FEBRUARY 21, 2005
Demitri Trenin Lecture Canceled
Travel delays in Chicago have forced
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to cancel a scheduled Feb. 21 lecture by
Dmitri Trenin, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace and the deputy director and director of studies at the Carnegie
Moscow Center.
Trenin had been scheduled to speak on "Human Rights and Russian
Public Policy" at the Nebraska Union. The lecture will not be rescheduled.
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NEBRASKA UNION, REGENCY SUITE, THU. FEB 24, 1:30PM
UNL Departments of Textiles, Clothing, & Design Present the Guerrilla Girls
"The Subversive Use of Information," an interactive seminar with the Guerrilla Girls, will provoke students to think about what information could be useful to their activist campaigns, and how to use it. The GGs will talk about how they used information in many of their posters and books to raise consciousness and change minds. This expansion of the material that will be at the core of the GGs keynote presentation at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery opening event of the International Quilt Study Center's 2nd biennial symposium later the same day, will include images of their work and time for Qs and As.
The GGs are an anonymous group of women who assume the names of deceased female artists to illustrate the gender discrimination faced by women in the arts. They wear gorilla masks to hide their true identities and have been causing a stir in the art world since their inception in 1985. Three books have been published on their performances and activism. They have earned recognition and numerous awards, including one from the National Organization of Women. This event is FREE to UNL students, but pre-registration is required! Phone 472-2911(TCD) or 472-9392(WSP) to register.
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SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 7PM
Geske Lecture - 'Much Ado about Shakespeare on Midwestern Frontier Stages'
Felicia Londre, Curators' professor of theatre, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
15 RICHARDS HALL, 7:30PM
Archaeological Institute of America Public Lecture - 'Warfare and Politics in the Classic Maya Period'
Carleen Sanchez, UNL
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SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 7PM
'Shakespeare on Frontier Stages' is Topic of Geske Lecture at UNL
Felicia Londré, curators' professor of theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, will deliver the next Geske Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her lecture, "Much Ado About Shakespeare on Midwestern Frontier Stages," will be presented Feb. 21 at 7 pm in the auditorium of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12th and R streets. Her lecture is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the lecture in the Sheldon Great Hall.
Cultural historians view the decades from 1880 to 1929 as "the golden age of the American theatre." What made the era so rich was not only the sheer number of plays and productions on the legitimate stage, but also the star power that lit up small-town opera houses all across America.
While Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" could not be ranked in the "top 10" of 19th-century Shakespeare productions, it surfaces often enough in the historical records to be a close contender. It can serve as a focal point for looking at how Shakespeare's work fared in the American theatre outside New York. The bulk of historical research on the 19th-century American stage, including Shakespeare production, has been concentrated on the East and West coasts. There are numerous studies of theatre in cities like Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco, as well as some cities in the South, such as New Orleans and Houston, but the Midwest (apart from Chicago and St. Louis) continues to be relatively neglected in the ongoing work of recovering and interpreting our past. This lecture contributes toward redressing the balance by looking at Shakespeare production on Midwestern stages during the golden age of the touring star.
A 1959 graduate of Lincoln High School, Londré is honorary co-founder of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, and dramaturge for the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. After taking advanced French courses at the University of Nebraska during her junior and senior years of high school, she went on to earn a bachelor's degree with high honors at the University of Montana, a master's degree at the University of Washington and her doctorate in speech/theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her 10 published books include "The History of North American Theatre: The United States, Canada, and Mexico from Pre-historic Times to the Present" (with Daniel J. Watermeier, Continuum, 1998) and "The History of World Theater: From the English Restoration to the Present" (Continuum, 1991). She has published more than 50 scholarly articles plus many journalistic essays on French, Spanish, and Russian theatre history, international Shakespearean production, and on the plays of Tennessee Williams.
The Norman and Jane Geske Lectureship in the History of the Arts was established in 1995 through the generosity of Norman and Jane Geske, and features noted scholars in the history of the visual arts, music, theatre, dance, film, or architecture. The lectures are intended to advance the understanding and appreciation of the arts with creative writing and thinking that reflect the importance of historical perspective of the arts.
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NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Russian Diplomatic Expert to Address Human Rights
Dmitri Trenin, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the deputy director and director of studies at the Carnegie Moscow Center, will speak on "Human Rights and Russian Public Policy" Feb. 21 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The lecture begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. (room posted). It is free and open to the public.
Trenin's talk will address Russian policy toward current issues like those involving Chechnya and Ukraine, among others involving major human rights dimensions.
A retired Soviet and Russian army colonel with a doctorate in diplomatic history from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies in Moscow, Trenin is a specialist in foreign and security policy issues with a focus on Russia and Eurasia. He has wide international experience, including with the military assistance group in Iraq in 1975-76, the four-power liaison in Germany from 1978-83, and U.S.-Soviet nuclear and space talks in Geneva in 1985-91.
Trenin taught at the National Defense University in Moscow in 1983-93, and the Free University of Brussels in 1993-1994. Among Trenin's books are "Russia's Restless Frontier: The Chechnya Factor in Post-Soviet Russia"; "The End of Eurasia: Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization"; and "Russia's China Problem." He also edited a number of volumes on European, Balkan and Eurasian security.
The talk is sponsored by the UNL Initiative on Human Rights and Human Diversity.
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