Join Dr. Jacinda Tran for a lecture and Q&A moderated by Bemis Center’s 2024–2025 Curator-in-Residence, Kathy Cho, on the “banalization of diaspora” and "militarized infrastructures of feeling." This lecture will examine the affect of varied psychogeographies of global colonization and dispersal—as well as how some of the artists featured in the exhibition take up the […]
Environmental historian Dr. Nancy Langston and international relations scholar Dr. Elizabeth Chalecki will explore the intersections of climate change, water, and security. Drawing from their groundbreaking research—Langston’s work on northern watersheds, specifically Lake Superior and disappearing species, and Chalecki’s investigations into water as a geopolitical force—this conversation will delve into how environmental shifts shape both ecosystems and […]
Drowned Land, a documentary by Colleen Thurston, will premiere at the Bemis Center as part of From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Currents of Climate Change. The film explores the fight to preserve the Kiamichi River in southeastern Oklahoma, highlighting the environmental and cultural challenges faced by the Choctaw Nation. Through personal narratives […]
Author Anna Farro Henderson (Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood) will speak with Trey Moody , poet, Associate Professor, Arts and Sciences at Creighton University, and exhibiting artist in From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Currents of Climate Change. Admission is free; RSVPs are encouraged. Visit the event website to RSVP.
This lecture explores the history of both interwar collage and surrealism and how these art historical movements have continued to shape contemporary art, including the figurative and abstract works in the group exhibition Synchronicities: Intersecting Figuration with Abstraction. Admission is free; ticket reservations are encouraged. Visit the event website for a registration link. Lisa Sutcliffe […]
Join poets Kinsale Drake and Maritza N. Estrada for a reading and discussion, followed by an ekphrastic poetry workshop in conjunction with Raven Halfmoon’s exhibition Flags of Our Mothers. Poems written during this workshop will be collected into a chapbook available for download.
This event—equal parts lecture and dance party—will explore the iridescence of queer nightlife, weaving together oral history and intergenerational family narrative, alongside the legacies and possibilities of queer nightlife to tell a story about queerness and opulence. Free and open to all. madison moore is an artist-scholar, DJ, and assistant professor of Critical Studies at […]
Jillian Hernandez will discuss her book, Aesthetics of Excess, examining how bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses that mark them as sexual “others,” and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Through innovative relational readings, she shows how notions of high and low […]
Lecture by internationally renowned scholar Deirdre Cooper Owens FREE admission. This event will take place in person and on Zoom. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID-19 test + face coverings are required for in-person attendance. Read more about our COVID Safety Policy at bemiscenter.org/visit. Join us to engage with Lincoln, NE-based, internationally renowned scholar Deirdre […]
Feb 24 Omaha 7 pm Bemis Center https://www.bemiscenter.org/events/lecture-series-norman-ajari