UNO LECTURE – THE PHIL AND RUTH SOKOLOF LECTURE – Stephen Berk, Professor of History at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and author of “Year of Crisis, Year of Hope: Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881 – 1882” “Our People are Your People: American Jewry and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1954 – 1965”
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Alexander Strick van Linschoten, co-editor of “My Life with the Taliban: A History of the Relationship Between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al-Qaeda Merger, 1970 – 2010” and “Poetry of the Taliban” “Inside the Afghan Taliban: Politics, Poetry and the Future of Afghanistan”
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURE – Kitcki Carroll, Executive Director of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. “The New Trust: Shaping America’s New Federal Trust Responsibility”
NEBRASKA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TRI-CONFERENCE LECTURE – Tom Osborne, former head football coach and retiring Athletic Director at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, former Third District Republican Congressman, and founder of the TeamMates Mentoring Program