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Cultivating Care in Complex Times: An “Abraham’s Bridge” Film Screening and Dialogue (Read More)

"Abraham’s Bridge" is a film that follows the Tri-Faith Initiative from an initial idea in 2005 to the present day, with diverse religious communities working together to construct their dream, confront unanticipated challenges, and look toward an uncertain future. The film focuses especially on the importance of the Tri-Faith Unity Garden to enhance interreligious cooperation and engagement with the surrounding community on issues of food insecurity. A discussion will follow the film. The panelists include: Bonni Leiserowitz, Unity Garden at Tri-Faith; Madeline St. Clair, Assistant Director of Basic Needs and Innovation, UNO; Katherine Storck, Instructor, School of Communication, UNO. The panel will be moderated by Herb Thompson III, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, UNO, with an introduction from Laura Alexander, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, UNO.

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EnChanted Images: The Voice of Sainte-Foy at Conques (Read More)

Across nearly a thousand years, the Romanesque church of Sainte-Foy of Conques in France calls us to a bygone era of faith and sound. Martyred at thirteen for refusing to renounce her beliefs, Sainte-Foy defied Roman authority and died for her faith, becoming one of medieval Europe’s most powerful saints. In the eleventh century, monks transformed her shrine into a bustling pilgrimage site through architecture, sculpture, and music. This program presents medieval chants from Sainte-Foy’s Festal Liturgy—heard again for the first time in modern performance—accompanied by images of the golden statue that houses her relics. Pre-Concert Talk and Documentary 6:00 PM Concert 7:00-8:00 PM Q&A with the Audience to Follow Free registration is required. Free parking in Lot E with reservation. Click here to register. For more information, visit the event website.

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Taking Pride in Nebraska LGBTQ+ History (Read More)

In “Taking Pride in Nebraska LGBTQ+ History” panelists will share information about LGBTQIA2S+ history, research, community programming, and the traveling exhibit Pride and Joy: Nebraska History highlighting their unique perspectives as archivists, public historians, curators, and scholars. The presentation is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Questions can be submitted for panelists during registration.  Visit the event website for more information, and to register.

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Pride and Joy: Nebraska History traveling exhibit @ Criss Library (Read More)

Pride and Joy: Nebraska History is a 13-panel traveling exhibit that examines the history of LGBTQIA2S+ communities, events, and organizations in Nebraska. The exhibit introduces several topics and themes related to this history, including pre-Stonewall, religious organizations, rural experiences, colleges and universities, and publications such as newsletters and community calendars of events. The banners sharing this history are illustrated with archival materials including newspaper clippings, photographs, advertisements, and ephemera such as a brick from Omaha’s Diamond Bar. The Criss Library is currently open summer hours: noon to 9 p.m. Sundays, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays.

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Dark Tales After Hours (Read More)

In conjunction with a stage production of “Dracula: the Journal of Jonathan Harker”, Bluebarn Theatre is presenting a series of community engagement events related to the production's theme. Throughout the fall, Bluebarn Theatre's Director of Equitable Access, Carrie Nath, and Todd Richardson, Ph. D., professor of folk and historical literature and a member of the UNO Goodrich Scholar Faculty, worked with Goodrich Scholars to explore the monsters of our current time. Gather around the bonfire out back of the Bluebarn Theatre to hear these chilling tales, inspired by Hillgren’s letter format. Sure to reach deep into your soul in the dead of night.

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ArteLatinX: Dr. Claudia Zapata lecture (Read More)

Dr. Claudia Zapata is the Inaugural Associate Curator of Latino Art, Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. Their research interests include curatorial methodologies of identity-based exhibitions, Chicanx and Latinx art, digital humanities, BIPOC zines, and designer toys. Dr. Zapata will lead a combined discussion and a presentation on their work as a humanities scholar in curatorial methodologies of Chicanx and Latinx art identity-based exhibitions, as well as their experiences as the Associate Curator of Latino Art. Reservations available to reserve a seat.

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ArteLatinX Exhibition (Read More)

The mission of Arte LatinX is to create a biennial art exhibition bringing together Latinx artists based or from the Great Plains, which include: Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. ArteLatinX hopes to continue creating a space for the work of Latinx artists whose work is often invisible and lacks sufficient support to fully flourish. ArteLatinX addresses these challenges by developing and consolidating a new space to showcase the relevance of Latinx artists and creating a dialogue between those in and outside the arts. This exhibition will center around the motto/lema “United through Culture/Unidos a través de la Cultura.” Exhibition hours: Monday – Thursday: 2:00 – 6:00pm, Friday – Sunday: by appointment

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Flight and Hope Exhibition (Read More)

This exhibition explores themes of flight, journey, and migration through Samuel Bak’s oeuvre. His work, informed by his experiences as a forced migrant and refugee in the aftermath of World War II, offers a potent reminder of the humanity of migrants, their dreams of freedom, their flight from oppression, their search for home, and the fraught journey they undertake in the hope for a better life. As the poet Warsan Shire notes in Home, her response to the harsh reality if life as an undocumented refugee in Europe in 2009, “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” The exhibition paintings depict the ordeal of upheaval but also the hope and tenacity of those fleeing violence. Flight and Hope will situate Bak’s works as part of a broader conversation about the status of refugees in 2023, the rising number of forced migrants across the globe, and the impact of changing demographics on the political discourse. Nebraska has been the new home for thousands of resettled refugees since the late 1970s, following conflicts in Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria. Refugees have built new homes, created communities, and businesses in our state, turning the state in a “global heartland.” Statistics and research often dehumanize the experience of forced migration. Bak’s paintings remind us that those undergoing this traumatic displacement are human; that individuals caught in conflict long for peace and a home; and that hope is, despite all odds, eternal. The Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center is open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 A.M. - 4 P.M., Thursday 10 A.M. - 6 P.M., and Sunday Noon - 4 P.M. The museum is closed on holidays and during UNO academic breaks.

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UNO European Studies Conference keynote lecture: Ilse Koch on Trial (Read More)

Dr. Tomaz Jardim's keynote address at the 2023 UNO European Studies Conference will be "Ilse Koch on Trial: Gender, Violence, and Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'.” Tomaz Jardim is Associate Professor of History at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he teaches on modern Europe, the world wars, and the Holocaust. Prior to his arrival at TMU, he taught at Concordia University in Montreal and held a fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. His first book, The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany was published by Harvard University Press in 2012, and explores the role of U.S. military commission courts in punishing concentration camp perpetrators. His new book, Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the ‘Bitch of Buchenwald,’ appeared on Harvard University Press in April 2023. It explores how gendered perceptions of violence and culpability drove Ilse Koch's zealous prosecution at a time when male Nazi perpetrators guilty of greater crimes often escaped punishment or received lighter sentences. The in-person event will be at the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center. To access the live stream, register with this link.

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