The focus of the 2019 OLLI/Winter Lecture Series will be on “The Korean Peninsula: Past, Present, and Future.” The series is free and open to the public. All lectures will be on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Unitarian Church, 6300 A St. Registration is not required.
Sun, Feb 10
Parks Coble, professor of History at UNL, will examine the early history of the Koreas through 1945.
Sun, Feb 17
Thomas Berg, professor/lecturer of History at UNL, will discuss how the international agreements and disagreements that followed WWII led to the Korean War and the political and economic fallout from that war.
Sun, Feb 24
Christopher Robert Hill is the former American ambassador to Iraq, and the chief advisor to the chancellor for global engagement and professor of the practice in diplomacy at the University of Denver. He negotiated denuclearization agreements with North Korea in the 1990s, which failed, but that are extraordinarily like those currently proposed today. Hill will provide an unmatched insider’s perspective.
Sun, Mar 3
Nan Kim, associate professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will explain how memories of the Korean War influenced the cultures of the two Korean states and affected families divided by the war and its aftermath.
Sunday, Mar 10
Steven Wills, professor of History at Nebraska Wesleyan University, will consider Japanese- Korean relationships.
Sunday, Mar 17
Bruce Cumings, professor of History at the University of Chicago, is the dean of Korea scholars. He will discuss how economic and military alliances affect current and future relationships with the Koreas and their Asian neighbors.
This program is funded in part by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.