CENTER FOR FAITH STUDIES LECTURE – Diana Butler Bass, author of “A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story” and “Christianity after Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening” “The Great Religious Recession or A Great Spiritual Awakening?”
UNO LECTURE: RICHARD DEAN WINCHELL HISTORY LECTURE – Peter Coclanis, Albert R. Newsome Distinguished History Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Would Slavery Have Survived the Civil War?”
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Tamim Ansary, author of “The Widow’s Husband”, “West of Kabul, East of New York” and “Destiny Interrupted: World History through Islamic Eyes” “Through Islamic Eyes: A Parallel History of the World”
COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY LECTURE – Martha Hennessy, granddaughter of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement “The Catholic Worker Movement: Its Relevance Today”
GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE – Joel Kotkin, Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California, and an Adjunct Fellow with the Legatum Institute in London, England “The Resurgence of the Plains and Why It’s Likely to Continue”
