Bob Coate

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”

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”

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?”

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”

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” 

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” 

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?”

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

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

Timothy Beal, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University, and author of “The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book” and “Biblical Literacy: Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know” “From the King James Bible to Biblezines: The History of a Cultural Icon”