Noon Forum

An archive of past Noon Forum programs can be found below the listings.


This week's Noon Forum lineup is:


WEEK OF MAY 27, 2013


Monday, May 27 – LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES AT EASE LUNCHEON – James Ellis, Retired President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations in Atlanta, Georgia; and Retired Commander of the United States Strategic Command (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, May 28 – THE MOTH RADIO HOUR – “Texas Hold ‘Em, Kin, and Cloistered Nuns” Stories by Annie Duke, Stacy Keene, Adam Fawer and Flora Hogman; hosted by Sarah Austin Jenness

Wednesday, May 29 – RADIOLAB – “Who Am I?”

Thursday, May 30 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Former Democrat Congressman from Massachusetts, Barney Frank

Friday, May 31 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Fran Lebowitz

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WEEK OF MAY 20, 2013


Monday, May 20 – E. N. THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES – Felice Gaer, Director of the American Jewish Committee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights “Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities Worldwide: International Religious Freedom in United States Policy” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, May 21 – THE MOTH RADIO HOUR – “Soldiers, Skydives, Firemen and Heartbreak” Stories by Martha Manning, Piper Kerman and Chris Tombline; hosted by Jenifer Hixson

Wednesday, May 22 – RADIOLAB – “Words”

Thursday, May 23 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Kenneth Feinberg, attorney and alternative dispute mediator

Friday, May 24 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – David Remnick

WEEK OF MAY 13, 2013


Monday, May 13 – UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA LECTURE – Duane Woerth, United States Ambassador to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization

Tuesday, May 14 – THE MOTH RADIO HOUR – Stories by Ed Gavagan, Nathan Englander and Ellie Lee; hosted by Catherine Burns

Wednesday, May 15 – RADIOLAB – “Musical Language”

Thursday, May 16 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Topic: The Keystone X L Pipeline

Friday, May 17 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – Michael Lewis

WEEK OF MAY 6, 2013


Monday, May 6 – FILM STREAMS DISCUSSION – Film: The Waiting Room.  Panel: M. J. Egan, staff nurse at the Nebraska Medical Center; Rosanna Morris, Senior Vice-President for Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer at the Nebraska Medical Center; William Gossman, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Creighton University School of Medicine; Robert Muelleman, Chairman of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine.  Moderator: Richard O’Brien, Professor at Creighton University’s Center for Health Policy and Ethics (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, May 7 – THE MOTH RADIO HOUR – Stories by Joan Juliet Buck, Mike Destefano, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Terrence Buckner; hosted by Sarah Austin Jenness

Wednesday, May 8 – RADIOLAB – “Speed”

Thursday, May 9 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – Deborah Tannen, Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, and author of “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”

Friday, May 10 – OMAHA PRESS CLUB – “Mayoral Election Debate” Jim Suttle, Incumbent Mayor of Omaha; Jean Stothert, Omaha City Councilwoman (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

WEEK OF APRIL 29, 2013


Monday, April 29 – METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURE – Calvin Mackie, author of “A View from the Roof: Lessons for Life and Business” and “Grandma’s Hands: Cherished Moments of Faith and Wisdom” (CDs and transcripts NOT available)

Tuesday, April 30 – THE MOTH RADIO HOUR – Stories by Jessi Klein, Sherman “O.T.” Powell and Bonnie Levison; hosted by Jay Allison

Wednesday, May 1 – RADIOLAB – “Stochasticity”

Thursday, May 2 – COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA – David Stockman, one of the architects of the Reagan Revolution

Friday, May 3 – CITY ARTS AND LECTURES – David Eagleman

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1:42 pm
Tue May 1, 2012

Creighton University Lecture, 5/1/12

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Gabriel Bach, Israeli Supreme Court (Ret.), Prosecutor at the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann “Fiftieth Anniversary of the Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Part 2”

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1:53 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Creighton University Lecture, 4/30/12

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Gabriel Bach, Israeli Supreme Court (Ret.), Prosecutor at the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann “Fiftieth Anniversary of the Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Part 1”

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1:56 pm
Mon April 23, 2012

University of Nebraska at Omaha Lecture, 4/23/12

UNO LECTURE – UNORTHODOX SPEAKER SERIES – Matthew Marx, Composition and Literature Instructor in the University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of English “Quantum Literature: How Poetry Can Help You Understand Physics”

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1:34 pm
Mon April 16, 2012

E. N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, 4/16/12

E. N. THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES – LEWIS E. HARRIS LECTURE ON PUBLIC POLICY – Mogens Bay, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Valmont Industries; E. Robert Meaney, Senior Vice-President of Valmont Industries “Is a Global Water Crisis Avoidable?”

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4:34 pm
Mon April 9, 2012

Metropolitan Community College Lecture, 4/9/12

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURE – Tony Burroughs, professional genealogist, and author of “Black Roots: A Beginners’ Guide to Tracing the African-American Family Tree” “Tracing a Family Tree and Your Family Tree”

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4:25 pm
Mon April 2, 2012

Creighton University Lecture, 4/2/12

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – John Donahue, author of “The Gospel in Peril: Metaphor, Narrative and Theology in the Synoptic Gospels” “Economic Justice for All – Twenty-Five Years Later” 

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1:56 pm
Mon March 26, 2012

Center for Faith Studies Lecture, 3/26/12

CENTER FOR FAITH STUDIES LECTURE – Frank Schaeffer, author of “Crazy for God”, “Sex, Mom, and God”, and “Keeping the Faith: A Father-Son Story about Love and the U. S. Marine Corps” “The Case for Spirituality in the Age of Doubt” 

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5:15 pm
Wed March 21, 2012

UNO Lecture, 3/19/12

UNO LECTURE: PHIL AND RUTH SOKOLOF LECTURE – Daniel Gordis, President of the Shalem Foundation in New York City, Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, and author of “Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End” “The Year 2048: Can Israel Survive to the Age of 100?”

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1:21 pm
Mon March 12, 2012

Omaha Press Club, 3/12/12

Terry Kroeger, Publisher of the Omaha World-Herald “The Sale of the Newspaper”

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5:21 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

Film Streams Discussion, 3/5/12

Film: Urbanized. Panel: Rick Cunningham, Planning Director for the City of Omaha; Sloan Dawson, Transportation Planner at Metropolitan Area Planning Agency; Anne Trumble, Founder and Executive Director of Emerging Terrain; and Othello Meadows, Executive Director of Seventy-Five North Revitalization Corp. Moderator: Hesse McGraw, Chief Curator at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

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