| GA-254198-16 | Public Programs: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs) | Northwestern University | OLLI Humanities Initiative | 7/1/2016 - 12/31/2017 | $10,000.00 | Steven | P. | Thaxton | | | | Northwestern University | Evanston | IL | 60208-0001 | USA | 2016 | | Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs) | Public Programs | 10000 | 0 | 9999.63 | 0 |
The requested Chairman’s Grant would enable the NRC to
convene a team of three scholars and OLLI programming experts who will identify
humanities themes related to the experience of war, and to develop several
model templates that can be customized by local OLLI communities. Resources to
be developed may include discussion guides, outreach strategies, and other programming
support materials. While within the established theme and sub-themes of The
Experience of War there exist numerous scholastic resources, the NRC committee
wants to strengthen the ties to humanities scholarship with the development of
these themes tailored to the unique needs and interests of lifelong learning
audiences. This select group of scholars with specializations associated with
theme, will be recruited to help direct the project. Scholars may include: Dr.
Janice Jayes, Professor of History at Illinois State University; and Dr. Peter
Stearns, Professor and Provost Emeritus at George Mason University. Programming
experts such as Dr. Christine Catanzarite, Osher Institute director at the University
of Illinois-Champaign and Dr. Richard Knopf, Osher Institute director at
University of Arizona are already serving on the Osher NRC’s work committee to
propose and create the framework of this project.
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