The three-day conference will be at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and on City Campus. Papers will be presented on issues and myths in Plains literatures, women writers, Native American non-fiction, teaching plains literatures, Plains classics, and oral traditions. The lecture is free to the public. Additional sponsors include Nebraska Bookstore, Nebraska Wesleyan University and the Canadian Consulate General of Minneapolis. Student registration is waived.
Some events are free to the public.
Miriam Schapiro is the University of Nebraska President's Distinguished Visiting Artist this spring. Her visit March 31 through April 3 will include major addresses on each of the three university campuses in Omaha, Lincoln and Kearney, including a lecture at 7 p.m. April 1 in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery auditorium. In addition, there will be an open forum with Schapiro from 2 to 4 p.m. April 1 in the Gallery of the Department of Art and Art History in 102 Richards Hall. Both events are free and open to the public. Schapiro was born in Toronto in 1923 but received her B.A., M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.