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Saturday, April 30, 2011, 8:00 p.m., Johnny Carson Theater, 12th and R Streets. Special Presentation:

Life in a Jar. Irena Sendler, a Catholic woman who saved Jewish children, and how she and these students have chosen to repair the world. Co-sponsored by the Harris Center for Judaic Studies and the Jewish Federation of Lincoln.

March 7-18, 2011. Acclaimed poet and critic, Alicia Ostriker, the English Department's writer-in-residence. While in-residence at UNL the Harris Center for Judaic Studies hosted a reception and book signing March 10th, 7:00 p.m., at The Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q Street, Lincoln, NE.

October 24-25, 2010, 23rd Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, Creighton University, Omaha, NE.

Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:00 p.m., Lecture In Memory of H. Francis Cunningham,
Architecture Hall Auditorium, Architecture Hall Room 127, City Campus, Lincoln, NE

Dr. Alan L. Berger, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
"Am I My Brother's/Sister's Keeper? Moral Courage During the Holocaust"
Hear lecture, "Am I My Brother's Sister's Keeper? Moral Courage During the Holocaust"
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 7:00 p.m., UNL Human Rights and Human Diversity Program Lecture,
Center for Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q Street, Lincoln, NE
Dr. Harvey Weinstein, University of California-Berkeley
"Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and Social Justice: Where is the Evidence?"

October 25-26, 2009, 22nd Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, Creighton University, Omaha, NE


Thursday, April 23, 2009, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., Documentary & Panel Discussion, Embassy Suites, 1040 P Street, Lincoln, NE
A Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion on Holocaust Art Restitution
Art, Memory & Law

Sunday & Monday, April 19 & 20, 2009, Symposium, UNL City Campus Student Union, Lincoln, NE
Symposium Information
Returning To Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences and Representations

Thursday, February 5, 2009, 4:30 p.m., Deputy Consul General of Chicago, UNL City Campus, Lincoln, NE
Deputy Consul General of Chicago (Midwest Region), Mr. Gershon Kedar
Israel Behind the Headlines

Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 7:30 p.m., Guest Author, Mimi Schwartz, Dudley Bailey Library, 228 Andrews, UNL City Campus, Lincoln, NE
Mimi Schwartz, Author and Professor Emeritus at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
An Evening With Mimi Schwartz

Thursday, November 6, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Schlesinger Professorship for Social Justice Fund Lecture, Center for Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q Street, Lincoln, NE
Dr. Ari Kohen, Schlesinger Assistant Professor of Social Justice and Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"A Case of Moral Heroism: Sympathy, Personal Identification & Mortality in Rwanda"

Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 7:00 p.m., 2008 Kripke Lecture/E.N. Thompson Forum, Lied Center for Performing Arts, Lincoln, NE
Dr. Ronald Dworkin, New York University & Oxford University
"Democracy and Religion: America and Israel"

October 26 & 27, 2008, 21st Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, Creighton University, Omaha, NE

Jean Cahan receives 2008 Student Impact Award (Advisor of the Year)


Sunday, April 13, 2008, 7:00 p.m., 2008 Wald Lecture, Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q Street, Lincoln, NE
Dr. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
The Return of Antisemitism: The Intellectual Assault Against the Jews and the Jewish State

Thursday, March 27, 2008, 7:00 p.m., CBA 25, UNL Campus, Lincoln, NE
Scott Blakeman Comedy, New York, (About Scott Blakeman)
Stand Up For Peace

November 29, 2007, 2007 Annual Kripke Lecture, 7:00 p.m., Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q Street, Lincoln, NE
Dr. Saul Sosnowski, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Borges and the Kabbalah: A Pretext to the Core

October 28 & 29, 2007, 20th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, Creighton University, Omaha, NE

April 16, 2007, 2007 Henry and Gretl Wald Lecturer
Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Holocaust Deniers: Flat Earthers or a Genuine Threat

April 12, 2007, 2007 Norman and Helen Krivosha Lecturer
Steve Stern, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Evening with Steve Stern

March 22, 2007, 2007 Myer and Dorothy Kripke Lecturer and E.N. Thompson Forum
Sherwin B. Nuland, Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Faith, Philosophy and Medicine: Reflections on Maimonides , UNL News Release