Upcoming Events

Join us for a discussion on U.S. Constitutionalism and Native American Sovereignty with Ned Blackhawk (Yale University) and Maggie Blackhawk (New York University).

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 …

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 …

Visiting poet Mahtem Shiferraw reads from her work.

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, 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 …

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, …

“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 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 …

Dr. Cohn is Associate Professor of English, Purdue University Northwest. For more on his work: https://www.pnw.edu/people/jesse-cohn/.