Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Other
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Gardens/Plantlife, Develop./Physical Disability, Theatre and Cinema
Description : The premiere of “Our Secret Garden” featuring actors from UNO Theatre and the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Transitions Program was held Nov. 18 at the Weber Fine Arts Theatre. The event was the first collaboration between UNO Theatre, WhyArts, the Autism Society and the UNO Transitions Program. Earlier this fall, WhyArts artist Stephanie Anderson advised UNO director Lucas Perez-Leahy on developing a performance for Transitions Program participants inspired by “The Secret Garden,” which kicked off UNO Theatre’s 2018-19 fall season. The Transitions Program provides opportunities for young adults ages 18 to 25 who identify on the autism spectrum to practice and enhance social competencies. “UNO’s School of the Arts is squarely focused on strengthening our sense of community by developing the powers of perception and empathy,” said Jack Zerbe, director of the School of the Arts at UNO. “Collaborating with WhyArts, the Autism Society and UNO Transitions is a shining example of how UNO’s arts programs bring people together to foster understanding and make connections. I am pleased to have provided increased access to the arts but even more delighted that our students got to work so closely with our special new partners and friends.” “Our Secret Garden” was immediately followed by the final performance of UNO Theatre’s “A Secret Garden.” Below, Jack Zerbe and Carolyn Anderson, director of WhyArts, address the audience before the premiere.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
29
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture, Art
Description : Gaelyn and Gustavo Aguilar are artists in residence this fall at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and will speak about their practice as part of the Willson Memorial Lecture Series. They founded the TUG collective to focus upon interdisciplinary research, new forms of contemporary social practice, and participatory, problem-based interventions that tackle the cultural politics of contemporary border regions in North America. While in Omaha, they will be working on a project involving Columbia, a common allegorical figure for the Americas. Gaelyn Aguilar is Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Gustavo Aguilar is Associate Professor of Experimental Performance, both serving as faculty at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
30
Topics:
History
Description : UNO Medieval Renaissance Studies presents a lecture with keynote Scott B. Montgomery, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Denver. 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.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
70
Topics:
History
Description : The UNO History Department invites you to join presenter Elizabeth Carney, Ph.D., from Clemson University, as she discusses the ancient female warrior found in a royal tomb in Vergina, Greece. Forty years ago this November, Manolis Andronikos found three tombs at Vergina in Greece that he considered royal, one of which he believed to be that of Philip II, the great Macedonian king, general, and father of Alexander the Great. Almost from the moment of the discovery, others have disagreed with Andronikos. Yet Tomb II contained not only a male burial but also that of a woman. Military equipment made it clear that she had been buried as a warrior. Her burial resembles the male in a number of aspects, including a slightly smaller and simpler golden burial box with the same starburst pattern, as well as a distinctive Scythian bow-and-arrow case and an elaborately decorated gold cuirass. While the lecture plans to discuss the identity of both occupants, the intended focus is to discuss primarily the woman. That is, who she was and why she was buried as a warrior.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
95
Topics:
History
Description : 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).
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
55
Topics:
History
Description : 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.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
29
Topics:
Music/Dance
Description : Record producer and recording engineer Martha de Francisco shares her work at the University of Nebraska at Omaha as part of the Music Technology Guest Lecturer Series. Francisco is an internationally acknowledged leader in the field of sound recording and record production. She has recorded with some of the greatest classical musicians of our time for the major record labels and in the best concert halls. She has credits on over 300 recordings, mostly for worldwide release, many of which have been distinguished with the most prestigious awards. Francisco is a professor of Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
40
Topics:
Raise Awareness, History
Description : Scholars James G. Blight and janet M. Lang, of the University of Waterloo, discuss their new book, "Dark Beyond Darkness: The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning and Catalyst." The book takes readers to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis to experience the dread of nuclear war, a fear Blight and Lang describe as relevant to today. Blight and Lang use their experience to call for nuclear abolition. Presented by the Nebraska State Council for Social Studies. Sponsored by the following UNO Departments: History, Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology, and Political Science. The Nebraska State Council for Social Studies is affiliated with the National Council for the Social Studies.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Art
Description : 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.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
83
Topics:
Literacy, History
Description : Author of Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library, Wayne Wiegand, visited Omaha on September 23, 2015, and presented the findings from his book at the University of Nebraska Omaha Community Engagement Center. Dr. Johannigsmeier (UNO English professor) and OPL co-sponsored an author event to present Dr. Wayne Wiegand during his "A Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library" book tour. Dr. Weigand is known as the "Dean of American Public Libraries".