This interactive event will feature local students and young professionals sharing their lived experiences as immigrants and refugees. Each panelist will tell their story, presenting a multi-dimensional picture beyond what’s portrayed in the news. Panelists will then respond to questions on a range of relevant topics, moderated by Karla Hernandez Torrijos, the inaugural Student Storyteller in Residence with the Center for Great Plains Studies. Karla is an undergraduate student, poet and workshop facilitator whose writing “interrogates our understanding of home, displacement, and the liminal space in between.”
When: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. CT
Where: Wick Alumni Center
RSVP: https://enthompson.unl.edu/event-rsvp/
This event is part of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center for Performing Arts, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues was established in 1988 with the purpose of bringing a diversity of viewpoints on international and public policy issues to the university and people of Nebraska to promote understanding and encourage debate. The Forum Youth Panel event is part of the current series, Uprooted: Displacement, Migration and Searching for Home. The number of people displaced by conflicts, disasters and economic crises has risen to a new high of over 89 million, including over 30 million refugees and asylum seekers. “Uprooted” shares stories of displaced people in search of hope and home.
More details at: https://enthompson.unl.edu/