Bob Coate

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – “Human Misery in Today’s World, Part 1” Charles Austerberry, Professor in the Creighton University Department of Biology “Human Misery and the God of the Galápagos: Reflections on Biological Evolution and Theodicy”

DURHAM MUSEUM LECTURE – Ruth Rosenfeld, Holocaust Survivor, and mother of Jewish Community Center Omaha Executive Director, Aaron Rosenfeld

E. N. THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES – Donald Worster, The Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas “An Unquenchable Thirst: How the Great Plains Created a Water Abundance and Then Lost It”

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Joseph Starita, Professor in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications in the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and author of “I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice” “Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Indian Tribe”

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY ASIAN WORLD CENTER DISTINGUISHED LECTURE – Weysan Dun, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Omaha Division “Navigating the Cyber Threat Landscape of the Twenty-First Century”

FILM STREAMS DISCUSSION – Film: Hell and Back Again.  Panel: Matt Stevens, Student Veterans of America Chapter President at Metropolitan Community College; Paul Greenwell, Program Therapist at Lutheran Family Services At Ease Program; and Donna Higgins, OIF/OEF Case Manager with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.  Moderator: Bobby Polk, Metropolitan Community College faculty member. Program fill: Reading of the Declaration of Independence 

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – John Beasley, Founder of the John Beasley Theatre and Workshop “Blacks in Cinema and Black Theater”

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Nebraska State Senator Kathy Campbell, Chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee; Carolyn Rooker, Executive Director of Voices for Children in Nebraska “Child Welfare in Nebraska: Some Big Changes”

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURE – Angela Bates, Executive Director, Past President, and Organizer of the Nicodemus Historical Society “Slavery, Migration, Exodusters and Kansas Black Towns: The Story of Nicodemus”

COLLEGEOF SAINT MARY GREAT CONVERSATIONS LECTURE– Lisa See, author of “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, “Shanghai Girls”, “Peony in Love”, “On Gold Mountain”, and “Dreams of Joy”