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.
Ari Ariel, University of Iowa
What Representations of Yemen Can Tell Us About Life in Israel
March 14, 2019
Sebouh Aslanian, University of California–Los Angeles
Comparative Reflection on Sephardic Jewish and Julfan Armenian Trade Diasporas in the Early Modern Period
March 15, 2018
Devin Naar, University of Washington
From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz: The Sephardic Jewish Experience of the Holocaust
March 1, 2018
Vladimir Vertlib Award-winning Austrian Jewish novelist and essayist
Trials and Tribulations of a Jewish Writer in German Speaking Lands
November 2013
Thomas Boghardt U.S. Army Intelligence
America’s use of Nazi war criminals to gather intelligence at the beginning of the Cold War
November 2013 | read more
Vicki Woeste Indiana 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 Kedar Israeli Deputy Consul General
Israel Behind the Headlines
February 2009
Mimi Schwartz Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
On her memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village
November 2008
Scott Blakeman Political comedian
Stand Up for Peace
March 2008
Leonard Greenspoon Creighton University
It’s Okay to Laugh: Reading the Bible Through Comic Strips and the Daily Press
November 2006
James Shapiro Columbia University
The Jew's Daughter
November 2006
Michael Rips novelist and lawyer
Public reading, memoir, The Face of a Naked Lady
October 2006
Danny Lasker Ben Gurion University
Spinoza's Jewish Sources: Philosophy, Exegesis, Inter-Religious Polemics
September 2005
Nora Glickman Queens College
Fact to Fiction: The Reshaping of History in Latin American Jewish Literature
February 2005
Yehudi Lindeman McGill University
The Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Holland
September 2004
Jeff Spinner-Halev University of Nebraska
Israel After its Elections: What Is Next?
March 2003
Israel W. Charny Hebrew 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 Stevens Actress
An Evening with Madame F.
April 2002
Anne Wyatt-Brown University of Florida
Holocaust Literature and Memory
March 2002
Frederick Busch Colgate University
Public reading from his collection of short stories, Don’t Tell Anyone
April 2001
Daniel Boyarin UC Berkeley
Who's in a Name? Genealogies of Late Ancient Judaism
November 2000
Kenneth W. Stein Emory University
Middle East Conflict Resolution
November 2000
Mark Gelber Ben Gurion University
Jewish Life in Germany Today
October 2000
Peter Novick University of Chicago
Lessons of the Holocaust?
February 2000
Robert A. Warren Holocaust historian
In Search of the Holocaust: The Realization of Remembrance
November 1999
Henry Friedlander Brooklyn College
Medicine and the Holocaust: The Killing of the Disabled in Nazi Germany
April 1998
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Novelist and poet
public reading
December 1997
Sharon Solwitz Novelist
public reading
October 1997
Abraham David HEBReW UNIVersity, Jerusalem
Returning To Zion: Jewish Pilgrim and Immigration Routes to
the Land of Israel During the 15th and 16th Centuries
October 1996
Sybil Milton United States Holocaust Museum
Art of the Holocaust
April 1996