Nobel Peace Prize Forum

Come to the Nobel Peace Prize Forum at Augsburg College next Friday night, March 2, for the opportunity to have live interaction via SKYPE with people in Nagasaki. The SKYPE session is to begin at 6 p.m. Minnesota time, which will be Saturday morning in Nagasaki. Members of the Nagasaki St. Paul Sister City Committee as well as students at the Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies will participate from Japan.

The SKYPE session is the brainchild of Mark Tiedemann, professor of English at NUFS, and friend of the Sister City organizations. In 2010, I met Mark at the SEEN AND UNSEEN photography exhibit in Nagasaki and he proposed that our two groups work together. Mark is a Luther College alum and has brought students to the Peace Prize Forum in years past. In 2011, the SPNSCC promoted an event as six of his students spoke at the Carondelet Center about the experience of their grandparents as hibakusha--atomic bomb survivors. This year Mark plans to bring more students into the Nobel Peace Prize Forum experience through technology. The SKYPE session will happen after a talk by Andrew Slack, founder of the Harry Potter Alliance. Come at 4:30 to learn more about the interesting work for peace of that organization.

The SPNSCC is offering scholarships to students who would like to attend. Contact us at spnscc@gmail.com for more information. Do join us if you can.