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)
Thurs, Dec 11 @ 5:30pm: Great Plains Talk/Paul A Olson Lecture: Rebecca Nagle
Rebecca Nagle, the winner of the 2025 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, will give a talk about her book as part of the Center for Great Plains Studies’ Paul A. Olson lecture series. The book, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (Harper Collins Publishers), recounts the generations-long fight for tribal land and sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma by chronicling both the contemporary legal battle and historic acts of Indigenous resistance. Nagle is an award-winning journalist and a citizen of Cherokee Nation living in Oklahoma. She is the writer and host of the podcast This Land. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, USA Today, Indian Country Today, and other publications. She is a Peabody Award nominee and the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Award, and numerous honors from the Native American Journalist Association. (Sheldon Museum of Art)