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Friday, April 18

Social Event

Spring 2025 Tea Time Friday

Recurring Date Info:
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11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: Kawasaki Reading Room 302 Target Audiences:
Join us every Friday for fresh tea and snacks from 11am to 4pm at the Kawasaki Reading Room 302 in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.
This event originated in Kawasaki Reading Room .
Lecture

Global Japan, Global Foods

How Globalization, Empire and Industrialization Shaped Modern Japanese Cuisine

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1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Heritage Room Target Audiences:
Chris Heselton, lecturer in the School of Global Integrative Studies, will present the lecture “Global Japan, Global Foods: How Globalization, Empire and Industrialization Shaped Modern Japanese Cuisine” from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. April 18 in the …
This event originated in Kawasaki Reading Room .
Lecture

EAS Stout Lecture: M. Bayani Cardenas

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3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Bessey Hall Room: 117 Target Audiences:
M. Bayani Cardenas, University of Texas, will present, “Groundwater on ice: hydrogeologic processes and the fate of permafrost carbon in Arctic.”
This event originated in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Colloquium

Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College

A Mathematical Perspective on Capitol Hill (and the rest of the Federal government)

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4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Location: Avery Hall Room: 115
In the last few years, I’ve had an up-close view of Congress and the National Science Foundation thanks to consecutive AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships. In this talk, I will explain the whole federal government (time permitting). If an …
This event originated in Math.
Conversation

Japanese Conversation Table

Recurring Date Info:
Weekly:
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4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: Kawasaki Reading Room 301 Target Audiences:
Join us to practice Japanese vocabulary and grammar at any level in a fun and welcoming environment every Friday from 4 to 5pm at the Kawasaki Reading Room 301, Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center. Beginners to Advanced levels welcome!
This event originated in Kawasaki Reading Room .
Lecture

Violent Separations: Capitalism, Forced Migration and the American Food System

Presented by Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn.

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4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Chimney Rock Room Target Audiences:
Abstract: Aid to refugees is usually thought of as a humanitarian endeavor. However, forced migration—-the violent process of forcing people out of their homes and countries of origin that turns people into refugees—is deeply related to the …
This event originated in Global Integrative Studies.