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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
DESCRIPTION:The National Willa Cather Center is hosting an author series as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and and how our shared experiences inform the work. \nThis virtual event is free\, but registration is required. Click here for more information and to register. \nSarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann\, two writers with Nebraska roots who explore the world in order to learn more about their place in it\, will be part of an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir. If you are interested in the same “human stories” Willa Cather illuminated in her own work\, you will enjoy this free author series event! \nBlending lyric memoir with lamenting cultural critique\, Montgomery’s book Halfway from Home examines contemporary longing and desire\, sorrow and ache\, searching for how to build a home when human connection is disappearing\, and how to live meaningfully when our sense of self is uncertain in a fractured world. Taking readers from the tide pools and monarch groves of California\, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska\, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled forests of Massachusetts\, Montgomery holds a mirror up to America and asks us to reflect on our past before we run out of time to save our future. Halfway from Home grieves a vanishing world while offering—amidst emotional and environmental collapse—ways to discover hope\, healing\, and home. \nIn Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life\, Ohlmann launches the reader into flight over miles and decades of migration: from an apple-pie childhood in America’s Fourth of July City to the dirt floors of a cowshed in rural India\, we zigzag across time and geography to see the world through Ohlmann’s eyes. Through incarnations as a musician\, arts manager\, and registered nurse\, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas\, buys a house\, and gets a dog. But her house is haunted\, and so is she. With honesty\, compassion\, and a sense of humor\, Ohlmann recounts her tenacious search into the shadows of her life.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-sarah-fawn-montgomery-and-suzanne-ohlmann/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell
DESCRIPTION:The National Willa Cather Center is hosting an author series as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and and how our shared experiences inform the work. \nThis virtual event is free\, but registration is required. Click here for more information and to register. \nThroughout her fiction\, Willa Cather mentioned forty-seven operas. References to opera appear in all but three of her twelve novels and in roughly half of her short stories. Despite a dearth of musical education\, Cather produced astute writing about the genre beginning in her earliest criticism and continuing throughout her career. She counted opera stars among her close friends\, and according to Edith Lewis\, her companion throughout adulthood\, the two women frequently visited the theater\, even in the early days\, when purchasing tickets to attend performances proved a financial sacrifice. \nMelding cultural history with thoughtful readings of her works and discussions of opera’s complex place in turn-of-the-century America\, David McKay Powell’s Cather and Opera offers the first book-length study of what drew the writer so powerfully and repeatedly to the art form. \nDavid McKay Powell is associate professor of English at Union College in Barbourville\, Kentucky\, where his research focuses on the intersections of classical music and American literature.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-david-mckay-powell/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty
DESCRIPTION:The National Willa Cather Center is hosting an author series as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and and how our shared experiences inform the work. \nThis virtual event is free\, but registration is required. Click here for more information and to register. \nTracy Daugherty will discuss his book 148 Charles Street. This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Two different writers with distinct styles. Cather was the novelist while Sergeant was the muckraking journalist. Their friendship becomes tested after Cather fictionalizes a war that Sergeant covered. This is a story of how friendship endures through disagreements and misunderstandings.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-tracy-daugherty/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series: Alex Kava
DESCRIPTION:The National Willa Cather Center is hosting an author series as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and and how our shared experiences inform the work. \nThis virtual event is free\, but registration is required. Click here for more information and to register. \nAcclaimed mystery novelist Alex Kava will be on hand to talk about her impressive career as a Nebraska author who writes in the tradition of other Nebraska mystery novelists such as the late Mignon Eberhardt. Mystery of Hunting’s End\, Eberhart’s 1930 book set in the Nebraska Sand Hills is the 2023 One Book One Nebraska selection. \nKava’s most recent novel in her Ryder Creed series\, Fallen Creed\, will also be highlighted during this talk. In her 2022 novel\, Ryder Creed and his scent dog\, Grace\, return to Nebraska to solve a gruesome crime discovered by a rural Postal carrier. \nAlex Kava is the New York Times\, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of twenty-one novels that include the critically acclaimed series featuring K9 handler Ryder Creed and the international bestselling series with FBI profiler Maggie O’Dell. She’s been awarded two Nebraska Book Awards\, a Florida Book Award and the Mari Sandoz Award. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-alex-kava/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series Special Event: Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
DESCRIPTION:The National Willa Cather Center is hosting an author series as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and and how our shared experiences inform the work. \nThis virtual event has a $25 registration fee. Click here for more information and to register. \nThis program will launch of the much-anticipated biography Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by author Benjamin Taylor! Hear an excerpt from Taylor’s new book\, followed by a discussion with Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors president and professor Bob Thacker. \nBenjamin Taylor received a 2021 Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir Here We Are was published by Penguin Books in May 2020. His previous memoir\, The Hue and Cry at Our House\, received the 2018 Los Angeles Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice; his Proust: The Search was named a Best Book of 2016 by Thomas Mallon in The New York Times Book Review and Robert McCrum in The Observer (London); and his Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay was named a Best Book of 2012 by Judith Thurman in The New Yorker. He is also the author of two novels\, Tales Out of School\, winner of the 1996 Harold Ribalow Prize\, and The Book of Getting Even\, winner of a Barnes & Noble Discover Award. He edited Saul Bellow: Letters\, named a Best Book of 2010 by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times and Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post\, and Bellow’s There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction\, also a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag\, Debriefing\, was published by Farrar\, Straus & Giroux in 2017. French and Italian translations of Here We Are were published in 2021. He is a past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and serves as president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Chasing Bright Medusas\, his biography of Willa Cather\, is due from Viking Press in 2023.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-special-event-benjamin-taylor-book-launch-and-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240215T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series: Thomas C. Gannon
DESCRIPTION:The National Willa Cather Center is hosting an author series as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and and how our shared experiences inform the work. \nThis virtual event is free\, but registration is required. Click here for more information and to register. \nStep into the world of bird-watching just ahead of the annual Sandhill crane migration! Join us for an evening with Thomas C Gannon as he shares a reading from his new book\, Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir\, an intriguing meditation on the intersections between nature and identity. Have your questions ready for what is sure to be a lively discussion following Gannon’s reading!
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-thomas-c-gannon/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240321T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series: Chris Harding Thornton
DESCRIPTION:The National Willa Cather Center is hosting an author series as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and and how our shared experiences inform the work. \nThis virtual event is free\, but registration is required. Click here for more information and to register. \nTake a trip to 1930s Omaha and its fictionalized criminal past in Little Underworld\, a new noir mystery from Nebraska novelist Chris Harding Thornton! Hear an excerpt from her book and learn more about how she drew from Omaha’s early 20th century history to create this twisty tale. As always\, viewers are encouraged to ask questions and make literary connections during this early spring event.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-chris-harding-thornton/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240405T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240405T143000
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SUMMARY:Author Series and Book Signing: Gail Shaffer Blankenau
DESCRIPTION:The National Willa Cather Center is hosting an author series as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and and how our shared experiences inform the work. \nThis free in-person author event is part of a National Nebraska Day event. Click here for more information and for a recommended registration link. \nObserve National Nebraska Day by learning more about the complex history of the state’s south central region. Author and historian Gail Shaffer Blankenau will join us for a talk and signing of her new book\, Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters’ Escape from Nebraska Territory\, at the Red Cloud Opera House auditorium at 1:00 p.m. central time. Blankenau’s book tells the story of Celia and Eliza Grayson\, two enslaved sisters who escaped from their enslaver Stephen F. Nuckolls in 1858. \nAccording to the University of Nebraska Press\, “Gail Shaffer Blankenau provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of these two enslaved Black women from Nebraska City. Drawing on multiple collections\, records\, and slave narratives\, Journey to Freedom sheds light on the Graysons’ courage and agency as they became high-profile figures in the national debate between proslavery and antislavery factions in the antebellum period.”
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/author-series-and-book-signing-gail-shaffer-blankenau/
LOCATION:National Willa Cather Center\, 425 North Webster Street\, Red Cloud\, Nebraska\, 68970\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference will celebrate Willa Cather and reading. Cather herself was an avid reader as well as a writer; she enjoyed sharing her book recommendations with friends\, and she was pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age\, she established her “library\,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our conference explores the many facets of Cather’s interactions with both her books and her readers\, we hope attendees will be inspired to examine their own relationship to Cather’s writing. \nThe conference will begin the afternoon of Thursday\, June 6\, and conclude on the evening of Saturday\, June 8. Please see the conference website for the schedule of events. \nRegistration is required. In-person registration ($150 / $75 student) includes the full schedule\, with a separate ticket needed for the Saturday evening banquet. Online-only registration ($100 / $50 student) includes limited access. \nSeveral conference events are free and open to the public. Those events are listed individually in the Humanities Nebraska calendar.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/69th-annual-willa-cather-spring-conference/2024-06-06/
LOCATION:Red Cloud\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference will celebrate Willa Cather and reading. Cather herself was an avid reader as well as a writer; she enjoyed sharing her book recommendations with friends\, and she was pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age\, she established her “library\,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our conference explores the many facets of Cather’s interactions with both her books and her readers\, we hope attendees will be inspired to examine their own relationship to Cather’s writing. \nThe conference will begin the afternoon of Thursday\, June 6\, and conclude on the evening of Saturday\, June 8. Please see the conference website for the schedule of events. \nRegistration is required. In-person registration ($150 / $75 student) includes the full schedule\, with a separate ticket needed for the Saturday evening banquet. Online-only registration ($100 / $50 student) includes limited access. \nSeveral conference events are free and open to the public. Those events are listed individually in the Humanities Nebraska calendar.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/69th-annual-willa-cather-spring-conference/2024-06-07/
LOCATION:Red Cloud\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Willa Cather Spring Conference: Travis Hencey artist talk and reception
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference\, and is free and open to the public. \nThe Field\, The Fire is a solo exhibition to be held in conjunction with the 69th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference. The conference\, Cather and the Readerly Imagination\, will focus on Cather’s own books and reading habits\, as well as her attention to the content and appearance of the books she created. The ideas of Cather as both reader and writer and her books as both story and substance seem a natural fit with Hencey’s work. \nTravis Hencey was born and raised in Chadron\, Nebraska\, a small town in the northwestern panhandle of the state. Generally\, Travis’s work deals with themes of transience\, memory\, and family history in the Western Nebraska landscape with an eye toward materiality and mark-making.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/willa-cather-spring-conference-travis-hencey-artist-talk-and-reception/
LOCATION:Burlington Depot – Red Cloud\, West Welch Street\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
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SUMMARY:Willa Cather Spring Conference: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference\, and is free and open to the public both in-person and online. Visit the event website to view the livestream. \nKali Fajardo-Anstine will present an invited lecture “From Bookshelf to Dreamworld: Cather and the Underground Stream.” \nKali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally best-selling author of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina and Corina\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/willa-cather-spring-conference-kali-fajardo-anstine/
LOCATION:Red Cloud Opera House\, 413 N. Webster St.\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference will celebrate Willa Cather and reading. Cather herself was an avid reader as well as a writer; she enjoyed sharing her book recommendations with friends\, and she was pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age\, she established her “library\,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our conference explores the many facets of Cather’s interactions with both her books and her readers\, we hope attendees will be inspired to examine their own relationship to Cather’s writing. \nThe conference will begin the afternoon of Thursday\, June 6\, and conclude on the evening of Saturday\, June 8. Please see the conference website for the schedule of events. \nRegistration is required. In-person registration ($150 / $75 student) includes the full schedule\, with a separate ticket needed for the Saturday evening banquet. Online-only registration ($100 / $50 student) includes limited access. \nSeveral conference events are free and open to the public. Those events are listed individually in the Humanities Nebraska calendar.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/69th-annual-willa-cather-spring-conference/2024-06-08/
LOCATION:Red Cloud\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Willa Cather Spring Conference: panel discussion on "Reading Cather Collectively"
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference\, and is free and open to the public both in person and online via livestream on the event page. \nPanelists Kali Fajardo-Anstine\, Pat Leach\, Arielle Zibrak\, and Kari Ronning explore the Spring Conference topic\, “Pleasures and Disruptions: Reading Cather Collectively.” \nModerated by Kelsey Squire of Ohio Dominican University\, one of the Spring Conference Academic Directors\, this traditionally unstructured panel allows for significant exchange and inquiry into the larger questions surrounding the conference: \n\nHow has the experience of reading Cather’s work evolved over time?\nWhat can the Cather community do to welcome new readers into the fold?\nWhy does the pleasure of reading Cather’s work endure?\n\nKali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally best-selling author of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina and Corina\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award. \nPat Leach is a former librarian and director of Lincoln City Libraries. \nArielle Zibrak is a writer\, researcher\, editor\, and Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wyoming. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/willa-cather-spring-conference-panel-discussion-on-reading-cather-collectively/
LOCATION:Red Cloud Opera House\, 413 N. Webster St.\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
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SUMMARY:Willa Cather Spring Conference: Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference\, and is free and open to the public\, but free tickets must be reserved by May 31. See the event website for details on how to reserve tickets. \nJoin Willa Cather Foundation leadership\, project partners and supporters\, Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason\, and Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate Miranda Davis for a dedication and ribbon-cutting at the Willa Cather Childhood Home. Tours of the home and other Red Cloud sites are available after the dedication. \nMatt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and has run poetry workshops in Botswana\, Romania\, Nepal\, and Belarus for the U.S. State Department. \nMiranda Davis is the 2024-2025 Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate and a senior at Norris High School in Firth\, Nebraska.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/willa-cather-spring-conference-childhood-home-dedication-ribbon-cutting/
LOCATION:Willa Cather Childhood Home\, North Cedar Street\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series: Debora Harding
DESCRIPTION:Fans of true crime will not want to miss author Debora Harding’s talk about Dancing with the Octopus\, a memoir detailing her 1978 abduction at the age of fourteen. This title is the 2024 One Book One Nebraska selection. Harding’s book also describes meeting her attacker as she processed her traumatic adolescent experience in adulthood. \nRegistration is required to receive an event link. \nDebora Harding spent her childhood in the midwest prairie states of Nebraska and Iowa. At the age of nineteen she dropped out of university to work for Senator Gary Hart’s presidential campaign\, before relocating to Washington DC to run an environmental non-profit. Fed up with politics\, she cycled across America where she met her English husband\, author Thomas Harding. She then joined him in the UK and worked at an award-winning video production company that focused on the counter-culture protest movement in Europe. Later\, she co-founded the UK’s first local television station in Oxford and gave birth to two children\, Kadian and Sam. She is now a full-time writer and activist and splits her time between the United States and England.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-debora-harding-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda
DESCRIPTION:The National Willa Cather Center hosts a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia: Bohemian Girl! Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as she searches for her father in the American West. This event concludes the fourth year of free programming with this last Virtual Author Series of 2024. \nRegistration is required to receive an event link. \nTerese Svoboda is the author of nine collections of poetry\, six novels\, three collections of short fiction\, a memoir\, and a book of translations from the Nuer people of South Sudan. Her fourteen works in video have won numerous awards and are distributed worldwide. In writing about her work\, reviewers have noted her frequent use of humor to address dire subjects\, her interest in fabulism\, and her lyrical use of language\, especially as a poet writing prose. Her work has appeared in AGNI\, Granta\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Poetry\, The New York Times\, Narrative\, Slate\, and Paris Review. The New York Post described her memoir\, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent as “astounding;” The Washington Post regarded her biography Anything That Burns You as “magisterial.”
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-terese-svoboda/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250404T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250404T203000
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SUMMARY:Willa Cather Author Series: Karen Russell
DESCRIPTION:Karen Russell will discuss her new novel\, The Antidote. Set in Uz\, a fictional Nebraska town\, in the aftermath of Black Sunday\, The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch\,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece\, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. \nRegistration is requested for this free\, in-person event. See event website for details. \nKaren Russell is the author of six books of fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami\, Florida\, she now lives in Portland\, Oregon with her husband\, son\, and daughter. The Antidote is her second novel. \nThe Willa Cather Author Series is a free program that features mostly virtual but occasional in-person authors who explore humanities topics related to Willa Cather\, Great Plains history\, and art across a variety of styles and genres. The author series was conceived as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers\, as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and how their writing depicts shared experiences. Each author series event is designed to include a prepared discussion with the moderator and author(s)\, as well as ample time for audience Q&A.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/willa-cather-author-series-karen-russell/
LOCATION:Red Cloud Opera House\, 413 N. Webster St.\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Opening Plenary Session: Ann Lundberg
DESCRIPTION:Kick off the 70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference with a talk from Ann Lundberg\, English professor and longtime interpretive ranger\, about Cather at Mesa Verde. \nAs a professor of American Literature\, Ann studies the literature of geological and archeological exploration of the American West in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century\, and how it works to define national identity. She’s presented and published essays on topics including John Muir’s glacial geology\, “Ancient America at the World’s Fair\,” and the mystique surrounding Casa Grande in Arizona\, “The Ruin of Expectations.” Her teaching resume includes both environmental literature and eco-composition in addition to Native American Literature and other topics. \nAlongside her academic career\, Ann has served as an interpretive Ranger at eight different National Park Service units\, including three seasons at Mesa Verde. She has long maintained an interest in Willa Cather and her depiction of place\, both the prairies of Nebraska and the canyons and cliff dwellings of the Southwest. \nThis event is free to attend thanks to the generosity of Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/opening-plenary-session-ann-lundberg/
LOCATION:The National Willa Cather Center\, 413 N Webster St\, Red Cloud\, Nebraska\, 68970
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Stargazing on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie
DESCRIPTION:This event is weather-permitting and depends on partly cloudy or clear skies. \nJoin author and tour guide Garrett Peck as he leads a special stargazing program at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie for our second year! As you prepare to participate in this nighttime prairie event\, please do the following: \n\nDownload the Skyview app on your phone\nBring camping chairs and blankets (optional)\nBring your own binoculars (optional)\nBring bug spray and wear closed-toe shoes\nUpon arrival at the prairie\, park as far away as you can from the turn out\nParticipants must shut off car headlights\nThere will be a trail of glow sticks illuminating the walking path to our star-gazing spot from the parking area\nParticipants must turn their phones to “dark mode” to reduce light interference\n\nThis event is free to attend thanks to the generosity of Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. \nGarrett Peck is an author\, historian\, and tour guide in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, specializing in adventure travel\, historic and cultural interpretation\, and Prohibition. He leads the Willa Cather’s Santa Fe tour\, among others\, and teaches stargazing in New Mexico’s dark skies. His book\, The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop\, will be published in early 2026.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/stargazing-on-the-willa-cather-memorial-prairie/
LOCATION:Willa Cather Memorial Prairie\, 7 miles south of Red Cloud\, Nebraska
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Ollie Webb Center's Short Film Screening & Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Ollie Webb Center\, Inc.’s Art of Imagination program\, in collaboration with University of Nebraska Omaha professor and screenwriter Todd Richardson\, has created two short films based on excerpts from two Willa Cather novels. \nThe first film\, “Tom Outland’s Story\,“ is from Cather’s novel The Professor‘s House and is about discovering an ancient cliff city. The other is excerpted from My Ántonia. This film chronicles the difficulties living through Nebraska winters in the 19th century. \nMade in partnership with WhyArts\, the films are co-directed by Ollie Webb Center\, Inc.’s education director David Ackermann and artistic director\, Jim Hoggatt\, with director of cinematography Matt Bross. Individuals enrolled in Ollie Webb Center Inc. courses act in the films and served as the film crew on the project. \nLocated in Omaha\, the Ollie Webb Center\, Inc.’s mission is to enrich the lives individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through collaboration\, advocacy\, relationships\, and education. The center’s Art of Imagination program works to empower develop and encourage self expression in adults with disabilities through professional opportunities in the visual and performing arts. Classes offer artistic opportunities in traditional art forms such as painting\, writing\, drawing\, photography\, and more. Theater classes include improvisation play writing\, scripted pieces and radio drama culminating in rehearsals and public performances. \nThis event is free to attend thanks to the generosity of Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/ollie-webb-centers-short-film-screening-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:The National Willa Cather Center\, 413 N Webster St\, Red Cloud\, Nebraska\, 68970
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Willa Cather\, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer with Author Jane Smiley
DESCRIPTION:Jane Smiley’s talk on Willa Cather\, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer will mark the conclusion of a year-long celebration of Cather’s 1918 novel as a title selected by the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2024-2025 Big Read program. \nJane Smiley is the author of numerous novels\, including A Thousand Acres\, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, and other novels\, most recently Lucky. She is also the author of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Smiley has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She resides in Northern California. \nThis event\, part of the 70th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference\, is free to attend thanks to the generosity of Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. The talk will be broadcast live on YouTube\, and a recording will be available for two weeks.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/willa-cather-my-antonia-and-the-life-of-a-writer-with-author-jane-smiley/
LOCATION:Red Cloud Opera House\, 413 N. Webster St.\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
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SUMMARY:Creative Panel: The Kilbanes in Conversation with Peter Cipkowski
DESCRIPTION:Join Peter Cipkowski for a conversation with Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses of The Kilbanes\, the acclaimed musical duo currently adapting Willa Cather’s My Ántonia into an original stage musical. Commissioned by Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis\, their adaptation reimagines Cather’s masterpiece through their distinctive blend of storytelling and music. The panel will explore the Kilbanes’ creative process\, their decision to bring My Ántonia to the stage\, and how their musical style shapes the emotional and narrative contours of the work. \nThe discussion will also consider the creative challenge of adaptation itself: what it means to transform a beloved literary classic into a new form\, and what questions arise when a masterpiece known as one thing becomes something entirely new. \nThis event is free to attend thanks to the generosity of Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. \nThe Kilbanes (Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses) are a married composing and performing team and recipients of the 2024 Jonathan Larson Grant. Their rock musical Weightless (WP Theater\, A.C.T.\, Public Theater’s Under the Radar) was nominated for Lucille Lortel (Best Musical\, Drama Desk (Best Music)\, and Off-Broadway Alliance (Best New Musical) awards in 2023. Other works include A Whynot Christmas Carol (A.C.T.\, Pam McKinnon dir.)\, The Code (A.C.T.)\, My Ántonia (Next Generation Commission\, Theatre Latte Da in Minneapolis – upcoming)\, As You Like It (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival)\, and Eddie the Marvelous (American Music Theater Project (AMTP) O’Neill National Music Theater Conference; Berkeley Repertory Theater’s Ground Floor).
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/creative-panel-the-kilbanes-in-conversation-with-peter-cipkowski/
LOCATION:The National Willa Cather Center\, 413 N Webster St\, Red Cloud\, Nebraska\, 68970
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SUMMARY:The Passing Show: What Makes a House a Home?
DESCRIPTION:Architectural and interior styles\, powerful landscapes\, and domestic scenes all feature prominently in Willa Cather’s writing. These important backdrops to her novels were illuminated through her gift for idyllic description and acute observation. Join Claire Schmidt\, John Swift\, and Steve Tamayo for this popular and engaging panel discussion that focuses on the theme of the 70th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference. \nThis event is free to attend thanks to the generosity of Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. \nClarie Smith is a folklorist and associate professor of English. John Swift taught English at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1981 until his retirement in 2019. Steve Tamayo draws upon his family history as a member of the Sicangu Lakota tribe.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-passing-show-what-makes-a-house-a-home/
LOCATION:Red Cloud Opera House\, 413 N. Webster St.\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
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SUMMARY:Willa Cather\, the Archival Chain\, and the Making of a Literary Legacy
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference on June 4-6\, on the theme of “Memory\, Myth\, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250.” Click here for more information about the conference. \nRebecca Romney’s lecture on “Willa Cather\, the Archival Chain\, and the Making of a Literary Legacy” considers the effects of archival collections on the writing of literary history\, with special emphasis on Cather’s posthumous legacy. Such collections are not formed accidentally. They exist through the efforts of individual people\, archival agents who save material\, become its long-term caretakers\, and make it accessible for study. The decisions of archival agents\, big and small\, can cause ripple effects across the stories we tell. \nThis event is free\, but registration is strongly encouraged to reserve your spot and receive event updates by email! Click here for more information and to register. \nThe talk will be broadcast live on YouTube and a recording will be available for two weeks after the event. \n  \nRebecca Romney is a rare book dealer and author of three books\, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf\, Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History)\, and The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books. As a generalist rare book dealer\, Romney handles work in all fields\, from first editions of Jane Austen to science fiction paperbacks to Shakespeare Folios. Since 2011\, Romney has appeared on the HISTORY Channel’s television show Pawn Stars as the rare book specialist. Romney was also featured in The Booksellers\, a documentary about the rare book trade in New York that premiered at the New York Film Festival. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Forbes\, Variety\, The Paris Review\, and more. With a passion for discussing the enduring power of literature\, the relevance of book collecting\, and the preservation of history\, Romney weaves together her experience and knowledge in captivating talks.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/willa-cather-the-archival-chain-and-the-making-of-a-literary-legacy/
LOCATION:Red Cloud Opera House\, 413 N. Webster St.\, Red Cloud\, NE\, 68970\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Series: Richard Norton Smith
DESCRIPTION:Renowned author and historian Richard Norton Smith will speak about Willa Cather\, My Mortal Enemy\, and Cather’s enduring place in American literature. Registration is required to receive an event link. \nRichard Norton Smith is an author\, historian\, biographer\, and former director of five presidential libraries\, including the Herbert Hoover\, Dwight D. Eisenhower\, Ronald Reagan\, and the Gerald R. Ford; the founding executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; and founding director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. \nThe Willa Cather Author Series is a free program that features mostly virtual but occasional in-person authors who explore humanities topics related to Willa Cather\, Great Plains history\, and art across a variety of styles and genres. The author series was conceived as a way to connect Cather to contemporary writers\, as well as provide an accessible and inclusive space where readers can talk directly with writers about their work. Participating authors discuss how they create their work\, thematic connections within and outside of their texts\, and how their writing depicts shared experiences. Each author series event is designed to include a prepared discussion with the moderator and author(s)\, as well as ample time for audience Q&A.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/virtual-author-series-richard-norton-smith/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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