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Nobel Peace Prize Announcement & Commentary: Part of Atlanta Peace Education Talks series

October 9, 2020 at 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Join for the second installment of the Atlanta Peace Education Talks on Oct. 9, 11 am -12:30 pm for a conversation on the history and significance of the Nobel Peace Prize and to hear experts reflect on this year’s winner, who will be announced early in the morning the same day.

The Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), in partnership with the Atlanta Peace Initiative (API), coordinates the Atlanta Peace Education project and offers the “Atlanta Peace Education Talks” series.
For more information and additional events:
 AtlantaGlobalStudies.gatech.edu/Peace

 

Commentators:

Julia Irwin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of South Florida
Author of “Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening”

Marc-William Palen, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
Author of “The ‘Conspiracy’ of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 18461896″ 

Anne R. Richards, Ph.D., Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies; Director of Religious Studies, Kennesaw State University
Editor, with Iraj Omidvar, of “Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers” (Palgrave, 2014)

Moderator: David J. Snyder, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor of History and Global Studies, University of South Carolina
Co-editor of “The Legacy of J. William Fulbright”