March 4 - March 11, 2022

SJ Sindu reads from BLUE-SKINNED GODS

Date: Mar. 10, 2022
Time: 3:30 pm–5:00 pm
Location: Andrews Hall, Bailey Library

https://www.unl.edu/english/creative-writing

Humanities on the Edge presents: Thomas Nail

Date: Mar. 10, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art

https://www.unl.edu/english/humanities-on-the-edge

LIFE IN LINCOLN: Board Games at Mana Games Café

Date: Mar. 4, 2022
Time: 6:30 pm
Meet at The Crib in the Nebraska Union

A weekly series every Friday evening for UNL students to gather and enjoy a nearby activity or tour to sample and learn about the local Lincoln culture, neighborhoods, and people.

Meet at The Crib in the Nebraska Union at 6:30 p.m. each Friday and the group will depart together for the final destination. A facilitator/guide will meet the group and lead the evening’s activity.

This week’s activity: Board Games at Mana Games Café in the Haymarket District.

Mana Games is a gaming café in the Haymarket’s historic Creamery Building featuring a huge library of board games, RPG manuals, and gaming accessories. You can grab a quick bite and a great cup of coffee while you connect with other gamers. Website: https://mana-games.com/

Open to all UNL students. Game & entry fee will be covered; students will be responsible for their own food & drink.

Game Night

Date: Mar. 4, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm–10:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Regency Suite

An overload of exciting video games and board games for Huskers to play, all in one spot for one night!

All games and equipment are provided. Gather your friends & gaming partners, bring your own refreshments, and settle in for a social evening of free fun.

CHOOSE FROM THESE GAMES AND MORE.
• Super Smash Bros.
• Mario Kart
• Mortal Kombat
• Just Dance
• Husker-opoly
• Spoons
• Jenga
• Poker
• UNO

FREE for UNL students only with Event Pass.

Riverdance

https://www.liedcenter.org/event/riverdance

What the Health: Beyond the pill

Date: Mar. 9, 2022
Time: 10:30 am–11:00 am
Zoom

Birth control isn’t one-size-fits-all. Attend this webinar to learn about all your options, including IUDs, the implant, the shot, birth control pills, emergency contraception, condoms and more.

Pre-registration is required: https://go.unl.edu/beyondthepill

Can’t attend the live event? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording after the webinar.

“What the Health” is a monthly 30-minute interactive Zoom webinar series hosted by the University Health Center. Each month, one of our health care experts leads a brief discussion about a different trending health topic. You’ll learn the facts and get tips to live a healthier lifestyle. Each event concludes with a Q&A where you can get your questions answered anonymously.

My Body Is Not a Project

Date: Mar. 9, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm–3:00 pm

https://resilience.unl.edu/

First 50 to attend get a free T-shirt!

Maternal & Reproductive Healthcare for BIPOC Women

Date: Mar. 9, 2022
Time: 2:30 pm–3:45 pm
Location: Willa Cather Dining Complex, Pioneers Room

In roundtable discussions with guest experts, learn about healthcare experiences for BIPOC women and children and efforts to improve equity, access, and care.

RSVP: go.unl.edu/cooper-healthcare

Ace/Aro Affinity Hour

Date: Mar. 9, 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.

As per Spectrum UNL’s decision to maintain the safety and well-being of all members by moving the first three weeks of meetings remote, the first of our biweekly affinity hours will be remote and we will continue to reevaluate with Spectrum UNL at the three week mark. Email lgbtqa.events@unl.edu or spectrumUNL@gmail.com for the zoom link.

No Limits! Student Research Conference

No Limits 2022: Writing as Resistance

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

IN PERSON on Friday, March 11, 2022

Keynote Speaker: SJ Sindu

More Details: https://www.unl.edu/wgs/no-limits-2022

Registration is OPEN: https://www.unl.edu/wgs/registration-form-no-limits-2022

No Limits! is an interdisciplinary student conference that explores a wide range of issues related to women, gender, and sexuality. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates are invited to submit proposals to present their academic research, creative project, or activist work on women, gender, and/or sexuality.

NOTE: It will take place in person at the Nebraska City Campus Student Union and will abide by COVID requirements as directed by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at that time. Please visit this link for the University's most up-to-date COVID-related policies & information.

George Floyd: The Legacy of Scott v Sandford

Date: Mar. 11, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Zoom

Sponsored by the Equal Justice Initiative, Lennox S. Hinds, professor emeritus in the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University and world-renowned criminal defense and international human rights lawyer will discuss the George Floyd case and it’s relevancy to the Scott v Sanford case.

The Dred Scott case took place during the national divide in the United States about the issue of slavery which ultimately led to the Civil War. At the beginning of his decision on this case, Chief Justice Taney posed the core question that he thought the case presented.

“The question simply put is this:
Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into the country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all of the rights and privileges and immunities guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen?”

In a 7-2 decision, the court went on to answer the question in the negative. Notwithstanding that the above decision was overturned, the badges and indicia of slavery and its legacy of racist and unequal treatment of people of African descent under the laws and the Constitution of the United States continue to the present as reflected in the public lynching of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. This act sparked national and international outrage precipitating the establishment of the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States. In my formal presentation, I intend to detail some of the legal history following the Dred Scott case and to highlight the findings and recommendations of the Commission’s Report which was filed with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Hinds formerly represented Nelson Mandela and lectures in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America and has published and taught international law for more than 20 years.

LIFE IN LINCOLN: “The Batman” at the Lincoln Grand Cinema

Date: Mar. 11, 2022
Time: 6:30 pm
Meet at The Crib in the Nebraska Union

A weekly series every Friday evening for UNL students to gather and enjoy a nearby activity or tour to sample and learn about the local Lincoln culture, neighborhoods, and people.

Meet at The Crib in the Nebraska Union at 6:30 p.m. each Friday and the group will depart together for the final destination. A facilitator/guide will meet the group and lead the evening’s activity.

This week’s activity: Screening of the film “The Batman” at the Lincoln Grand Cinema.

Open to all UNL students.

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Date: Mar. 18, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts

https://www.liedcenter.org/

The Norton Writer’s Prize Call for Submissions!

Call for Submissions

The Norton Writer’s Prize recognizes outstanding original nonfiction by undergraduates. The contest is open to students age 17 and above who are enrolled in an accredited 2- or 4-year college or university during the 2021–2022 academic year. Three cash prizes of $1,000 apiece will be awarded in 2022 for coursework submitted during the academic year, one in each of the following three categories:

• Writing by a first-year student in a 2- or 4-year college or university
• Writing by a student in a 2-year college or university
 • Writing by a student in a 4-year college or university

Submissions must be between 1,000 and 3,000 words in length. Literacy narratives, literary and other textual analyses, reports, profiles, evaluations, arguments, memoirs, proposals, multimodal pieces, and other forms of original nonfiction will be considered if written by a student age 17 or above in fulfillment of an undergraduate course requirement at an eligible institution. Entries submitted in accordance with the Official Contest Rules will be considered for all applicable prizes, but no more than one prize will be awarded to any single entry. Current and former students of individuals acting as judges are not eligible to enter or win, and any entry recognized by any of the judges will be automatically disqualified.

The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2022.

For Contest Rules, Eligibility, and Instructions

For full contest rules, eligibility, and instructions on how to enter, please see The Norton Writer’s Prize: Official Contest Rules—click here for official contest rules.

THE MISSOURI REVIEW Perkoff Prize

Perkoff Prize

Announcing the second annual Perkoff Prize, a new contest from the Missouri Review. The re-vamped Perkoff Prize is a tri-genre contest that will award $1000 and publication each to writers of the best story, set of poems, and essay that engage in evocative ways with health and medicine as judged by the editors.

The initial concept for the Perkoff Prize was as a post-publication award (much like TMR’s Peden Prize) that recognized literary excellence in a piece that had a meaningful connection to health and medicine. The original benefactor of this prize, the late Dr. Gerald Thomas Perkoff, was Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. His love of poetry and the possibilities in treating the vast, rich arena of human experience with health and medicine drove this desire to take note of and reward literary achievement. We started planning ways to reinvent and revitalize the prize in the late spring of 2019, with no idea what the following years would bring us. Now here we are, amidst a pandemic that has relentlessly revealed to us the precarity—and resourcefulness—of human health and the endeavors of medicine to relieve pain and suffering. It is our humble hope that the Perkoff Prize is an opportunity for the artful expression of these infinitely diverse and collectively resonant human experiences.

DEADLINE:  3/15/22

Guidelines:

• All submissions must engage with health and medicine in some way.
• All submissions must be previously unpublished.
• Poetry: up to 10 pages of poetry.
• Fiction and Nonfiction: up to 8500 words, double-spaced.
• Winners will be published in print issue of TMR.
• All entries will be considered for publication (whether in print, or as part of our Poem of the Week or Blast features).
• Multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions are welcome, but you must pay a separate fee for each entry and withdraw the piece immediately if accepted elsewhere.
• Current University of Missouri students and faculty are ineligible.
• Standard Entry fee: $15. Each entrant receives a one-year subscription to the Missouri Review in digital format (normal price $24).
• “All Access” Entry fee: $30. In addition to the one-year digital subscription to the Missouri Review, the “All Access” entry fee grants access to the last 10 years of digital issues and the audio recordings of each digital issue.

Submit

• Online
• By Mail

OutNebraska Undersea Soirée at The Bay

Ready for a night out with your friends after two years of COVID? Purchase your tickets today for the Undersea Soirée at The Bay! 

Taking place on April 2, 2022, this Queer Prom will give you a chance to dress to the nines for an evening filled with good friends, good music, dancing, astrology readings, a photo booth, and celebrating our queer identities! 

Tickets are $10, or $5 if you bring a pair of socks, hygiene kit, or other item to donate to Rabble Mill's Skate for Change. 

Registration is required for this event. 

Details:
Date: April 2, 2022
Time: 8:00-11:00pm. Doors open at 7:45.
Location: Lincoln, NE. Details in registration email.
This event is 21+ as there will be a cash bar.
Masks are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.

Vaccination card is required.