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ENSLAVED: A Visual Story of Modern Day Slavery

Visitors are encouraged to take a self-guided tour of the exhibit by humanitarian photographer, Lisa Kristine. On display through May 19 in Criss Library and the Weitz CEC. This exhibit is coordinated in tandem with the 18th Annual Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights.

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Goldstein Lecture | Supplementary Events | Sponsors | Exhibit Details | About the Artist


Goldstein Lecture

The 18th Annual Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights
  • Thursday, April 6 | 7 to 8 P.M.
  • Weitz CEC OPPD Community Dialogue Rooms 201, 205, and 209
  • Featuring humanitarian photographer, Lisa Kristine as keynote speaker, and ENSLAVED: An Exhibition of Modern Day Slavery. The exhibit, along with supplementary events, runs March through May of 2017, in the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library (Criss Library) and the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center (Weitz CEC). Click to learn more about the exhibit.
  • The annual Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights brings a distinguished scholar or leading expert on human rights to UNO each year. The annual Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights is sponsored by the UNO College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religious Studies, and SPHRS (Spirituality, Public Health, and Religious Studies).

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Supplementary Events

ENSLAVED Exhibition: Opening Reception

  • Thursday, March 23 | 4:30 to 6:30 P.M.
  • Criss Library
  • Guests are free to take a self-guided tour of the images, and hear from the Goldstein Lecture’s organizers. This reception is sponsored by Suburban Rotary of Omaha. Light refreshments provided. 

SOLD - a narrative film showing

  • Wednesday, March 29 | 7 to 9 P.M.
  • Weitz CEC OPPD Community Dialogue Rooms 230 and 231
  • This film was inspired by Lisa Kristine, also the guest speaker for this year’s Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights. SOLD, a narrative film that accounts for the brutality of child trafficking through one person’s true story.

Hidden Colors - a four part documentary film showing

  • Monday, April 3 | 5:30 P.M. to 9 P.M.
  • Thursday, April 13 | 6 P.M. to 9 P.M.
  • Tuesday, April 25 | 5:30 P.M. to 9 P.M.
  • Tuesday, May 2 | 5:30 P.M. to 9 P.M.
  • Weitz CEC Large Meeting Rooms 201, 205, and 209
  • This four-part documentary film examines the real and untold history of people of color around the globe and how those stories have been left out of history. A panel concludes the first and last showing. Light refreshments provided.

Women Slaves: Three Ancient Issues

  • Thursday, April 6 | 12 to 1:30 P.M.
  • Criss Library
  • Peter Hunt, Ph.D., from the University of Colorado Boulder, explores three important issues surrounding women slaves. Historians know the experience of slavery was different for men and for women in ancient societies. However, our evidence about slavery in general is sparse and biased, and our information about women slaves is even worse.

Lisa Kristine Book Signing

  • Thursday, April 6 | 2:30 to 3:30 P.M.
  • UNO Bookstore
  • Author and humanitarian photographer of ENSLAVED: A Visual Story of Modern Day Slavery.
  • Light snacks provided.

The Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights

  • Thursday, April 6 | 7 to 8 P.M.
  • Weitz CEC Large Meeting Rooms 201, 205, and 209
  • The 18th Annual Shirley and Leonard Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights: featuring international humanitarian photographer Lisa Kristine. Individual attending the Goldstein Lecture event who do not have access to purchase a UNO parking permit can find guest parking in Lot E.
  • Parking for the Goldstein Lecture is available in Lot E. Please visit the Weitz CEC Guest Parking for a variety of directions.

Life After: Survivors of Human Trafficking

  • Monday, April 10 | 10 to 11 A.M.
  • Weitz CEC OPPD Community Dialogue Rooms 231
  • Sex trafficking survivors Rachel Pointer and Sakura Yodogawa-Campbell illuminate their experiences and empower the audience with steps to help end sex trafficking.

Slavery Then and Now: Passover Reflections featuring a Special Reading of The Whipping Man

  • Tuesday, April 11 | 4 to 7:30 P.M.
  • Criss Library
  • Jane Gordon, Ph.D., from the University of Connecticut, discusses the topic of slavery and Judaism with an emphasis upon the Passover holiday. A dramatic reading of The Whipping Man takes place prior to the lecture.

Prince Among Slaves - historical documentary film showing

  • Tuesday, April 11 | 6:30 to 8 P.M.
  • Weitz CEC OPPD Community Dialogue Rooms 230 and 231
  • The film tells the story of a young African Prince torn from a life of power and privilege, thrust into enslavement in a strange land. Take part in a follow-up discussion featuring Jeremy Rehwaldt, Ph.D., from Midland University.

Creating Awareness about Human Trafficking, featuring the Set Me Free Project

  • Monday, April 17 | 10 to 11 A.M.
  • Weitz CEC OPPD Community Dialogue Rooms 230 and 231
  • The Set Me Free Project’s presentation provides students, parents, educators, medical, and industry professionals with knowledge and tools to make safe, informed decisions about human trafficking.

Immigration Options for Victims of Human Trafficking

  • Wednesday, April 19 | 2 to 3 P.M.
  • Weitz CEC OPPD Community Dialogue Room 230
  • Anna D. Deal, ESQ., Justice For Our Neighbors Attorney, covers the requirements for U Visas, Continued Presence, T Visas, and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status for victims of human trafficking.

Sexual Slavery in East Asia

  • Thursday, April 20 | 1 to 2 P.M.
  • Criss Library
  • Lana Obradovic, Ph.D., Assistant Professor with UNO, discusses the history and research relating to the so-called “comfort women.” The focus of this lecture dates back to the Pacific War (1937-1945) with emphasis on issues such as Japan’s colonization of Korea, denial of war crimes, and gender hierarchy in Confucian societies.

Realize, Recognize, and Respond to Human Trafficking

  • Monday, April 24 | 10 A.M. to Noon
  • Weitz CEC Large Meeting Rooms 205 and 209
  • Take part in a course designed to educate the audience to realize that human trafficking does exist within our community. The class improves a person's ability to recognize the signs of human trafficking in order to create change.

Worlds Apart Strikingly Similar: Sex Trafficked Women in the Midwestern U.S.A and Mumbai, India

  • Wednesday, April 26 | 6 to 7:30 P.M.
  • Criss Library
  • Rochelle Dalla, Ph.D., describes the results of in-depth interviews conducted with trafficking survivors in both Nebraska and Mumbai, India. This presentation highlights similarities and differences and ends with suggestions for continued research, practice, and intervention.

The Seventh Generation

  • Wednesday, May 3 | 12 to 1:30 P.M.
  • CEC 231
  • A sacred circle of faculty, staff and students from the University of Nebraska at Omaha Native American Studies program and Omaha Public Schools’ Native Indian Centered Education program exhibit a visual narrative of their lived experience of a visit to the US Indian Industrial School in Genoa, NE. Art works of various mediums will speak to human rights and Indian education, generational trauma and resilience, then and now

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Sponsors

  • COMMUNITY SPONSORS:
  • Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights; Suburban Rotary of Omaha; Humanities Nebraska; Child Youth and Family Services; National Council of Negro Women; The Set Me Free Project; Justice for Our Neighbors- Nebraska; The Women’s Fund of Omaha.
  • UNO SPONSORS:
  • Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center; UNO Libraries; The College of Arts and Sciences, including the following departments and programs: Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, Art and Art History Department, Black Studies Department, International Studies and Programs, Islamic Studies Program, LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies Minor, Medieval/Renaissance Studies, Native American Studies Program, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies, Philosophy Minor, Political Science Department, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Spirituality, Public Health, and Religious Studies (SPHRS), Women’s and Gender Studies Program, The Natan & Hannah Schwalb Center for Israel & Jewish Studies, Sam & Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Education Fund; and The William Brennan Institute for Labor Studies.

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Exhibit Details

The majority of the exhibition is housed within Criss Library, located through the main floor, just past the Creative Production Lab. An additional display of the exhibition is located in the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center and can be found in the West hallway of the second floor.

Click for directions to park in the Weitz CEC Guest parking lot if you plan to attend any of the Goldstein Lecture Supplementary Events.

Click for a campus map.

Click to read full press release.

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About the Artist

Lisa Kristine has traveled to six continents, through nearly 100 countries, capturing modern day slavery through images. In an effort to uncover the breadth and depth of human pain, she has plunged over 100 feet down an illegal mineshaft in Ghana, and endured Nepal’s temperatures of more than 120 degrees. The images portray survivors who are now rebuilding their lives and helping others to freedom. More information about Lisa Kristine and ENSLAVED is available online at www.enslavedexhibitions.com.

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