This month's Brown Bag Lecture Series will feature associate professor Bruce Thorson. His lecture is titled "Searching for the Real Nebraska: A Photo Essay on the Great Recession."
The Brown Bag Lecture will be at noon in the Blackman Auditorium, Nebraska History Museum, 15th & P Streets (131 Centennial Mall North), Lincoln, Neb.
Thorson and three photography students – Patrick Breen and Clay Lomneth of Omaha, and Kyle Bruggeman of Lincoln – traveled across the state in a camping trailer in 2009. The Web log of their experiences is at http://unlphotojournalism.blogspot.com/.
They met with Nebraskans in every scale of town, every stage of life, and every degree of intimacy with current economic conditions. Still, said Thorson, "This project is not about sad stories. Nebraska is touted in the press as the happiest state in the union. We wanted to find out why."
The project was funded by the Center for Great Plains Studies and the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at UNL. The resulting exhibition has been shown at the Great Plains Art Museum and the Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center and Betty Strong Encounter Center.
Admission is free and the lecture is open to the public.
Watch the Brown Bag lecture series each month on Time Warner Cable, government access channel 5 in the Lincoln area. The most current air times are:
* Mondays, 5:30 p.m.
* Thursdays, noon and 11:30 p.m.
* Fridays, 9:30 p.m.
* Sundays, 6 p.m. 402-471-4754.
More details at: http://unlphotojournalism.blogspot.com/