APRIL 5, 2004
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ROTUNDA GALLERY
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
Exhibit Features Survivors
A powerful photo exhibit depicting survivors of sexual abuse will be on display at UNL in recognition of April as National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Created by photojournalist Nobuko Oyabu, STAND: Faces of Rape and Sexual Abuse Survivors Project will be on exhibit April 5-9 from 9am to 5pm in the Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Oyabu will give a presentation about her exhibit at 7pm tonight in the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union. Both events are free and open to the public.
Through her own experience of rape in 1999, Oyabu created the photo project STAND: Faces of Rape and Sexual Abuse Survivors Project as a tool to reveal the inner strength of women and men who have been victimized by sexual abuse. In 2002, STAND was featured in Lifetime Television's documentary Fear No More.
The exhibit is sponsored by PREVENT, a student organization that works to educate Lincoln and the UNL campus community about relationship violence issues.
OYABU
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NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Legal Scholar to Discuss Women's Rights
Legal scholar Penelope Andrews will examine the state of women's rights in the turmoil of the modern world in a lecture today at the UNL.
In From Cape Town to Kabul: Reconceptualizing Women's Human Rights, Andrews, a professor of law at the City University of New York School of Law, will explore the pursuit of women's rights and equality in the face of massive economic inequalities, political ambiguities, social upheaval and cultural uncertainties. The lecture is free and open to the public and begins at 3:30pm in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. (room to be posted).
Andrews will address questions that examine gender equity in the wake of war, dislocation, dispossession and discrimination, and legal strategies adopted to achieve equality. She will also discuss the difficulties in balancing the secular nature of rights enforcement within contexts of deeply entrenched religious mores or 'customary norms,' as well as the balancing of individual rights with community obligations.
Educated in South Africa and the United States, Andrews has taught in Australia, the Netherlands, Scotland, South Africa and the United States. She teaches courses in torts, international law, international human rights law, lawyering and comparative perspectives on race and the law. She earned her B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in New York. She was the Chamberlain fellow in legislation at Columbia Law School, and has worked at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York.
Andrews has written extensively on constitutional and human rights issues in the South African, Australian and global contexts, with particular emphasis on the rights of women and people of color.
COLLEGE OF LAW
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BAILEY LIBRARY, 229 ANDREWS, 3:30PM
'Encrypting Value: The British Debate About Banking in the Early 19th Century'
Mary Poovey, New York University
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BASEBALL | 6:30 7PM
Huskers vs. New Mexico Lobos
HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK
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