Charting Our Path: Celebrating 50 Years of Black Studies (1971-2021) is open to the public on the first floor of Criss Library. The exhibit shares the history of one of the oldest Black Studies departments in the nation, highlighting debates over curriculum, attempts to downgrade the department to a program, and the mutual engagement between […]
This photo-documentary exhibit immerses visitors into a year of life histories, diversity and change within a single square meter of prairie habitat.
Through the voices of ecologists, ranchers and native people, this documentary profiles one of the last remaining intact prairies in North America. Cost is $7.00 https://off22.eventive.org/films/the-last-prairie-621556db7ff620003e31d75c
Louder Than a Bomb is an annual youth poetry festival and competition featuring schools from all over Nebraska and the Great Plains. This program has impacted thousands of students, and provided a host of paid work opportunities for accomplished area poets, helping Nebraska retain some of its best artistic talent. We are in over 30 […]
Louder Than a Bomb is an annual youth poetry festival and competition featuring schools from all over Nebraska and the Great Plains. This program has impacted thousands of students, and provided a host of paid work opportunities for accomplished area poets, helping Nebraska retain some of its best artistic talent. We are in over 30 […]
Louder Than a Bomb is an annual youth poetry festival and competition featuring schools from all over Nebraska and the Great Plains. This program has impacted thousands of students, and provided a host of paid work opportunities for accomplished area poets, helping Nebraska retain some of its best artistic talent. We are in over 30 […]
Louder Than a Bomb is an annual youth poetry festival and competition featuring schools from all over Nebraska and the Great Plains. This program has impacted thousands of students, and provided a host of paid work opportunities for accomplished area poets, helping Nebraska retain some of its best artistic talent. We are in over 30 […]
Louder Than a Bomb is an annual youth poetry festival and competition featuring schools from all over Nebraska and the Great Plains. This program has impacted thousands of students, and provided a host of paid work opportunities for accomplished area poets, helping Nebraska retain some of its best artistic talent. We are in over 30 […]
Louder Than a Bomb is an annual youth poetry festival and competition featuring schools from all over Nebraska and the Great Plains. This program has impacted thousands of students, and provided a host of paid work opportunities for accomplished area poets, helping Nebraska retain some of its best artistic talent. We are in over 30 […]
For the fourth iteration of Contemporary Indigeneity, the Great Plains Art Museum sought Indigenous artists addressing issues and themes relevant to the contemporary Native American experience on the Great Plains. A panel of Native American art curators blindly reviewed the submitted works and made selections based on the artwork’s aesthetic merit and contribution to the field […]
For the fourth iteration of Contemporary Indigeneity, the Great Plains Art Museum sought Indigenous artists addressing issues and themes relevant to the contemporary Native American experience on the Great Plains. A panel of Native American art curators blindly reviewed the submitted works and made selections based on the artwork’s aesthetic merit and contribution to the field […]
A public conversation with Gerard Baker (Three Affiliated Tribes) and Annika K. Johnon, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Native American Art, about life in the Mandan and Hidatsa earth lodge villages of Karl Bodmer’s era.
A day filled with inspirational documentary films and lively discussion by filmmakers and contributors!
The Center for Great Plains Studies describes the event as "The 2022 Great Plains conference asks how residents of the Great Plains can best reckon with the violence, conflict, and abuse that has occurred in our region and move toward healing, justice, and reconciliation. It invites us to remember and honor the painful past, and […]
Based on the Human Library, a Living Library is an event full of meaningful conversations that break through the expectations and labels we place on others. Instead of getting information from a printed book, attendees are invited to have one-on-one conversations with real people (“Human Books”) with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to learn […]
The Nebraska Poetry Society will offer five monthly online poetry workshops occurring on March 12, April 9, May 14, June 18 and July 9. Each workshop will begin with a 60 minute presentation by the featured speaker. After participants will have 30 minutes to practice what they learned and share with the group. Featured speakers […]
The Annual Civil Rights Conference will include performances of Social Justice Poetry and "We Will Not Be Silent" by students from OPS and LPS respectively. Following the performance the students will participate in a panel and speak directly with the audience.
Join author Steven Trout on Zoom to discuss the importance of Willa Cather's "One of Ours". To celebrate the publication centenary of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel One of Ours in 2022, join in an engaging discussion with Steven Trout, author of Memorial Fictions. In his book, Trout takes a hard look at Cather's analysis of the […]
Hosted and moderated by Genevieve Randall, Music Director for Nebraska Public Media and host of The Verge and Friday LIVE, the LSO presents pre-concert chats. Each chat begins with a discussion between Randall and the featured soloists or composers for the evening, followed by a discussion with LSO Conductor Edward Polochick. The pre-concert chats are […]
Hear from alumni from the Department of Black Studies. This event is part of the celebration of 50 Years of Black Studies at UNO. The event will have limited seating and will also be available on Zoom. You can register for the event here: https://unomaha.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lTH3PIV3SqaG_J_AsqGeaQ
