UNL's College of Engineering holds its annual celebration, now in its 95th year. Daily activities include: Quiz Bowl, Faculty Flip (pancake feed for engineering students), and a new "Mr. Engineer" contest.
This symposium proposes to reexamine some of the prevalent paradigms in the area of Latin American Jewish studies from an interdisciplinary standpoint, comprising literature, culture, history, cinematography and visual arts. We seek to explore the wider range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives concerning Latin American Jewish experiences in its various fields, thereby offering a framework to discuss new and old trends, and to elaborate on these concerns. This event sponsored by The Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and supported by the Women's Studies Program, and the Departments of Philosophy, Political Science and English. Free and open to the public.
Lincoln's Bennett Martin Library is the host of a reading with Joe Starita, a professor, former Journal Star city editor and author.
Starita teaches at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln School of Journalism and Mass Communications. His previous work includes the book The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey.
In 1879, Ponca Chief Standing Bear challenged decades of Indian policy when he stood in a federal courthouse in Omaha and demanded to be recognized as a person by the U.S. government. In Starita’s latest book, I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear's Journey, he masterfully portrays Chief Standing Bear’s struggle to right a horrible injustice.
The reading will take place at the Bennett Martin Library at 2 p.m. April 19 in the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors.
Students of the UNL Dance Department will give their spring concert, under the direction of Susan Levine, on the stage of the Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater. Tickets: General admission $12, faculty/staff $10, student/senior $7.
