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Friday, November 2

Art Exhibition

Taylor Wilson Designs: My World Through the Mind’s Eye

An Art Exhibition

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7:00 am – 10:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Innovation Campus, 2nd Floor Link
Lincoln artist Taylor Wilson is displaying his work at NIC! Taylor is a visual artist working in multiple mediums, including painting, drawing, jewelry, screen-printing, mixed media, and assemblage sculpture. Taylor’s preferred mediums are graphite …
This event originated in NIC Events Calendar.
Art Exhibition

Pigment on Cloth: Tradition, Family, and the Art of Indian Pichvai Painting Exhibition

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8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
This special exhibition introduces our audiences to the historic Indian practice of pichvais, devotional paintings on cotton cloth made as temple hangings in Nathdwara, Rajasthan. The exhibition presents work from one contemporary family of Nathdwara …
This event originated in TMFD.
Activity

Employer in Residence: Primerica

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9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: College of Business - Howard L. Hawks Hall Room: South Lobby
Information Booth | South Lobby | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
This event originated in Business Career Center.
Art Exhibition

Bunkano-Hi: A Celebration of Japanese Culture

Listen to Live Music and View a Curated Art Display as KRR Celebrates the Japanese Culture Day Known

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10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: 302
On this day in Japan, the lifestyle and art of Japanese culture is celebrated throughout the country with special exhibits and events of all types. The Kawasaki Reading Room is proud to host it’s own “Bunkano-Hi” event. Featuring live music …
This event originated in Kawasaki Reading Room .
Meeting

Graduate Student Research Support Group

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10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Location: University Health Center
This group provides support to graduate students navigating their research/dissertation/thesis requirements and the stress that can come from these requirements as well as providing support for those struggling with completion. A brief individual …
This event originated in University Health Center.
Activity

Koffee Time Friday at the Kawasaki Reading Room

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11:00 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: Kawasaki Reading Room
Join us for freshly brewed specialty coffees!
Contest

3-2-1 Quick Pitch

High School Edition

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12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Memorial Stadium Room: Club Level Suites, West Memorial Stadium
The UNL Center for Entrepreneurship invites you to pitch your business idea at the high school edition of the annual 3-2-1- Quick Pitch Competition. The event is open to all Nebraska high school students currently in grades 9-12. Cash prizes totaling …
This event originated in College of Business.
Presentation

Annual Business Indicators for the Lincoln Area

Bureau of Business Research Webinar Series

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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Online Webinar
BBR Fall Webinar Series continues on November 2, 2018 with a discussion on the skills gap in Nebraska regions.
This event originated in Economics.
Meeting

DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

Hosted by NRDI

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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Hardin Hall Room: 901
depression in academia. This topic is an important one to strengthen our community and begin a conversation about providing resources to all.
This event originated in School of Natural Resources.
Other

Depression and Anxiety Discussion

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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Hardin Hall Room: 901
Dr. Drew Tyre will lead a discussion about depression in academia. This topic is an important one to strengthen our community and begin a conversation about providing resources to all.
This event originated in Natural Resources Diversity Initiative.
Seminar

Department of Agricultural Economics Seminar

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3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: Filley Hall Room: 210
Presented by Dr. Simanti Banerjee, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
This event originated in Agricultural Economics.
Activity

UNL Little AK-SAR-BEN

Hosted by Block & Bridle

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3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Animal Sciences Complex
This event originated in Animal Science.
Lecture

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Stout Lecture

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3:30 pm
Location: Bessey Hall Room: 117
John Horel, University of Utah, will present, “Weather Impacts on 2018 Western Wildfires.”
Colloquium

George Whitesides, Chem Colloquium

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3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: Hamilton Hall Room: 104
Professor George M. Whitesides, Harvard University, will present the Rieke Award Lecture entitled “Origin of Life.”
This event originated in Chemistry.
Debate/Panel Discussion

Celebrating Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN 200 Years Later

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4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Andrews Hall Room: 117
This panel will feature “flash talks” (15-20 presentations) by experts from the Department of English.
This event originated in Nineteenth Century Studies.
Debate/Panel Discussion

FRANKENSTEIN at 200

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4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Andrews Hall Room: Room 117
“Celebrating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 200 Years Later.” This panel will feature “flash talks” (15-20 presentations) by experts from the Department of English.
This event originated in English.
Lecture

Rowlee Lecture: Ruy Exel, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and UNL

Twenty Questions, Mastermind and Entropy

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4:00 pm
Location: Avery Hall
Imagine a table with a large number of objects of different colors, shapes, weights, sizes, flavors, smells … I’ll think of one of the objects and I’ll challenge you to guess it. You are allowed to ask what is the object’s color, or maybe …
This event originated in Math Colloquia.
Activity

First Friday at Sheldon Museum of Art

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5:00 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art
Explore Sheldon’s exhibition “For Freedoms” and hear from University of Nebraska students as they share their ideas on creative expression and civic discourse.
This event originated in Sheldon Museum of Art.
Art Exhibition

First Friday at the Great Plains Art Museum

Opening reception for New Farmers

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5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Great Plains Art Museum
Join us for the opening reception for “New Farmers” as part of Lincoln’s First Friday Art Walk. The Museum will be open late, from 5-7 p.m.
This event originated in Center for Great Plains Studies.
Performing Arts - Music

First Friday Event: Pankaj Desai Performs North Indian Classical Music

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5:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Location: Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
In conjunction with the exhibition Pigment on Cloth: Tradition, Family, and the Art of Indian Pichvai Painting, the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery presents Pankaj Desai on tabla, a leading percussive instrument of the Hindustani or North Indian …
This event originated in TMFD.
Activity

Project 2018 Exhibition

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5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Architecture Hall Room: New Crit Space
PROJECT 2018 is a selection of work from the Master of Architecture Program at Nebraska’s College of Architecture. The work, produced in design-research and design-build studios and through independent thesis investigations, situates architecture …
This event originated in Architecture.
Reading - Nonfiction

Provocations Book Launch

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5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: Indigo Bridge Books
Join the editors of PROVOCATIONS to celebrate the publication of the third book in the series, Jeff Nealon’s I’M NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE: BIOPOLITICS, NEOLIBERALISM, AND AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC. We’ll have a conversation with Jeff about his book …
This event originated in English.
Presentation

First Friday Architectural Diversity

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6:30 pm
Location: Crescent Moon Coffee House
Join us at Crescent Moon Coffee at 140 N. 8th St., for cocktails, coffee, and food. Also presentations by faculty & students exhibition of architectural work. Sponsored by the National Organization of Minority Architects Student Group
Performing Arts - Musical Theatre

Spamalot

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7:30 pm
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts
The Tony Award®-winning Best Musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot, begins its search for the Holy Grail in the Fall of 2018. This outrageous musical comedy is lovingly ripped off from the film classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail with a book by …
This event originated in Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Film - Feature

THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST Opening night screening and Q&A with author emily danforth

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7:30 pm
Location: Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center - Van Brunt Visitors Center
From writer/director Desiree Akhavan and based on the celebrated novel by emily m. danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another …
This event originated in English.
Performing Arts - Opera

UNL Opera: The Return of Ulysses

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7:30 pm
Location: Kimball Recital Hall
Ulysses is one of the greatest love stories ever told. Based on Homer’s mythic Odyssey, the opera, The Return of Ulysses (Claudio Monteverdi) is a timeless testament to the power of a faithful heart. UNL Opera presents a new adaptation of the work …
This event originated in Music.
Show

Heroes and Villains Drag Show

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8:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Centennial Room
This event is a show to help raise funds to send students to the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference. There will be drag performances and free Pepsi products (with a valid NCard). Come support students, tip performers and …

Ongoing Events

Exhibition

Museum Builders: A Story of Fossils and Friendship

Temporary Exhibition at Morrill Hall

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9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Morrill Hall
This temporary exhibition explores the history of paleontology and the friendship that led to the construction of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Morrill Hall.
Activity

Nebraska Youth Beef Leadership Symposium 2018 (NYBLS)

NYBLS 2018

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1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: UNL Animal Science Complex
The annual Nebraska Youth Beef Leadership Symposium will be held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Animal Science Complex on November 2 - 4. The symposium is designed to introduce youth to careers opportunities and current issues in the beef …
This event originated in Animal Science.