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October 2021
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26 Hispanic Heritage Month 12 pm Trying to Make Sense of It: 9/11, Loss, and Memorial Quilts	27 Hispanic Heritage Month Yom Kippur 9 am–4 pm Homecoming Blood Drive 9:30 am–11:30 am The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion for Successful Recruitment and Retention 10 am–11:30 am Americans with Disabilities Act/Section 504 for Supervisors 12 pm Trying to Make Sense of It: 9/11, Loss, and Memorial Quilts 4 pm–5:30 pm Writing Brilliant Essays: A Conversation with Matthew Salesses 6 pm–7:45 pm Multicultural Greek 101 8:30 pm–12 pm International Conference for Undergraduate Research (ICUR)	28 8:30 pm–12 pm International Conference for Undergraduate Research (ICUR) Hispanic Heritage Month Teacher’s Day in Taiwan Yom Kippur 11 am–6 pm Homecoming Blood Drive 11:30 am–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building Lunch – Sustainable Food and Water Security 12 pm Trying to Make Sense of It: 9/11, Loss, and Memorial Quilts	29 Hispanic Heritage Month 11 am–6 pm Homecoming Blood Drive 11:30 am–1 pm Buros Webinar to Focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Gifted Education 12 pm–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building (Virtual) – Sustainable Food and Water Security 12 pm Trying to Make Sense of It: 9/11, Loss, and Memorial Quilts 4 pm–5 pm Japanese Conversation Table 6:30 pm–8 pm ASUN Senate 7 pm–8 pm Community Chats for International Students	30 Hispanic Heritage Month 5 am Staged reading of “Proseminar in Homophile Studies” 11 am–6 pm Homecoming Blood Drive 12 pm–1 pm CEHS Grand Challenge Conversation Series: Sustainable Food and Water Security 12 pm–1 pm Exploring The Growing Climate Solutions Act and Carbon Credits 12 pm Trying to Make Sense of It: 9/11, Loss, and Memorial Quilts 2 pm–3:30 pm Beyond the Comfort Zone: Exploring Social Inequities Through Global Experiences 2 pm–4:30 pm Broader Impacts Training 2 pm–3 pm Dr. Helen Fagan: “My journey as an immigrant to being a Diversity Equity & Inclusion scholar and practitioner” 5 pm Staged reading of “Proseminar in Homophile Studies”	1 Deadline: Spring Applications Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 11 am–4 pm Tea Time Friday 11:30 am–12:30 pm DIGS Grand Opening 12 pm Trying to Make Sense of It: 9/11, Loss, and Memorial Quilts 5 pm–7 pm International Students at Homecoming Parade 5 pm–5:45 pm Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Hall of Fame Ceremony	2 Hispanic Heritage Month International Day of Non-Violence LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 12 pm Trying to Make Sense of It: 9/11, Loss, and Memorial Quilts
3 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month	4 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 12:15 pm–1:15 pm Muslim Law Students’ Association Executive Meeting 4 pm–5:30 pm Writing Brilliant Essays: A Conversation with Amelia Montes 6 pm–7:45 pm Black Greek 101	5 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 11:30 am–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building Lunch: Anti-Racism and Racial Equity 3 pm–4:30 pm BIPOC Experience in Queer Voices Panel and Mixer	6 12 am–11:55 pm Financial Health: Solving the Health-Poverty Trap in Human Trafficking Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 12 pm–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building (Virtual): Anti-Racism and Racial Equity 4 pm–5 pm Japanese Conversation Table 5 pm–6:30 pm We Are Nebraska Theatre Experience 6:30 pm–8 pm ASUN Senate	7 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 11 am–12:30 pm Pauley Symposium/Rawley Conference 12 pm–1 pm CEHS Grand Challenge Conversation Series: Anti-Racism and Racial Equity 12:30 pm–2 pm Pauley Symposium/Rawley Conference 5 pm–6:30 pm Justice Jam 5:30 pm–7 pm Pauley Symposium/Rawley Conference 7 pm–8:30 pm The Reading Series: Alison Bechdel	8 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 11 am–12:30 pm Pauley Symposium/Rawley Conference 11 am–4 pm Tea Time Friday 12 pm That’s What You Missed at the Women’s Center 1 pm–2:30 pm Pauley Symposium/Rawley Conference 3:30 pm–5 pm Pauley Symposium/Rawley Conference 4:30 pm–7:30 pm Hybrid “Coming Clean” Screening - Ondi Timoner 8 pm–11 pm Rainbow Ball 8 pm–11 pm Rainbow Ball	9 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month Shemini Atzeret
10 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month Shemini Atzeret Simchat Torah	11 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Coming Out Day National Disability Employment Awareness Month National Indigenous People’s Day Shemini Atzeret Simchat Torah 11 am–1 pm National Coming Out Day Photobooth 12 pm–1 pm The Importance of Public Remembering after Forced Forgetting of Mass Atrocities 4 pm–5:30 pm Writing Brilliant Essays: A Conversation with Elissa Washuta	12 Canadian Thanksgiving Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month Shemini Atzeret 11:30 am–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building Lunch: Early Childhood Education and Development	13 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 12 pm–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building (Virtual): Early Childhood Education and Development 4 pm–5 pm Japanese Conversation Table 5:30 pm–7 pm Prayer of Peace: Relief & Resistance in Burma’s War Zones (Film) 6:30 pm–8 pm ASUN Senate	14 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 12 pm–1 pm CEHS Grand Challenge Conversation Series: Early Childhood Education and Development 12 pm–1:15 pm Women in the Law Q&A Panel 4 pm–5:30 pm Pride in the Workplace 6 pm Colloquium on Racial Justice: What Is Critical Race Theory Anyway, and Why Do Politicians Care Whether It’s Taught? 7 pm–8:30 pm Reading: Garth Greenwell	15 Hispanic Heritage Month LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 11 am–4 pm Tea Time Friday 12 pm–1 pm CEHS Grand Challenge Conversation Series: Health Equity 12 pm–1 pm Community Chats for International Students	16 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month
17 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month	18 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 2 pm–3:30 pm The Science of Teaching: How to take a Scholarly Approach to your own Classroom 3 pm–4 pm What’s Up Session 4 pm–5:30 pm Writing Brilliant Essays: A Conversation with Hope Wabuke	19 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month The Birth of Baha’u’llah 11:30 am–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building Lunch: Quantum Science and Engineering	20 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month Sikhs celebrate Sri Guru Granth Sahib 12 pm–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building (Virtual): Quantum Science and Engineering 3 pm–5:30 pm STI Testing with the Nebraska AIDS Project 4 pm–5 pm Japanese Conversation Table 4 pm–6 pm October Faculty Connector 6:30 pm–8 pm ASUN Senate	21 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 8 am–5 pm Wear PURPLE for Domestic Violence Awareness 12 pm–1 pm Overview of LGBTQ Family Law in Nebraska 5:30 pm–7 pm Lecture: Jack Halberstam, “An Aesthetics of Collapse” 5:30 pm “An Aesthetics of Collapse,” a lecture by Jack Halberstam 6 pm–8 pm LGBTQA+ History Month Dinner	22 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas 11 am–4 pm Tea Time Friday 12 pm–1 pm AFIRE: Engage the Student Activist in Postsecondary Education 12 pm–1 pm CEHS Grand Challenge Conversation Series: Science and Technology Literacy for Society 4 pm Hyde Lecture – Jeff Hou	23 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 9 am–2:30 pm The Fragile Future of Democracy 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas
24 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month United Nations Day 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas	25 Dussehra (Dasera) LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas 6 pm–7 pm Community Chats for International Students 6 pm–7:45 pm Multicultural Greek 101	26 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 10 am–11:30 am Nebraska Ambassadors Forum: Africa’s Role in the Contemporary World 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas 11:30 am–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building Lunch: Climate Resilience 2:30 pm–4 pm Americans with Disabilities Act/Section 504 for Supervisors 5:30 pm CollectionTalk: Artist Jill Nathanson	27 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas 11 am–1 pm Nebraska Community of Learners – Understanding Diversity through Education (#NCLUDE) 11:30 am–1 pm Buros Center Complimentary Webinar: ADHD 12 pm–1 pm Grand Challenges Community Building (Virtual): Climate Resilience 12 pm–1 pm Preparing for Sharing Your Research: Publishing and Copyright 1 pm–2:30 pm Research Administration Essentials: Cost Sharing 4 pm–5 pm Japanese Conversation Table 6:30 pm–8 pm ASUN Senate	28 Eid Milad Un Nabi LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 9 am–12:30 pm 2021 State of Diversity 10 am–4 pm Halloween at the Centers 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas	29 Eid Milad Un Nabi LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas 11 am–4 pm Tea Time Friday 12 pm–1 pm CEO Action D&I Conversations with Chancellor Green 8 pm–10 pm Night of the Living Drag Show	30 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas
31 LGBT History Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month 1 pm–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas	1 All Saints Day International Education Week Unkissed Kisses 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas 11:30 am–1 pm Grand Challenges Lunch & Learn featuring Jennifer Lyon Gardner, Deputy Vice President for Research, University of Texas-Austin 6 pm–7:45 pm Black Greek 101 6:30 pm–8 pm Joy Castro book launch, FLIGHT RISK	2 International Education Week Unkissed Kisses 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas 11 am–12 pm Finding and Implementing OERs 7 pm–8 pm Facing Immigrant Exclusion: Then and Now	3 International Education Week Unkissed Kisses 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas 11:30 am–1 pm Nebraska Research Days Keynote featuring Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman 12:10 pm–1 pm One Vital Topic-One Nebraska Law 3 pm–5:30 pm STI Testing with the Nebraska AIDS Project 4 pm–5 pm Japanese Conversation Table 5 pm Cartoons & the Queer Aesthetic: A discussion of LGBTQ+ graphic novels/memoirs and the history of queer comics 6:30 pm–8 pm ASUN Senate	4 International Education Week Unkissed Kisses 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas	5 International Education Week Unkissed Kisses 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas 10:30 am–4:30 pm Fall 2021 Teaching and Learning Symposium 11 am–4 pm Tea Time Friday 12:30 pm–1:30 pm Sociology Colloquium Series: ‘We Would Never Sell Our Children!’ The Limits of Decolonizing Slavery & Missions Histories in the American Southwest	6 International Education Week Unkissed Kisses 10 am–4 pm Painted Quilts of the Hopi Mesas