Hear ye, hear ye! Your presence is requested at the Castle! Join us for a family friendly celebration of all things medieval at Joslyn Castle featuring falcons from the Fontenelle Forest Raptor Program, a history lecture, and maker's market. Fantastical attire encouraged!

In this engaging presentation, Dr. Green will highlight how pandemics have long shaped human history, drawing on the Black Death as a case study. Emphasizing the intersection of human-driven networks, ecological factors, and cutting-edge genetic research, Dr. Green will illustrate how pandemics gain global footholds and persist over time. The talk will explore how these insights can inform present-day responses to emerging infectious diseases.

“Pandemics, however, are unique in that they manage to exploit human networks to spread globally and, more often than not, sustain themselves. Whether the diseases are carried by humans themselves or by human-created ecologies or means of transport, pandemics always have an anthropogenic element.” — Dr. Monica H. Green

Opera in Conversation is a series of three sessions surrounding Opera Omaha mainstage productions that features creatives, scholars, and other public figures. These FREE events exist to foster cross-disciplinary exploration of art, big questions, and community connections.

The conference will address intersections between race, religion, and social justice across different sectors of society; we invite multi-sector approaches — nonprofit and civic leaders, diversity, equity, access, and inclusion (DEAI) practitioners, community members, educators, health and mental health practitioners, artists, religious communities, and scholars. This year's theme is Fueling The Work.