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Sat, Jan 29 thru Fri, Apr 15: All course withdrawals noted with grade of "W" on academic record.
*TODAY* Fri, Feb 4: Last day to withdraw from a course and receive a 50% refund.
Fri, Feb 11: Last day to withdraw from a course and receive a 25% refund.
Mon, Mar 7: Summer 2022 registration begins.
Fri, Mar 11: Last day to change a course to or from Pass/No Pass.
Mon, Mar 14-Fri, Mar 28: SPRING BREAK. NO CLASS.
Table of Contents
- Campus Conversations: Julia Schleck and her book "Dirty Knowledge"
- Schaffert’s ‘Perfume Thief’ earns international recognition
- ENGL 317 - Literature & the Environment (3cr; ACE 5) at Cedar Point
- FILM 349 - National Cinemas: "Resist! The Revolutionary Events of ‘1968’ in International Cinema”
- E. N. Thompson Forum: “A Conversation on Race and the Arts” with Anna Deavere Smith
- Anna Deavere Smith- Notes From the Field
- Stuff-A-Plush
- A Legacy Saved: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Nebraska
- Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
- Dr. Shardé Davis: “From the margins to the center: An examination of Black women’s communicative resistance”.
- COLLISION accepting submissions!
- APPLAUSE accepting submissions!
- Humanities Nebraska Seeking Paid Intern!
- Virtual Information Sessions: Cornell Prelaw in Paris
- By Celebrating Black History Month, Alabama Teachers Are Accused of Promoting Critical Race Theory
- Even on U.S. Campuses, China Cracks Down on Students Who Speak Out
- Don’t Worry, Station Eleven Isn’t Really a Pandemic Story
- A Mississippi mayor is withholding $110,000 from libraries until they ban ‘homosexual materials.’
- The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign
- This great wave of American book-banning is not slowing down.
- Here is the longlist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize.
- Films at the Ross
- Jason Momoa Joins the ‘Fast and Furious 10’ Cast
- Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Editors of ‘Tick Tick Boom’ on Cutting ‘Therapy’
- How Hairstylist Barry Lee Moe Turned Lily James and Sebastian Stan Into Pam and Tommy
- How ‘The Gilded Age’ Costume Designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone Captured a Changing Era of Fashion
- Spike Lee and Colin Kaepernick Team Up for New ESPN Docuseries
- DreamWorks Animation to Launch Fellowship for HBCU Students
Black History Month
Every February, the U.S. honors the contributions and sacrifices of African Americans who have helped shape the nation. Black History Month celebrates the rich cultural heritage, triumphs and adversities that are an indelible part of our country's history.
This year's theme, Black Health and Wellness, pays homage to medical scholars and health care providers. The theme is especially timely as we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected minority communities and placed unique burdens on Black health care professionals.
"There is no American history without African American history," said Sara Clarke Kaplan, executive director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University in Washington, D.C. The Black experience, she said, is embedded in "everything we think of as 'American history.' "
Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/01/1075623826/why-is-february-black-history-month
Learn more:
- Origins of Black History Month: https://asalh.org/about-us/about-black-history-month/
- 5 ways white allies can honor Black History Month all year long: https://mashable.com/article/black-history-month-white-allies
- Additional Resouces: https://omahafoundation.org/news/how-to-be-an-ally-during-black-history-month-and-beyond/
Faculty in the News
Campus Conversations: Julia Schleck and her book "Dirty Knowledge"
By Jason Q. Han | Jan 10, 2022
Schaffert’s ‘Perfume Thief’ earns international recognition
By Deann Gayman | Jan 19, 2022
Courses to Check Out
ENGL 317 - Literature & the Environment (3cr; ACE 5) at Cedar Point
Instructor: Dr. Emily Rau; erau2@unl.edu
Course Information: ENGL 317 | 3 cr | ACE 5 | May 22 - June 3, 2022
Spend two weeks at Cedar Point Biological Station near Ogallala, NE reading and discussing literature, taking daily outdoor adventures, and learning about the natural environment and our places within it.
This course includes two day-long field trips, one to Cresent Lake National Wildlife Refuge, and the other to Fort Robinson State Park and the Cheyenne Buttes. We will explore the natural features of these spaces, identifying birds and wildflowers, while engaging with Indigenous and settler-colonial histories. Our syllabus prioritizes Indigenous voices to closely explore the comples history of the Great Plains region.
Here is a link to the course description: https://cedarpoint.unl.edu/literature-and-environment
FILM 349 - National Cinemas: "Resist! The Revolutionary Events of ‘1968’ in International Cinema”
Instructor: Dr. Marco Abel, mabel2@unl.edu
Course Information: FILM 349 | 3cr | 3wk Presession | M-F, 9:30-12:30pm
Description: The year “1968” is globally used as shorthand to signify events of resistance, revolt, and revolution—political events that have inspired the imagination of filmmakers around the world. This course affords students the opportunity to study what “1968” was about—to examine what happened, why, and with what consequences. We will do so by looking at how a range of national cinemas responded to the events of 1968 and their aftermath—responded as both “witnesses” to the events (films that were made more or less right at the time when they transpired) and “historiographers” (films that look back at the events with ever increasing historical distance). In so doing, this course gives students the chance not only to learn something about (film) history but also to think about what kind of images we might need TODAY in order to act upon our crisis-ridden era by countering it for the benefit of a time to come.
Film Screened May Include: La Chinoise (France, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); The Hour of the Furnaces Notes and Testimony on Neocolonialism, Violence and Liberation pt. 1 (Argentina, Octavio Getino & Fernando Solanas, 1968); Uptight (US, Jules Dassin, 1968); Antonio das Mortes (Brazil, Glauber Rocha, 1969); Go for it, Baby (West Germany, May Spils, 1968); Zabriskie Point (U.S., Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970); Compañeros (Italy, Sergio Corbucci, 1970); Tout va bien (France, Jean-Luc Godard, 1972); A Grin without a Cat (France, Chris Marker, 1977); Rojo Amanecer (Mexico, Jorge Fons, 1990); The Choice of Hercules (Japan, Masato Harada, 2002); The Dreamers (France, Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003); Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany, Uli Edel, 2008); United Red Army (Japan, Koji Wakamatsu, 2008); Something in the Air (France, Olivier Assayas, 2012); The Company You Keep (U.S., Robert Redford, 2012), In the Intense Now (Brazil, João Salles, 2017)
Teaching Methods & Requirements: Class will consist of mini-lectures on contexts and in-class discussions; most films will be screened in class. Grade is dependent upon class participation/discussion and regular contributions to Canvas discussion board. Brief readings will be provided via Canvas or online.
Major/Minor Information:
- FILM Majors & Minors: FILM 349 fulfills a Group A or Group B course under the old requirements; under the new requriements (2021 & on), it will count as an additional film course. ENGL 349 will also count in the FILM minor.
- ENGL Majors & Minors: FILM 349 fulfills either a diversity requirement or a concentration course in the English major. It also counts in the English minor.
- Fulfills ACE 7 (and/or CDR Humanities in CAS).
University Announcements and Events
E. N. Thompson Forum: “A Conversation on Race and the Arts” with Anna Deavere Smith
Date: Feb. 9, 2022
Time: 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts
“A Conversation on Race and the Arts,” moderated by Lincoln City Council Member Sändra Washington, will take place at 4:00 pm, prior to Smith’s 7:30 pm performance of her most recent original work, Notes from the Field, which looks at the vulnerability of youth, the criminal justice system, and contemporary activism.
Presented in partnership with the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Reserve your FREE ticket at enthompson.unl.edu.
Anna Deavere Smith- Notes From the Field
Date: Feb. 9, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts
Stuff-A-Plush
Date: Feb. 11, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm–5:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, The Crib
Free for UNL students with Event Pass. All supplies are provided.
https://unl.campuslabs.com/engage/event/7680052
Hosted by UPC Nebraska
A Legacy Saved: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Nebraska
Date: Feb. 11, 2022
Time: 2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Platte River Room
Learn of the historical events that impacted the lives of early Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Nebraska. This includes laws directed at Asians, the discrimination they faced, and the people who would support them. Many Japanese Americans would serve during WWII, and serve their country, with distinction. Other Japanese Americans escaped incarceration, left camps, and came to Nebraska where heroes emerged. Learn how this history will be preserved including the economic relationships between Japan and Nebraska that have enriched our Nebraska economy.
There will be a reception following the lecture with free historical books to take home and enjoy.
This event is free and open to UNL students and faculty.
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Date: Feb. 11, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts
4 shows:
Friday, February 11, 2022 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 12, 2022 – 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 12, 2022 – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 13, 2022 – 2:00 p.m.
Tickets available at: liedcenter.org
https://www.liedcenter.org/event/beautiful-carole-king-musical
Dr. Shardé Davis: “From the margins to the center: An examination of Black women’s communicative resistance”.
Date: Feb. 16, 2022
Time: 12 - 1 pm
Location: Zoom
The Department of Communication Studies is thrilled to host Dr. Shardé Davis, Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Connecticut and creator of the viral Twitter Hashtag #BlackintheIvory, as part of our colloquium series this spring. As you will see in the attached flyer, her talk is entitled: “From the margins to the center: An examination of Black women’s communicative resistance”.
Internships, Jobs, and Professional Development
COLLISION accepting submissions!
From Margaret Balich, Art Editor of Collision Literary Magazine at the University of Pittsburgh:
Collision is currently open for submissions of undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art, and we welcome students to submit! By submitting to the annual magazine, students will be considered for our writing and cover art contests. We’d love the chance to review—and hopefully publish—your work. Submissions for the annual magazine close Friday, February 25, but we read on a rolling basis. You can find more information about the magazine and our submission guidelines at https://www.collision.pitt.edu. If you have any questions, please contact collisionlitmag@gmail.com.
APPLAUSE accepting submissions!
Applause, the national literary arts and culture magazine housed at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith (Est. 1980), is currently accepting submissions from undergraduate students around the country as we work toward publishing issue 32 this spring. We are accepting submissions until March 14, 2022.
Applause is an annual, full-online journal with a strong web platform allowing us to offer an immersive reading experience as we showcase in each issue the writing that moves us most during our reading period. We acquired First North American Serial Rights. We pay $25 per contributor. Work selected for publication will receive both publication and national exposure through our social media support systems. Our response time is approximately one to three months.
Each annual issue is a (loosely) themed issue. Our current call for submissions is as follows:
Happy Tears
During our 2021-2022 reading cycle, we want to feel your happy tears that help us cry our own. We’re looking for poems, stories, essays, and artwork that get us giggling, get us laughing until we cry, that make us want to say to someone, “Hey, I know you need some good, check this out.”
Happy tears can come from anywhere on life’s pendulum and we want to see the gamut of what can constitute happy tears as a theme for our 32nd issue. We’re looking for life’s nuanced moments crafted in ways that make us shake our heads or wish the story were nonfiction if it is fiction, the kind of nonfiction story so funny and weird that it can’t be made up, the kind of poems that are both, and pieces of art and photography that make our bodies smile.
Please contact Dr. Christian Anton Gerard at Christian.Gerard@uafs.edu if you have any questions about our magazine. This Submittable link will take you to Applause’s guidelines and submissions page where you can submit work for consideration: https://applause.submittable.com/submit
Humanities Nebraska Seeking Paid Intern!
Humanities Nebraska has an opening for a program intern to primarily support our Prime Time Family Reading program. Prime Time reaches underserved children and parents around the state who read and discuss books together in libraries, schools, and community centers. (See: https://humanitiesnebraska.org/programs/prime-time-family-reading-time/). The intern also assists with other HN program areas as needed.
Please see the attached internship announcement for more details. Deadline to apply is February 11. The internship pays $13/hr, with an anticipated 10 hours a week. A significant number of Prime Time programs are bilingual English/Spanish, so it's particularly helpful if the intern is able to translate written documents and evaluations between the two languages.
Virtual Information Sessions: Cornell Prelaw in Paris
Have you considered summer study abroad and are interested in studying law? Join Cornell Law School faculty and the Office of Global Learning to learn more about the Cornell Prelaw Program in Paris, a three-week academic program in international and comparative law. Study law in a uniquely international and culturally rich environment, combining the excellence of Cornell Law School faculty and the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Prepare for the law school admissions process and acquire the study skills for success in law school.
Stay Woke: Readings in Social Justice
By Celebrating Black History Month, Alabama Teachers Are Accused of Promoting Critical Race Theory
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As Black History Month begins, the celebration of Black culture, accomplishments, and figures over time is running into a problem – the Anti-Critical Race Theory movement. It was only a matter of time until people saw these two things as one combined thing.
In Alabama, where a parent complained about teacher diversity training and the Board of Education banned Critical Race Theory teachings back in October, some people are using this as an excuse to cry foul on any teachings involving historical Black figures and facts.
According to Salon, teachers in Alabama are being accused of teaching CRT by simply celebrating Black History Month. Alabama Superintendent Eric Mackey told members of the Alabama House Education Policy Committee parents are accusing schools of teaching critical race theory."
Read more from Murhani Rawls via The Root.
Even on U.S. Campuses, China Cracks Down on Students Who Speak Out
“On the bucolic campus of Purdue University in Indiana, deep in America’s heartland and 7,000 miles from his home in China, Zhihao Kong thought he could finally express himself.
In a rush of adrenaline last year, the graduate student posted an open letter on a dissident website praising the heroism of the students killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
The blowback, he said, was fast and frightening. His parents called from China, crying. Officers of the Ministry of State Security, the feared civilian spy agency, had warned them about his activism in the United States.
“They told us to make you stop or we are all in trouble,” his parents said."
Read more from Sebastian Rotella via ProPublica.
Literary News
Don’t Worry, Station Eleven Isn’t Really a Pandemic Story
The Adaptation of Emily St. John Mandel’s Novel is Worth Your (Endless, Bleeding) Time.
By Emily Temple | December 16, 2021
https://lithub.com/dont-worry-station-eleven-isnt-really-a-pandemic-story/
A Mississippi mayor is withholding $110,000 from libraries until they ban ‘homosexual materials.’
By Walker Caplan | January 28, 2022
The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign
Some Good Predictions, for Once
By Emily Temple | January 31, 2022
This great wave of American book-banning is not slowing down.
By Jonny Diamond | February 1, 2022
https://lithub.com/this-great-wave-of-american-book-banning-is-not-slowing-down/
Here is the longlist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize.
By Snigdha Koirala | February 3, 2022
https://lithub.com/here-is-the-longlist-for-the-2022-dylan-thomas-prize/
Film News
Showing This Week at the Ross
PARALLEL MOTHERS (Jan 28 - Feb 10)
WHO WE ARE—A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA (Feb 4 - Feb 17)
Jason Momoa Joins the ‘Fast and Furious 10’ Cast
By Angelique Jackson | January 28, 2022
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/jason-momoa-fast-and-furious-10-1235166209/
Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Editors of ‘Tick Tick Boom’ on Cutting ‘Therapy’
By Jazz Tangcay | January 31, 2022
https://variety.com/2022/artisans/news/lin-manuel-miranda-therapy-editing-myron-kerstein-1235165722/
How Hairstylist Barry Lee Moe Turned Lily James and Sebastian Stan Into Pam and Tommy
By Jazz Tangcay | January 31, 2022
How ‘The Gilded Age’ Costume Designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone Captured a Changing Era of Fashion
By Wilson Chapman | January 31, 2022
https://variety.com/2022/artisans/news/gilded-age-costume-design-kasia-walicka-maimone-1235164476/
Spike Lee and Colin Kaepernick Team Up for New ESPN Docuseries
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On Wednesday night, Spike Lee and Colin Kaepernick were spotted sitting courtside on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden as the New York Knicks took on the Memphis Grizzlies.
What may have appeared to be a regular, arguably random celeb sighting, it appears the two may have actually been sitting with each other for a reason. Per Deadline, the legendary director will be teaming up with the former San Franscisco 49ers player for a new multi-part docuseries for ESPN.
Produced by Lee as a part of his 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production banner, Kaepernick, and former ESPN personality Jemele Hill, the untitled project is set to feature an “unscripted deep dive” into Kaepernick’s life and career in the NFL “from his own POV.” Complete with extensive interviews and wide variety of never-before-seen archive video footage, this new series serves as the first project to chronicle the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Humanitarian Award winner’s journey with a full, first person account."
Read more from Shanelle Genai via The Root.
DreamWorks Animation to Launch Fellowship for HBCU Students
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Calling all young Black creatives! HBCU 20x20, a program to prepare Black college students to enter the workforce, has collaborated with DreamWorks Animation to create a talent development initiative called LAUNCH: HBCU Fellowship Program. The initiative is projected to kick off in the spring.
The program will pick 15 HBCU students to participate in an 8-week long fellowship featuring workshops, courses and speakers focused toward creating paths to careers in animation, via DreamWorks. The fellows receive a stipend from DreamWorks Studios, have the opportunity to network within the company as well as apply for the DreamWorks Internship Program and open job positions."
Read more from Kalyn Womack via The Root.