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Reading - Fiction/poetry

Van Jensen

Reading/Discussion

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Starts at 5:30 pm
Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop Target Audiences:
UNL and Daily Nebraskan alum Van Jensen will read from his novel GODFALL, a blend of sci-fi and murder mystery. GODFALL was the subject of a Hollywood bidding war, with the rights going to Imagine Entertainment. Academy Award-winner Ron Howard will …
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Kurt Andersen

Discusses Edward Hopper’s ROOM IN NEW YORK and his new novel THE BREAKUP

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Starts at 5:30 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art Room: Auditorium Target Audiences:
Originally from Omaha, Kurt Andersen has been documenting arts, culture, and politics in New York City for decades. In the spring 2026 issue of Prairie Schooner, Andersen wrote about Edward Hopper’s ROOM IN NEW YORK, the iconic NYC painting by Edward …
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Kazim Ali

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Starts at 5:30 pm
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Kazim Ali reads from THE MAN IN 119, his new collection of poetry. The book explores loss and absence alongside the human body and the natural world. Here, the tongue becomes a collaboration between human and glacial current-the self, a “tectonic …
Special Event

Welcoming New Nebraskans: A Book Launch for The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees

Tales of Migration, Hope, Grief, and Finding Home in Nebraska

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5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art Target Audiences:
Join us for an evening of readings, mingling, and festivities to celebrate the launch of The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees: Tales of Migration, Hope, Grief, and Finding Home in Nebraska, a new edited collection from the University of Nebraska …
This event originated in Ethnic Studies.
Lecture

Humanities on the Edge presents: Johannes von Moltke

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5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art Room: Abbott Auditorium Target Audiences:
Lecture by Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan) as part of the Humanities on the Edge speaker series.
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Hope Wabuke

BLOOD ON THE LEAVES, a collection of poetry

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Starts at 5:30 pm
Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop Target Audiences:
UNL English professor Hope Wabuke reads from her new book, BLOOD ON THE LEAVES, a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural world. At once a site of refuge and rupture, …
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Michael Lowenthal & Scott Heim

Reading/discussion

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Starts at 5:30 pm
Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop Target Audiences:
Michael Lowenthal will discuss his new book, PLACE ENVY: ESSAYS IN SEARCH OF ORIENTATION, and Scott Heim will discuss the reissue of his classic novel of gay literature, MYSTERIOUS SKIN.
Lecture

Humanities on the Edge presents: Roland Vegso

“‘Concepts Completely Useless for the Purposes of Fascism’: Walter Benjamin and the Trolls” 

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5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art Room: Abbott Auditorium Target Audiences:
Roland Vegso, Professor and Department Head at the University of Georgia.