March 24, 2005
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NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Women's Studies Program Sponsors Lecture
Assistant Professor of History, Ethnic Studies & Women's Studies Donna Akers will be giving a talk entitled "Creating Pocahontas: Indian Imagery
and the Justification of Conquest" today in the Nebraska Union (room posted) at 3:30pm. In the lecture, Professor Akers will discuss the prevalent images of Pocahontas created by the media, historians, and artists over the centuries and how the historical narrative depends on and perpetuates these images.
Professor Akers is the author of the book Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860. She is a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation. This lecture is sponsored by the UNL Women's Studies Program.
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222 CBA, 12:30PM
Economics Department Seminar - 'Spatial Dependencies in Wind Related Housing Damage'
Jamie Kruse, East Carolina University
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 1:30PM
School of Natural Resources, Agricultural Economics and Economics Lecture - 'Smart Susbsidies for Habitat Conservation'
Gregory Parkhurst, Mississippi State
110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar
David Queller, Rice University
111 LOVE LIBRARY, 3:30PM
Electronic Text Center Workshop - "Introduction to XML"
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NEBRASKA UNION, 8AM - 4PM
53rd Annual Psychology Symposium
to Look at Prejudice and Racism
The 53rd annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation March 24-25 will look at prejudice and racism. The symposium will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. It is co-sponsored by the UNL Department of Psychology. This year's symposium will highlight the work of scholars who are at the forefront of research on the motivational aspects of prejudice and racism and the impact of such forces on the targets of racial bias.
The study of prejudice and racism is among the oldest interests in social psychology. While early researchers looked at individual processes and personality deficits as motives to racism and prejudice, later studies looked at the cognitive processes that promote, maintain and transmit prejudice and how discrimination is detected and controlled. Recently, psychologists have renewed their interest in the motives that drive prejudice and racism.
The present understanding of stereotyping and prejudice stems from basic motives (such as belonging, understanding and power). New approaches to the understanding of prejudice and racism must include the study of a combination of cognitive and motivational aspects. Current research examines the influences that prejudice and racism have for the targets of racial biases.
Scheduled speakers are Lawrence Bobo, Teresa LaFrombroise and Amadao Padilla of Stanford University; John Brigham, Florida State University; John Dovidio, University of Connecticut; and Samuel Gaertner, University of Delaware. For information, contact Cynthia W. Esqueda, associate professor of psychology and symposium organizer, at cwillis-esqueda1@unl.edu or (402) 472-3740.
53RD ANNUAL PSYCHOLOGY SYMPOSIUM | DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
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229 ANDREWS HALL, 7PM
Poet Haskins to Give Reading
Poet Lola Haskins will read from her new book, Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems, at 7 pm March 24, in the Dudley Bailey Library (Room 229), Andrews Hall. Haskins has been published in many journals and periodicals including: Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ploughshares, and the Abiko International Literary Quarterly (Japan). Her work has also appeared in numerous anthologies. She has read her poetry on NPR and on BBC Radio in England.
Her awards include National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, in 1984 and 2003, The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award and from the Poetry Society of America, and the Madeline Sadin Award from the New York Quarterly. Haskins graduated Summa Cum Laude from Stanford University and has has chaired the Creative Arts Committee for Phi Beta Kappa. She teaches computer science at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is also a musician and dancer.
The reading, which is sponsored by the UNL English Department, Creative Writing Program, Women's Studies, and the Faculty Convocations Committee, is free and open to the public. For more information call Grace Bauer at 472-0993. More information about Lola Haskins is available on her website.
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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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