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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Center for Great Plains Studies

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April 16-19, 2008
Embassy Suites Omaha Downtown/Old Market, Omaha, Nebraska


Tentative Symposium Schedule

Wednesday, April 16
11:30 a.m.

Pre-symposium Event
Starkweather: The Coverage of a Killer

Moderator: Dave Ogden
Panelists: Dave Hamer, Bill Kelly,
Mike Hilt

Joslyn Castle, 3902 Davenport Street, Omaha

  7:00 p.m.

Keynote Talk and Opening Reception (Embassy Suites, Missouri Room)

Welcome
James Stubbendieck, Director, Center for Great Plains Studies
Susan Maher, Chair, 2008 Symposium

Keynote Talk
'They Would See Nothing': The Deep Roots of Violence on the Great Plains
Speaker: Diane Dufva Quantic, Emeritus Professor of English, Wichita State University

 
Thursday, April 17
  7:00 a.m.
Registration opens (Embassy Suites)
  8:00 -9:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
  9:30-9:45 a.m.
Break
  9:45-10:30 a.m.

Plenary Session B (Big Blue A)
A Prehistory to Violence

Moderator: George Englemann
Panelists: Robert Shuster, Harmon Maher, Bing Chen

Plenary Session A (Missouri Room)
The Nebraska Case: NEBRASKA PRESS ASSN. v. STUART, 427 U.S. 539 (1976)

Moderator: Jeremy Lipschultz
Panelists: Mark Scherer, Nancy Whitmore
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
  1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
  3:00-3:15 p.m.
Break
  3:15-4:15 p.m.

Keynote Talk (Missouri Room)
Feeling the Heat: Global Warming and the Past and Future of the Great Plains
Speaker: Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, University of Kansas

  4:30-5:30 p.m.

Plenary Session C (Big Blue B-C)
The Next Step - music and dance performance by Josie Metal-Corbin, Christine Erlander Beard and Kyan Unstad


Home Place: Readings by Lisa Knopp and John Price

  6:15 p.m.
Buses leave for The Thompson Center at theUniversity of Nebraska-Omaha
  7:30 p.m.

Keynote Talk and Reception
(The Thompson Center at UNO)

Introduction by Geitner Simmons, Omaha World Herald
An Evening withVerlyn Klinkenborg, author and essayist for The New York Times

 
Friday, April 18
  7:00 a.m.
Registration opens (Embassy Suites)
  8:00 -9:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
  8:00 -9:30 a.m.
WOWT Documentary (Big Blue C)
Charles Starkweather and Caril
Thirty Years Later
  9:30-9:45 a.m.
Break
  9:45-10:30 a.m.

Plenary Session D (Missouri Room)
Native American Studies Roundtable

Embracing the Great Mystery in the 21st Century: Native Healing through Ceremony

Moderator: Carolyn Fiscus

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
10:30-11:30 a.m.
NET Television Documentary
(Big Blue C)
Murder House
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
  1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
  3:00-3:15 p.m.
Break
  3:15-4:15 p.m.

Keynote Talk (Missouri Room)

Violence and the Law: Were the Indian Wars Legal?
Speaker: Walter Echo-Hawk, Senior Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado

  6:30-7:00 p.m.
Social Gathering (Missouri Room)
  7:00 p.m.

Banquet (Missouri Room)

Poetry and Prose
Limb from Limb: A State of Rowdy Disorder
Neil Harrison, William Kloefkorn,
Jim Reese

 
Saturday, April 19
  8:00 a.m.
Registration opens (Embassy Suites)
  9:00-10:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
10:30-10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Plenary Session E (Big Blue B)
Death, Murder, and Mayhem: Nebraska Noir

Moderators: Bette-B Bauer, Karla Bergen
Panelists: Alex Kava, Sean Doolittle

   
Optional Post-Symposium Field Trips
  12:30 p.m.

Field Trip A
Joslyn Museum Special Collections Tour
  1:00 p.m.

Field Trip B
Nebraska Prairie Restorations: Allwine Prairie and Boyer Chute NWR

Out Yonder by Jake Walker, 2006

 

 

Complete Schedule
of Presentations
(updated Mar. 26, 2008)

 

Advance registration is now closed. On-site registration will be available at the hotel.