MARCH 5-7, 2004
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THROUGH MARCH 6
'Everyday Activism' Women's
Week Theme
The UNL Women's Center is collaborating with many other organizations to celebrate
Women's Week, through March 6. Activities are scheduled throughout the week
that focus on this year's theme, 'Everyday Activism.' The theme was chosen to
highlight the importance of part-time activism and the impact that small daily
acts can have.
A weeklong exhibit in the Rotunda Gallery of the Nebraska Union features past and present UNL students, faculty and staff whose efforts in a variety of fields have shaped our community and the world. Participants will also be given suggestions on how to become an activist through small changes.
UNL's radio station, KRNU 90.3 FM, will spotlight activism throughout the week with an 'Activist Minute.' Each day, a nationally known activist and a UNL student will be recognized for their commitment to making change. The spots will include suggested small changes that listeners can make to start thinking of themselves as everyday activists.
For more information on other events for the week, stop by the Women's Center
at 340 Nebraska Union, call 472-2597 or follow this link.
WOMEN'S CENTER
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NEBRASKA UNION, FRI & SAT
Women's Studies to Host 'No Limits' Conference
UNL's Women's Studies Program will host the 2004 'No Limits Conference,' Imagining Change: Women as Agents for Social Justice, Friday and Saturday (March 5-6) at the Nebraska Union. 'No Limits' is an annual regional research conference for undergraduate and graduate students and is co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Student Association and the Women's Studies programs at UNL, UNO and UNK.
The goal of 'No Limits' is to bring students and the community together to focus on the role of women scholars and community members in global and local social activism. Presenters and participants will explore ways to pursue social justice, including scholarship, public participation and creative work.
All 'No Limits' events are free and open to the public. Registration is required for meals and encouraged for attendance at events. For information on events and times follow this link or call the UNL Women's Studies Program at 472-9392.
WOMEN'S STUDIES
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HOME ECONOMICS, FRI 9AM
Gordon to Discuss Roles of Textiles
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Beverly Gordon will deliver a lecture, The Fiber of Our Lives: Why Textiles Matter, at 9am Friday (March 5) in the Home Economics auditorium. Her slide lecture examines the roles and meanings that textiles play in human life around the world.
Gordon is the 2004 visiting faculty fellow at the International Quilt Study Center and is returning to UNL to continue her research exploring 'fairyland' imagery in turn-of-the-century quilts. Her research will result in an essay planned for a future publication by the International Quilt Study Center titled American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940.
Gordon is professor of environment, textiles and design and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on the meanings of objects in people's lives, especially small objects made and used in the domestic sphere; on 'background history;' and on messages/meanings communicated in dress, craft and ritual objects.
The talk is free and open to the public.
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RICHARDS HALL, FRI 10AM-5PM, SAT 10AM-2PM
Print Sale Offers Original Artwork
The Lincoln Print Group offers a wide variety of original art prints for sale in a three-day event that began yesterday in Richards Hall.
Printmaking uses various graphic techniques to produce
creative visual art in printed form. Processes include intaglio, lithography,
monoprint, papermaking, photomechanical techniques, relief, screenprinting, and
book arts media.
Artwork from faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students, including
graduate students Melinda Yale, Hixson-Lied Fellow in printmaking, Kyle Olson
(work pictured), curator of the Department of Art and Art History's Eisentrager•Howard
Gallery, as well as Cather/Bessey Professor of Art and Art History Karen Kunc,
will be offered. A wide variety of print types and sizes, at a range of prices,
will be available.
A raffle for any remaining prints will be held at the end of the sale. Raffle tickets will be sold for $1 each, 6 for $5 or 13 for $10.
The sale benefits the Lincoln Print Group, a local print organization, which helps bring visiting artists to campus, assists students who are attending print conferences, and assists students with the cost of shipping artwork to juried shows.
The sale is being held in Richards Hall, Stadium Drive and T streets. Remaining hours are Friday (March 5) from 10am-5pm; and Saturday (March 6) from 10am-2pm.
ART AND ART HISTORY | PRINTMAKING
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MCCOLLUM HALL, SAT 8:30AM-1PM
College of Law to Open House
The UNL College of Law will host its annual open house from 8:30am to 1pm Saturday (March 6) at Ross McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Street on East Campus.
The program will provide information about preparing for law school, the admission process and career opportunities. Open House guests will experience a law school class first-hand. Current students will share their law college experiences. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact the College of Law's Admissions Office at 472-2161. Reservations are recommended.
COLLEGE OF LAW
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ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, MARCH 5-18
Ross to Present Women Make Movies Tribute
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is presenting a tribute to Women Make Movies, one of this country's most successful media arts organizations, beginning on Friday (March 5), in conjunction with the UNL Women's Studies program's annual No Limits Conference. The No Limits Conference, titled Imagining Change: Women as Agents for Social Justice, is occurring on March 5 and 6 on the UNL campus.
Created in 1972 to address the under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media industry, Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization that facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women.
Comprised of all new releases, both feature length and short films, exploring the current conditions of women in the Middle East to Africa to South America to the United States, MRRMAC's Women Make Movies, retrospective will celebrate the diversity, vitality, quality and breadth of creativity in WMM's catalogue of more than 400 films and videotapes. more...
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SHELDON, FRI 5PM
First Friday to Survey Ceramics
The Sheldon First Friday Celebration from 5-7pm March 5 at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery will feature Gail Kendall of the UNL Department of Art and Art History. She will discuss Ceramics from the Permanent Collection now on exhibition. The discussion will be followed by tours of the UNL ceramics studios. Kendall is nationally recognized for her contributions in the medium of ceramics.
First Friday receptions are free. For more information, call 472-2461.
SHELDON
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LIED CENTER, MAR. 5-7
Musical to Tell stories of Fame
Fame - The Musical, based on the award-winning movie and TV series, will open at the Lied Center for Performing Arts on March 5 for four performances. The show has played more than 5,000 performances from 300 productions in more than 16 countries. Performances include an extended run in London's West End and a three-year tour in North America.
Fame chronicles the odyssey from audition to graduation of a group of students at New York City's High School of the Performing Arts. Driven by the compulsion for fame, these characters from diverse backgrounds experience common triumphs and tragedies along their journey.
Fame was originally released as a movie in 1980, earning four Academy Award nominations and winning the Oscar for its musical score. Running for six years on network television and in syndication, Fame also won several Emmy Awards. It also became a highly rated reality series on NBC in the summer of 2003.
Eddie Brown and Karen Wills will give a lecture 30 minutes before each performance in the Lied's Steinhart Room.
Fame will be performed at 7:30pm Friday (March 5), 2 and 7:30pm Saturday (March 6), and 2pm Sunday (March 7). Tickets are $45, $39 and $35; tickets are half-price for university students with identification and those 18 and under. Call the Lied box office at 472-4747 for tickets.
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327 KEIM, FRI 2PM
Agronomy/Horticulture Seminar - 'Nutraceuticals and Health'
Susan Cuppett, UNL
112 HAMILTON, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'The ABC's of Nanotechnology: Atoms, Bits and Civilization'
Arthur Ellis, National Science Foundation
117 BESSEY, FRI 3:30PM
Geosciences - T. Mylan Stout Lecture Series - 'Understanding the Impact of Variations in Incised Valley Fill Systems on Reservoir Development: Examples from the Pennsylvanian and Cretaceous Strata of the Rocky Mountain Region'
David Bowen, D.W. Bowen Exploration, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer
211 BRACE, FRI 4PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium - 'The ABC's of Nanotechnology: Atoms, Bits and Civilization'
Art Ellis, National Science Foundation
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM, 2201 DODGE, OMAHA, SUN 2PM
Archaeological Institute of America Public Lecture - 'Excavation of an Early Greek City on Crete: The Azoria Project'
Margaret Mook, Iowa State University
UNITARIAN CHURCH, 6300 A ST., SUN 7PM
2004 Winter Lecture Series - National Indentity and Global Citizenship - 'A Legal and Historical Analysis of Sovereignty and Rights of Native Americans'
Walter EchoHawk, Leslie Hewes Scholar for the lecture series, and legal counsel for the Native American Rights Fund
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