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UNL News Releases: Speakers

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02/25/2004
Jonis Agee to Discuss 'Writing Nebraska' in March 9 Seminar
WHEN: Tuesday, March 9, 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Dudley Bailey Library, 228 Andrews Hall, 14th & T Streets (extended), City Campus Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 25, 2004 -- Jonis Agee, professor of English and creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, w…
03/9/2004
03/2/2004
'Directing Shakespeare' Topic of March 10 Knoll Lecture
WHEN: Wednesday, March 10, 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Great Plains Art Collection in the Christlieb Gallery, Hewit Place, 1155 Q Street Lincoln, Neb., March 2, 2004 -- The Robert Knoll Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on March 10 will provide a f…
03/10/2004
03/8/2004
Holocaust Expert to Discuss Origins of Final Solution in April 8 Talk
WHEN: Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Great Plains Art Collection in the Christlieb Gallery, Hewit Place, 1155 Q Street Lincoln, Neb., March 8, 2004 -- Christopher R. Browning, Holocaust expert and professor of history at the University of North…
04/8/2004
03/16/2004
Gary Moulton to Deliver Nebraska Lecture March 30
Gary Moulton, Thomas Sorensen professor of American history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will deliver the next Nebraska Lecture: The Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture, "Sampling Lewis and Clark: Selected Readings from t…
03/30/2004
03/30/2004
Legal Scholar to Discuss Women's Rights April 5 at Nebraska Union
Legal scholar Penelope Andrews will examine the state of women's rights in the turmoil of the modern world in a lecture April 5 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In "From Cape Town to Kabul: Reconceptualizing Women's Human Rights," Andrews, a pr…
04/5/2004
03/31/2004
Harvard Australia Chair to Discuss 'Indigenous Autobiography' April 13
Australian anthropologist Timothy Rowse, visiting professor and holder of the Australia chair at Harvard University, will speak April 13 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in a lecture titled "Indigenous Autobiography in Australia and the U.S.A." …
04/13/2004
04/6/2004
Speaker to Address Math and Elections
Donald Saari, distinguished professor of mathematics and economics at the University of California at Irvine, will present the eighth Howard Rowlee Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at 4 p.m. April 8 in the Nebraska Union Auditorium, 1400…
04/8/2004
04/9/2004
Artistic Legacy of Lewis & Clark Is April 21 Olson Seminar Topic
The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804-06 is best known as a saga of adventure, discovery and heroism. But a University of Iowa scholar will argue that there was more to the Corps of Discovery when she delivers the next Paul A. Olson Se…
04/21/2004
04/14/2004
Borstelmann to Address How U.S. Relates to World in Age of Terrorism
With the effects of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 still reverberating worldwide, Tim Borstelmann's work is particularly relevant in understanding how the United States relates to its perceived enemies. Borstelmann is the first faculty membe…
04/27/2004
04/15/2004
CSG Systems CEO to Speak April 21 During E-Week
Neal Hansen, chairman and chief executive officer of Denver-based CSG Systems International Inc., will speak April 21 about applying an engineering education to the real world during E-Week 2004 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engine…
04/21/2004
04/16/2004
Author Randall Kennedy to Speak Monday at Nebraska Union
Randall Kennedy, author of "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" and "Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption," will appear April 19 at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Kennedy will read from his work beginning at 6 p.…
04/19/2004
04/30/2004
Nobelist Paul Berg, Maxine Singer to Speak May 7 at Beadle Center
Two experts on the work of University of Nebraska alumnus George W. Beadle will give a lecture on his work next week. Paul Berg and Maxine Singer, authors of the book "George Beadle, An Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century,"…
05/7/2004
06/4/2004
Summer Research Program Opens with Nationally Renowned Mentors
The Summer Research Program presented by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Graduate Studies will open with the words of two nationally recognized mentoring scholars, Howard G. Adams and Calvin Mackie, both recipients of the Presidential Aw…
06/4/2004
09/8/2004
Slovenian sociologist Rizman to address human rights Sept. 29
Political sociologist Rudolph Rizman will deliver a talk titled "Human Rights and Democratic Transitions: A European View" on Sept. 29 at 3:30 p.m. at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. The room will be posted. The talk, free and open to the public, is h…
09/29/2004
09/10/2004
Halberstam Thompson Forum lecture to be rebroadcast on Channel 21
Because of technical difficulties, the Sept. 9 lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues was not carried live on Lincoln Time Warner Cable Channel 21. The lecture, "War and the Modern Preside…

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