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Wed, Mar 23, 2005

March 23, 2005

MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, 7:30PM
Alloy Orchestra To Accompany Silent Film

The Alloy Orchestra is a three man musical ensemble, writing and performing live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources. They will be performing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center this evening at 7:30 pm.

They will accompany Nebraska's own great comedy film star Harold Lloyd's Speedy. Admission is $15.00 (General) & $10.00 (students, seniors, children, & members of the Friends of MRRMAC).

MRRMAC

NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Women's Studies Program Sponsors Lecture

UNL Women's Studies Program and the Institute for Ethnic Studies presents a lecture from Adela Licona entitled, '(B)orderlands Rhetoric and Representations: The Transformative Potential of Third-Space Feminist Scholarship and Zines.' It will take place in the Nebraska Union (room posted) today at 3:30pm and is free and open to the public.

Adela Licona is currently ABD in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication Program in the Iowa State University English Department with a minor in Women's Studies where she was awarded the Robert C. and Shirley G. Ford Scholarship in Rhetoric and Professional Communication for Distinction in Written Comprehensive Doctoral Exams. Adela received her B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (1987), and her M.A. in Communication Studies from New Mexico State University (2000), where she also took courses towards her doctorate.

She recently received recognition from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People / Students of Color Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Leadership, and Community Service, 2005.

UNL WOMEN'S STUDIES

438 OLDFATHER HALL, 12PM
Communication Studies Colloquium - 'Communication of Social Support in Single-Mother Adoption'
Aimee Miller

116 L.W. CHASE HALL, 3:30PM
UNL School of Natural Resources Research Seminar - 'GIS and Remote Sensing for Ecological Indicators of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands'
Dr. Carol Johnston, South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, S.D.

E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - 'Molecular Determinants of Biological Control'
Dr. Joyce Loper, Oregon State University

ABBOTT LECTURE HALL, JOSLYN ART MUSEUM (OMAHA), 7:30PM
Archaeological Institute of America Public Lecture - 'Giants, Dwarfs, Saints or Humans: Who First Set Sail for Cyprus?'
Stuart Swiny, State University of New York - Albany

GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
'Watching Grass Grow From Space' is Olson Seminar Topic

	Geoffrey Henebry

Watching grass grow is one of the things Geoffrey Henebry does for a living, but he uses space age technology to do it. He'll talk about that process today in the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A research associate professor in the School of Natural Resources at UNL's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Henebry will present "Watching the Grass Grow from Space: Synoptic Observation of Great Plains Phenology and What it Can Tell Us" from 3:30 to 5 pm in the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the museum are free and open to the public.

Henebry will describe how the constellation of Earth-observing orbital sensors grows each year and how these "eyes in the sky" not only operate at spatial scales far removed from our common experience, but are sensitive to kinds of light that the human eye can't detect. He will explain how scientists use the satellites to observe the Earth's surface over long periods to learn about the distribution and seasonality of vegetation across the Great Plains and its interactions with the climate.

His presentation will include a survey of images of the Great Plains from space borne sensors over the last two decades and a discussion of the problem of discerning change amid variation.

The Olson Seminars are presented by the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL.

CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIES

NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Scholar of WWII Nanjing Massacre to Deliver Talk

The Nanjing Massacre will be the subject of a free, public lecture by Suping Lu, associate professor of university libraries at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, today at 3:30 pm in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Lu is the author of They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals.

The Nanjing Massacre occurred in China in December 1937, when the city fell to the Japanese Imperial Army. According to the records of welfare organizations which buried the dead bodies after the massacre, as many as 300,000 people were killed by the Japanese.

Born and raised in China, Lu earned his bachelor's degree in English from Nanjing Teachers University in 1982. Before that, he was a student at the American Christian University, Ginling College. The college was a refugee camp that sheltered more than 10,000 women and girls from Japanese atrocities during the 1937-1938 Nanjing Massacre.

Lu lived in Nanjing for more than a decade before coming to the United States as a visiting scholar at Tufts University. He earned graduate degrees from Ohio University and the University of South Carolina and joined the UNL faculty in 1994.

His first book-length publication was "Nanjing Massacre: The American and British Eyewitness Accounts." It is a collection of original eyewitness English sources that he edited, translated into Chinese and published in 1999 in Beijing.

"They Were in Nanjing" is the result of his continued research effort on the topic. With newly uncovered source materials, the book yields new discoveries, presents issues that have previously not been adequately addressed, and takes readers back in time to revisit the event and live through those horror-filled days.

Professor Lu's talk is sponsored by the UNL Human Rights and Human Diversity Initiative.

UNL HUMAN RIGHTS & HUMAN DIVERSITY INITIATIVE

MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this Week at the Ross: Home Of The Brave, The Woodsman

UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Home Of The Brave, an award-winning documentary from Paola di Florio and director Nicole Kassell's second film The Woodsman, starring Kevin Bacon.

Home Of The Brave is about the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement in America and why we don't know who she is. Told through the eyes of her children, the film follows the on-going struggle of an American family to survive the consequences of their mother's heroism and the mystery behind her killing. The film links the personal and the political, the past and present and has a resonance to our world today. In its run on the festival circuit this year, Home Of The Brave has garnered a Best Documentary Award (Port Townsend), Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award for Documentary Film (Santa Barbara), an Audience Choice Award (Cleveland) and a prize for Outstanding Film with a Social Message (Maine). The International Documentary Association also selected the film to participate in its In Fact Theatrical Showcase which qualified the film for the 2005 Academy Awards and has also nominated it for the its own annual awards in the category of Best Documentary.

With a 12-year prison stretch reaching an end, convicted pedophile Walter (Kevin Bacon) faces an uncertain walk back into the free world in The Woodsman. The sensitivity with which the material in the film is executed derives from a potent mix of intelligently written source material, wonderful performances (with Bacon in particular putting in a career-defining turn), and an authoritative vision from director Nicole Kassell (The Green Hour). At the heart of the movie lies a desolate character, guilty of a crime shrouded in taboo, but hoping against all reason that society will accord him a modicum of absolution. A fascinating portrait of a life caught in a state of perpetual turmoil, this is an audacious second feature from Kassell.

More information is available at the Ross website.

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