Twilight on the Tallgrass

Date/Time: Sat., Sept. 13, 2008, 5-10pm
Location: Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, Denton, NE

Death, Murder, and Mayhem: Stories of Violence and Healing on the Plains

Dates: Apr. 16-19, 2008
Location: Embassy Suites (Old Market), Omaha, NE

LES President Bing Chen, PhD, speaking on Eiseley's life

Title: Reflections of a Bone Hunter: The Life Story of Loren Eiseley
Location: Harms Advanced Technology Center at Western Nebraska Community College (WNCC)
Date/Time: Fri., Nov. 2nd, 2007 at 7pm

Proclamation Issued by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman

Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman proclaims the 25th day of October, 2007 as THE CENTENNIAL YEAR OF LOREN EISELEY in Nebraska. View the proclamation

UNL Professor John Janovy Lecturing on Eiseley

Title: What Else Can You Say About Loren Eiseley?
Location: UNL Nebraska Union Auditorium
Date/Time: Wednesday, Oct. 24th, 2007 at 7pm

CELEBRATION!! - LOREN EISELEY CENTENNIAL 1907 - 2007

September 7-8, 2007 in Lincoln, Nebraska Keynote Speaker : Scott Slovic, PhD, Professor of Literature and Environment and Noted Ecocritical Scholar University of Nevada-Reno View the full flyer with details [PDF]

The Invisible Pyramid

The Friends of the Criss Library hosted a discussion of The Invisible Pyramid.

The discussion leader was Bing Chen, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering.

Eiseley, a Nebraska native, was the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a prolific author. His books include The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time and The Unexpected Universe. The Invisible Pyramid, written in 1970, describes the rise of man as an organism devouring his environment and polluting his world space.

Film clips of Eiseley's life were shown prior to the discussion. Eiseley died in 1977.

The presentation The Invisible Pyramid took place at the Peter Kiewit Institute Room PKI-161 1110 S. 67th St. Omaha, NE, 68182 7:00PM Thursday, January 18th, 2007.

View this talk in PDF.