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Reminders
Mon, Mar 28: Priority Registration for Fall 2022 begins!
Thru Fri, Apr 15: All course withdrawals noted with grade of “W” on academic record.
Table of Contents
- CAS Inquire: All Speakers Panel Discussion
- Robert A. Gross: “The Transcendentalists and Their World”
- Uncommon DH Critic Formal Lecture: Dr. Kim Gallon
- Humanities At Work
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LILY - a Reading
- Jersey Boys
- Maggie Nichols
- FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES: Avengers: Infinity War
- Nebraska Rep: Traveling Shoes
- Women’s History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- IES Spring Celebration 2022 | Screening: Asian Americans
- IES Spring Celebration 2022 | Screening: Who Killed Vincent Chin?
- Hi, How Are You? Day
- Bridging the Political Divide: Optimism for Moving Beyond Polarization with Tania Israel
- IES Spring Celebration 2022 | Screening: Skate Manzanar
- My Body Is Not a Project
- IES Spring Celebration 2022: “Blood, Nation, Kin: Pasts and Futures of Indigenous Literary Studies”
- Pilobolus
- IES Spring Celebration 2022: “Black Women and the Struggle for Human Rights”
- Tim Youd retyping Willa Cather’s “O Pioneers!”
- IES Spring Celebration 2022: “Why Asian American Studies Matters”
- Contemporary Indigeneity Juror Talk
- Double Feature Drive-In Movie: Wall-E and The Lorax
- The Power—and Necessity—of Reading Dangerously
- I read the worst celebrity novels so you don’t have to
- Sex can be appropriate for young adult readers if it is done right
- An Oklahoma lawmaker just compared librarians to cockroaches. It’s as bad as it sounds.
- “I pretend death doesn’t exist.” New Poetry From Ukraine by Iryna Shuvalova
Remembering Regan Lauber
Cherished sister, daughter, aunt and friend Regan Victoria Lauber, of Milford, Nebraska, passed away on March 17, 2022, north of Pond Creek, Oklahoma, at the age of 21.
Regan was born in Lincoln, NE, on August 17, 2000, as the youngest child of William (Bill) and Christine (Christy) Lauber. Regan was a Milford High School graduate of 2018 and was in her senior year of college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, set to graduate in May 2022 with her Bachelor of Arts in English. Regan aspired to continue her education and wanted to move to Austin, Texas, to be with her sister, Madison, while attending graduate school. Regan was an exceptional reader and writer and particularly liked reading fiction, young adult, and gothic novels. She also wrote a book with her dear friend Kyhana that they were planning to publish. During Regan’s high school career she was heavily involved in dance, being a member of the Milford High School dance team along with participating in Milford’s Elements Dance Concept where she competed in dance doing ballet, point, jazz, pom, production and hip hop. Regan also helped teach dance as an instructor and was loved by her students. In addition to performing on stage as a dancer, Regan was part of the Milford Speech team where she excelled in acting and was known to be able to impersonate anyone.
https://www.1011now.com/2022/03/18/3-nebraska-dead-northwestern-oklahoma-plane-crash/
Faculty in the News
UNL professor produces award-winning documentary, workshops future film
By Sawyer Belair | March 21, 2022
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/c-lesuer/article_16276130-a8a4-11ec-b425-cb02c429ca0d.html
Department of English Announcements and Events
CAS Inquire: All Speakers Panel Discussion
Date: Mar. 29, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium
To attend virtually, register at: https://go.unl.edu/casinqMAR
Robert A. Gross: “The Transcendentalists and Their World”
Date: Mar. 30, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Andrews Hall, Bailey Library
Prof. Gross specializes in the social and cultural history of the U.S., from the colonial era through the nineteenth century. His first book on the American Revolution, The Minutemen and Their World (1976), won the Bancroft Prize in American History; it was re-issued in a 25th anniversary edition in 2001 and will be published by Picador in a new, revised edition in 2022 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. He has continued studies of the Revolutionary era in such works as In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion (1993). For two decades he has been deeply involved in the interdisciplinary field known as the history of the book, serving on the editorial board for the multi-volume History of the Book in America published by the University of North Carolina Press and co-editing with Mary Kelley the second volume of the series, An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840 (2010). His other recent work examines New England writers — notably, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson — in historical context. From that project has come his latest book, The Transcendentalists and Their World, a social and cultural history of Emerson and Thoreau and the Concord, Massachusetts community in which they lived and wrote.
Uncommon DH Critic Formal Lecture: Dr. Kim Gallon
Date: Mar. 31, 2022
Time: 3:30 pm–4:30 pm
Location: Zoom
Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. She is the author of many articles and essays as well as the book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020). Gallon is currently at work on two new book projects—Technologies of Recovery: Black DH, Theory and Praxis (University of Illinois Press), a book about the black digital humanities as a site of resistance and liberation and a book titled, Fiction for the Harassed and Frustrated, which examines the role and significance of popular literary expression in the Black Press in the early twentieth century (Johns Hopkins University Press). She currently serves as the inaugural editor for the Black Press in America book series at Johns Hopkins University Press.
Gallon is also the author of the field defining article, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” and the founder and director of two black digital humanities projects: The Black Press Research Collective and COVID Black: A Taskforce on Black Health and Data. She also serves on a number of digital advisory boards for digital humanities projects and grants.
She also works in instructional and e-learning design to develop culturally-based curricula for secondary, higher education, and adult learners. Her most recent work in this area includes working with the Colored Conventions Project to develop a curriculum for the Philadelphia school district and designing e-learning modules on emotional justice for the Armah Institute for Emotional Justice.
Gallon is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants including from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Spencer Foundation for her work in the black digital humanities and spatial humanities and adult education in Ghana.
To learn more about her research and teaching follow her on Twitter, @BlackDigitalHum
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
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LILY - a Reading
We’ll have two readings - one Friday night at 7:30 p.m. and one Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Both will take place at The Mill Coffee & Bistro at Nebraska Innovation Campus. The readings will feature different casts so - come see & hear it twice!
A suggested donation of $5/10 is welcome, and delicious treats & beverages available for purchase from The Mill Coffee & Bistro!
Jersey Boys
4 shows:
Friday, March 25, 2022 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 26, 2022 – 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 26, 2022 – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 27, 2022 – 2:00 p.m.
Tickets available at: liedcenter.org
https://www.liedcenter.org/event/jersey-boys
Maggie Nichols
Date: Mar. 25, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm–8:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium
Maggie Nichols is a former collegiate and US National Olympic gymnast. Known not only for her extraordinary skill as an athlete, she is also recognized for her testimony against Larry Nassar’s abuse and inappropriate actions while serving as the US National Gymnastic team’s physician.
FREE for UNL Students with Event Pass.
FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES: Avengers: Infinity War
Date: Mar. 25, 2022
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Platte River Room
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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The Avengers
January 28, 2022 | 9:30 p.m.
Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium
Avengers: Age of Ultron
February 25, 2022 | 8 p.m.
Nebraska East Union, Prairie Suite
Avengers: Infinity War
March 25, 2022 | 8 p.m.
Nebraska Union, Platte River Room
Avengers: Endgame
April 22, 2022 | 8 p.m.
Nebraska East Union, Prairie Suite
Nebraska Rep: Traveling Shoes
Performances are March 26-27 in the Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R streets.
For showtimes and tickets, visit https://nebraskarep.org.
“No easy walk to freedom.”
A collage of poetry, prose, music and dance. Join Nebraska Rep for a moving, original performance piece conceived and directed by Ron Himes in collaboration with students from The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. The production continues The Rep’s partnership with the St. Louis Black Repertory Company.
Directed by Ron Himes, the founder and producing director of the Saint Louis Black Repertory Company and the Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence at Washington University.
Women’s History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Date: Mar. 28, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm–4:00 pm
Location: Love Library South, Room 221
University librarians and faculty will be on hand to assist with research and as needed, tutorials will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers.
Can’t be there the whole time? No problem. Join us for as little or as long as you like. Katrina Jagodinsky, Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History, will start off the event with brief remarks shortly after 1p.m.
This is a hybrid event, participants may join in person in Room 221 Love Library or by Zoom.
Register Today at: https://go.unl.edu/wiki_editathon
This event is free and open to the public. People of all gender identities and expressions are welcome to participate.
https://go.unl.edu/wiki_editathon
IES Spring Celebration 2022 | Screening: Asian Americans
This 5-hour documentary film series, produced by Renee Tajima-Peña, delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. As America becomes more diverse yet more divided, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate and personal lives, the series casts a new lens on how one group of Americans, who were long excluded and considered outsiders, have played a central role in shaping the nation’s story. Asian Americans premiered on PBS in May of 2020. The series is narrated by Daniel Dae Kim and Tamlyn Tomita, episode producers are S. Leo Chiang, Geeta Gandbhir and Grace Lee.
Episode 1: “Breaking Ground”
Monday, March 28, 4pm CT, Lied Commons
In an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Barred by anti-Asian laws they become America’s first “undocumented immigrants,” yet they build railroads, dazzle on the silver screen, and take their fight for equality to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Episode 2: “A Question of Loyalty”
Tuesday, March 29, 4pm CT, Lied Commons
An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands in Japan and Korea. Those loyalties are tested during World War II, when families are imprisoned in detention camps, and brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the battle lines.
Episode 3: “Good Americans”
Wednesday, March 30, 4pm CT, Lied Commons
During the Cold War years, Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a Model Minority and targeted as the perpetual foreigner. It is also a time of bold ambition, as Asian Americans aspire for the first time to national political office and a coming culture-quake simmers beneath the surface.
Episode 4: “Generation Rising”
Thursday, March 31, 4pm CT, Lied Commons
During a time of war and social tumult, a young generation fights for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture, and claim a new identity: Asian Americans. The war’s aftermath brings new immigrants and refugees who expand the population and the definition of Asian America.
Episode 5: “Breaking Through”
Friday, April 1, 4pm CT, Lied Commons
At the turn of the new millennium, the national conversation turns to immigration, race, and economic disparity. As the U.S becomes more diverse, yet more divided, a new generation of Asian Americans tackle the question, how do we as a nation move forward together?
https://ethnicstudies.unl.edu/celebrating-50-years-racial-justice-education-unl
IES Spring Celebration 2022 | Screening: Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Date: Mar. 28, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Lied Commons
By the end of the night Ron Ebens, aided by his stepson Mike Nitz, had bludgeoned Vincent Chin to death with a baseball bat. After Ebens and Nitz pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were each sentenced to three-year probation and $3,000 fine, the Asian American community was outraged. Who Killed Vincent Chin? chronicles the historic campaign for Justice for Vincent Chin spearheaded by his mother Lily, Detroit’s American Citizens for Justice, and a nationwide coalition of activists. Nominated for an Academy Award, Who Killed Vincent Chin? became a landmark in Asian American filmmaking and a classic in US independent cinema.
https://ethnicstudies.unl.edu/celebrating-50-years-racial-justice-education-unl
Hi, How Are You? Day
Date: Mar. 29, 2022
Time: 11:00 am–1:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union
“Hi, how are you?” A friendly question to start a meaningful conversation about mental health.
Follow us on Instagram at @unlresilience to watch for similar events.
Bridging the Political Divide: Optimism for Moving Beyond Polarization with Tania Israel
Date: Mar. 29, 2022
Time: 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Unity Room
On Tuesday, March 29, join Tania Israel for an interactive discussion on “Bridging the Political Divide: Optimism for Moving Beyond Polarization.” Join the conversation in-person at the Nebraska Union or via Zoom from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at go.unl.edu/tania-israel.
Political polarization in the U.S. is at a record high. As anger, fear, distortions, and social media drive the wedge ever deeper, what hope is there for maintaining connection within families, friendships, workplaces, and communities? Dr. Tania Israel, Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, can offer solutions. Grounded in evidence, experience, and skills, she will share practical and research-based strategies to help bridge the political divide. Her approach to building understanding will leave you informed, optimistic, and empowered to take action.
Tania Israel is a Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Israel’s award winning book, Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide, Skills and Strategies for Conversations That Work grew out of the skill-building workshop that she developed and delivered to hundreds of participants following the 2016 election. It draws on her strengths as a psychologist and community collaborator to prepare people to engage in dialogue across political disagreement. Dr. Israel has facilitated educational programs and difficult dialogues about a range of topics, including abortion, law enforcement, religion, and sexual orientation. Her honors include 2019 Congressional Woman of the Year (CA 24th District), Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Award for Excellence in Mental Health from the California Asian & Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus, and Emerging Leader Award from the APA Committee on Women in Psychology.
This event is sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Arts and Sciences through the Thomas C. Sorensen Endowment, the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Register using the link below:
go.unl.edu/tania-israel
IES Spring Celebration 2022 | Screening: Skate Manzanar
Date: Mar. 29, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm–5:15 pm
Location: Lied Commons
https://ethnicstudies.unl.edu/celebrating-50-years-racial-justice-education-unl
My Body Is Not a Project
Date: Mar. 30, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm
Location(s): Nebraska Union & Nebraska East Union
Resources on body image and eating disorder awareness also will be available.
**Please note dates have been changed to March 30 due to inclement weather.**
IES Spring Celebration 2022: “Blood, Nation, Kin: Pasts and Futures of Indigenous Literary Studies”
Date: Mar. 30, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Zoom
Pilobolus
Date: Mar. 31, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts
IES Spring Celebration 2022: “Black Women and the Struggle for Human Rights”
Date: Mar. 31, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm–9:30 pm
Location: Zoom
This talk highlights the crucial role Black women in the United States have played in shaping human rights history. It centers on the political work of activist Fannie Lou Hamer, an impoverished and disabled Black woman who joined the civil rights movement during the mid-1960s. By highlighting Hamer’s political activism and expansive vision of freedom, Blain places Hamer in conversation with contemporary Black women activists who are now leading the fight for human rights.
The lecture will be begin at 7:30 pm with Q&A concluding at 8:30 pm. Following the lecture, a reception will be held at Sheldon, including refreshments, a book-signing by Dr. Blain, complete with copies of her work being available for purchase from the UNL bookstore.
Additionally, the lecture portion of the broadcast will be offered live over Zoom. Registration for the Zoom webinar https://go.unl.edu/kbies22
Tim Youd retyping Willa Cather’s “O Pioneers!”
Date: Apr. 1, 2022
Time: 10:00 am–3:30 pm
Location: Outside Architecture Hall
The novel will be retyped on the same make/model typewriter used by Cather. When retyping, Youd types all the words of the novel onto one page (which is backed by a second sheet) by running it repeatedly through the typewriter. The words become illegible, and the accumulated text becomes a rectangle of black ink inside the larger rectangle of the white page. Upon completion, Youd separates the two highly distressed pages and mounts them side-by-side in diptych form. This performance relic thus becomes a formal drawing, a representation of two pages of a book. The novel is present in its entirety, yet the words are completely obscured.
Tim Youd (b. 1967, Worcester, MA) is a performance and visual artist working in painting, sculpture, and video. To date, he has retyped 71 novels at various locations in the United States and Europe. Residencies at historic writer’s homes have included William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak with the University of Mississippi Art Museum (Oxford, MS), Flannery O’Connor’s Andalusia with SCAD (Milledgeville and Savannah, GA), and Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House (Rodmell, Sussex). His work has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions at CAMSTL, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University, The New Orleans Museum of Art, Monterey Museum of Art, Hemingway-Pfeffer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, University of Mississippi Art Museum at Rowan Oak and the Lancaster Museum of Art and History. He has presented and performed his 100 Novels project at the Ackland Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Art Omi, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and LAXART, and retyped Joe Orton’s Collected Plays at The Queen’s Theatre with MOCA London. His studio is based in Los Angeles.
Additional Public Info:
In case of inclement weather, the performance will be moved inside of the Adele Hall Learning Commons.
IES Spring Celebration 2022: “Why Asian American Studies Matters”
Date: Apr. 1, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Zoom
https://ethnicstudies.unl.edu/celebrating-50-years-racial-justice-education-unl
Contemporary Indigeneity Juror Talk
Date: Apr. 1, 2022
Time: 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Location: Great Plains Art Museum, Main gallery
Join the “Contemporary Indigeneity” jurors and Ashley Wilkinson, Director of the Great Plains Art Museum, for a talk about the exhibition, Indigenous art, and the jury process. The talk will be followed by the exhibition’s opening reception from 5–7 p.m. The exhibition is on view April 1–August 20, 2022.
Double Feature Drive-In Movie: Wall-E and The Lorax
Date: Apr. 1, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm–11:30 pm
Location: 14th & Avery
FREE for UNL Students with Event Pass.
Literary News
The Power—and Necessity—of Reading Dangerously
By Azar Nafisi | March 9, 2022
https://lithub.com/the-power-and-necessity-of-reading-dangerously/
I read the worst celebrity novels so you don’t have to
By Maddie Ames | March 11, 2022
https://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/ames-i-read-the-worst-celebrity-novels
Sex can be appropriate for young adult readers if it is done right
By Maddie Ames | March 22, 2022
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/ames-sex-can-be-appropriate-for-young-adult-readers
An Oklahoma lawmaker just compared librarians to cockroaches. It’s as bad as it sounds.
By Walker Caplan | March 23, 2022
“I pretend death doesn’t exist.” New Poetry From Ukraine by Iryna Shuvalova
Translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk | March 24, 2022
https://lithub.com/i-pretend-death-doesnt-exist-new-poetry-from-ukraine-by-iryna-shuvalova/
Film News
IATSE Calls Out Academy’s ‘Detrimental’ Decision to Reformat Oscars Telecast
By Jazz Tangcay | March 21, 2022
https://variety.com/2022/artisans/news/iatse-academy-oscar-telecast-1235210737/
Christina Ricci Returning to the Addams Family in Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ Series
By Jennifer Maas | March 21, 2022
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/christina-ricci-wednesday-addams-family-netflix-series-1235210883/
‘CODA’ Stage Musical in the Works From Deaf West Theater
By Brian Welk | March 23, 2022
https://www.thewrap.com/coda-stage-musical-deaf-west-theater/