April 19th - May 3rd, 2024

Alumni in the News

Meet Xaviera Flores

The University Libraries have a long history of investing in students and their success outside of the classroom. A great example of this investment and the creation of a fantastic lifelong learner is Xaviera Flores. Flores graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2007, earning a degree in film studies with minors in communications, French and sociology.

Flores started with Archives & Special Collections as an incoming first-year student. She was able to be part of the Summer Institute for Promising Scholars (SIPS) in the summer of 2004. As an intern, she worked on archival projects and helped the archivists mend, iron and preserve documents. After this experience, Flores went on to work in the archives for the next three years while completing her degree.

“I was lucky enough to be a part of the UCARE program as a freshman because I did the SIPS program the summer before, and I was excited to be able to do my own research,” said Flores.

For the next two years, Flores worked in the Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) program, which gave her the opportunity to do her own research and learn all about projects that involve the archives.

“My first year, I focused on audiovisual materials because I was a film studies major. The second year, I got to work on my own project about people of color that attended the University of Nebraska, like George Flippin, the first African American football player at UNL,” said Flores.

After gaining grant-writing skills and archival experience, Flores went on to earn a master’s degree in library science at Simmons College in Boston. It was from her time as an intern in the university archives that Flores discovered a passion for preserving the past and so now is a librarian and archivist at the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“I had amazing supervisors who mentored me and encouraged me to learn. They were supportive of the pursuit of library sciences; I was more than a student intern; it was a great hands-on opportunity, and I carry that experience with me always,” Flores said.

Flores now uses the skills she learned at the Libraries to educate her community and spread awareness about preserving history as it happens. This incredible experience in the university archives helped shape Flores’s future career, moved her all over the country, and taught her that archives can help people today and tomorrow.

Courses to Check Out

ENGL 253: Intro to Poetry Writing - THIS SUMMER!

You may know Dr. James Brunton as the director and professor of film studies, but did you know that he also writes and teaches poetry in the summer?!

ENGL 253: Intro to Poetry Writing, 3wk presession (May 20-June 7), online asynchronous

Themed "Poetry is Art," this course is focused on 1) developing new techniques for experimenting with poetry and 2) learning howto talk and write about poetry like a poet. As this is an introductory course, no previous poetry knowledge is required. We will think about poetry as words to be spoken and heard; as visual objects to be seen and touched; as sounds to be made and felt; as experience to be shared; as pedagogy; as politics; as play; and as performance. We will ask and seek answers to questions such as what gets to count as a “poem”? what can a poem do? what should a poem do? why make poems? and weigh our own answers against those given by theorists and critics of poetry, literature, and aesthetics. You will produce poems, read and respond to each other’s work, and practice a variety of techniques for experimenting with words. Your work for the class will be a mix of independent poetry-making activities, workshops, and three short responses to assigned poems and readings on poetics (the theories of what poetry is, why it’s made, and how to make it). The assigned reading, listening, and viewing will include “traditional” poetry as well as work that pushes the boundaries of common definitions of “the poem” and work that incorporates other art forms (such as music, visual art, and performance). We will foreground work by poets who are BIPOC and/or in the LGBTQ+ community.

ENGL 253 meets ACE 7. It can fulfill the ENGL major writing requirement and a 200-level course for the ENGL minor. Additionally, this specific section of ENGl 253 can also be used as a humanities course in the Women's & Gender Studies major or minor.

Department of English Announcements and Events

Conversation Literary Editing and Publishing Poetry

Date: Apr. 19, 2024

Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Nebraska Union Room: Platte River Room South

Drawing from their work as editors, the two poets will reflect on the role of literature in the advancement of intellectual and cultural modernity in Africa and the United States.

A poet, translator, and essayist, Daniel Simon is assistant director and editor in chief of World Literature Today magazine at the University of Oklahoma, where he also serves on the English, International Studies, and Judaic Studies faculty. The author of two previous verse collections, “Cast Off” (2015) and “After Reading Everything” (2016), his third book of poems, “Under a Gathering Sky,” is new from Stephen F. Austin State University Press.

Chibueze Darlington Anuonye, a P.hD student in the English Department, is the curator of “Selfies and Signatures: An Afro Anthology of Short Stories,” co-editor of “Daybreak: An Anthology of Nigerian Short Fiction” and editor of “Through the Eye of a Needle: Art in the Time of Coronavirus.” Anuonye was longlisted for the 2018 Babishai Niwe African Poetry Award. “Unbound,” his co-edited anthology of contemporary Nigerian poetry (with Nduka Otiono), is forthcoming.

Spring Writing Marathon

Date: Apr. 20, 2024

Time: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Location:Pioneers Park Nature Center

The Writing Lincoln Initiative is proud to invite you to our Spring Writing Marathon on Saturday, April 20th from 12- 4 PM in Pioneers Park. Following in the tradition of our Nebraska Writing Project collaborators, this writing marathon invites guests to spend a day exploring nature while writing about their experiences or anything that is important to them.

We ask that all attendees first meet at the Pioneers Park Nature Center (3201 South Coddington, Lincoln, NE 68522) at noon to begin the marathon.

After a brief overview of what writing marathons entail, attendees will break into small groups that together, will explore the park, pause to write, and share that writing with each other. One of those groups will function as an accessibility group, which will stick to sidewalks, flat planes, and the sections of the park more suited for those with mobility issues.

We hope this event encourages individuals a chance to experience the world as writers, space to generate new material, and an opportunity to share their writing with others within a supportive community.

Email Kathleen Dillon at kdillon9@huskers.unl.edu with questions and RSVP via our Facebook event if you are able.

https://fb.me/e/12Ae9yWvF

Humanities on the Edge presents: Dr. Julio Ramos

Date: Apr. 24, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Location: Sheldon Museum of Art Room: auditorium

Dr. Julio Ramos is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California-Berkeley

Book Release Celebration for Julia Schleck’s CONFLICTING CLAIMS TO EAST INDIA COMPANY WEALTH, 1600-1650

Date: May 2, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop

The event will include a conversation between Drs. Schleck and Stage about the new book, “Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650: Reading Debates over Risk and Reward” (Amsterdam UP, 2024), catered hors d’oeuvres, and a cocktail served by the department chair.

Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England’s earliest global trading ventures. Arguments over the staggering loss of lives and national resources and struggles over control of the new trade in luxuries reveal the forging of rationales justifying the new capitalist inequalities. Yet Company servants traveling abroad to conduct the risky trade resisted this newly coalescing social formation through strategic disobedience to their masters’ will, controlling information and promoting ignorance when it served their financial and sexual purposes. “Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600–1650” interrogates the forces that shaped England’s earliest forays into capitalist imperialism by tracing the battles over corporate control of men’s finances, marriages, and bare survival at the dawn of its global trade.

https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463727198/conflicting-claims-to-east-india-company-wealth-1600-1650

University Announcements and Events

Unite Intertribal Exchange Powwow

Date: Apr. 20, 2024

Time: 12:00 am - 7:00 pm

Location: Union Green Space

UNITE presents our Annual Honoring of Graduates Powwow. Competitive dancing, drum groups, food, and vendors will all be present. All our welcome and encouraged to join us in a celebration of Native American Culture and our local Native American students Graduating from High School and College!

Lincoln Earth Day Celebration

Date: Apr. 20, 2024

Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Locatioin: Nebraska Innocation Campus - NIC Plaza

Lincoln Earth Day is a free event designed with the whole family in mind! There will be 50+ booth exhibitors, live music, local food vendors, and a clothing swap. Grab your friends, family and coworkers and enjoy this Earth Day celebration!

More info: https://lincolnearthday.org/

Visiting Scholar: Emily Burns

Date: Apr. 23, 2024

Time: Starts at 5:30 pm

Location: Richards Hall Room: 15

On Tuesday, April 23, come see professor at the University of Oklahoma Dr. Emily Burns present her current research titled, “Building Black Histories and Futures Through Diorama: Architectural Models on Exhibition, 1900-1940.”

The free public lecture is at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall, Room 15.

The Simon and Garfunkel Story

Date: Apr. 23, 2023

Time: 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts

Featuring a full live band, state-of-the-art video projection, and original film footage, this immersive theatrical concert chronicles the amazing journey shared by the folk-rock duo, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

Performing all the hits, including “Mrs. Robinson,” “Cecilia,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Homeward Bound,” and many more, it tells the story from their humble beginnings to their incredible success as one of the best-selling music groups of the ‘60s, their dramatic split in 1970 and culminates with the pair’s famous “Concert in Central Park” reunion in 1981.

https://www.liedcenter.org/event/simon-and-garfunkel-story-3

Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Date: Apr. 24, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm

Location: Richards Hall Room: 15

Final Hixson-Lied visiting artist is interdisciplinary artist, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. She is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, public art and multimedia installation. Fazlalizadeh is a Forbes Under 30 lister, a Mellon Foundation Fellow, and in 2018, she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
This lecture is free and open to the public.

Spring Affair 2024 Preview Party and Preview Plant Sale

Date: Apr. 25, 2024

Time: 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Sandhills Global Event Center  Room: Currency Pavilion

The Nebraska Statewide Arboretum (NSA) will host its 2024 Spring Affair Preview Party and Preview Plant Sale on April 25, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Sandhills Global Event Center (formerly the Lancaster Event Center) in Lincoln.

Spring Affair is the Great Plains’ largest plant sale, attracting nearly 4,000 visitors and featuring more than 800 varieties of perennials, annuals, herbs, trees and shrubs, in addition to gardening vendors and educational non-profits.

The Preview Party and Preview Plant Sale will include a buffet dinner and entry to the Preview Sale. Tickets are $45 for NSA members and $55 for non-members..

Tickets are also available for the Preview Sale only, which will be held Thursday, April 25, from 7-9 p.m. Tickets to the Preview Sale only are $20 for NSA members and $25 for non-members.

All proceeds from ticket sales support NSA’s statewide tree planting, garden making and educational outreach efforts throughout the year

Free general admission to Spring Affair will be held on Friday, April 26, from 2-6 p.m. and on Saturday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

To register and purchase tickets for the Preview Party and Preview Sale or for more information about Spring Affair, visit https://plantnebraska.org/spring-affair.

https://plantnebraska.org/spring-affair

Resistance and Resilience: Reckoning with the Holocaust, Genocide, Displacement, and Exile through Art

Date: May 2, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: Center for Great Plains Studies

The Center for Great Plains Studies is presenting this panel in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

By weaving together scholarly discussions, artistic insights, and visual and literary depictions, this panel aims to illuminate the complex interplay between historical traumas, artistic representation, and the ways some artists used their work to express an enduring spirit of resilience and resistance. The presenters will address the power of art as a lens through which to explore and understand the resilience of individuals and communities facing systemic violence and persecution. They will also illuminate how art and literature provide an aesthetic language to navigate the fine line between commemoration, education, and the ethical representations of trauma.

SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, the University at Buffalo
Sarah Phillips Casteel, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University
Angela Two Stars, multidisciplinary visual artist, public artist, and curator and the Great Plains Art Museum’s 2024 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence
Francisco Souto, Director, School of Art, Art History & Design, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Visit https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/mchmeylinc0524 to register for either in-person or virtual. The program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff of Baltimore, Maryland, were active philanthropists in the United States and abroad, focusing especially on Jewish learning and scholarship, music, the arts and humanitarian causes. Their children, Eleanor Katz and Harvey M. Meyerhoff, member and chairman emeritus of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, have endowed this lecture.

Photo: An art installation created by Angela Two Stars, Okciyapi, 2021, in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The cast concrete sculpture incorporates Dakota language engravings, enamel on steel, bound aggregate with embedded luminescent pebbles, native plantings, and Dakota audio recordings. The Walker Art Center commissioned the work with funds from the T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, the Friends of the Falls, and Russell Cowles. Photography: Andy Underwood-Bultmann, courtesy of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center’s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new scholarship. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies require openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Mandel Center or the Museum.

https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/mchmeylinc0524

Red Memorial

Date: May 3, 2024

Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Nebraska Union Room: Platte River Room

Reflect and celebrate the lives of students who we lost during this academic year. Four students will be honored during the memorial.

The ceremony includes:
• brief remarks from Dr. Dee Dee Anderson, vice chancellor for student affairs.
• individual recognition of the students lost this year.
• a moment of reflection led by a member of the Association of Campus Religious Workers.
• music by an ensemble from the Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.

Light refreshments will be provided after the formal program.

The memorial is free and open to the public.

Later in the evening, Broyhill Fountain in the Nebraska Union Memorial Plaza is to be illuminated red in memory of the students.

Red Memorial began in 2015 at the request of deceased student Keaton Klein’s family, who had a long-standing wish to turn the fountains red and the lighting began to honor his memory.

Diversity Celebration

Date: May 3, 2024

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Nebraska Union Room: Centennial Ballroom

Celebrate the diversity of our campus through cultural booths, performances, and food. Cultural clothes encouraged! The event is free for all!

Additional Public Info:
Doors open at 5:30 PM!

https://unl.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10121012

Eloise Kruger Gallery of Miniatures Grand Opening

Date: May 3, 2024

Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Oldfather Hall Room: 827

The School of Global Integrative Studies (SGIS) anticipates a First Friday grand opening of the Eloise Kruger Gallery of Miniatures on May 3rd, 2024, 3pm-5pm.

Two years of collaborating, recording, and hard work by faculty, staff and students has made this incredible collection available for viewing by the general public once more.

The gallery is located on the 8th floor of Oldfather Hall (660 N 12th Street). Light hors d’oeuvres will be served in Oldfather Hall 827. An invitation will follow later in the semester. Please share with any members of our community that might have an interest in attending.

“The Kruger Collection of Miniature Furnishings and Decorative Arts consists of fine-scale contemporary art miniatures, sampling four centuries of interior design history in miniature. Unique to Nebraska, the Kruger Collection blends craft, creativity and history. Eloise Kruger collected most of the miniatures in the collection and also commissioned many of them.”

We look forward to seeing you there.

-Kruger Gallery Team

https://sgis.unl.edu/kruger-collection

Literary News

Jeff Daniels on Getting Inside a Story

By Talk Easy | April 18, 2024

https://lithub.com/jeff-daniels-on-getting-inside-a-story/

Why the Elderly Make the Best Customers: On Bookselling in an Aging Town

By Samantha Ladwig | April 18, 2024

https://lithub.com/why-the-elderly-make-the-best-customers-on-bookselling-in-an-aging-town/

Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together

By David Hill | April 18, 2024

https://lithub.com/writing-as-labor-doing-more-with-less-together/

Film News

Showing This Week at the Ross

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE | Q&A WITH SIGNE BAUMANE

LA RONDINE (THE MET: LIVE IN HD)

RUNNING TOWARDS THE FIRE | FREE SCREENING & DISCUSSION

Sundance Film Festival Courting New Host City for 2027 and Beyond

By Matt Donnelly | Apr 17, 2024

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/sundance-film-festival-new-host-city-1235974212/

Quentin Tarantino Scraps ‘The Movie Critic’ as His Final Film

By Pat Saperstein | Apr 17, 2024

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/quentin-tarantino-scraps-the-movie-critic-final-film-1235974531/?sub_action=logged_in

‘Abigail’ Filmmakers Radio Silence on Their Genre-Hopping Vampire Thriller and Honoring Angus Cloud’s Final Performance

By Adam B. Vary | Apr 17, 2024

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/abigail-radio-silence-angus-cloud-melissa-barrera-1235973166/

By Adam B. Vary

Other Announcements

Glow Mixxedfit

Date: Apr. 30, 2024

Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Recreation and Wellness Center Room: Outdoor PavilionAre you ready to dance and rock out with us? MixxedFit combines explosive dance movement and boot camp toning with all types of music from hip hop to pop fresh upbeat and familiar utilizing repetitive and easy-to-follow moves. Join us for this glow-in-the-dark event. Wear your best neon colors and get ready to have a blast!

Register for this event at:

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

Cover Crop Field Day

Date: Apr. 30, 2024

Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Location: Haskell Agricultural Laboratory

Come and learn about selecting fall-planted cover crops for different management goals! We will tour plots with rye, triticale, wheat, barley, oats, hairy vetch, brassica varieties, and several mixes.

The field tour will also include 1) cereal rye cover crop demonstration to determine fertilizer N equivalence values at the 39 years long-term tillage and crop rotation plots, and 2) integrated nutrient management efforts to improve water quality in the manure vs. commercial nitrogen fertilizer management plots.

This free program will be held April 30, from 1 pm to 3 pm at the Haskell Ag Lab at 57905 866 Road Concord NE 68728. Refreshments will be provided.

Ultimate Tournament

Date: May 2, 2024

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Campus Recreation Center

Entry fee: $25/team
Leagues: Open
Play begins: May 3rd

The tournament plays on May 3rd from 5:30-11 pm. Winners will receive an intramural championship t-shirt!

Register by 7:00pm in the Intramural Sports office at the Campus Recreation Center or at the Recreation & Wellness Center on East Campus.

Find more information at:

https://crec.unl.edu/intramural-sports

Spring De-Stress Event

Date: May 3, 2024

Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Room: Kawasaki Reading Room 302

Join us for Bracelet making over snacks, coffee and tea!

https://modlang.unl.edu/kawasaki-reading-room

Senior Design Showcase

Date: May 3, 2024

Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Location: Kiewit Hall

The College of Engineering’s annual Senior Design Showcase, Nebraska’s premier undergraduate engineering student design event, is scheduled for Friday, May 3, 2024 in Kiewit Hall on UNL’s City Campus. The event showcases new and innovative projects from more than 30 teams of graduating seniors from across the college. Their projects reflect real-world professional challenges, environments and, in some cases, collaborations with industry clients to develop products and devices that could have immediate impact.

https://engineering.unl.edu/undergraduate-programs/senior-design-showcase/