for Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region and co-chair of the Oral History Association’s Diversity Committee and the Equity Audit Task Force. This summer\, Kaplan will present a paper on Ophelia Settle Egypt as another ancestor of oral history for the symposium “Assessing the Role of Race and Power in Oral History Theory and Practice.” \nAnthony Pahigian\, has spent more than 30-years as a U.S. diplomat. Since 2019 he has been serving as a Senior Advisor in the Office of International Expositions in the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy. Prior to his current position Anthony was the Counselor for Political and Economic Affairs in San Jose\, Costa Rica. From 2016 -2018 Anthony was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in then-Astana\, Kazakhstan where he was Country Counselor for Public Affairs\, serving concurrently as the Deputy Commissioner General at the USA Pavilion at the Astana Expo in 2017. Previous postings in Washington include Political Counselor at the United States Mission to the Organization of American States\, Chair of the Secretary of State’s Open Forum\, director of the Bureau of Democracy\, Human Rights and Labor’s Office of Policy Planning and Public Diplomacy and director of OSCE policy at the State Department. Anthony has also served overseas in Serbia\, Lithuania\, Brazil\, Slovakia\, (POL)\, Italy and Colombia. \nAddy Cross grew up in rural Minnesota with a love for all things international. Completing a Rotary Youth Exchange year in Valencia\, Spain during high school\, she established a lifelong goal to invest in efforts for intercultural learning. Addy served as an intern and interpreter at a non-profit law firm in Minneapolis throughout college and completed internships at the U.S. Embassies in San Salvador\, El Salvador and Phnom Penh\, Cambodia as well as participating in academic exchanges to Germany and India. After graduating from St. Catherine University with a degree in International Relations\, Addy was awarded a Fulbright research grant and returned to El Salvador to study the determinants of forced displacement for marginalized populations. She further determined her passion for Public Diplomacy while serving as a Youth Ambassador at the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai. Addy will begin a Master of Research in Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 2022 and aspires to become a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. \nMark Ritchie is president of Global Minnesota\, a nonprofit\, nonpartisan organization devoted to advancing international understanding and engagement. A graduate of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Iowa State University\, he served as Minnesota’s Secretary of State from 2007 to 2015. Since leaving elected public service\, Mark has led the public-private partnership working to bring the 2027 World Expo to Minnesota\, and he has served on the board of directors for LifeSource\, Communicating for America\, U.S. Vote Foundation\, and Expo USA. Mark also is a national advisory board member of the federal Election Assistance Commission and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Minnesota. Mark is the appointed Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army\, representing Minnesota. \nIf you are registering for this event from outside the United States\, please go here.
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