Bob Coate

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – ASIAN WORLD CENTER PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE SERIES – Rajmohan Gandhi, Research Professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of “A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War” and “Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People and an Empire”, a biography of his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi “Larger than Politics: the Worlds of Lincoln, King and Gandhi”

CENTER FOR FAITH STUDIES AND INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION LECTURE – Leon Bass, a member of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion, a unit that liberated Buchenwald, and author of “Good Enough: One Man’s Memoir on the Price of the Dream” “A Story of Survival and Liberation, Part 2”

CENTER FOR FAITH STUDIES AND INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION LECTURE – Robbie Waisman, Survivor of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp and featured in the film “The Boys of Buchenwald” “A Story of Survival and Liberation, Part 1”

DURHAM MUSEUM LECTURE – “Rosenblatt: The Final Inning” Panel: Lou Spry, Official Scorer at the College World Series from 1981 to the present; Jack Payne, Voice of the College World Series, and P.A. Announcer at Rosenblatt from 1986 to 2000; Steve Rosenblatt, son of Johnny Rosenblatt, former Omaha Mayor after whom the stadium was named; Augie Garrido; University of Texas Head Baseball Coach; Gene Stephenson, Wichita State University Head Baseball Coach

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Harris Frankel, Assistant Professor for the Department of Neurological Science at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and President of the Nebraska Health Information Initiative, Inc; Sean McGuire, founder of E. D. Bellis Healthcare Consulting “The Healthcare Reform – Obamacare”

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Darius Rejali, Professor of Political Science at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and author of “Torture and Democracy” “The Secret Histories of Modern Torture”

FILM STREAMS DISCUSSION – Film: The Last Survivor.  Panel: Michael Kleiman, director of the film; Bea Karp, Holocaust survivor; Beth Dotan, Director of the Institute for Holocaust Education

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURE – Penny Colman, Member of the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University “On Writing Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World”

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – “Human Misery in Today’s World, Part 3” Nicolae Roddy, Professor in the Creighton University Department of Theology “Ego as Exile: An Older Testament Perspective on Human Suffering”

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – “Human Misery in Today’s World, Part 2” Amy Wendling, Professor in the Creighton University Department of Philosophy “Is Suffering Emancipatory?: Marxist Reflections on Human Suffering”