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Mon, May 9 thru Fri, May 13: Finals Week.
Sat, May 14: GRADUATION!
Mon, May 16: 3wk & 8wk summer session courses begin.
Table of Contents
- Faculty and staff recognition, 2021-22
- Gailey receives Women of Courage, Character, and Commitment Award
- Haymarket Poetry Presents Hope Wabuke
- Reading/Discussion with Hope Wabuke and Aracelis Girmay
- WLI Spring Writing Marathon
- Humanities on the Edge presents: Anna Arabindan-Kesson
- Humanities At Work
- The Band’s Visit
- Huskers for Hearing Virtual Trivia Night
- MOVIE NIGHT: Avengers: Infinity War
- The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Sisters Changed American Medicine
- Night of Listening: Gain knowledge about registering to vote
- Nebraska Rep: Our Town
- Fireside Chat with Visiting Scholar – Reckoning with Slavery and Dispossession
- Cory Wade
- Joyce Yang, Piano
- Ace/Aro Affinity Hour
- Sex, Power and Assault on Campus
- FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES: Avengers: Endgame
- Heroes and Villains Drag Show
- Five books that illuminate the agony and uncertainty of civilians caught in wars
- What to Do When Your Kid Is Reading a Book That Makes You Uncomfortable
- Crossing Paths with the Spirit of Sylvia Plath
- Families like mine need more bilingual children’s books
- ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming
- Grieving His Mother's Death, Ocean Vuong Learned to Write for Himself
- The novelist who wrote “How to Murder Your Husband” is now on trial for murdering her husband.
- How America’s Concepts of Disability and Family Were Created by Fascism
- How Watching Men’s Figure Skating Helped Me Fall Back in Love with Writing
- The Power and Necessity of Learning from Books That Reflect Our Communities
- How Acting in True Crime Shows Allowed Me to Write the Story of My Stepsister’s Murder
- Films at the Ross
- Elliot Page's Umbrella Academy character is now Viktor Hargreeves
- GLAAD Awards: ‘Eternals,’ ‘Hacks,’ ‘Saved by the Bell’ Take Top Honors
- Jason Momoa to Write, Star and Produce Historical Hawaiian Series ‘Chief of War’ for Apple
- ‘The Witcher’ Family Reunites as Filming Begins on Season 3
- Netflix Takes ‘SNL’ Sketch to Heart and Creates a ‘Short-Ass Movies’ Category
- ‘Gentleman Jack’ Season 2 Trailer: HBO’s Fave 19th-Century Lesbians Return On April 25
Student Spotlight: Dzukogi, Daum honored with Student Luminary awards
https://www.unl.edu/english/news/dzukogi-daum-honored-student-luminary-awards
English major Taylor Daum and Ph.D. student Saddiq Dzukogi are among the 10 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who recieved Student Luminary Awards to recognize their exceptional leadership and commitment to improving the campus and community.
The awards were announced during a reception at Howard L. Hawks Hall on April 1. The awards recognize students who create a positive campus environment, advocate for change, demonstrate a significant and active commitment to inclusion and model academic excellence inside and outside the classroom.
Each student was nominated by a faculty or staff member on campus and received $1,000.
Saddiq Dzukogi
Dzukogi, a doctoral student in English from Lincoln was honored as a Student Luminary for his personal commitments to creating a positive campus environment and actions toward making every person feel valued. While pursuing his own education and raising three young children, he mentors international students, serves as a compassionate undergraduate instructor, coaches high school poets and works with incarcerated community members.
“He has managed, in all of [his] struggles, to establish himself as a brilliant scholar, a hugely successful poet, a community-engaged teacher, a skillful, compassionate instructor to our undergraduates, and a mentor to local youth, other international students and incarcerated individuals,” Stacey Waite, nominator, said.
Taylor Daum
Daum, a junior English major from Emerson, Neb., was honored as a Student Luminary for her positive influence on campus and campus involvement as a resident assistant, orientation leader and First Husker peer mentor, and her commitment to improving the campus through participation in the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Student Advisory Board. She had the unique opportunity of leading a group of students who worked to support students as they tested positive for COVID-19 this past spring.
“I can think of nobody who has single-handedly impacted as many lives directly as Taylor has,” Jordan Foreman-Black, nominator, said. “She exemplifies a commitment to helping others and ensuring they feel connected and engaged with the community.
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Faculty in the News
Faculty and staff recognition, 2021-22
https://www.unl.edu/english/news/faculty-and-staff-recognition-2021-22
Gailey receives Women of Courage, Character, and Commitment Award
https://cas.unl.edu/units-students-faculty-earn-awards-womens-history-month
Department of English Announcements and Events
Haymarket Poetry Presents Hope Wabuke
Date: Apr. 12, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Location: Virtual
The Body Family is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime unearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure. This lyrical and imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family’s journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda’s Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke excavates personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be a Black girl becoming a Black woman while navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement.
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Hope Wabuke is a Ugandan American poet, essayist, and writer. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir Please Don’t Kill My Black Son Please. Hope has published in The Guardian, The Root, Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a founding board member and former Media & Communications Director for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction.
Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2021), and a forthcoming novel in verse (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021). Co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket, 2019), she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.
Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015), winner of the Sillerman Prize. A 2021 Whiting Award winner, she has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Cave Canem, the Michener Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center.
This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important organizing, programming and publishing work.
Register for this event by visiting the link below.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-body-family-tickets-305964346597
Reading/Discussion with Hope Wabuke and Aracelis Girmay
Date: Apr. 14, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
Location: Zoom
A lyrical and imagistic poetry collection, THE BODY FAMILY tells the story of a family’s journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda’s Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke excavates personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be a Black girl becoming a Black woman while navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement.
Safia Elhillo writes: “In lush, cinematic poems, Hope Wabuke’s THE BODY FAMILY chronicles leaving, arrival, and the dangers on either side. The poems are taut and precise, and together sing a kaleidoscopic song of Blackness, diaspora, and coming of age. I love this book, and I learn from this book.”
Hope Wabuke is a Ugandan American poet, essayist, and writer. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir PLEASE DON’T KILL MY BLACK SON PLEASE. Hope has published in The Guardian, The Root, Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a founding board member and former Media & Communications Director for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction.
Aracelis Girmay is the author of three books of poems: THE BLACK MARIA, TEETH, and KINGDOM ANIMALIA, which won the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is also the author/illustrator of the collage-based picture book CHANGING, CHANGING. She is the editor of HOW TO CARRY WATER: SELECTED POEMS OF LUCILLE CLIFTON.
No pre-registration required.
WLI Spring Writing Marathon
Date: Apr. 16, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm–4:00 pm
Location: Pioneers Park Nature Center (3201 South Coddington, Lincoln NE 68522)
The Writing Lincoln Initiative is proud to invite you to the WLI Spring Writing Marathon. Following in the tradition of our NeWP collaborators, this writing marathon invites guests to spend a day exploring nature while writing about their experiences or anything that is important to them. There is no need to be an expert to participate in this event—we hope this event encourages individuals a chance to experience the world as writers, space to generate new material, and an opportunity to share their writing with others within a supportive community.
We ask that all attendees first meet at the Pioneers Park Nature Center (3201 South Coddington, Lincoln, NE 68522) at noon to begin the marathon. After a brief overview of what writing marathons entail, attendees will break into small groups that together, will explore the park, pause to write, and share that writing with each other. One of those groups will function as an accessibility group, which will stick to sidewalks, flat planes, and the sections of the park more suited for those with mobility issues.
If you plan on attending, please RSVP via our Facebook Event, so we may get a sense of who all is attending and can plan groups accordingly:
Humanities on the Edge presents: Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Date: Apr. 21, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
“Plantation Imaginaries: Immigrant Forms and Forms of Enclosure”
Professor Arabindan-Kesson focuses on African American, Caribbean, and British Art, with an emphasis on histories of race, empire, and transatlantic visual culture in the long 19th century. In her teaching, she is committed to expanding and amplifying the spaces, and narratives, of art history. Her students are encouraged to engage directly with art objects and their socio-historical contexts through close visual analysis, interdisciplinary readings and discussion along with regular class sessions in the study rooms of Princeton’s libraries and museums, and local area collections.
https://www.unl.edu/english/humanities-on-the-edge
Humanities At Work
Date: Apr. 13, 2022
Time: 5 pm–6 pm
Location: Oldfather 1007 (10th Floor)
Join us for a special event featuring several successful UNL alum from a variety of humanities majors. They’ll speak about their career paths, and how the skills they gained as a humanities student helped them in their professional roles. There will be plenty of time for an open and casual Q&A, so bring your questions! Refreshments will be provided.
University Announcements and Events
The Band’s Visit
Four shows:
Saturday, April 9, 2022 – 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 9, 2022 – 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 10, 2022 – 1:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 10, 2022 – 7:00 p.m.
Tickets available at liedcenter.org
Huskers for Hearing Virtual Trivia Night
Date: Apr. 9, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Register by April 2 at bit.ly/SAAtrivia.
MOVIE NIGHT: Avengers: Infinity War
Date: Apr. 9, 2022
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium
Night 3 of a four-night series, screening Marvel Studios’ The Avengers movie franchise. One film will be shown on a Friday night at the end of each month from January to April 2022.
Free for UNL Students only with Event Pass.
ARRIVE EARLY. Limited seating on a first-come, first-serve basis.
MOVIE SUMMARY
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. [IMDb.com]
Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and more.
Watch the film trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi528070681
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FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES – Spring 2022
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Avengers: Infinity War
March 25, 2022 | 8 p.m. This event was postponed. NEW DATE: April 9, 2022
Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium
Avengers: Endgame
April 22, 2022 | 8 p.m.
Nebraska East Union, Prairie Suite
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Sisters Changed American Medicine
Date: Apr. 12, 2022
Time: 3:30 pm–5:30 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
“The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Sisters Brought Medicine to Women - and Women to Medicine”
by New York Times bestselling author, Janice P. Nimura
Night of Listening: Gain knowledge about registering to vote
Date: Apr. 13, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium
Huskers and community members are invited to attend and participate in “Night of Listening” a Lincoln Community Townhall at 5 p.m. April 13 in the Nebraska Union Swanson Auditorium.
Huskers will have the chance to dialogue the steps it takes to register to vote and decode the ballot in the upcoming Nebraska 2022 Elections with nonpartisan organizations, as well as their fellow students, to find common ground and be involved in the community, state and nation.
Panelist Members and nonpartisan organizations in attendance will be:
• John Cartier - Civic Nebraska
• Karina Hernandez - Nebraska Civic Engagement Table
Each organization’s representative will speak for a short time before opening the floor to students for questions and to share their stories.
Questions can be submitted in advance here: https://forms.office.com/r/xj40iXJrJL
Night of Listening is hosted by the Husker Vote Coalition at UNL; Civic Nebraska; Asian Community & Cultural Center of Lincoln; Nebraska Civic Engagement Table; and OutNebraska.
Nebraska Rep: Our Town
Performances are April 13-24. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://nebraskarep.org.
“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it — every, every minute?”
“Our Town” is a moving look at life in the small town of Grover’s Corners. This poignant American tale explores friendship, love and death, but most importantly, what it truly means to live. The production features the world premiere of a new score performed live to Thornton Wilder’s classic play.
Directed by Arthur Feinsod, who served as artistic director of Crossroads Repertory Theatre between 2001-2014. Since 1990, Feinsod has lectured and given workshops throughout the United States and Italy on a wide range of topics, including, most recently, Thornton Wilder and “Our Town” in Terre Haute and the commedia dell’arte and mask acting at the University of Nebraska.
Fireside Chat with Visiting Scholar – Reckoning with Slavery and Dispossession
Date: Apr. 15, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm–3:30 pm
Location: Zoom, Registration required
The University Libraries 2022 Visiting Scholar, Yolanda Cooper, Vice Provost and Lindseth Family University Librarian, at Case Western Reserve University will talk about her work as co-chair of the Task Force on Untold Stories and Disenfranchised Populations at Emory University in a virtual fireside chat with the Libraries Dean Claire Stewart on Friday, April 15 at 2 p.m.
The main topics of discussion will be Dean Cooper’s work on Emory’s reckoning with slavery and dispossession including her leadership of the task force and developing a symposium. The program includes a Q&A session at 3 pm, moderated by the Libraries Associate Dean Charlene Maxey-Harris.
Event is free and open to the public, registration is required: https://go.unl.edu/fireside_chat
Yolanda Cooper serves as the Vice Provost & Lindseth Family University Librarian at Case Western Reserve. Prior to this appointment, Cooper was the Dean and University Librarian at Emory University, where she provided leadership and direction for the Emory Libraries including the Robert W. Woodruff Library, the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, the Goizueta Business Library, Academic Technology, and the Library Service Center, a facility operated in collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology. Her responsibilities focused on articulating ways in which library services, digital scholarship, and informational technology can better support Emory’s mission and vision; implementing annual operational plans for Emory Libraries; chairing the Libraries Cabinet; and working with key library governance groups. She was also deeply engaged in campus DEI efforts at the university which resulted in chairing a Task Force on Untold Stories and Disenfranchised Populations and developing a two-day hybrid symposium on Slavery and Dispossession.
Cory Wade
Date: Apr. 15, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm–8:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium
Speaker. Cory Wade is a model, actor, singer, and LGBTQ+ activist most known for his third place finish on America’s Next Top Model and being the first openly gay participant on the show.
Free for UNL students with Event Pass.
Joyce Yang, Piano
Date: Apr. 19, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts
Experience Yang’s first Lied Center performance since her memorable 2008 collaboration with the Takács Quartet.
Ace/Aro Affinity Hour
Date: Apr. 20, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Room 234
Sponsored by Spectrum UNL and the LGBTQA+ Resource Center, Ace/Aro affinity hour is a designated space for the asexual and aromantic community on campus to gather around similar or shared experiences. We respectfully ask that only those who identify as asexual and/or aromantic attend.
Ace/Aro affinity hour will be upholding Spectrum UNL’s no outing policy for all attendees.
Sex, Power and Assault on Campus
Date: Apr. 21, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Kimball Recital Hall
Join us to discuss how students, faculty and staff can come together as a community and reduce sexual assault.
FEATURING THE AUTHORS OF “Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus”
- Jennifer S. Hirsch, Professor at Columbia University
- Shamus Khan, Professor at Princeton University
Thursday, April 21 at 7:00PM | Kimball Hall
Get your free tickets at https://go.unl.edu/convoforchange
FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES: Avengers: Endgame
Date: Apr. 22, 2022
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Nebraska East Union, Prairie Suite
Night 4 of a four-night series, screening Marvel Studios’ The Avengers movie franchise. One film will be shown on a Friday night at the end of each month from January to April 2022.
Free for UNL Students only with Event Pass.
ARRIVE EARLY. Limited seating on a first-come, first-serve basis.
MOVIE SUMMARY
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos’ actions and restore balance to the universe. [IMDb.com]
Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, and more.
Watch the film trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2163260441
Heroes and Villains Drag Show
Date: Apr. 22, 2022
Time: 8:00 pm–10:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Centennial Room
Our biannual drag show continues Spring 2022! No entry fee is required, though we do ask that you bring a nonperishable food item to donate to Husker Pantry upon entry. Tipping performers, though not required, is greatly appreciated and all tip money will go to Spectrum’s Leadership Conference Fund and the UNL LGBTQA+ Center’s Student Support Fund.
Literary News
Five books that illuminate the agony and uncertainty of civilians caught in wars
By John Tirman | March 18, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/022/03/18/five-books-that-illuminate-suffering-civilians-during-war
What to Do When Your Kid Is Reading a Book That Makes You Uncomfortable
The author of a memoir banned in schools across America on the value of teens reading challenging work.
By Dan Kois | March 22, 2022
https://slate.com/culture/2022/03/gender-queer-author-maia-kobabe-banned-books
**A note from the editor of this newsletter: This graphic novel memoir is AMAZING and I highly recommend y'all read it! This article also has some interesting takes on all the book bans going on right now.
Crossing Paths with the Spirit of Sylvia Plath
Helen Humphreys on Writing at Yaddo and Reading Plath’s Letters
By Helen Humphreys | March 23, 2022
https://lithub.com/crossing-paths-with-the-spirit-of-sylvia-plath/
Families like mine need more bilingual children’s books
My parents speak Spanish; my 8-year-old brother speaks English. Why aren’t there children’s books they can enjoy together?
By Daniela Palacios | March 25, 2022
https://newark.chalkbeat.org/2022/3/25/22991960/bilingual-childrens-books-para-kids-newark
‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming
Sales of queer romance novels have surged, with books coming from the biggest publishers and prominently displayed at mainstream retailers.
By Elizabeth A. Harris | March 30, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/books/lgbtq-romance-novels
Grieving His Mother's Death, Ocean Vuong Learned to Write for Himself
By Nicole Chung | March 30, 2022
https://time.com/6161568/ocean-vuong-time-is-a-mother-interview/
The novelist who wrote “How to Murder Your Husband” is now on trial for murdering her husband.
By Jonny Diamond | April 5, 2022
How America’s Concepts of Disability and Family Were Created by Fascism
By Jennifer Natalya Fink | April 6, 2022
https://lithub.com/how-americas-concepts-of-disability-and-family-were-created-by-fascism/
How Watching Men’s Figure Skating Helped Me Fall Back in Love with Writing
By Jenny Tinghui Zhang | April 7, 2022
https://lithub.com/how-watching-mens-figure-skating-helped-me-fall-back-in-love-with-writing/
The Power and Necessity of Learning from Books That Reflect Our Communities
By Luma Mufleh | April 7, 2022
https://lithub.com/the-power-and-necessity-of-learning-from-books-that-reflect-our-communities/
How Acting in True Crime Shows Allowed Me to Write the Story of My Stepsister’s Murder
By Rachel Rear | April 7, 2022
Film News
Showing This Week at the Ross
TO WHICH WE BELONG (April 8 - April 14)
Elliot Page's Umbrella Academy character is now Viktor Hargreeves
Netflix confirmed the character "will come out as transgender" in the third season.
ByTatiana Tenreyro | March 29, 2022
https://www.avclub.com/elliot-page-umbrella-academy-trans-viktor-hargreeves-1848722389
GLAAD Awards: ‘Eternals,’ ‘Hacks,’ ‘Saved by the Bell’ Take Top Honors
By Matt Donnelly | April 2, 2022
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/glaad-awards-eternals-hacks-saved-by-the-bell-1235221558/
Jason Momoa to Write, Star and Produce Historical Hawaiian Series ‘Chief of War’ for Apple
Sharon Knolle | April 4, 2022
https://www.thewrap.com/jason-momoa-chief-of-war-apple-hawaii/
‘The Witcher’ Family Reunites as Filming Begins on Season 3
Jolie Lash | April 4, 2022
https://www.thewrap.com/the-witcher-season-3-filming-image-henry-cavill/
Netflix Takes ‘SNL’ Sketch to Heart and Creates a ‘Short-Ass Movies’ Category
Andi Ortiz | April 5, 2022
https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-short-ass-movies-saturday-night-live/
‘Gentleman Jack’ Season 2 Trailer: HBO’s Fave 19th-Century Lesbians Return On April 25
Edward Davis | April 5, 2022