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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9:16 am
Mon December 26, 2011

Center for Faith Studies Lecture, 12/26/11

CENTER FOR FAITH STUDIES LECTURE – Scott Russell Sanders, Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, and author of “Hunting for Hope”, “A Private History of Awe” and “A Conservationist Manifesto” “The Way of Imagination” 

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12:15 pm
Mon December 19, 2011

Durham Museum Lecture, 12/19/11

DURHAM MUSEUM LECTURE – Robbie Waisman, Holocaust Survivor “A Holocaust Survivor Story”

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1:15 pm
Mon December 12, 2011

Creighton University Lecture, 12/12/11

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Vice-Admiral Cecil D. Haney, Deputy Commander of the United States Strategic Command “United States Maritime Strategy in Asia and Beyond”

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1:15 pm
Mon December 5, 2011

Film Streams Discussion, 12/5/11

FILM STREAMS DISCUSSION “DOUBLE FEATURE” – Film No.1: Reel Injun.  Panel: Eduardo Zendejas, Director of Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; actor Gary Farmer.  Film No.2: The Quilted Conscience.  Guest: Director John Sorenson 

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1:15 pm
Mon November 28, 2011

University of Nebraska at Omaha Lecture, 11/28/11

UNO LECTURE – THIRTEENTH ANNUAL SHIRLEY AND LEONARD GOLDSTEIN LECTURE ON HUMAN RIGHTS – Sarah Leah Whitson, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch “The Black Swan of the Middle East”

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1:15 pm
Mon November 21, 2011

Creighton University Lecture, 11/21/11

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MICHAEL G. LAWLER LECTURE IN THEOLOGY – Orlando Espin, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego “The People of God: The Inescapable and Upsetting Presence of Culture in Ecclesiology”

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1:30 pm
Mon November 14, 2011

Omaha Press Club, 11/14/11

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Father Timothy Lannon, 24th President of Creighton University “Coming Home to Creighton”

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1:30 pm
Mon November 7, 2011

Project Interfaith Lecture, 11/7/11

PROJECT INTERFAITH LECTURE – Sahar Aziz, Associate Professor of Law at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, and former Senior Policy Advisor for the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security “Then and Now: Civil Liberties and Interfaith Relations Ten Years After 9/11” 

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2:30 pm
Mon October 31, 2011

Rotary Club Luncheon, 10/31/11

ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON – Jeff Raikes, President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation “The Importance of Service and Volunteerism” 

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2:30 pm
Mon October 24, 2011

Governor's Lecture in the Humanities, 10/24/11

GOVERNOR’S LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIES – Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War” “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery”

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