March 22- April 05, 2024

CAS Inquire

Date: Mar. 26, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Location: Nebraska Union Room: Swanson Auditorium

The CAS Inquire panel, featuring the five speakers from this year’s theme “Sustainable Future”, convenes to discuss and answer questions from the audience.

Webinar ID: 966 2973 2818
Registration Link: https://unl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HFi7i1dlQhSyhoqO1_H2SQ

https://cas.unl.edu/cas-inquire

Uncommon DH Critic Lecture: Lauren Goodlad

Date: Mar. 29, 2024
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Date:Mar. 29, 2024

Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Location: Location:TBD

As the Uncommon DH (Digital Humanities) Critic for the current academic year, Lauren M.E. Goodlad (Rutgers University) will be giving a public talk on March 29. At Rutgers, Professor Goodlad is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature as well as a faculty affiliate of the Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA), the Rutgers British Studies Center, and the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Professor Goodlad works in many areas, including nineteenth-century studies (an area that will also be of interest to us), but comes to us at a particularly timely moment due to her work on artificial intelligence (AI). At Rutgers, Professor Goodlad is the chair of a new interdisciplinary initiative on Critical Artificial Intelligence and is Editor-in-Chief of Critical AI (https://criticalai.org/), an interdisciplinary journal. Through Critical AI, she is also leading the organization of Global Humanities Institute 2024: Design Justice AI, which will be held this summer at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Professor Goodlad will be the latest speaker in a series that has now brought to campus some of the leading critics in the field of DH, including Roopika Risam, Miriam Posner, Lauren Klein, Kim Gallon, and Natalie Houston.

Location TBD.

Film Studies Alumni Speaker Series: Xaviera Flores

Date: Apr. 2, 2024

Time: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Location: Love Library South Room: 102

Xaviera Flores, a graduate of the UNL Film Studies program, will give a presentation on her work as the Librarian and Archivist at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. The talk, “Reclaiming Chicana/o Narratives Through Archival Forensics,” will examine how audiovisual and photograph materials are described in the Chicano Studies Research Center archival collections using a forensic science lens to rethink and retell stories from the Chicano movement directly from the community’s lived experiences.

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center is dedicated to the development of scholarly research on the Chicano-Latino population. A 2007 graduate of the Film Studies program, with minors in Communication Studies, French, and Sociology, Flores also earned an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, specializing in Archives Management and Audiovisual Preservation. She has worked for such institutions as the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Arizona State University, and Boston College. Flores co-authored the paper “Breaking the Language Barrier: Describing Chicano Archives with Bilingual Finding Aids” in the American Archivist and has since continued to break down barriers and advocate for the Chicano-Latino populations’ access to their community history.

This event is sponsored by the Film Studies program and is free and open to the public.

https://guides.library.ucla.edu/prf.php?id=5a3f161c-7cdb-11ed-9922-0ad758b798c3

Poetry by Siwar Masannat, Ae Hee Lee and Kelly Weber

Date: Apr. 2, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm

Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop

In celebration of National Poetry Month, three poets read from their award-winning collections.
About the Books:
cue by Masannat – With cue, Jordanian poet Masannat (whose debut collection, 50 WATER DREAMS, was the winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Competition) considers the cultural nuances of the private-versus-public paradox, with poems that wrestle with intimacy and distance. Departing from love as a force of creation, cue’s intertextual experiments and lyric poems map environmental relations and pose questions about privacy and visibility, love and family, gender, and ecological agency.

ASTERISM by Lee – This book contemplates the wonders and challenges of transnational, polycentric living. Moving between South Korea, Peru, and the United States, the poems in the collection find luminous homes at the interstices of bridges, flight layovers, languages, desires, imperfect memories, and mutable mouths. They blur the line between self and other: words are translated into connotations, self-portraits become co-inhabited identities with family, friends, foods, and cultural histories.

YOU BURY THE BIRDS IN MY PELVIS by Weber – Winner of the 2022 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest, chosen by Mary Jo Bang, the collection features poems in a range of forms that consider the queer body, chronic illness, and love amid rural plains landscapes. Set against a rural plains landscape of gas stations, wind, and roadkill bones littering the highways, YOU BURY THE BIRDS IN MY PELVIS is a love letter to the nonbinary body as a site of both queer platonic intimacy and chronic illness. Looking at art and friendship, Kelly Weber’s poems imagine alternatives to x-rays, pathologizing medical settings, and other forms of harm. Considering the meeting place of radiological light and sunlit meadows, the asexual speaker’s body, and fox skeletons, these poems imagine possible forms of love.
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Rainbow Ball

Date: Mar. 22, 2024

Time: 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Location: Nebraska Union Room: Ballroom

An LGBTQA+-inclusive prom event where students can express themselves how they want and dance with who they want.

Whether you want to dance or simply socialize, there is something for everyone. There will be a photo booth to take countless photos to commemorate the night.

Free for UNL students.

Looking for something to wear? Check out the Lavender Closet, located in the Gender and Sexuality Center in Nebraska Union room 346.

Open House at the Student Observatory

Date: Mar. 22, 2024

Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Location: Stadium Drive Parking Garage

Additional Public Info:
Event maybe canceled due to clouds and weather. Decision to cancel will be posted on the calendar by 3pm on Friday. Events will occur twice a month on Friday evenings. Lets hope for good weather this semester!

https://observatory.unl.edu/

Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway

Date: Mar. 23, 2024

Time: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Time7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts

Direct from New York, five of Broadway’s top stars perform the hit songs and classic dances from groundbreaking shows like West Side Story, Cabaret and Chicago to current blockbusters like Jersey Boys and Wicked. Accompanied by a live band, 100 Years of Broadway recreates the greatest moments from the finest shows of the century featuring the actual Broadway stars of shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, CATS, and Jesus Christ Superstar.

https://www.liedcenter.org/event/100-years-broadway

3D Printing and Scanning Workshop with GoEngineer

Date: Mar. 26, 2024

Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Location: Nebraska Innovation Studio

You are invited to attend a FREE 3D Printing & Scanning Workshop at Nebraska Innovation Studio! Come learn how to improve quality & engineering workflow with 3D Scanning & 3D Printing. Lunch will be provided.

Schedule: 12:00 - 12:45pm Lunch, 12:45 - 1:30pm 3DP technologies presentation, 1:30-2:00 p.m. Scanning overview, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Live scanning of GoE parts, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Live scanning of attendee’s parts.

Register: https://goengineer.registration.goldcast.io/events/d429ea49-c933-418c-9084-d6ebd576bcb2.

Questions? Contact Rodger Reaume, rreaume@goengineer.com, (847) 499-8054.

https://goengineer.registration.goldcast.io/events/d429ea49-c933-418c-9084-d6ebd576bcb2

BroadCAST Webinar with Brian Tighe, recording artist

Date: Mar. 26, 2024

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Location: GO.UNL.EDU/BROADCAST

Brian Tighe is most known as the frontman for Minneapolis pop group The Hang Ups, which he founded in 1990 with friends at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Critically acclaimed, the group has worked with renowned producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon and produced music for Kevin Smith’s 1997 film Chasing Amy as well as the tv series Dawson’s Creek. Tighe also records and performs with chamber pop groups The Owls and Starfolk.

Late Night Dish It Up: Transgender Day of Visibility

Date: Mar. 26, 2024

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: OASIS Lounge

March 31 is Transgender (Trans) Day of Visibility, an annual, internationally celebrated holiday dedicated to transgender people. The celebration honors the work they’ve done, the losses they’ve endured, and the successes they’ve achieved. Join us to learn ways to celebrate and find community.

Dish it Up is an interactive conversation where individuals can share their personal views, learn from others and engage in civil discussions concerning current events, topics affecting students’ lives, UNL, and national/international happenings.

Dish It Up is a space that fosters inclusive shared learning of students, faculty, and staff where everyone can engage in dialogue, challenge their thinking, and build relationships. Dish It Up actively builds an inclusive environment for all University of Nebraska-Lincoln community members and recognizes the importance of collaboration.

Comic-making workshop with Cameron Mukwa

Date: Apr. 2, 2024

Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location: Love Library South Room: 221 Peterson Room

Join Indigenous comics creator Cameron Mukwa (Odawa Two-Spirited Artist and Writer) for a comic-making workshop. Learn the steps of writing for comics, drawing and simple storyboarding. Students will learn how to make a super simple comic, no artistic skill or experience necessary!

Supported by UNL Libraries and the Center for Great Plains Studies, this event is part of the “Confronting the Legendary Great Plains” conference April 2-3 from the Center for Great Plains Studies. A portion of the seats in the workshop are open to those not attending the conference, but seating is limited so please register.

Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3-myfJNosYYjAJtfzLtfeAmSEenKxbuYpoyDV1TrDMX1fcQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Cameron Mukwa is an illustrator, primarily working in graphic novels. His work shares his Anishinaabe heritage through storytelling and pattern design, as well as his lived experience as a nonbinary transgender person. He loves bright colors and bold designs that represent people of all backgrounds, and his passion is making art about being trans and happy, showing kids of all ages that it’s good to be different.

His debut graphic novel will be published by Scholastic’s Graphix imprint (2024). He is also a sought-after artist for educational publishers, such as Curriculum Associates.

Cameron uses gouache, markers and digital media. His inspiration comes from the resilience of his family and his own lived experience as a Two Spirit person. Common themes in his work are transgender life, gender euphoria, urban fantasy, and Indigenous narrative. His ideal projects would include illustrations that illuminate the LGBTQ and BIPOC experience, symbolic works of fantasy of science fiction, or explorations of established properties from a non-white, non-straight perspective. He also would love to tackle a picture book project.

https://www.unl.edu/plains/2024-conference-confronting-legendary-great-plains

Exploring Advertising, Design and Communications Pathways

Date: Apr. 2, 2024DateApr. 2, 2024

Date:Apr. 2, 2024

Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Location: Nebraska Union

Explore advertising, marketing & communications career pathways by hearing from and talking with various professionals and alumni. This informal event, featuring a panel & discussion round sessions, will allow you the opportunity to make meaningful connections while learning from and speaking with industry professionals.

https://unl.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1504729

Used Gear Sale

Date: Apr. 5, 2024

Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Location: Outdoor Adventures Center Room: Courtyard

Looking to expand your outdoor equipment stash? Or trying to find high-quality, used equipment for your next adventure? Look no further than the Outdoor Adventures Used Gear Sale.

Items include:
• Solo Kayaks
• Canoes
• Mountain Bikes
• Single Speed Bikes
• Sleeping Bags
• Tents
• And more…

Only Visa, Mastercard, or check sales are accepted. All sales are final. No returns, refunds, or exchanges. All gear is sold in “as-is” condition. Proceeds are used to purchase new equipment to benefit UNL students.

Questions? Contact Outdoor Adventures at (402) 472-4777

https://crec.unl.edu/activities/outdoor-adventures

Table Tennis Doubles Tournament

Date: Apr. 5, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm

Location: Campus Recreation Center

Entry fee: FREE
Leagues: Co-Rec, Men’s, Women’s and Open
Registration deadline: Sign up on site

Sign up on-site at the Coliseum South Vestibule by 5:30pm to participate. Winners will receive an intramural championship t-shirt!

Find more information at: https://crec.unl.edu/intramural-sports

Casino Royale Formal

Date: Apr. 5, 2024

Time: 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Location: Nebraska Union Room: Centennial Room

Glamour and gaming come to campus for a fun and festive night.

Grab a spot at a casino-style gaming** table to try your luck at playing Black Jack; Roulette; Poker; and Craps. Up to 60 students can play at the same time.

Want to skip the games and enjoy the atmosphere?
• Live music & dancing w/ DJ DWayne.
• Sample signature alcohol-free mocktails and refreshments.
• Create a personal keepsake photo with friends in the photo booth, to commemorate the night.

This event is FREE for UNL students with Event Pass.

** This is a money-free non-gambling event. Cash and currency betting is prohibited. Students will be issued a set of casino chips in which to play the games.

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ABOUT THE GAMES
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BLACK JACK
A card game played against the dealer. Try to get 21 or closest to it without going over.

ROULETTE
Place a marker on your favorite number or color and see if the wheel lands on your number.

POKER
A card game, with the objective of creating a better hand then your competitors.

CRAPS
Win or lose based on where you put your marker on the table and the sum of the two dice after they’re rolled.

REGULAR CARD GAMES