September 11, Online: A Conversation with the Carters

A Conversation with the Carters: 30 Years of the Carter Center

Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, 7-8:30 p.m. (EDT)

Teachers, give your students the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to hear from and question a Nobel prize-winning former President
and First Lady of the United States!

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter will be kicking off the Carter Center's 2012-13 speaker series, Conversations at The Carter Center, in the Center's Cecil B. Day Chapel on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 7-8:30 p.m. Attendance is very limited, but students can watch the event live at www.cartercenter.org. Learn about the Carter Center's peace and health initiatives around the world, as President and Mrs. Carter touch on such topics as election monitoring, peace negotiations, health & human rights, distribution of natural resources, and disease prevention and eradication. This event will also be archived at www.cartercenter.org

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Students can watch the webcast to see their questions being answered by the Carters! Classes can email their questions in advance to Deborah Hakes at dhakes@emory.edu and as many as can be fit in will be asked at the event. While there won't be enough time to answer all the questions at the event itselfteachers can arrange for a follow-up site visit to talk with a Carter Center expert to learn more, as well as receive a guided tour of the museum (sponsored by the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum).

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Please prepare your students for the Conversation by reviewing Units 14, 15, 16, 18, and/or 19 of our standards-based curriculum guides, The President's Travels, online: http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/education/resources.phtml