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
INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION LECTURE – Milton Kleinberg, Owner and Chief Executive Officer of Senior Market Sales, Inc., in Omaha, Nebraska “Memories of My Childhood: During and After the Holocaust, 1937 – 1951”