Featured Events:
Project Homeless Connect Omaha
Volunteers are still needed for Project Homeless Connect Omaha.
Project Homeless Connect Omaha is in need of about 70 more volunteers during the first shift (8:15 – 11:30 am). Volunteers will assist a homeless guest in filling out a basic in-take form and navigating the guest throughout the process of accessing professional services offered at the event. There are two time slots for volunteers to sign up for. For more information, or to register as a volunteer for the March 23rd event, please visit http://blogs.creighton.edu/ccsj/project-homeless-connect-omaha/volunteer-registration/
Events this week:
Empowerment Network Monthly Community Meeting
Omaha Table Talk Workshop: White Privilege
Film: Wretches & Jabberers
Film: When We Stop Counting
Roots of the Conflict Between Religion and Evolutionary Theory
Film: Cover Girl Culture
Campus Ministry Retreat Leader Applications Due
Presentation: Detainee Provisions of the 2012 Defense Reauthorization Act
Omaha Table Talk- The “Fig” Complex
The Secret Histories of Modern Torture
Women’s Summit
Ignatian Discernment Retreat
Events More than One Week Away:
Catholicism and Capitalism
Archbishop Leo Arkfeld, S.V.D. Exhibit and Lecture
Project Homeless Connect Omaha
Saturday, March 10
Empowerment Network Monthly Community Meeting
This meeting is open to the community, and features special guest Dr. Evelyn Walker, Medical Director for the Mississippi State Department of Health Offices of Health Disparities Elimination and Preventive Health. The focus of the presentation will be bridging the gap of health disparities issues with a health promotion and disease prevention implementation program. This event will take place from 8:45 am-11:30 am at the Omaha North High School Viking Center, 4410 N 36th St. For more information, please visit www.empoweromaha.com.
Omaha Table Talk Workshop: White Privilege
This workshop will take place from 9 am-1 pm at the Neighborhood Center (115 S. 49th Ave), and will be led by Brenda Thompson, Serena Dacus, and Miriam Datya.
Monday, March 12
Film: Wretches & Jabberers
In WRETCHES & JABBERERS, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland. With intelligence, humor, hope, and courage, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future. Between moving and transformative encounters with young men and women with autism, parents and students, Thresher and Bissonnette take time to explore local sights and culture; dipping and dodging through Sri Lankan traffic in motorized tuk-tuks, discussing the purpose of life with a Buddhist monk and finally relaxing in a traditional Finnish sauna. Along the way, they reunite with old friends, expand the isolated world of a talented young painter and make new allies in their cause. The film will be shown at Film Streams at 7 pm.
Tickets are FREE and can be reserved in advance by emailing Maggie Wood at maggie@filmstreams.org or visiting the box office inside Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theater prior to March 5. A limited number of seats are available, so making reservations in advance is highly recommended.
Presented with the Meyer Foundation for Disabilities and Autism Society Nebraska and Autism Action Partnership, and funded in part by the Nebraska Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities. A panel discussion will follow the film, featuring Sara Taylor (Autism Action Partnership) and Rene Ferdinand (Autism Center of Nebraska).
Tuesday, March 13
Film: When We Stop Counting
What happens when a small town’s school system suddenly becomes 50% minority? Crete Public Schools in Crete, Nebraska, has an answer. Follow six Hispanic high school students in Crete, living their personal struggles and triumphs while bearing the pressure of their parent’s backbreaking sacrifice in hopes of achieving the American Dream. When We Stop Counting humanizes the issues of education, immigration, and most importantly, our future.
This film will be shown at 7 pm (networking begins at 6:30) at Aksarben Cinema (2110 S 67th St). Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students, and can be purchased online or at the Box Office. With questions, please email egilbert@adl.org.
Wednesday, March 14
Roots of the Conflict Between Religion and Evolutionary Theory
This presentation is part of the Kripke Center Religion and Science Lecture. It is presented by Robert Richards, a professor from the Fishbein Center for History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. It will be given from 7-8:30pm in the Harper Center 3028.
Film: Cover Girl Culture
“Cover Girl Culture” is a 2009 documentary by ex-fashion model Nicole Clark exposing how media advertising and the cult of celebrity has negatively impacted teens and young women. There will be a panel discussion with invited faculty following the film preview. This event will take place from 7-8 pm in the Harper Center room 3023. This event is sponsored by the Kenefick Chair in the Humanities.
Campus Ministry Retreat Leader Applications Due
Student leadership is a very important part of Campus Ministry at Creighton, and our retreat leaders are students who choose to take an active role in sharing their faith and their experience with fellow students. It is this peer-to-peer relationship that allows a healthy and vibrant faith community to flourish on our campus. The leadership roles vary, depending on the retreat, but Campus Ministry is generally looking for students with previous retreat experience, previous leadership experience, and a desire to accompany fellow students on the journey of faith. Campus Ministry is looking for retreat leaders for the 2012-2013 school year right now! All you have to do is fill out an online application form. Applications are due Wednesday, March 14 and applicants will be notified by the end of March.
For more information, please contact Jen Kennedy-Croft (jenniferkennedy-croft@creighton.edu) or Craig Zimmer (craigzimmer@creighton.edu), the Campus Ministry Retreats Team!
Creighton Clean-Up Team Leader Applications
Creighton Clean Up is a day of service throughout the Omaha area and fundraiser benefitting the Community Partners of the Residence Halls. It’s not a day where we clean up Creighton’s campus, it’s a day where we go out and serve the community surrounding Creighton, and it’s awesome!
Participants will work in a team of 5-10 people with one team leader. There is an Opening ceremony before teams go into the community to participate in service work with a lunch and reflection following.
More information and to apply to be a team leader or participant: http://blogs.creighton.edu/ccsj/2012/03/creighton-clean-up
Thursday, March 15
Presentation: Detainee Provisions of the 2012 Defense Reauthorization Act
The 2012 Defense Reauthorization Act became law in December 2011. Section 1022 provides for the US Armed Forces to take non-citizens into custody who are suspected of being terrorists. President Obama issued implementing regulations for Section 1022 at the end of February 2012.
Please join Amy Miller, Legal Director of Nebraska’s ACLU, as she explains the significance of these new detention authorities that have been provided to the President and the importance of monitoring how they are implemented. The national security and foreign relations implications of this new law are very real, and the danger of damaging civil liberties in the United States is worrisome. Ms. Miller will be joined by Professor Michael Kelly to participate in a question and answer session during the event.
This event will take place at 12:00pm in the Creighton University School of Law, Room 120.
Omaha Table Talk- The “Fig” Complex
This discussion is titled “The ‘Fig’ Complex- How Fear, Ignorance, and Guilt Keep Us from Engaging.” This event will take place from 6-7:30 at the Neighborhood Center, 115 S. 49th Ave.
The Secret Histories of Modern Torture
“The Secret Histories of Modern Torture” will be presented by Darius Rejali of Reed College at 7:00 p.m. in the Harper Center Auditorium.
Rejali will trace the development and application of torture techniques over the last century to reach startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argues, democracies not only tortured more, and more indiscriminately, but in the United States, Britain, and France pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks. Under the watchful eyes of reporters and human rights activists, low-level authorities in the world’s oldest democracies were the first to learn that to scar a victim was to advertise iniquity and invite scandal. Long before the CIA even existed, police and soldiers turned instead to “clean” techniques, such as torture by electricity, ice, water, noise, drugs, and stress positions. As democracy and human rights spread after World War II, so too did these methods. Rejali takes up the challenging question of whether torture works and will also address what to expect of the Obama administration and the prospects for the future and prevention of torture international a decade after 9/11. Book signing and reception to follow the lecture. This lecture is sponsored by the Fr. Henry W. Casper SJ Professorship in History.
Friday, March 16
Women’s Summit
The summit is sponsored by the All-University Committee on the Status of Women. This year’s event entitled, “Inspire, Influence, Innovate” is a professional and personal development opportunity for Creighton students, faculty and staff. It will feature speakers, various break-out sessions as well as networking opportunities. For employees, the Summit can be a paid-work release day; however it requires prior supervisor approval. If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Allison Taylor, co-chair of the 2012 Women’s Summit, 402-280-3794 or email at allisontaylor@creighton.edu. Register online at www.creighton.edu/women.
Saturday, March 17
Ignatian Discernment Retreat
Fr. Paul Coelho and Michael Rossmann, SJ, will be putting on a one-day “Ignatian Discernment Retreat” on Saturday, March 17th. It will be held in the CCSJ in the Harper Center. It is open to all women and men and may be particularly helpful for those who will be making an important decision soon. Then again, as we all must make decisions on a daily basis, the material will be relevant to all. The link for the event is: https://www.facebook.com/events/310595165668512.
Upcoming Events:
Catholicism and Capitalism
(Monday, March 19)
On Monday, March 19 from 12:30-1:30, all are welcome to a discussion in the Creighton Center for Service and Justice (Harper 2067) on Catholicism and capitalism. This brief article by Fred Kammer, SJ, JD, Director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans, will serve as the basis for discussion. For more information, or to RSVP (so we know how many to expect), please contact Michael Rossmann, SJ at rossmann.michael@gmail.com or by calling (402) 280-1290.
Archbishop Leo Arkfeld, S.V.D. Exhibit and Lecture
(Thursday, March 22)
The Archbishop Leo Arkfeld, S.V.D. Exhibit and Lecture commemorates the spiritual life and work of a native of Butte, NE who served the people of Papua New Guinea and was internationally known as the “Flying Bishop”. Due to the generous donation of the Arkfeld and Ohlinger families, the Office of Multicultural Affairs has acquired over 50 pieces of sculptures, jewelry, and other cultural objects. Originally gifts from indigenous tribal leaders to Archbishop Arkfeld S.V.D., these cultural artifacts along with photos from the Archives of the Society of the Divine Word comprise this exhibit. As part of this evening, Father Vince Ohlinger, S.V.D. a nephew of the Archbishop who will be lecturing on the personal life and work of Archbishop Arkfeld and Father Adam McDonald, S.V.D. will lecture on the Society of the Divine Word’s mission to Papua New Guinea. This event will take place on March 22, from 6-8 pm, in Harper Center Room 3028 and 3006.
Project Homeless Connect Omaha
(Friday, March 23)
Volunteers still needed for Project Homeless Connect Omaha. Project Homeless Connect Omaha is in need of about 70 more volunteers during the first shift (8:15 – 11:30 am). Volunteers will assist a homeless guest in filling out a basic in-take form and navigating the guest throughout the process of accessing professional services offered at the event. There are two time slots for volunteers to sign up for. For more information, or to register as a volunteer for the March 23rd event, please visit http://blogs.creighton.edu/ccsj/project-homeless-connect-omaha/volunteer-registration/
