Nebraska Colloquium lecture by Ted Hamann (Assistant Professor - Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - "The Challenge of U.S./Mexico Transnationalism to the Linkage between Schooling and Democracy" from February 19, 2009

Nebraska Colloquium lecture by Loukia K. Sarroub (Associate Professor, College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - "Literacy for Democracy: Possibilities and Limitations" from November 6, 2008

Nebraska Colloquium lecture by Charlyne Berens (Professor of Journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - "Speaking Freely: Why Freedom of Expression is Vital to Democracy" from October 23, 2008

Nebraska Colloquium lecture by John Hibbing (Foundation Regents University Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - "There is Such a Thing as Too Much Democracy" from September 30, 2008

Nebraska Colloquium lecture by Thomas Borstelmann (Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - "More and Less Equal: The Reshaping of Democracy since the 1970s" from October 7, 2008