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Lecture

CAS Inquire

“Imagining Sustainable Futures: What Literature Can do for the Earth”

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5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Swanson Auditorium
Virtual Location: Webinar ID: 962 5613 4112
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This talk considers fictional and poetic literary engagement by island writers from the Pacific and Indian Oceans. We first ask: what can imaginative fiction do in the face of extreme weather and climate catastrophe? What is the role of narrative …
This event originated in College of Arts and Sciences.
Reading - Nonfiction

Book Release Celebration for Pete Capuano’s DICKENS’S IDIOMATIC IMAGINATION

A Conversation between Pete Capuano and Laura White about Dr. Capuano’s New Book, “Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language”

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5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop Target Audiences:
Book release celebration, featuring a conversation between Pete Capuano and Laura White about Dr. Capuano’s new book, “Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language” (Cornell UP, December 2023). Beverages and snacks.
Lecture

Humanities on the Edge presents: Dr. Jesse Cohn

“Anarchism as a Theory of Life”

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5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art Room: auditorium Target Audiences:
Dr. Cohn is Associate Professor of English, Purdue University Northwest. For more on his work: https://www.pnw.edu/people/jesse-cohn/.
Lecture

CAS Inquire

“Geology in a Green Energy Future”

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5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Swanson Auditorium
Virtual Location: Webinar ID: 988 5890 3521
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This talk will discuss the processes and importance of storing carbon dioxide in underground rock formations in order to help combat climate change. Whilst carbon dioxide storage alone is not the silver bullet for solving climate change, it is a …
This event originated in College of Arts and Sciences.
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Chris Harding Thorning reads from ‘Little Underworld’

A novel of crime and Depression-era Omaha

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4:30 pm
Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop Target Audiences:
Omaha, 1930. When ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his fourteen-year-old daughter, the last person he wants to see is local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik. Luckily, Frank isn’t interested in the lifeless body in Jim’s car. Frank …
Other

Academic Program Review

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8:00 am–5:00 pm
Location: TBD
The Department of English Academic Program Review will take place March 26-27. No events or meetings should be scheduled on these two dates.
Discussion

CAS Inquire

Panel Discussion

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5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Room: Swanson Auditorium
Virtual Location: Webinar ID: 966 2973 2818
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The CAS Inquire panel, featuring the five speakers from this year’s theme “Sustainable Future”, convenes to discuss and answer questions from the audience.
This event originated in College of Arts and Sciences.
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Cynthia J. Sylvester reads from THE HALF-WHITE ALBUM

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5:30 pm
Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop Target Audiences:
THE HALF-WHITE ALBUM, a powerful debut collection, explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to give readers a poignant though fractured view of her characters’ lives, their loves, and …
Lecture

Humanities on the Edge presents: Dr. Julio Ramos

“Diverging Underground: Martin Sostre and José R. Soltero in 1968”

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5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art Room: auditorium Target Audiences:
Dr. Julio Ramos is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California-Berkeley