• Mapping the World, Writing the Self: Desire, Identity, & Global Imagination in Jesuit Missions

    UNO's Milo Bail Student Center (Room 228/226) 6203 University Drive North, Omaha, NE, United States

    What does it mean to long for a distant world so intensely that you petition, in writing, to leave everything behind? How do people learn to narrate themselves? This lecture explores the 25,000 handwritten letters composed between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries by Jesuit novices and priests to their Superior General in Rome, seeking assignment […]

  • Creative Writing Workshop with Gary Soto

    UNO's Milo Bail Student Center (Room 228/226) 6203 University Drive North, Omaha, NE, United States

    Gary Soto is known for a body of work that deals with the realities of growing up in Mexican American communities. In poems, novels, short stories, plays and over two dozen books for young people, Soto recreates the world of the barrio, the urban, Spanish-speaking neighborhood where he was raised, bringing the sights, sounds and smells […]

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