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“Writing Memoir, Writing Crime: Creativity as Sociopolitical Intervention”

Joy Castro
Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies and
Director of the Institute for Ethnic Studies

Nov. 6, 2020
2:30 p.m. ● Virtual Lecture with Live Q&A at research.unl.edu/nebraskalectures
Email questions for Castro to unlresearch@unl.edu.

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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged American Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War

Looking Back and Looking Forward: the History of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum

Nebraska Songbook


Navigating Change Forward – Creativity in Community: Reviewing UNL’s Centennial Education Program

History of School Spirit and Louise Pound

Physics at Nebraska: DeWitt Bristol Brace and Einstein


History of Football at Nebraska

Growing a Campus: Landscapes at the University of Nebraska

Willa Cather on Campus


The Hearts of Foreigners: How Americans Understand Others

Grace and Edith Abbott: Nebraska’s Social Justice Sisters

Building Nebraska U: The Saga of University Hall and the Origins of the Modern University


Nebraska’s Unicameral: Still Progressive after All These Years?

Using Arachnids to Inspire D.R.E.A.M.S.

Our Cather Heritage


The Drone Age is Here, and We’re Screwing It Up

Learning to Read: Making Sense of the Evidence

When “They” Becomes “Me”: Responsibility and Action in Literary Activism: The Case of the African Poetry Book Fund


Guts, Germs and Stainless Steel: Creating Winners and Losers in Food

Making for Innovation

What the Heck is a Higgs boson?


The New Normal: A Brain After Concussion

What Good Are the Humanities, Anyway?

Creating a Kinder World: Empowering Youth to End Bullying


Football: Its Physics and Future

The Joy of Applied Science While Feeding the World

The NCAA: Who, What, When, Where, How and Certainly Why


Managing Drought in a Changing Climate

A Battle for the Children: Indigenous Child Removal in the United States and Australia from 1880-1940

Ready for School, Ready for Life: Creating a Future for All Children


The Dead Sea Scrolls After 60 Years: What Have We Learned

HIV/AIDS Epidemic: What Have We Learned in the Past 28 Years?

I pass so poorly with paper and types: The Making and Remaking of Walt Whitman in a Digital Age


Bird Brain! Compliment or Insult?

Quilts: Reflections of Trade, Technology and Tradition

Through Layers of Mud and Time: A Long-Term Perspective on Environmental Change


Feeding 9 Billion People and Other Challenges to Agriculture

Genes, Behavior and Politics

What Is It About Pots?


Genes, Greens, and Disease

An Evening with Ted Kooser

Inventing The Great Plains Region


Sampling Lewis and Clark: Selected Readings from the Journals and Discussion of Events in Context

The Unusual Lifestyle of Giant Algal Viruses