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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"
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
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
