September 24 - October 1, 2021

Staged reading of “Proseminar in Homophile Studies”

Date: Sep. 30, 2021
Time: 5:00 pm
Nebraska Union Auditorium

Celebrating 50 years of LGBTQ+ Studies at UNL!

In 1970, the first courses in the newly developing field of LGBTQ studies were offered at U.S. universities—among these few pioneers was the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. “Proseminar in Homophile Studies,” led and designed by English professor Louis Crompton and psychology professor James Cole, received an unprecedented level of scrutiny by scholars, administrators, legislators, mental health professionals, and social activists; and its bold, multifaceted, prescient scholarship set the path for a national trend in LGBTQ Studies around the world.

This event features members of UNL’s LGBTQ community reading from materials related to the course, its development, its controversies, and the hearings of the Nebraska Legislature.

https://www.unl.edu/english/50-years-lgbtq-studies-unl

Writing Brilliant Essays: A Conversation with Matthew Salesses

Date: Sep. 27, 2021
Time: 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Zoom: https://unl.zoom.us/j/93956985944

Matthew Salesses is the author of the bestsellers The Hundred-Year Flood, an Adoptive Families Best Book of 2015 and a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker, among others, and Craft in the Real World, an Esquire Best Book of the 2021, which explores alternative models of craft and the writing workshop, especially for marginalized writers. His latest novel is the PEN/Faulkner Finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, a Thrillist.com Best Book of 2020. Previous books include I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; and The Last Repatriate.

Matthew was adopted from Korea. In 2015 Buzzfeed named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. His essays can be found in Best American Essays 2020, NPR Code Switch, The New York Times Motherlode, The Guardian, and other venues. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, PEN/Guernica, and Witness, among others. He has received awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, [PANK], HTMLGIANT, IMPAC, Inprint, and elsewhere.

Matthew is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA/PhD program at Oklahoma State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College. He serves on the editorial boards of Green Mountains Review and Machete (an imprint of The Ohio State University Press), and has held editorial positions at Pleiades, The Good Men Project, Gulf Coast, and Redivider. He has read and lectured widely at conferences and universities and on TV and radio, including PBS, NPR, Al Jazeera America, various MFA programs, and the Tin House, Kundiman, and One Story writing conferences.

The Reading Series: Alison Bechdel

Date: Oct. 7, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: Rococo Theater
140 N 13th St, Lincoln NE 68508

Additional Public Info:
Free and open to the public. Limited seating available.

https://www.unl.edu/english/50-years-lgbtq-studies-unl

Homecoming Cornhole Tournament

Date: Sep. 29, 2021
Time: 2:00 pm–6:00 pm
Location: Memorial Stadium

Teams of two representing a single organization can sign up to compete against other pairs of two in the classic lawn game of cornhole (a.k.a. bags). Games will take place in the Memorial Stadium and the top three placing teams will receive Homecoming Competition points.

All boards and bags will be provided. Games will be self-refereed by teams and judges walking around the playing area.

BIPOC Experience in Queer Voices Panel and Mixer

Date: Oct. 5, 2021
Time: 3:00 pm–4:30 pm
Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center in the Ubuntu Room

Come join us for our annual panel emphasizing LGBTQA+ BIPOC Voices, in collaboration with OASIS! Our panel will consist of LGBTQA+ BIPOC faculty and staff of the university who will be answering questions from the facilitator and the audience. Join us after the panel for a mixer with the panelists and all attendees!

Gaining Experience as a Pre-Law Student Workshop

Date: Oct. 5, 2021
Time: 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Location: Love Library South, Room 221

There are many ways to gain experience as a Pre-Law student, with opportunities on campus, in the local community, and beyond. With so many options, it can be hard to know where to begin getting involved. Attend this workshop to reflect on which skill sets you would like to develop as a Pre-Law student and plan for your involvement as you prepare to apply to law school.

CAS Inquire: “On Melancholia and White Pain”

Date: Oct. 5, 2021
Time: 5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium

Presented by Casey Ryan Kelly, Professor of Rhetoric & Public Culture, Communications Studies. This presentation examines the dominant media narrative that President Trump’s electoral victory was a reflection of white working class pain (physical and economic) rather than nativism and xenophobia.

Kelly will explore the racialized and classed schemas we draw from to make sense of and prioritize whose pain matters in U.S. public culture and how psychoanalytical theories of pain and melancholia explain the emergence of rhetorics of white victimhood.

To attend virtually, visit: https://go.unl.edu/casinqOCT

Sunday with a Scientist: Explore Native American Ceramics of Nebraska

Date: Sep. 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm–3:00 pm
Location: Morrill Hall

Do you have pottery in your home? Do you use pottery as a tool, or simply for decoration? For at least the last 2,000 years in Nebraska, pottery has been used by many different cultures as a way to hold and carry different materials and to express creativity and cultural identity. No two pots are the same! Because every piece of pottery is highly unique, pottery provides archeologists with valuable information about how people lived in the past and helps make connections to modern traditions. Archeologists are particularly interested in what gets mixed into the clay, how pots are shaped, and the decorations on the outside of pots.

During this Sunday with a Scientist event, join archeologists from History Nebraska and the National Park Service Midwest Archeological Center to learn how they piece together the past, explore ceramics from across Nebraska’s past, and make your own pottery.

https://museum.unl.edu/programs-events/sunday-with-a-scientist.html

Showtime at the Coliseum

Date: Sep. 27, 2021
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Vine Street Fields

Students are invited to watch as Recognized Student Organizations, Greeks and Residence Halls battle against each other with performances for Homecoming competition points and ultimate bragging rights.

Rainbow Ball

The Rainbow Ball is an LGBTQA+ inclusive dance that will be hosted on October 8th from 8-11pm in Kauffman's Great Hall.

• Tickets are $5 per person and can be ordered at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rainbow-ball-tickets-170027612165
• To gain entry, attendees must have their Safer Community App show their "Access Granted" page OR have proof of a recent negative test OR have proof of vaccination. Tickets will be refunded if the participant is unable to meet one of these criteria. 
• Attendees must wear masks for the duration of the event unless they are actively eating or drinking in designated areas. 
• Cookies and various drinks will be available! And there will be a photobooth!

THE MISSOURI REVIEW is now accepting submissions!

From The Missouri Review contest editor:

The 31st annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize competition is now open for submissions in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. First-place winners in each category receive $5000, feature publication in our spring issue, and are honored at a gala reading and reception in Columbia, Missouri (pandemic permitting). Contest finalists are often published in the magazine also, or in the web-exclusive features we offer on our website in prose and poetry, BLAST and Poem of the Week.  All entrants are considered for publication.

This opportunity is open to writers at all levels. We pride ourselves on focusing on the quality of the writing first and foremost—our allegiance is to discovering and supporting strong work. Past winners have ranged from established writers with long records of publication to beginning writers who have never published before. In fact, for our fiction prize winner in 2018, the prizewinning story was her first published piece. This is why we are particularly excited to get the word out to University of Nebraska, Lincoln. I’ve attached a flyer promoting the contest. We would love it if you would pass the word along via e-mail and social media, as well as posting the flyer somewhere your community is sure to see it.   

We accept submissions online or by mail. The postmark deadline is October 1. Winners will be announced in January of 2022.   

You can find out more about the contest through our website.

This year we are offering two contest entry options:

At the standard $25 level, entrants receive a year-long digital subscription to the Missouri Review ($24 value) as well as the fifth offering from Missouri Review Books, the digital anthology Private Lives ($7.95 value) featuring stellar short fiction from past issues of TMR.  

At the $30 all-access level entrants receive the same year-long digital subscription and Private Lives, plus full access to our entire ten-year archive of value-added digital issues, complete with print and audio versions of the magazine.  

Georgetown is accepting applications for their English MA program!

From Jessica Marr, Program Manager for the Department of English at Georgetown University:

Are you interested in a graduate program that is dynamic, innovative, and committed to offering you a breadth of choice and a variety of opportunities for scholarly and professional specialization and development? Are you also interested in receiving the kind of focused attention from faculty that doctoral students might receive at other institutions? Join us this Thursday, September 23 from 4–5pm EST for a virtual information session to learn more—register now.

We are also currently accepting applications for our free-standing Master of Arts in English! Our program is an excellent capstone for those aspiring to careers in writing, editing, teaching, or other fields that require advanced skills in written communication, critical analysis, and research, and an important stepping stone for those who intend to pursue a PhD or other advanced degree after completing an MA at Georgetown. The application deadline for Spring 2022 admission is coming up on Friday, October 1, 2021. The application deadlines for Fall 2022 are January 15, 2022 (priority) and April 1, 2022 (final). Please note: as of Fall 2021, GRE test scores are NOT REQUIRED for admisson. We hope that removing this requirement will help alleviate some of the stress that comes along with applying to graduate programs. Visit our website to learn more about our program.

If you have any questions, please reach out to me at gradenglish@georgetown.edu or our Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Daniel Shore at daniel.shore@georgetown.edu. If you would like to schedule a visit (either in-person, via Zoom, or over the phone), please fill out this short form and I will be in touch to coordinate that conversation.