March 8 - March 22, 2024

Chris Harding Thornton reads from ‘Little Underworld’

Date: Mar. 16, 2024

Time: 4:30 pm

Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop

Omaha, 1930. When ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his fourteen-year-old daughter, the last person he wants to see is local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik. Luckily, Frank isn’t interested in the lifeless body in Jim’s car. Frank has a proposition: he’ll make the dead man disappear if Jim helps take down Elmer Kobb, who is vying for city commissioner and willing to backstab anyone who gets in his way.

Soon, Jim and Frank are sucked into a seedy world of crime and corruption, where no one is safe and nothing is what it seems. Then Jim is violently attacked and one of his operatives turns up dead within the span of twelve hours, and his search for the truth yields a web of lies and a mounting death toll. As he and Frank are pulled deeper into the city’s dark underbelly and its absurd political machinations, Jim begins to question everything he knows about Omaha and his place in it.

In her moody, ferocious, and darkly funny follow-up to PICKARD COUNTY ATLAS, a novel Tana French called a “slow-burning beauty of a book,” the native Nebraskan (and UNL English lecturer and Creative Writing alum) Chris Harding Thornton mines Omaha’s sordid past, melding fact and fiction into an unforgettable tale of danger and deceit. LITTLE UNDERWORLD asks: What does it mean to be good, and what is left for those of us who aren’t?

International Women’s Day

Date: Mar. 8, 2024

Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: Kawasaki Reading Room 302

Join us for Bracelet-Making as we celebrate International Women’s Day. Fresh Tea and Mochi will be served!!

https://modlang.unl.edu/kawasaki-reading-room

Lunch and Learn: Human Rights in the Headlines

Date: Mar. 8, 2024

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Location: Oldfather Hall Room: 827

On Friday, March 8, eat lunch with expert faculty on human rights as we walk through the week’s headlines and interpret what is happening in the world in terms of human rights protection and promotion. The conversation will be driven by your interest and curiosity, and we hope to build a community of those who care about human rights issues worldwide.

Register to help us order the best food for you: https://go.unl.edu/humanrightsheadlines.
This event is part of “A Week for Peace,” this year’s theme of our annual Violence and Extremism Prevention Week.

https://humanrights.unl.edu/week-peace-march-4-8

32nd Annual Nebraska Center for Virology Flyswat Retreat

Date: Mar. 11, 2024

Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Location: Nebraska East Union Room: Great Plains Room

The Nebraska Center for Virology (NCV) will host its 32nd Annual Virology Retreat (aka Flyswat) on March 11, 2024. We are excited to rejoin our colleagues and host this year’s Retreat at the Nebraska East Union, Great Plains Room. As part of the tradition, students, faculty, and staff will present posters and/or give an oral presentation throughout the day.

Dr. Bing Chen, Harvard Medical School, will be our keynote speaker on March 11, 2024.

The deadline for poster/talk title submission is February 23, 2024, by 5:00 p.m.
Conference registration deadline is February 23, 2024.

Register to attend or enter a poster/talk submission here:  https://nuramp.nebraska.edu/ems/event.php?EMSEventUUID=4a24901f-6847-4def-9c77-e3863182241a

CAS Career Drop-in

Date: Mar. 13, 2024

Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Location: Oldfather Hall Room: 107

Stop by 107 Oldfather Hall or jump on Zoom (https://go.unl.edu/cascareerdropin) to ask any of your career development questions and receive resume support by a CAS Career Coach. Sessions last 15-20 minutes.
If you would like to meet longer, schedule an appointment (https://go.unl.edu/coachappt). We look forward to supporting you!

Huskers Abroad 101

Date: Mar. 13, 2024

Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Location: Louise Pound Hall Room: 124

Join Global Experiences for a 30-minute interactive workshop to help you start planning your global experience. During the workshop, we’ll discuss global experience types, funding, the timeline for planning your experience, and thinking through your goals to go abroad. No registration is needed, and both undergraduate and graduate students from all colleges are welcome!

https://globalexperiences.unl.edu/

CookWell Class: Taste of the Baltic Countries

Date: Mar. 18, 2024

Time: 11:55 pm

Location: Recreation and Wellness Center Room: Wellness Kitchen

Recipes include:
• Kotletes (Latvian Meatballs)
• Rosolje (Estonian Potato & Beet Salad)
• Pur?s Varskeciai (Lithuanian Cottage Cheese Pancakes)

Class date: March 21, 2024
Time: 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Location: RWC, Wellness Kitchen

Sign up at: 

https://crec.unl.edu/cookwell-classes

Volleyball Officials Training

Date: Mar. 20, 2024

Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Location: Campus Recreation Center

https://crec.unl.edu/activities/officials

Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist: Roberto Tejada

Date: Mar. 20, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm

Location: Richards Hall Room: 15

The next Hixson-Lied visiting artist is translator, editor, essayist, art historian and
cultural critic, Roberto Tejada. Tejada is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the
University of Houston. He was awarded The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Poetry in 2021.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Anna Nasset, Stand Up: Survivor Story and Bystander Intervention

Date: Mar. 20, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Location: Nebraska Union Room: Swanson Auditorium

Through engaging exercises and conversations, participants will look deeper into consent and appropriate behavior (especially around stalking), learn how to be an active bystander, and assist those who have been sexually assaulted or who are being stalked. Anna also shares parts of her own story as a survivor to highlight the effective bystanders in her life. Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of how stalking affects the victim on every level, and a tool kit of resources to use for themselves or to help others.

Anna Nasset is an international speaker and writer who has trained thousands of professionals about stalking. She is one of the very few people who can speak openly about her experience after the man who stalked her received the maximum sentence for stalking, 10 years in prison, in 2019, one of the longest-known sentences for stalking in US history.

This event is FREE, and while intended for students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend as well.

If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to make this event more accessible for you, please email care@unl.edu or call 402-472-3553.

Life in Lincoln: Easter Egg Hunt

Date: Mar. 22, 2024

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: Perin Porch Room: (East Campus)

Life in Lincoln is a series of select evenings for UNL students to gather and enjoy a nearby activity or tour to sample and learn about the local Lincoln culture, neighborhoods, and people.

FREE to attend. Open to all UNL students with Event Pass.

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THIS WEEK’s ACTIVITY:
An Easter egg hunt. Learn about this popular spring tradition and participate in a real egg hunt on campus, searching for hundreds of candy-filled eggs.

The hunt is on East Campus. Meet at the Perin Porch.
UNL Students with children are invited to bring their kids to enjoy this fun activity.

Discover more about egg hunts and the tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_hunt

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