The Harris Center is proud to present a broad and varied program of lectures annually, free and open to the public. Upcoming events are listed on the Harris Center event calendar. To be added to our mailing list, write to hcjs@unl.edu.
In addition to our general lecture series, which brings a wide range of scholars, writers, artists, and public figures to the UNL campus, the Center presents speakers through six Endowed Lecture Series, made possible by the generosity of our friends in the community. The following is a partial list of events presented as part of the Harris Center’s general public programming over the past two decades.
Vicki WoesteIndiana University-Purdue
American Bar Foundation
Henry Ford's War Against Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech
February 2013
Gerald SteinacherUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln
Escaping Nuremberg: How Nazi Perpetrators Fled Justice
November 2011
Gershon KedarIsraeli Deputy Consul General
Israel Behind the Headlines
February 2009
Mimi SchwartzRichard Stockton College of New Jersey
On her memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village
November 2008
Scott BlakemanPolitical comedian
Stand Up for Peace
March 2008
Leonard GreenspoonCreighton University
It’s Okay to Laugh: Reading the Bible Through Comic Strips and the Daily Press
November 2006
James ShapiroColumbia University
The Jew's Daughter
November 2006
Michael Ripsnovelist and lawyer
Public reading, memoir, The Face of a Naked Lady
October 2006
Danny LaskerBen Gurion University
Spinoza's Jewish Sources: Philosophy, Exegesis, Inter-Religious Polemics
September 2005
Nora GlickmanQueens College
Fact to Fiction: The Reshaping of History in Latin American Jewish Literature
February 2005
Yehudi LindemanMcGill University
The Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Holland
September 2004
Jeff Spinner-HalevUniversity of Nebraska
Israel After its Elections: What Is Next?
March 2003
Israel W. CharnyHebrew University, JERUSALEM
Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide
Denying the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide and Other Genocides: A Discussion and Classification of Types of Denial of Genocide
November 2002
Claudia StevensActress
An Evening with Madame F.
April 2002
Anne Wyatt-BrownUniversity of Florida
Holocaust Literature and Memory
March 2002
Frederick BuschColgate University
Public reading from his collection of short stories, Don’t Tell Anyone
April 2001
Daniel BoyarinUC Berkeley
Who's in a Name? Genealogies of Late Ancient Judaism
November 2000
Kenneth W. SteinEmory University
Middle East Conflict Resolution
November 2000
Mark GelberBen Gurion University
Jewish Life in Germany Today
October 2000
Peter NovickUniversity of Chicago
Lessons of the Holocaust?
February 2000
Robert A. WarrenHolocaust historian
In Search of the Holocaust: The Realization of Remembrance
November 1999
Henry FriedlanderBrooklyn College
Medicine and the Holocaust: The Killing of the Disabled in Nazi Germany
April 1998
Susan Fromberg SchaefferNovelist and poet
public reading
December 1997
Sharon SolwitzNovelist
public reading
October 1997
Abraham DavidHEBReW UNIVersity, Jerusalem
Returning To Zion: Jewish Pilgrim and Immigration Routes to
the Land of Israel During the 15th and 16th Centuries
October 1996
Sybil MiltonUnited States Holocaust Museum
Art of the Holocaust
April 1996
