Hours
The English Advising Office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Appointments
Please go to Canvas (under Account--> Settings--> MyPlan--> My Success Network--> Kathleen Lacey). The schedule tab will allow you to see what times are available for individual appointments. You can also search for Kathleen Lacey in the MyPLAN Directory. You are also welcome to call 402-472-3871 to schedule an appointment.
Walk-in Hours
No appointment necessary
Zoom drop-in hours are Wednesdays from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm and Fridays from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm.
To join, follow this link or copy & paste into your browser: https://unl.zoom.us/my/casadvising
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Reminders
Mon, Aug 29: Last day to add classes to fall schedule; last day to drop a full semester course and receive a full refund.
Fri, Sept 2: Last day to drop a full semester course and receive a 75% refund.
Sat, Sept 3 thru Fri, Nov 11: All course withdrawals noted with a grade of “W” on transcript.
Mon, Sept 5: NO CLASS! LABOR DAY.
Fri, Sept 9: Last day to withdrawal from a full semester course and receive a 50% refund; last day to apply for December graduation.
Fri, Sept 16: Last day to withdraw from a full semester course and receive a 25% refund.
Table of Contents
University Announcements and Events
- Poster Sale
- Tinashe: Big Red Lied Experience Performance
- Husker Watch Party
- OASIS Kick-Off
- Time Keeps on Slippin’
- Lecture: “Stories are Medicine: Indigenous Sovereignty, Connection, & Healing”
- Open House at the LGBTQA+ Center and Women’s Center
- CollectionTalk: Artist Analia Saban
- First Friday at Sheldon Museum of Art
- CAS Inquire: “America’s Uncertain Search for Truth and the Fate of Universities”
- Nika King
- Alaina Roberts: Black Freedom on Native Land
- Let the Good Times Roll
- Lunch and Learns
- Reflections on Nixon’s Presidency: A Conversation with John Roy Price and Dr. Tim Borstelmann
- Open REACH Training for Students
- LIFE IN LINCOLN: Meet & Greet
- Voices of Rebirth: A Reading List on Being Indigenous in America
- 5 SFF Books With Queernormative Worlds
- The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America
- Jerome Charyn on Finding Literary Inspiration at the Movie Theater
- “Madonna Was My Sex-Ed Teacher”: A Conversation with R/B Mertz
- The 50 Best Fictional Dragons, Ranked
- Films at the Ross
- Deaf Actress Rose Ayling-Ellis: “I Am Disabled Because I Live and Work in a World That Disables Me”
- Warner Bros. TV to Develop Coco Mellors’ ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ as Series, Maggie Kiley to Direct
- Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown and Abraham Popoola Join Netflix Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Atlas’
- All Three ‘Law & Order’ Shows to Cross Over for Season Premiere
- ‘House of the Dragon’ Gets Early Season 2 Renewal at HBO
University Announcements and Events
Poster Sale
This five-day sale is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily Aug 29-Sept 2, 2022 on the Nebraska Union Plaza.
Browse, enjoy, and purchase from hundreds and hundreds of different prints to decorate your residence hall room, apartment, chapter house, or office. Choose from a wide selection of smash-hit classic posters of famous art and images to fresh-off-the-press artist prints, and so much more.
Studies have shown that a vibrant living space and use of sensory images can positively impact learning and well-being. This annual Poster Sale provides an easy on-campus opportunity to purchase art and other media to liven up your living space and express your individual self in a creative and easy way.
Poster purchases can be made with cash, credit cards, and NCard.
Follow @upcnebraska on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Tinashe: Big Red Lied Experience Performance
Date: Aug. 26, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts
Not only is Tinashe a multi-platinum-certified R&B disruptor singer, writer, and dancer, but she also produces, mixes, engineers, creative directs, and edits. As a result, she blazes past any and all boundaries taking full control of her independence as she revs up to release her latest project “333”; a multi-track compilation featuring her latest singles “Pasadena” ft. the likes of Buddy, and “Bouncin”. Powered by the double-platinum smash “2 On” [feat. ScHoolboy Q], the album crashed the Top 20 of the Billboard Top 200 upon arrival before popping up on year-end lists by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Stereogum, The Guardian, Vulture, and so many more. Between touring alongside everyone from Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj to Maroon 5, she revved up the official mixtape Nightride. Rolling Stone and Fuse both proclaimed it among the “20 Best R&B Albums of 2016.” Along the way, she would grace the covers of Complex, V, Dazed, and Nylon, Schön, Gaytimes, L’Officiel, and so many more in addition to turning up with unforgettable performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Conan, and Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!
Every year, the Lied Center hosts the Big Red Lied Experience (BRLX) which features a new artist in an exclusive show for UNL students that’s totally FREE. Tickets for this event will be released later this summer.
Husker Watch Party
Date: Aug. 27, 2022
Time: 11:30 am
Location: Memorial Stadium
GO BIG RED! Watch on the stadium’s big screen as your Nebraska Husker football team battles the Northwestern Wildcats, live from DUBLIN, IRELAND. Fans can sit right on the field or in the bleacher seats.
Game time is 11:30 a.m. Gates open one hour before kickoff. Enter the stadium through Gate 24.
The first 400 students in the gate receive a special-edition t-shirt to commemorate this one-of-a-kind game experience.
FREE for UNL students with EventPass. Open to UNL staff and faculty with their NCard.
* Event will be canceled for rain.
OASIS Kick-Off
Date: Aug. 28, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union
The Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services invites you to join us for the OASIS Kick-Off! Join to experience an engaging cultural performance by Samba Colorado as they share a traditional Brazilian dance. Don’t miss out on this fun welcome back celebration!
Samba Colorado is devoted to fostering and educating communities through Samba and African Brazilian dance tradition, music, storytelling, and arts education while improving individual life enrichment through a positively conscious, inclusive, and diverse environment.
Time Keeps on Slippin’
Date: Aug. 31, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Love Library South, Room 221
Learn to Prioritize tasks and customize a schedule that will change your life!
Lecture: “Stories are Medicine: Indigenous Sovereignty, Connection, & Healing”
Date: Aug. 31, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium (Zoom option available)
Dr. Melissa Tehee is an associate professor at Utah State University and director of the American Indian Support Project. In addition to this lecture, she is teaching one section of ETHN 890: Critical Issues in U.S. and Global Society: Race, Social Justice, and Inequality August 29 to September 2.
Livestream will be available via Zoom—register at the link below.
Additional Public Info:
Webinar ID: 996 5003 0235
Registration Link: https://unl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2G2e3jzTQgexDLA50y-BSw
Open House at the LGBTQA+ Center and Women’s Center
Date: Sep. 1, 2022
Time: 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Location; Nebraska Union, Rooms 340 & 346
Explore these two easy-to-access student resource centers, both located on the Nebraska Union 3rd floor. Enjoy free cake, fresh fruit, and beverages while meeting and engaging with other Huskers and the amazing staff.
Free take-home items and swag include Pronoun Buttons & Stickers; Safer Sex Kits; bubbles; and pens.
CollectionTalk: Artist Analia Saban
Date: Sep. 1, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
Artist Analia Saban, whose three-dimensional prints “Designed in France, Made in China, Clothing Tag” and “International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Made in USA, Clothing Tag” are on view in the exhibition “Clocking In: Visions of Labor” speaks about her art and creative process.
Saban (b. 1980, Buenos Aires) explores the intersections and overlap between traditional media and new technologies, blurring the lines between drawing, painting, weaving, and sculpture. Her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; among many others. Saban lives and works in Los Angeles.
Admission is free.
First Friday at Sheldon Museum of Art
Date: Sep. 2, 2022
Time: 4:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art
Start your weekend off with a First Friday evening of art. Explore the new fall semester exhibitions, socialize, and enjoy music by DJ DeWayne. This month, the museum is open until 8:30 p.m.
Campus Nightlife will have materials for UNL students with EventPass to paint tote bags. Supplies are limited; get yours before they’re gone.
Admission is free.
CAS Inquire: “America’s Uncertain Search for Truth and the Fate of Universities”
Date: Sep. 6, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm–6:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium (also via Zoom)
What role do American universities play in a society growing increasingly uncertain how to reach agreement on the truth about anything?
This lecture by Julia Schleck, associate professor of English, will discuss the changing function of higher education in relation to contemporary disagreements over the point of an education and the worth of expert knowledge in decision-making.
Additional Public Info:
Webinar ID: 964 7755 7748
https://cas.unl.edu/cas-inquire
Nika King
Date: Sep. 7, 2022
Time: 7:30 am–8:30 am
Location: Nebraska Union, Swanson Auditorium
Nika King stars as Leslie Bennett, on the Emmy-winning HBO series, Euphoria, opposite her television daughters, Zendaya and Storm Reid. In this role, King pulls from her early life watching family members battle addiction and triumphantly overcoming. It is from that resolve and resilience that King offers a dramatic perspective and newfound depth in this character.
King established Rose of Sharon, a 501c (3) based in South Los Angeles, CA. The mission of the nonprofit is to improve the quality of life for individuals and families from underserved and marginalized communities by compassionately serving their mental health and wellness.
In her new lecture presentation, King tackles the subject of mental health, looking at depression, anxiety, and the possible ultimate collapse to alcohol and drugs for self-medication. She will share personal stories of how she has introduced exercise, a healthy diet and meditation to her daily activities, and discuss with brutal honesty what we all can do to achieve mental happiness.
This event is FREE for UNL students, faculty, & staff with Event Pass. $5 for the public.
Hosted by UPC Nebraska.
Alaina Roberts: Black Freedom on Native Land
Date: Sep. 7, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Location: Center for Great Plains Studies (11th and Q streets)
Dr. Alaina Roberts will speak about her book “I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land,” the winner of the 2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). Books will be available for purchase at the lecture. The talk will be live streamed at https://ianrmedia.unl.edu/live-2
Facial coverings have been requested by the speaker for this event. See UNL’s COVID-19 information here: https://covid19.unl.edu/welcome
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a mule”—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In “I’ve Been Here All the While,” we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion on to Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma Statehood in 1907.
Dr. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh who studies the intersection of Black and Native American life from the Civil War to the modern day. She holds a Doctorate in History from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts in History, with honors, from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She writes, teaches, and presents public talks about Black and Native history in the West, family history, slavery in the Five Tribes (the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indian Nations), Native American enrollment politics, and Indigeneity in North America and across the globe.
“I’ve Been Here All the While tells the stories of the Black, Native, and white people who made Indian Territory, now known as the state of Oklahoma, their home,” Roberts said. “This history is often overlooked, so it’s such an honor for my book to be recognized by the Center for Great Plains Studies, which houses important projects like Black Homesteaders, that do so much to educate the public on the diverse history of the Plains.”
The Center for Great Plains Studies’ Stubbendieck book prize celebrates the most outstanding work about the Great Plains during the past year, chosen by an independent group of scholars. This Paul A. Olson Great Plains lecture is free and open to the public.
https://www.unl.edu/plains/great-plains-great-ideas-paul-olson-seminars
Let the Good Times Roll
Date: Sep. 8, 2022
Time: 11:00 am–1:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union Plaza
Don’t be dazed and confused this fall - keep yourself and the people around you safe by brushing up on your alcohol knowledge! Answer trivia questions, test your ability to measure out a standard drink, and more. Don’t forget to take a groovy polaroid with our photo booth!
Lunch and Learns
Date: Sep. 8, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Location: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Unity Room
Internship? Career Services will help you find an internship opportunity.
Reflections on Nixon’s Presidency: A Conversation with John Roy Price and Dr. Tim Borstelmann
Date: Sep. 8, 2022
Time: 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Platte River Room
This year’s Pauley Lecture will be presented by John Roy Price, an insider in the Nixon Administration. He has just published a memoir called The Last Liberal Republican.
John Roy Price developed a keen interest in American History at Grinnell College, Iowa, from which he earned his BA. He was selected a Rhodes Scholar and earned a Masters degree from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He completed a law degree from Harvard Law School and practiced law in New York. His work co-founding the Republican policy group, the Ripon Society, led to his involvement in the presidential campaigns of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, and then Richard Nixon. Price served as Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs in Nixon’s first term. He worked with Nixon on Nixon’s quite surprising social policies, including welfare reform, hunger and nutrition, and Nixon’s 1971 proposal for a national health insurance program. He returned to New York and a career in finance, with thirty years there, ending as a Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase. This was followed by a tour as Senior Advisor to the Institute for International Finance, in Washington. It was capped by five years, during the financial crisis, as President and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh. He has been the President of the Bankers Association for Foreign Trade, the Chairman of the start up electronic mortgage trading platform, MAXEX, and a Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He lives in Pittsburgh and in Livingston, Montana.
Thomas (Tim) Borstelmann is E.N. and Katherine Thompson Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
https://history.unl.edu/pauley-symposium-lecture
Open REACH Training for Students
Date: Sep. 9, 2022
Time: 11:00 am–12:30 pm
Location: University Health Center, Room 126
Suicide prevention is a shared campus responsibility. Join the REACH movement by attending suicide prevention training!
REACH is an interactive 90-minute training designed to help the university community prevent suicide by teaching faculty, staff and students how to:
Recognize warning signs
Engage with empathy
Ask directly about suicide
Communicate hope
Help suicidal individuals to access care and treatment
Participants who attend the full 90-minute training will receive a certificate and a REACH lapel pin.
Register here: go.unl.edu/reachtraining
LIFE IN LINCOLN: Meet & Greet
Date: Sep. 9, 2022
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Nebraska Union, Platte River Room
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 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.
FREE to attend. Open to all UNL students with Event Pass.
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THIS WEEK’s ACTIVITY:
Meet & Greet - an orientation to the LIFE IN LINCOLN series.
This is the official kickoff event the fall semester’s LIFE IN LINCOLN (LIL) series. Join the LIL hosts – Reshell and Natalie – in the Nebraska Union’s Platte River Room (1st floor) for a relaxed social hour with other Huskers. Reshell and Natalie will present an overview of the upcoming weekly activities and provide additional details about each.
Light refreshments will be serve and attendees will have a chance to meet-and-mingle with each other.
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UPCOMING DATES
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SEPTEMBER 16
Appetizers & mingle @ Rodizio Grill in the Haymarket District.
SEPTEMBER 23
Global Groove, a world music dance night
SEPTEMBER 30
**LIFE IN LINCOLN will not meet this date. Students are encouraged to attend the Homecoming festivities. **
OCTOBER 7
First Friday Artwalk in downtown Lincoln.
The group will join Lincoln’s monthly art event and visit art galleries in downtown Lincoln.
OCTOBER 14
ShakesFear, presented by Nebraska Repertory Theatre
This event is limited to 25 students. **Registration coming soon.**
Literary News
Voices of Rebirth: A Reading List on Being Indigenous in America
Our lives are so much more than you could possibly imagine.
By Autumn Fourkiller
https://longreads.com/2022/08/23/indigenous-native-american-voices-reading-list/
5 SFF Books With Queernormative Worlds
Naseem Jamnia | August 23, 2022
https://www.tor.com/2022/08/23/5-sff-books-with-queernormative-worlds
The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America
Or, We're All Still Locked Away in Edward Rochester’s Attic...
By Gwendolyn Kiste | August 24, 2022
https://lithub.com/the-gothic-horror-of-a-post-roe-america/
Jerome Charyn on Finding Literary Inspiration at the Movie Theater
“I didn’t have to stumble with words on a page. Images on the screen became my vocabulary.”
By Jerome Charyn | August 25, 2022
https://lithub.com/jerome-charyn-on-finding-literary-inspiration-at-the-movie-theater/
“Madonna Was My Sex-Ed Teacher”: A Conversation with R/B Mertz
By Samantha Mann | August 25, 2022
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/madonna-was-my-sex-ed-teacher-a-conversation-with-r-b-mertz/
The 50 Best Fictional Dragons, Ranked
Thousands of Years of Dragon Lore, from the Rig Veda to Beowulf to the Hobbit
By Olivia Rutigliano | August 26, 2022
https://lithub.com/the-50-best-fictional-dragons-ranked/
Film News
Showing This Week at the Ross
THE GOOD BOSS (Sep 9 - Sep 22)
Deaf Actress Rose Ayling-Ellis: “I Am Disabled Because I Live and Work in a World That Disables Me”
"I am done with being the token deaf character," she told the Edinburgh TV Festival in the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture. "I believe that diverse, rich and fascinating deaf stories are ready to go mainstream and that we can do this, together."
By Georg Szalai | August 26, 2022
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rose-ayling-ellis-deaf-token-character-1235203340/
Warner Bros. TV to Develop Coco Mellors’ ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ as Series, Maggie Kiley to Direct
By Joe Otterson | August 24, 2022
Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown and Abraham Popoola Join Netflix Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Atlas’
The feature comes from the creative partnership between Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions and the streamer with Brad Peyton directing.
By Etan Vlessing | August 24, 2022
All Three ‘Law & Order’ Shows to Cross Over for Season Premiere
The single story will mark the first time three shows from the franchise have intersected.
By Rick Porter | August 24, 2022
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/3-show-law-order-shows-crossover-premiere-1235204782/
‘House of the Dragon’ Gets Early Season 2 Renewal at HBO
By Jennifer Maas | August 26, 2022
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-renewed-1235345810/