History
Doug McGetchin, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University where he specializes in the history of the international connections between modern Germany and South Asia. He is the author of “Indology, Indomania, Orientalism: Ancient India’s Rebirth in Modern Germany” (2009) and several edited volumes (2004, 2014) on German-Indian connections. He has presented papers at academic conferences in North America, Europe, and India, including the German Studies Association, the World History Association and the International Conference of Asian Scholars (Berlin). He is a recipient of a Nehru-Fulbright senior research grant to Kolkata (Calcutta), India and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant to Leipzig, Germany, and has won multiple teaching awards.
The Nobel Peace Prize
Since its first award in 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has provided international recognition of courage and achievement in making this world a better place. This lecture will give an overview of how the benefactor Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, developed his namesake prize. The winners give insights about the course of history as well as a laboratory of daring defiance of the odds in the struggle for humanity. The lecture examines the determined lives of winners including president Barack Obama (2009) and Jimmy Carter (2002), as well as other politicians like Nelson Mandela (1993) and Lech Walesa (1983). Luminaries such as Elie Wiesel (1986) and Dr. Martin Luther King (1964) also deserve attention, but so do less well known activists such as Rigoberta Menchu Tum (1992), Carl Von Ossietzsky (1935), and Jane Addams (1931). Also addressed are the process of picking the winners and reasons for noted absences from the list, including Mahatma Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Please note that this is a Live Zoom Class and will also be available for OLLI on Demand.
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| Course # FNW4 — One Time Event
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| Place: | Auditorium, Lifelong Learning Complex, Jupiter Campus |
| Dates: | Wednesday, December 9 2020 |
| Time: | 2:30 - 4 PM |
| Fee: | $35 / member; $40 / non-member |
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