2006
Azar Nafisi
September 2006
Benefit dinner
for Humanities Council is sold out
A Sept. 20 benefit dinner for the
Nebraska Humanities Council before the 11th Annual Governor’s
Lecture in the Humanities has been sold out.
The 7:30 p.m. lecture at the Lied Center for Performing Arts
features Azar Nafisi, author of the national bestseller “Reading
Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.”
“The Governor's Lecture Committee thought that Nafisi would be a
popular speaker because almost every book club in the country has
read and discussed her “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” said Trixie
Schmidt, co-chair of the lecture committee. “But we had no idea that
we would have a waiting list of people wanting to attend the
dinner.”
Free tickets for the lecture are available from the Lied Center for
Performing Arts by calling (402) 472-4747. Tickets are required to
attend the program. The lecture will also be simulcast in
Scottsbluff at the Harms Technology Center on the campus of Western
Community College (at 6:30 p.m. MST), North Platte at Platte Valley
Community College, and in Omaha at UNO's Milo Bail Student Center.
“Reading Lolita in Tehran” electrified its readers with a
compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution
in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her
students. Translated into 32 languages and winner of many literary
awards, the book was on The New York Times bestseller list for more
than 90 weeks.
Nafisi is director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy
Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced
International Studies in Washington, D.C., where she is a professor
of aesthetics, culture, and literature, and teaches courses on the
relation between culture and politics.
“We are thrilled with the response to the benefit dinner,” said Jane
Renner Hood, executive director of the Nebraska Humanities Council.
“The Governor's Lecture in the Humanities dinner is our largest
fund-raising event of the year. This response will help the Nebraska
Humanities Council sustain programs like Chautauqua and our speakers
bureau—programs that Nebraskans want for their communities.”
The lecture is presented by the Nebraska Humanities Council, the E.N.
Thompson Forum on World Issues and the University of Nebraska. The
E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues is a cooperative project of the
Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center for Performing Arts and the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has a mission of promoting better
understanding of world events and issues to all Nebraskans.
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August 2006
Governor’s
lecture to be simulcast at three sites
The 11th Annual Governor’s Lecture in the Humanities, featuring Azar
Nafisi, author of the national bestseller “Reading Lolita in Tehran:
A Memoir in Books,” will be simulcast at three sites in Nebraska.
Nafisi will deliver the free lecture live at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at
the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln.
It is the first time that the annual lecture has been presented in a
live simulcast, allowing audiences in four locations to hear the
lecture at the same time.
“We wanted to make the governor’s lecture a true
statewide event, so we’ve arranged for a discussion leader at each
site with coffee and cookies for audience members to enjoy after the
lecture,” said Trixie Schmidt of Lincoln, vice president of the
Nebraska Foundation for the Humanities and co-chair of the lecture
committee. “We also have scheduled a bus to take people to Lincoln
from Omaha and another from Kearney that will pick up people in
Grand Island.”
In Omaha, the simulcast will be aired at Milo Bail Student Center
Ballroom on the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus, following an
introduction at 7:15 p.m. The presentation is made possible by UNO’s
American Democracy Project.
In North Platte, the simulcast will be aired in the South Campus
Building at Mid-Plains Community College, with admission at 7 p.m.
The presentation is made possible by Mid-Plains Community College
and Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation.
In Scottsbluff, the simulcast will be aired at Harms Advanced
Technology Center on the Western Nebraska Community College campus.
Admission is at 6 p.m. with the lecture beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Mountain Time. The presentation is made possible by Western Nebraska
Community College, the Oregon Trail Community Foundation and the
William and Ann Cannon Foundation.
“Reading Lolita in Tehran” electrified its readers with a
compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution
in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her
students. Translated into 32 languages and winner of many literary
awards, the book was on The New York Times bestseller list for more
than 70 weeks.
Nafisi has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The
Wall Street Journal and The New Republic.
Presented by the Nebraska Humanities Council, the E.N. Thompson
Forum on World Issues and the University of Nebraska, the lecture is
free and open to the public. The E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues
is a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center
for Performing Arts and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has a
mission of promoting better understanding of world events and issues
to all Nebraskans.
For more information on the simulcasts, contact the Nebraska
Humanities Council at (402) 474-2131 ext. 102 or e-mail aimee@nebraskahumanities.org.
Free tickets are required for admission to the Lincoln lecture. For
tickets, call the Lied Center box office at (402) 472-4747.
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April 2006
Author Azar Nafisi to deliver
11th annual lecture
Sept. 20
 Azar
Nafisi, author of the national bestseller, “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir
in Books,” will deliver the 11th Annual Governor’s Lecture in the Humanities on
Sept. 20 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln.
Presented by the Nebraska Humanities Council, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues and the University of Nebraska, the 7:30 p.m. lecture is free and open to
the public. The E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues is a cooperative project of
the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center for Performing Arts and the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and has a mission of promoting better understanding of world
events and issues to all Nebraskans.
“Reading Lolita in Tehran” electrified its readers with a compassionate and
often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected
one university professor and her students. Translated into 32 languages and
winner of many literary awards, the book was on The New York Times bestseller
list for more than 70 weeks.
 Nafisi
is director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns
Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington,
D.C., where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature, and
teaches courses on the relation between culture and politics. She held a
fellowship at Oxford University, teaching and conducting a series of lectures on
the important role of Western literature and culture in Iran after the
revolution in 1979.
Nafisi conducted workshops in Iran for women students on the relationship
between culture and human rights. The material culled from these workshops
formed the basis of a new human rights education curriculum. She has lectured
and written extensively in English and Persian on the political implications of
literature and culture, as well as the human rights of Iranian women and girls
and the important role they play in the process of change for pluralism and an
open society in Iran. She has been consulted on issues related to Iran and human
rights both by policy makers and various human rights organizations in the
United States and elsewhere.
Nafisi has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street
Journal and The New Republic.
A fundraising reception and dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. For details, contact
Aimee at the Nebraska Humanities Council at (402) 474-2131 ext. 102 or at nhc@nebraskahumanities.org.
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