Lincoln (Neb.) - Sept. 2, 1999 - Walter McDougall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, will deliver the first 1999- 2000 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues lecture Sept. 16 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
McDougall will deliver "Atlanticism, the New Atlantis: Euro- American Reveries and Realities" beginning at 3:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public and is also available live via satellite at sites throughout Nebraska, including state colleges, community colleges and College Park in Grand Island.
The lecture kicks off a Thompson Forum schedule that includes Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Jan. 25), former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (Feb. 8), flutist-author-television commentator Eugenia Zukerman (Nov. 9), conservationist Theodora Emily Colborn (March 7) and Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia (April 18).
McDougall, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, will argue that efforts to promote the European- American community in recent years have revealed conflicts in trade, finance, security, social policies, immigration and vital national interests. In the face of these disputes, the lack of a common enemy and predictions of a coming "Pacific Century," the Euro-American partnership may sink without a trace beneath the Atlantic - as did the mythical Atlantis.
He won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1986 for " . . . the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age."
The Thompson Forum is a cooperative project of the Cooper
Foundation and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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