March 25-27, 2005
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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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NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI 11AM
School of Natural Resources, Agricultural Economics and Economics Lecture - 'Evaluating Incentive Mechanisms for Protecting Environmental Amenities on Private Lands'
Gregory Parkhurst, Mississippi State University
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Protein Motions in Binding, Catalysis, and Folding'
Arthur G. Palmer, III, Columbia University
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'Representation Theory and the Theory of Automata and Regular Languages'
Stuart Margolis, Bar-Ilan University, Queens College (NY) and Hunter College
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LIED CENTER, FRI 3:30PM
Gutman to Speak on 'Afghanistan
and Lessons Learned'
Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the subject of genocide, will speak on "U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights" on March 25 at 3:30 pm at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Power's talk is part of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. The talk is free and open to the public. A pre-forum talk will be held at 3 p.m. in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room. The talk will be streamed live on the Web at http://www.unl.edu and carried live on KRNU radio (90.3 FM) and Channel 21 on Lincoln TimeWarner Cable.
The Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and adjunct lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Power won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide."
"A Problem From Hell" is a scholarly analysis of America's policy toward genocide in the 20th century that asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? In the book, Power draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, to trace the United States' policy on genocide: the Turks' slaughter of the Armenians in 1915, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Saddam's gassing of the Kurds, the ethnic cleansings of Yugoslavia, and the Hutus' genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Power moved to the United States from her native Ireland in 1979, and attended Yale University and Harvard Law School. She was a journalist for U.S. News & World Report and The Economist, for whom she covered the war in Yugoslavia from 1993 to 1996. In 1996 she joined the International Crisis Group as a political analyst, helping launch the organization in Bosnia.
Her article on the Rwandan genocide, "Bystanders to Genocide" appeared in the September 2001 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. She also edited, with Graham Allison, "Realizing Human Rights." Power has just written a new introduction to Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism" and has begun work on a book on the causes and consequences of "historical amnesia" in American foreign policy.
The Thompson series, a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center for Performing Arts and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has a mission of promoting better understanding of world events and issues to all Nebraskans. In 1990, the name of the series was changed in honor of E.N. "Jack" Thompson, a 1933 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who served as president of the Cooper Foundation from 1964 to 1990 and as its chairman from 1990 until his death in 2002.
E.N.
THOMPSON FORUM
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NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 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.
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EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY, FRI 5PM
Opening Reception Held for First MFA Thesis Exhibition
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Esme Guenther, "Back," etching, aquatint, 15" x 25", 2004.
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An opening reception will be held on Friday, Marcd 25 from 5 to 7 pm for the first MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery. The exhibition opened on March 21 and continues through March 31. Special hours for this exhibition will be Monday-Friday,
noon to 4pm. It features the work of three
third-year graduate students: Meredith Brickell, ceramics, Kristen
Martincic, printmaking, and Esme Guenther, printmaking.
Guenther's show is titled "Hypnosis of the Road." She does prints that are mainly etchings and lithography. "A great deal of my imagery has to do with maps and what they mean and represent to me," Guenther said. "I am originally from the Pacific Northwest, so that landscape plays into my imagery."
Brickell's show is titled "Trace." Her current body of work is an investigation of the ceramic vessel, both as an object for use and as a container of contemplative space. Her hand-built pieces allude to rural landscapes and architecture through three-dimensional form and drawings on the surface of the clay
Martincic's exhibition is titled "Lay Bare." In it, she explores the duality of absence and presence within the context of domestic and private life. She uses constructed undergarments and clothes hangers as symbols to convey issues of vulnerability and privacy.
For more information, call the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery at (402) 472-5025.
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