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The English Advising Office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Appointments
Please go to Canvas (under Account--> Settings--> MyPlan--> My Success Network--> Kathleen Lacey). The schedule tab will allow you to see what times are available for individual appointments. You can also search for Kathleen Lacey in the MyPLAN Directory. You are also welcome to call 402-472-3871 to schedule an appointment.
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Monday, September 6 is Labor Day! This means no classes and UNL offices will be closed.
Table of Contents
ASUN's Statement Regarding Phi Gamma Delta
Department of English Announcements and Events University Announcements and Events- University Libraries Welcome Wagon
- Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Ana Maria Ortiz
- Lavender Closet’s Fall Opening
- Film Studies Meet & Greet!
- Nebraska Union 3rd Floor Open House
- Paint at Sheldon
- JGMC Open House
- A Year After George Floyd’s Killing, White Allyship Fades
- ‘Every day until they’re gone:’ Protesters surround FIJI after alleged sexual assault
- The Hard Intimacies of COVID-19: Documenting a Pandemic Year
- The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students
ASUN's Statement Regarding Phi Gamma Delta
Check out the ASUN Statement regarding FIJI: http://www.dailynebraskan.com/asun-fiji-statement/html_db3af288-057b-11ec-8460-d78f4a8875b4.html
Department of English Announcements and Events
Timothy Schaffert Reading, Reception, and Book Signing for THE PERFUME THIEF
Date: September 9, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
Timothy Schaffert, Director of Creative Writing and Susan J Rosowski Professor of English, is the author of The Perfume Thief, a top ten book of the summer by the Los Angeles Times, and an Amazon top ten bestseller in the category of LGBTQ Literature. He is the author of six novels, and his work has been a New York Times Editors' Choice, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and an Oprah.com Book of the Week, among other honors.
Join us for a reception (21+ only) for his new book, and a discussion with Chigozie Obioma.
University Announcements and Events
University Libraries Welcome Wagon
Date: August 30, 2021
Time & Location: See schedule below
The University Libraries in rolling out the Welcome Wagon for all new and returning students. They invite you to drop by for a snack!
9-11 am: Adele Learning Commons
12-12:30 pm: Architecture Hall/Architecture Library
12:30-1 pm: Westbrook/Music Library
1:30-2:30 pm: Love Library
Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Ana Maria Ortiz
Date: September 1, 2021
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Richards Hall, Room 15
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture series begins with a lecture by painter and muralist Ana Maria Ortiz. Hailing from Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, and currently living in Houston, Ortiz started painting on old wood pieces with tempera paint as a little girl in her dad’s wood shop. Getting into the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, she studied art and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in animal science.
Ortiz is influenced by scenarios where nature suffers as a consequence of humankind. Known by the local art scene for her humanoid creatures, Ortiz paints and draws animals with exaggerated anthropomorphic features, creating sympathy for her iconoclastic subjects in a society of stereotypes with sensibility and dark humor. These noble beasts, that seem to look at us in silence, represent more than a design, but a language that each must adapt to their own understanding.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Lavender Closet’s Fall Opening
Date: September 2, 2021
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Nebraska Union, Room 344
The Lavender Closet is re-opening! You can email lgbtqa.engagement@unl.edu to set up appointments or visit the LGBTQA+ Center during our open hours. We welcome you to come visit and learn about the Lavender Closet!
Film Studies Meet & Greet!
Join the English department and the Film Studies program for a meet and greet event with current film studies faculty! The event will feature a panel that will include Drs. Marco Abel, James Brunton, Kwakiutl Dreher, and Mike Page discussing their various paths to film studies, films/directors they love (and hate!), and current and classic films they recommend. After the panel, students are welcome to chat with faculty and fellow students and snag a slice of pizza (or two). Film Studies advisor Dr. Kathleen Lacey and a CAS Career Coach will also be on hand to discuss the major/minor and possible career pathways in film studies. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 7 from 5:30-7:30pm in the Bailey Library (ANDR 229). All students are welcome!
Nebraska Union 3rd Floor Open House
Date: September 2, 2021
Time: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, 3rd Floor
An open house for the newly renovated spaces on the third floor of the union, including the Women’s Center, the LGBTQA+ Resource Center, and the CARE Office! Come see our new space and meet our staff members!
Paint at Sheldon
Date: September 3, 2021
Time: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art in the Sculpture Garden
Paint your own art canvas in a tranquil campus garden. All art supplies will be provided. Live music provided by DJ DeWayne. FREE for UNL students with the EventPass app.
JGMC Open House
Date: September 8, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center
Stop by the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center (JGMC) during the Open House! There will be a variety of fun activities throughout the building for students and the UNL community. Come meet the staff from all the departments within the JGMC.
All Are Welcome.
Stay Woke: Readings in Social Justice
A Year After George Floyd’s Killing, White Allyship Fades
By Joseph P. Williams | May 25, 2021
"Support for the Black Lives Matter movement soared last summer, but as the protests died down, so did the commitment."
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-05-25/a-year-after-george-floyds-killing-white-support-for-black-lives-matter-fades
‘Every day until they’re gone:’ Protesters surround FIJI after alleged sexual assault
By Becca Hummel, Jolie Peal | August 25, 2021
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/campus/every-day-until-they-re-gone-protesters-surround-fiji-after-alleged-sexual-assault/article_41be5262-0567-11ec-bc20-d78db61ac0ea.html
Literary News
The Hard Intimacies of COVID-19: Documenting a Pandemic Year
By Isadora Kosofsky and Suzanne Koven | July 1, 2021
https://lithub.com/the-hard-intimacies-of-covid-19-documenting-a-pandemic-year/
The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students
By Francine Prose | August 23, 2021
"Remembering a Dear Friend Through His Work"
https://lithub.com/the-long-unpredictable-life-of-art-francine-prose-on-teaching-james-alan-mcpherson-to-incarcerated-students/
Film News
Kaitlyn Greenidge on Cane River and Stories About Black Love
In this episode of Open Form,Mychal Denzel Smith talks with Kaitlyn Greenidge about the 1982 film, Cane River.
"But one of the things I notice is this perennial request that people make, and it gets a thousand likes and retweets: “Why can’t they just make Black films that are just about us and about falling in love? Where are those films? Where are those books? Where’s that media?” I both understand that, but it also always irks me, because people out here have been creating and are creating that content. It’s happened for decades and will be for decades more. It’s this weird desire to rush to erase the history of that.
The more pointed—and, I think, accurate thing—would be, how come only a very limited type of talking about Black life gets award recognition from white audiences? Not that this stuff doesn’t exist, because that’s just simply not true. What I love about this film is it’s doing all those things that so many people say they want, which is these two people falling in love."
Other Announcements
On Land, Community, and Celebration in the Historic All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
"Kahlil Joseph’s 2013 film Wildcat, with its evocative score by electronic music producer Flying Lotus, renders a rural Midwestern town as a black-and-white rumination with sumptuous texture. The film captures confident, contemplative blackness set in a landscape that, to some, might signal precisely the opposite. It renders rural spaces that Black folks are schooled to avoid. They are spaces of foreboding that silently telegraph a history of white sheets and knotted rope, flight and frequent recapture. But Joseph’s images refuse this narration of their landscape, repainting it instead in a markedly different tonality."
Read more from Tina M. Campt here.