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Project	Project Focus Areas	Community Partners	Campus Partners	Engagement Type:	Activity Type:	Other Activity Type:	Start Semester:	Start Academic Year:	End Semester:	End Academic Year:	Total UNO Students:	UNO Students Hours:	Total Number of Other Participants:	Topics:	Description:
GARY SOTO's Writing Workshop and Poetry Reading (Fall 2022): 2022-23 (2839)	Arts, Culture and Humanities	Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Writers Collective	Thompson Learning Community	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	None	None	Fall	2022-23	Fall	2022-23	0	0	0		Award-winning author, GARY SOTO, will facilitate a creative writing workshop and poetry reading at the University of Nebraska Omaha! There were two parts of this event including a workshop and a poetry reading.
Dialogue with Muslim Communities in Omaha: Muslim Women Violence and Peacekeeping Speaker Najera Syeed: 2016-17	International Service, Social Justice	Claremont School of Theology, Humanities Nebraska, Malcolm X Memorial Foundation	Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), Black Studies, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, International Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Political Science, Women and Gender Studies	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Workshop	None	Spring	2016-17	Spring	2016-17	0	0	70	Inter/Trans-culture, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity	Each year the Islamic Studies Program along with Sustained Dialogue at University of Nebraska-Omaha holds two community conversations facilitated by leading scholars in the field of Islamic Studies. These events are intended to stimulate dialogue between local Muslims and broader Omaha metropolitan community. The project not only educates audiences about the Muslim experience in the United States but also builds bridges between Muslims and the broader community through providing meaningful interactions among diverse groups in the Omaha metropolitan community.
MEMORY SERVES: 2021-22 (2968)				Knowledge and Resource Sharing	None	None	Spring	2021-22		None	0	0	0		MEMORY SERVES;DRAWING OTHERS CLOSE, COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION AND FINE ARTS, OMAHA, UNO, Gilbert, M., GILBERT, N., August 26, 2022 - September 29, 2022.  The exhibit features art of Dr. Mark Gilbert and his late father, Scottish artist Norman Gilbert (1926-2019). Mark’s art includes portraits of patients being treated for dementia and their caregivers, both familial and professional. His work raises questions associated with the uncertainties, confusion and isolation associated with dementia for both patient and caregiver, while simultaneously offering glimpses into the healing aspects of art. Mark’s art and related research have contributed to both medical and art education. Norman’s work featured in the exhibit includes drawings created as he kept vigil with his wife of 65 years, Pat, as she lay dying in hospital of an Alzheimer’s related illness. The drawings turn what was a private experience into something shared.
Workshop Organizer - Nebraska Warriors Writers Workshop: 2019-20 (2370)	Economic Impact, Educational Support	Humanities Nebraska	Writing Center	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Workshop	None	Fall	2019-20	Fall	2019-20	0	0	0	Education, Veteran Support, Capacity Building	Kevin Clouther led veterans--mostly from Vietnam and Gulf Wars--in workshop of their creative writing, hosted by Nebraska Warrior Writers, Omaha branch.
Coupled and Inseparable: 2017-18 (869)	Arts, Culture and Humanities, Social Justice	Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Nebraska Shakespeare	Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), English, Interdisciplinary Studies	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Community-oriented lecture/event	None	Spring	2017-18	Spring	2018-19	0	0	0	Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Gender Equality, Theatre and Cinema	In the late 16th century, London women were not permitted to act in theatrical works. Shakespeare’s focus was, therefore, restricted to male-dominated casts and masculine-centric plots (only 16% of all the lines written in his plays are delivered by female characters). https://www.unomaha.edu/community-engagement-center/news/events/2019/03/coupled-and-inseparable.php Now, even though women make up over 70% of the total Shakespeare viewing audience, less than one-fourth of professional directors and designers are women. In performance, the opportunities for men outnumber those available to women 8 to 1. In response to the imbalance of female artistic representation in Shakespeare’s productions, Nebraska Shakespeare launched Juno’s Swans in 2016, a program producing Shakespeare works that explores his characters and text through the female experience and perspective. In this lecture, featuring exciting live performances by Nebraska Shakespeare actors, Sarah Brown, Artistic Director of Nebraska Shakespeare, will explore Shakespeare’s relationship with women, the history of crossed-gendered theatre, and will engage in free-form discussion about how producing Shakespeare with a feminine perspective can illuminate the universal humanity of his plays in a new and surprising way.
Straightening Out the Norse Sagas: Thor and Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: 2018-19 (851)	Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support	Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Cultural Endowment	English, Interdisciplinary Studies	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Community-oriented lecture/event	None	Fall	2018-19	Fall	2018-19	0	0	115	History	UNO Medieval Renaissance Studies Lecture Series invites you to its first Community Conversation: Dr. Frank Bramlett and Dr. Lisabeth Buchelt (UNO-English Department) will engage participants in a discussion focused around the intersection of the present with the past and the interconnections between the Norse sagas and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since the release of Thor in 2011, the Marvel cinematic universe’s dysfunctional Nordic brothers have rarely seen eye to eye. This is true to the medieval source material of the Norse sagas. However, although the conflict between the two brothers is maintained in the movies, Marvel constrains the brothers' masculine gender identities in ways that are not present in the medieval source material. The first of the Medieval/Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies Community Conversations invites you to explore the ways in which the original saga material plays with notions of gender identity that the films have chosen to erase from Thor’s and Loki’s narratives in their transition from Norse gods to International Superhero and Villain. So reread Jason Aaron’s and Russell Daughterman’s “Mighty Thor Vol. 1: Thunder in Her Veins” and rewatch Thor: Ragnarok and join us for a conversation about the characters Thor and Loki across time and media. This program is funded in part by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment and is sponsored by UNO's English Department and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Immigrants, Refugees, Muslims, and the Problem of Racism: 2017-18 (885)	Educational Support, International Service	Humanities Nebraska, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign	Interdisciplinary Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Political Science, Sustained Dialogue	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Workshop	None	Fall	2017-18	Fall	2017-18	0	0	104	Inter/Trans-culture, Refugees, Literacy	With the support of Humanities Nebraska, the UNO Islamic Studies Program and Sustained Dialogue are organizing a lecture by and follow-up discussion with Dr. Junaid Rana, associate professor of Asian American Studies at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Junaid Rana is the author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke, 2011), winner of the 2013 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in the Social Sciences. He is co-founding editor of the Muslim International book series with the University of Minnesota Press. He is currently working on a book that describes life in a Pakistani neighborhood in Brooklyn since 9/11. .
Language: Birth to 5 (Fall 2019): 2019-20 (1168)	Educational Support	Humanities Nebraska	Service Learning Academy (SLA)	Service Learning	Course	None	Fall	2019-20	Fall	2019-20	18	198	2	Early Childhood Education, Literacy	Students from Dr. Ritzman's Language Birth to Five class share stories with families as a part of the Prime Time Reading Program. Three students go to Girls Inc. to work with families on a Saturday during the semester.
Bringing the Past to the Present: Reconstructing the Performance of Beowulf: 2017-18 (892)	Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support	Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre Company, College of Saint Mary, Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment	Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), Interdisciplinary Studies	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Community-oriented lecture/event	None	Spring	2017-18	Spring	2017-18	0	0	55	History	Scholar and performer Benjamin Bagby explores how he reconstructed the performance of the Anglo–Saxon poem, in a free, public lecture at UNO. For a thousand years or more, one of Europe’s greatest epics had been silently awaiting its return to the domain of the bards who first gave voice to the thrilling story of King Hrothgar, the monster Grendel, and the hero Beowulf. In this lecture, the vocalist, storyteller, and early music scholar Benjamin Bagby will walk the audience through his research and reconstruction of the poem – how he took the story of Beowulf from its written form and brought it back to its original home: a live performance of oral epic.
Talking Heads and Walking Corpses: Miraculous Speech and Post-Mortem Ambulation in Medieval Relic Cults: 2017-18 (889)	Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support	Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, University of Denver	Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (CEC), Interdisciplinary Studies	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Workshop	None	Spring	2017-18	Spring	2017-18	0	0	95	History	Among the many tales told of the lives of medieval saints, a fascinating phenomenon emerges. Cephalophory is the ability of a dead saint to carry their own severed head or ask another to pick up the body part and carry it to a chosen site for burial. This kind of narrative was common in medieval saints’ cults and served to authenticate relics, demonstrate their power, and establish their presence at the particular site. Montgomery plans to discuss these narratives on January 25, 2018. Scott B. Montgomery is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Denver. He is the author of Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne, Relics, Reliquaries and the Visual Culture of Group Sanctity in Late Medieval Europe, and Casting Our Own Shadows: Recreating the Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (co-author with Alice A. Bauer).
Guest Speaker - Omaha Warrior Writers: 2016-17 (2421)	Arts, Culture and Humanities, Economic Impact, Educational Support	Humanities Nebraska	Writing Center	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Community-oriented lecture/event	None	Spring	2016-17	Spring	2016-17	0	0	12	Veteran Support, Capacity Building	For this project Todd Robinson conducted a 2-hour writing workshop for a dozen veterans of the United States armed forces at Willa Cather branch library.
Workshop Organizer - Nebraska Warriors Writers Workshop - Lincoln, NE: 2018-19 (2372)	Arts, Culture and Humanities, Economic Impact, Educational Support	Humanities Nebraska	Writing Center	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Workshop	None	Spring	2018-19	Spring	2018-19	0	0	0	Education, Veteran Support, Capacity Building	Kevin Clouther led veterans--mostly from Vietnam and Gulf Wars--in workshop of their creative writing, hosted by Nebraska Warrior Writers, Lincoln branch.
Discussion Moderator: 2018-19 (2536)	Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support	Humanities Nebraska	Communication	Knowledge and Resource Sharing	Workshop	None	Fall	2018-19	Fall	2018-19	0	0	0	Education, Capacity Building	For this project Barbara Pickering assisted in promoting a humanities Nebraska event, both on campus and throughout the community. She also conferred with the three panelists about topics and questions.

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