November 19 - November 26, 2021

Unkissed Kisses

A new exhibit in Love Library highlights the historical moments of LGBTQ+ literature, writers, and their roles in the history of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The exhibit also celebrates the first LGBTQ course offered at a state university and taught by gay scholar, Louis Crompton, and is one event among a series of events to celebrate UNL’s support of LGBTQ studies. A collaborative project between Timothy Schaffert, Susan Rosowski Associate Professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program; Erin Colonna, Graphic Designer, Libraries; Traci Robison, Assistant Professor of Practice and Outreach Archivist; and Andrew Jewell, Professor and Interim Chair of Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, the exhibit draws its title, “Unkissed Kisses,” from a poem by Oscar Wilde, who visited the University of Nebraska in 1882.

The exhibit will be open for the remainder of the fall through the spring semester and can be viewed in two locations within Love Library, in the lobby of the second floor and in display classes on the lower level of Love South.

Schaffert and Robison created a digital supplement (https://libarchives.unl.edu/project/unkissed-kisses/) to the exhibit with additional information about featured topics and individuals that will be released soon. The digital component will also allow those who are not able to visit Love to learn from the exhibit.

Writing Brilliant Essays: A Conversation with Jerald Walker

Date: Nov. 29, 2021
Time: 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Zoom: https://unl.zoom.us/j/99338598690

Cardio Dance N Cocoa

Date: Nov. 29, 2021
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Campus Recreation Center, Fitness Room

https://go.unl.edu/group-fitness

IGNITE featuring Bernie Su

Date: Dec. 3, 2021
Time: 12:30 pm–1:50 pm
Location: Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts (CEMA), Room 101
Zoom: https://unl.zoom.us/my/carsoncenterunl 

Call for submissions from Riff/t literary journal, inaugural issue New Medium Press

New Medium Press is seeking submissions for the inaugural issue of our online literary journal, Riff/t. The journal’s title comes from a pairing of ideas seemingly at odds and the tensions that arise from their combination. It represents both riffing, as the process of improvising alongside music or text, and a rift, cracks or breaks that create a separation. The forward slash creates a visual representation of the concepts.

From this concept, we are seeking submissions that engage these ideas in many various possible ways, particularly through the use of formal experimentation and multi-media projects that play with mediums of expression:

• Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that riffs off a movie, TV show, music, or play through utilizing an element or theme as a basis for the new piece of writing.
• Ekphrasis fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that creates a fresh descriptive account of a piece of visual art, music, or film shot.
• Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that follows an epiphany narrative arc, particularly in which the epiphany creates the effect of isolation or division.
• Poetry that utilizes line breaks, stanza breaks, or caesuras in unique or innovative ways, particularly as a means to create emotional inflection or thematic resonance.
• Shape poetry that utilizes a visual rift or crack either through the actual text or through the white space
• Fiction or poetry that engages themes of generational rifts, interpersonal separation, intrapersonal divisions or contradictions, or social inequities.
• Fiction or poetry that’s structured around polarized or opposed subjects that creates a confrontational momentum in terms of the plot, character, or narrative arc.
• Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that engages the subjects of spiritual mediums, the void, the great beyond, or other spiritual ideas driven by humanity’s isolation from a spiritual plane of existence.
• Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that engages in the subjects of internet networks, in terms of the division and relationships formed through these digital spaces.
• Experimental fiction of automatic writing, particularly that which probes the mind, the internet, the unknown, or the beyond.
• Short films that narratively engage any of the above subjects or themes.
• Visual art (photography, collage, painting, drawing, digital visual art, etc.) that visually represents any of the above subjects or themes.
• Short films that create a visual rift in a frame or between frames.
• Visual art (photography, collage, painting, drawing, digital visual art, etc.) that creates a visual rift in the frame.
• Visual art (photography, collage, painting, drawing, digital visual art, etc.) that uses space and composition to portray abstract or perspective rifts between subjects.
• Short films that visually riff off another visual work.
  
  

We are currently accepting works until November 24^th, 2021 that are 30 or less pages double spaced, in Times New Roman, and 12 pt font. Written work should preferably be sent as a Word document and visual art through Adobe Software or the artist’s preferred format. Submitted works will be subject to collaborative editing after acceptance and should be sent to newmediumpress@gmail.com.

LAURUS is taking submissions!

No Limits Student Research Conference: Call for Papers!

The Women's & Gender Studies Program of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln is delighted to announce the Call for Papers for this year's No Limits Student Research Conference -- "Writing as Resistance," featuring SJ Sindu as the keynote speaker. Please find attached a flyer to share through your publicity channels.

The conference will be held Friday, March 11, 2022 at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It will take place in person at the Nebraska City Campus Student Union and will abide by COVID requirements as directed by the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department at that time. Please visit this link for the University's most up-to-date COVID-related policies & information.

An alum of UNL, the keynote speaker Professor SJ Sindu is a Sri Lankan American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, was released by Soho Press in June 2017, won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and was named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her forthcoming book, Blue-Skinned Gods, has been described by Roxane Gay as “another brilliant novel…[T]he richness of this story will take hold of you and never let go.” 

The deadline for proposals is Friday, January 21, 2022. Proposals can be submitted online here.

 No Limits is a student research conference. So please announce to your students and share widely with others. There is no registration cost, and the event is free and open to the public. 

We invite proposals from undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates on any topic from any discipline related to women's issues, lives, histories, or culture; or women's and gender studies. Creative writing, visual arts, film, music, performances, workshops, and academic papers are all welcome. Proposals for individual presentations or pre-made panels are accepted. 

Additional information about the conference can be found here. More information will be added as conference organizing continues. So stay tuned!

Should you have additional questions, please submit them to -- nolimitsunl@unl.edu. 

MURAP Summer Research Fellowship

The Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) invites applications for a ten-week summer research fellowship for undergraduate students (rising juniors or seniors) in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. The program will be held from Monday, May 16 to Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. MURAP seeks to prepare talented and motivated students from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds, or those with a proven commitment to diversity and to eradicating racial disparities in the academy, for future careers as academic researchers and faculty. Working under the guidance of a UNC faculty mentor, students participate in a rigorous research experience that prepares them for graduate study and academic careers.

To apply, students must complete an online application, which will be available starting Tuesday, November 9, 2021. The application deadline is Monday, February 14, 2022. For more details about the program, please see the attached announcement and flyer. To access an application, or for additional information about MURAP, please visit our website at http://www.murap.unc.edu or contact murap@unc.edu.

Mortar Board applications open!

Mortar Board is the University of Nebraska’s only national senior honor society and is an association of collegians selected for distinguished ability in Scholarship, Leadership, and Service. Throughout the year, Mortar Board is involved in numerous activities including recognizing outstanding educators through our “Professor of the Month” award program, participating in the homecoming week RSO competition, and volunteering weekly at local elementary schools through Reading is Leading. As a member of Mortar Board, you will take part in these activities and many more with an outstanding group of individuals.

Our application is now open! Juniors are invited to apply for membership in UNL's the Black Masque Chapter of Mortar Board. Freshman, Sophomores, and Seniors are invited to apply to be Mortar Board Notables and for the Drvol Family Scholarship. All applications are due by January 21, 2022. Our application is available on our website: www.unl.edu/mortarboard/.  

You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at
unl.mortarboard.selection2022@gmail.com or through social media!