Tues, Nov 18 @ 4pm: Applying to Health Schools 101
Are you planning to apply to a professional health school in the next couple of years? Even if you are in your first or second year of college, it is important that you learn about the steps in the application process and what you can do now to prepare to submit your best application. This workshop will not cover information about applying to nursing school, radiography programs, or dental hygiene programs. (221 Love Library South)
Tues, Nov 18 @ 5:30pm: EN Thompson Forum: “Belonging is a Practice, Not a Place,” with Orly Israel
Orly Israel is a communication strategist who combines his background as a TV producer with deep volunteer experience in prisons, shelters, and crisis support. He is the creator of The Listening Table, an experiment involving a folding table in a public space with a sign reading “Here to listen. No judgment. No advice. No charge,” resulting in over 1,500 conversations. Israel is a teacher of emotional resilience, empathy, and communication skills and the VP of Warmline.org, a peer support network. In addition to delivering workshops to small groups around Lincoln, Israel will deliver one presentation open to the public focused on belonging as a daily practice. He will offer attendees tools to foster authentic human connection, build strong social bonds, and navigate life’s challenges in an increasingly digital world. (Swanson Auditorium, Nebraska Union)
Wed, Nov 19 @ 12pm: Prevent Suicide Training
PREVENT SUICIDE is a free 60-minute in-person training for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, faculty and staff. Anyone can help. Know the risk factors and warning signs. Learn how to intervene. During the in-person session, you will:
• Increase Your Knowledge: learn the warning signs associated with suicide.
• Name the Concerns and Ask: increase your confidence about communicating openly about suicide.
• Provide Support and Resources: expand awareness about resources.
• Connect To Help: learn how to take action when supporting others.
Preregistration is required: https://go.unl.edu/caps_ps (Willa Cather Dining Complex, Pioneers Suite)
Wed, Nov 19 @ 4pm: Budgeting, Financing, and Researching Health School Education
How do you decide which schools to consider applying to? How do you prepare to pay for the extra years of school required to attain your career in healthcare? Attend this session and start thinking about how you can strategize your application and prepare financially for your advanced education. Learn about programs available to help you pay back your health school education costs. We will provide you with tools to manage all of these exciting next steps! (221 Love Library South)
Wed, Nov 19 @ 4:30pm: Family & the Global History of the Holocaust
Dr. Jan Lanicek of University of New South Wales, Sydney is a leading scholar in Holocaust studies and Jewish history. His research focuses on family networks and the connections between prewar Jewish refugees and their relatives who remained in Europe. Through this lens, he highlights how Australia and its population were already part of the global Holocaust geography during the war itself. Since 2016, Dr. Lanicek has co-organized a major research project—alongside Jan Lambertz and Nebraska’s Gerald Steinacher—on humanitarian aid efforts for Jews incarcerated in ghettos and concentration camps during World War II. He is also deeply engaged in public history. He served as Vice President for New South Wales of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies (2013–2021) and is a current member of the General Council of the History Council of New South Wale. (Andrews Hall 228/Bailey Library)
Thurs, Nov 20 @ 6pm: Open SARV Workshop
Engage in conversation with fellow Huskers in a safe and inclusive environment while increasing a shared sense of responsibility and community. First-year undergraduate students are required to attend an in-person SARV workshop. OPEN workshops are intended for first-year students who do not live on campus or for students who missed their workshop in their residence hall. Undergraduate students (of any level) who want to increase their understanding about sexual assault and relationship violence are welcome to join this open session. Facilitated by trained undergraduate Huskers CARE Peer Educators, SARV workshops are designed to help undergraduate students:
• Gain awareness of and increase understanding of sexual assault and relationship violence.
• Learn about programs and resources available on campus and in the community.
• Be empowered to become active in daily life through prevention of power-based violence by knowing how to intervene.
• Increase a shared sense of responsibility to prevent sexual violence and help create a safe community.
REGISTER HERE: care.unl.edu/sarv-workshop (102 Louise Pound Hall)
Mon, Dec 1 @ 5:30pm: Book Launch: Saddiq Dzukogi’s Bakandamiya: An Elegy
Covering more than five hundred years of cultural transformation, “Bakandamiya: An Elegy” is a book-length epic poem set in northern Nigeria. The poem moves from passages of mythic power to elegant lyricism with remarkable skill, subverting the legend of Bayajidda, a prince from Baghdad whose arrival reshaped the outlook of the Hausas, a Native ethnic group in West Africa. Told in part from a Bori spirit’s point of view and in part through personal lyrics, part prayer and part praise song, “Bakandamiya” decries the loss of culture and spirituality due to colonization from both the West and the East. Even as it subverts myths and popular beliefs and addresses some of the events that led to the Nigerian civil war, it tackles the lingering question of nationhood. In this work of lyric and poetic ambition, Saddiq Dzukogi blends the personal with the mythical, expanding the griot tradition of Bakandamiya, a poetic form from northern Nigeria popularized by Mamman Shata. Here the form travels from orature to contemporary poetics for the first time, taking its place at the vanguard of contemporary poetry. (ANDR 228, Bailey Library)
Tues, Dec 2 @ 10am: Virtual Book Launch: Polarizing Sexualities & Genders
Join the Department of Sociology and the Women’s & Gender Studies program for the launch of Dr. Emily Kazyak’s co-authored volume with Dr. Kath Browne, Polarizing Sexualities & Genders.
Tues, Dec 2 @ 4pm & Wed, Dec 3 @ 12pm: PREVENT Suicide Training
PREVENT SUICIDE is a free 60-minute in-person training for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, faculty and staff. Anyone can help. Know the risk factors and warning signs. Learn how to intervene. During the in-person session, you will:
• Increase Your Knowledge: learn the warning signs associated with suicide.
• Name the Concerns and Ask: increase your confidence about communicating openly about suicide.
• Provide Support and Resources: expand awareness about resources.
• Connect To Help: learn how to take action when supporting others.
Preregistration is required: https://go.unl.edu/caps_ps (Tues - East Campus Union, Prairie Suite; Wed – Gaughan Multicultural Center, Ubuntu Rm)
Thurs, Dec 4 @ 4:30pm: Belousek Lecture in Czech History: A Song for Bohemia
Author Anne Marie Kenny will share short extracts and related musical selections of her recently published memoir, “A Song for Bohemia.” She will be joined by pianist Dr. Šárka Stehnová and moderators James Le Sueur and Hana Waisserová. (International Quilt Museum, East Campus)
Fri, Dec 5 @ 12pm: Virtual UCARE Info Session
Are you interested in research and creative activity, but perhaps you’re unsure where to start? Bring your questions and learn more about one of many undergraduate research opportunities at UNL: the UCARE Program. This session will focus on undergraduate students; however, anyone who is curious from our campus community may join! Please register using the following link: https://unl.zoom.us/meeting/register/sBsasH2QSaaUtbdLFO3Pvg (Zoom)
Fri, Dec 5 @ 12:30pm: IGNITE featuring Booker T. Mattison
Booker T. Mattison is a filmmaker, author, and associate professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. He wrote and directed the BET+ original film The Sound of Christmas starring Grammy-winning recording artist Ne-Yo. Mattison’s NYU thesis film, ‘The Gilded Six Bits,’ adapted from Zora Neale Hurston’s short story, marked the first film or television adaptation of the acclaimed author’s work. The film had its broadcast premiere on Showtime and stars Chad L. Coleman, T’keyah Crystal Keymah, and Wendell Pierce. The Hollywood Reporter said, “Mattison’s direction and feel for her characters match up to Hurston’s sterling piece of fiction…full of atmosphere and strongly developed characters.” Mattison’s upcoming legal thriller An Unusual Suspect, a Tubi original film, is set to premiere on the streamer on March 28, 2025. As a novelist, Mattison debuted with Unsigned Hype (2009), published by Revell Books and nominated for a South Carolina Book Award in the Young Adult Category. His second novel, Snitch (2011), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. (Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts)