APRIL 19, 2004
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NEBRASKA UNION, 6PM
Author Kennedy to Speak
Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption, will appear today at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
Kennedy will read from his work beginning at 6pm in the Centennial Room and will offer time for discussion before the event. He will also sign books after the reading.
A professor at Harvard Law School, Kennedy is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, was a Rhodes Scholar and served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law. Kennedy sits on the editorial boards of The Nation, Dissent, and The American Prospect. His work has appeared in Time, the New York Times, Newsweek and in an episode of Fox's Boston Public.
This event is free and open to the public. Kennedy's appearance is sponsored by the University Program Council.
UPC
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HILLESTAD GALLERY, THROUGH MAY 21
Old Meets New in Schira Textiles
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery will showcase textiles that integrate 19th century weaving technology and the technology of today in Intersecting Traditions: Recent Textiles by Cynthia Schira through May 21.
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery will showcase textiles that integrate 19th century weaving technology and the technology of today in Intersecting Traditions: Recent Textiles by Cynthia Schira through May 21.
In 1804 in France, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a system of punched cards to create complex designs for figured fabrics. Schira's weavings integrate this technology of the Jacquard loom and its modern counterpart, the computer.
Schira came to Lincoln in November to work on the digital textile printer that is part of the International Textile Works in UNL's Textiles, Clothing and Design Department. Three of the prints she produced are included in the exhibition.
Schira is professor emerita at University of Kansas, where she taught from 1976 to 1999. She was awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Craftsman's Fellowships, in 1974 and 1983. In 2000 she received the Gold Medal from the College of Fellows of the American Craft Council, in recognition of her lifetime of achievement.
The Hillestad Gallery is open from 10am to 4pm Monday-Friday. Admission is free.
HILLESTAD GALLERY
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NEBRASKA UNION, 10AM-4PM
Free, Anonymous, Confidential HIV Testing to be Offered
Free anonymous and confidential HIV antibody testing will be available from 10am to 4pm today in the Nebraska Union's Georgian Room.
Testing will be done with oral swabs. Results will be given two weeks later in the same location and at the same time.
This event is sponsored by PERSUNL and the University Health Center Sexuality Education eXchange. Testing will be provided by trained peer sexuality educators from PERSUNL.
For information e-mail ptetreault1@unl.edu.
PERSUNL | HEALTH CENTER
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