Workshop including displays and experiments for Forensic Sciences. Dr. David Carter, Director of UNL Forensic Science Program Dr. Matthias Okoye, Director of Nebraska Institute of Forensic Science Sara LeRoy-Toren

A 12-piece band of students from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China will play a concert of traditional and contemporary Chinese music in celebration of the Confucius Institute partnership between UNL and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Professor Andrew Ballantyne, Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) and Emile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames (1883) are two nineteenth-century novels that name shops in their titles. They each sold widely, and tell us something about the quality of life for certain groups of people in nineteenth-century London and Paris. In each novel, the identity of the proprietor – the grandfather of Dickens’s heroine or the young attractive widower whom Zola’s heroine is to marry – is established and clarified with reference to his shop. In each instance, architecture acts as a concrete embodiment of the attitudes and drives that animate the character and shape his decisions.