October 11 - October 25, 2019

Presentation on the Cannes Film Festival Programs

If you're interested in a career in the entertainment, event, advertising, marketing, culinary or hospitality industries, consider complementing your school curriculum with hands-on experience, direct access to industry professionals, and unparalleled networking opportunities at the world-renowned Cannes Film Festival next May, or the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity next June.

Since 1989, The American Pavilion has been the heart of Hollywood's presence at Cannes, and our worldwide Student Programs have helped thousands of students launch their careers in the film industry. As the only student program officially recognized and sanctioned by the Cannes Festival and the Marché du Film, The American Pavilion Student Programs offer participants a unique and life-changing experience, and an up-close view of both the market and festival.

In addition to May’s Cannes Film Festival programs, The American Pavilion offers another Cannes program in June, The Cannes Lions Intensive. This is AmPav’s newest program, offering students of Marketing, Advertising, Branding Design, Media, and Interactive Technology intimate access to the creative communications industry’s biggest annual awards show and festival. Recent speakers included Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, U2’s Bono, and Facebook’s Cheryl Sandberg. 

Come hear a representative of The American Pavilion discuss these programs and help you decide which might be right for you.

An informational presentation will be given about the festival(s) to learn more about them.

To RSVP for the presentation, or to get information if you can not attend, see here.

• October 16, 2:00pm; Bailey Library, Andrews Hall, UNL Campus

Jesmyn Ward, Essayist, memoirist, and National Book Award winner

MacArthur Genius and two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward has been hailed as the standout writer of her generation, proving her “fearless and toughly lyrical” voice in novels, memoir, and nonfiction. Betsy Burton of the American Booksellers Association has called her “the new Toni Morrison.” In 2017, she became the first woman and the first person of color to win two National Book Awards for Fiction—joining the ranks of William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Philip Roth, and John Updike.

Ward’s stories are largely set on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, where she grew up and still lives. When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, Ward was forced to evacuate her rapidly flooding home. Her writing is deeply informed by the trauma of Katrina, not to mention its unimaginable social and economic repercussions. Her novel Salvage the Bones, winner of the 2011 National Book Award, is a troubling but ultimately empowering tale of familial bonds set amid the chaos of the hurricane. Likewise, Ward’s debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds, depicts what Publishers Weekly calls “a world full of despair but not devoid of hope” in the aftermath of natural disaster.

A singular Southern odyssey that strikes at the heart of life in the rural South, Sing,Unburied, Sing, earned Ward a second National Book Award in 2017. Sing, Unburied, Sing is a road novel through Mississippi’s past and present that explores the bonds of a family tested by racism and poverty. Margaret Atwood called it a “wrenching new novel…[that] digs deep into the not-buried heart of the American nightmare.

Ward’s memoir, Men We Reaped, delves into the five years of Ward’s life in which she lost five young men—to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that follows poor people and people of color. Ward is the also the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, which NPR named one of the Best Books of 2016.

•  October 17, 7:00 - 8:30pm; Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, Sheldon Museum of Art

Uncommon DH Lecture: Roopika Risam

Join us for the inaugural Uncommon Digital Humanities Critic lecture (rescheduled from Spring 2019). Roopika Risam, assistant professor of English at Salem State University, will present “Lessons from The Digital Black Atlantic: Amplifying Equity and Justice in Public Humanities.”

Drawing on her experience co-editing the volume The Digital Black Atlantic for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (University of Minnesota Press) with Kelly Baker Josephs, Risam will explore the lessons learned from producing a volume on African diaspora digital humanities.

• October 24, 3:30 - 5:00pm; Bailey Library, Andrews Hall, UNL Campus

All English Department Events for October

• Reading by Author Terese Svoboda. October 28, 5:00 - 6:00om; Bailey Library, Andrews Hall, UNL Campus
• Humanities on the Edge Presents Claire Colebrook. October 31, 5:30 - 7:00; Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium,  Sheldon Museum of Art

All English Department Events for the Fall Semester

• Building Your Career: Alt-Ac, Publishing, Fellowships, and Fullbrights. November 5, 12:00 - 1:30pm; Bailey Library, Andrews Hall, UNL Campus

Week Without Violence: Brown Bag Lunchon on Peace

Courtnery Hillebrecht, Samuel Clark Waugh Professor of International Relations, director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, faculty coordinator of the William H. Thompson Learning Community, and associate professor of Political Science will lead a discussion on peace.

For more info see here.

•  October 16, 12:00 - 1:30pm; Nebraska Union, See Kiosk 

Phantom at the Opera

Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera comes to Lincoln as part of a brand new North American Tour. This production, which retains the beloved story and thrilling score, boasts exciting new special effects, scenic and lighting designs, staging and choreography and has been hailed by critics as “bigger and better than ever before.”

The Phantom of the Opera will take the Lied Stage for seventeen shows from Oct 23-Nov 3.

UNL students may purchase half-price tickets online at liedcenter.org, then pick them up from the Box Office with their NCard.

For more info see here.

• October 23 - November 3, Times Vary; Lied Center

Uncommon Digital Humanities Critic Lecture

Join us for the inaugural Uncommon Digital Humanities Critic lecture (rescheduled from Spring 2019). Roopika Risam, assistant professor of English at Salem State University, will present “Lessons from The Digital Black Atlantic: Amplifying Equity and Justice in Public Humanities.”

Drawing on her experience co-editing the volume The Digital Black Atlantic for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (University of Minnesota Press) with Kelly Baker Josephs, Risam will explore the lessons learned from producing a volume on African diaspora digital humanities.

• October 24, 3:30pm; Bailey Library, Andrews Hall, UNL Campus

Ann Weisgarber: "Discovering Rachel Dupree: Writing Historical Fiction in the Great Plains"

Additional Public Info:
Parking is usually available in the Que Place garage (entrance at 11th and Q streets).

• October 24, 3:30pm; Center for Great Plains Studies, Downtown Lincoln

Places and Plains Workshop Series with Ng’ang’a Muchiri

“Land Rights & the Zimbabwean Chimurenga.” will be presented.

• October 25, 3:30 – 5:00pm; Center for Great Plains Studies Commons

All English/Film Studies Related University Events for the Fall Semester

• Agency, Power, and Social Justice. November 7, 3:30 - 5:30pm; Heritage Room, Nebraksa Union
• Epistemic Standpoints and the Epistemology of Injustice. November 8, 3:30 - 5:30; Room 308, Lousie Pound Hall, UNL Campus

• Places and Plain Workshop Series with Cory Willard. November 22, 3:30 – 5:00pm; Center for Great Plains Studies Commons

• "Befriending the Mighty Mo: Missouri River as Ally". November 23, 3:30pm; Center for Great Plains Studies, Downtown Lincoln

• Global Cafe: Writing an Undergrad Thesis. November 30,12:00 - 1:00pm; Room 827, Oldfather Hall, UNL Campus

Collision Literary Magazine Seeking Submissions

Poetry Editor of Collision Literary Magazine at the University of Pittsburgh. Collision is currently open for submissions of undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art, and we welcome your students to submit! We're also looking for submissions for our fall zine, Border Crossing, which will feature fiction, nonfiction, poetry and black-and-white visual art revolving around international and intercultural experiences. By submitting to either the annual magazine or the themed zine, students will be considered for our writing contests, wherein they could win monetary prizes. 

Submissions for the annual magazine close Friday, Feb. 21, but we read on a rolling basis. Zine submissions close Friday, Oct. 25. You can find more information about the magazine and our submission guidelines at https://www.collision.pitt.edu. If you have any questions, please contact collision.pitt@gmail.com. 

Nebraska Writers Collective Internship

Lincoln Public Schools Gifted Students Mentorship

Lincoln Public Schools is seeking Juniors, Seniors, or Graduates to mentor students up to one hour per day in the following areas:

• English and Language Arts
• Mathematics
• World Languages
• History/ Social Studies
• Visual Arts

The mentorship pays $18.91 per hour for working with the students, as well as mileage reimbursement for travel between schools for those assigned at multiple LPS locations.

The mentorship provides a wealth of experiences to discuss in interviews for those considering the job market after graduation.

The following requirements need to be met in order to be considered for the program:

• Overall GPA of 3.0 or above
• 15 college course hours in the subject to be mentored
• A minimum of 3.5 GPA in these courses

For those interested in applying, the application can be found here.