Want to learn more about simple ways to improve your energy and reduce your stress? The “Energy Crisis” Wellness Workshop hosted by EAP and the UNL Wellness Program is April 9 at the Nebraska Union. To register, e-mail wellness.unl.edu with the event you would like to attend. Registration is not necessary to attend.
In his October 9, 2008 open letter to the New York Times entitled “Farmer in Chief,” Michael Pollan called for the president-elect to convert a section of the south lawn of the White House to a “Victory Garden.” Pollan’s call for a “new Victory Garden” movement, or what some have called the “Freedom Garden Movement,” signals an embrace of the increasingly popular return to “backyard” agriculture. Schell’s talk will examine the rhetorics surrounding arguments for the reinstitution of the Victory Garden movement. She will analyze historical arguments made for Victory Gardens as they evolved from WWI and WWII nationalistic projects that emphasized “food security” on the homefront to contemporary arguments for “freedom gardens” or backyard gardens that “free” local citizens of a food system dependent on fossil fuel transport, fertilizers, and large-scale industrial farming.
Kenneth M. Price, the Hillegass University Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature and co-director of UNL's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, will discuss how The Walt Whitman Archive allows anyone unparalleled access to Whitman's work and how digital technology has transformed humanities research.
This fast-paced 17th century sex comedy has been given a contemporary sensibility. The plot centers around three ludicrous husbands, each of whom lay claim to the most effective method of securing his wife's fidelity. The first relies on innocence, the second on wit, and the third on piety. Leave it to the lusty young bachelors and the winsome wives to thwart the scheme. Not suitable for children.
