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Thursday, September 26

Activity

Japanese Movie Club—-

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2:00 pm
Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: 302 – Kawasaki Reading Room
Japanese Movie Club
This event originated in Modern Languages and Literatures.
Lecture

Objects in the Mirror are Closer than They Appear

Dr. Tomi-Ann Roberts

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2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: Ubuntu Room
In October 2017, Tomi-Ann Roberts was launched into the public limelight when she came out in the New York Times as a victim of sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein when she was a college student. She has since been featured in countless news …
This event originated in Women’s and Gender Studies.
Lecture

Big Ten Emerging Scholars Lecture by Stephanie Tsank

Inside Mary Johnson’s Mouth: Crane’s Realism and Sensing the Slums in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

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3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Andrews Hall Room: Bailey Library
Dr. Tsank received her PhD from the University of Iowa. Her talk draws on material from a larger project examining how realist writers use food and the senses to depict immigrant characters and in turn, support constructions (or revisions) of …
This event originated in English.
Lecture

Great Plains Lecture: C.J. Janovy

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3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Center for Great Plains Studies
Author C.J. Janovy will speak about her experiences writing “No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas” at a Paul A. Olson lecture at the Center for Great Plains Studies.
This event originated in Center for Great Plains Studies.
Lecture

David Krugler

Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Will Brown Lynching

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6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: Andrews Hall Room: Bailey Library
Remembrance of the 100th anniversary of the Will Brown lynching in Omaha, which took place on September 28, 1919. The murder of Brown, an African American laborer, by a white mob was part of a wave of anti-black violence sweeping the United States …
This event originated in Ethnic Studies.

Ongoing Events

Exhibit - Artifacts

The Heart of Campus: A N150 Exhibit

Date:
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Time:
All Day
Location: Love Library South Room: 218
“The Heart of Campus” is a new exhibit to celebrate N150. A special tribute to University Hall and other artifacts curated by the University Archives & Special Collections staff are featured. A selection of archival photographs run on the virtual …
This event originated in Libraries.