U.S. Constitutionalism and Native American Sovereignty
U.S. LAW AND RACE INITIATIVE WEBINAR SERIES
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12:30 pm–1:30 pm
Virtual Location:
Zoom
Join us for a discussion on U.S. Constitutionalism and Native American Sovereignty with Ned Blackhawk (Yale University) and Maggie Blackhawk (New York University).
This event originated in College of Arts and Sciences.
Humanities on the Edge presents: Dr. Taija Mars McDougall
“The Once and Speculative Gaze: George Jackson with Heidegger and Deleuze”
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5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Location:
Sheldon Museum of Art
Room: Auditorium
Target Audiences:
Dr. McDougall is currently President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz and holds a PhD from UC-Irvine. Their book, currently titled “Held Here by Nothing: Notes on the Psychopolitics of Black Insurrection,” is contracted …
CAS Inquire
“Using What You Know to Filter through Climate Controversy”
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5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: Swanson Auditorium
Virtual Location:
Webinar ID: 975 0242 4199
Target Audiences:
Most of us are able to assess expert testimony in domains of interest using the background knowledge we have due to our interest. With sufficiently good background information we can do this in most fields, even those where there is much controversy …
This event originated in College of Arts and Sciences.
Mahtem Shiferraw
Poetry reading
Date:
Time:
5:30 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: Auditorium
Target Audiences:
Visiting poet Mahtem Shiferraw reads from her work.
Colloquium
Zero Street Fiction & the tradition of LGBTQ+ publishing
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2:00 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: Platte River Room South
Target Audiences:
The editors and authors of Zero Street Fiction, the new LGBTQ+ literary series of the University of Nebraska Press, will discuss the development of the project, its place in the history of LGBTQ+ publishing, its literary aesthetic, and the release of …
‘Zero Street Fiction’ launch party
with author Hilary Zaid, and co-editors Timothy Schaffert and SJ Sindu
Date:
Time:
5:00 pm
Location:
Indigo Bridge Bookstore & Cafe
Target Audiences:
Zero Street Fiction, the LGBTQ+ literary fiction series of the University of Nebraska Press, will celebrate the release of its first novel, FORGET I TOLD YOU THIS by Hilary Zaid. Zaid will sign copies of the book, which is also the inaugural winner …
Reading - Fiction/poetry
SJ Sindu, “The Goth House Experiment”
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5:00 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: University Bookstore
Target Audiences:
UNL Creative Writing alum SJ Sindu reads from her new collection of stories, THE GOTH HOUSE EXPERIMENT. In “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc,” a millennial English professor facing mounting personal crises puts her energies into TikTok, …
CAS Inquire
“How to do big science in a climate emergency?”
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5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: Swanson Auditorium
Virtual Location:
Webinar ID: 955 8068 1039
Target Audiences:
“Big science” projects, such as those associated with elementary particle physics, are global endeavors in which thousands of scientists build and operate large infrastructures that are deployed around the world. As a result, these scientists …
This event originated in College of Arts and Sciences.
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
Target Audiences:
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.
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/.
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