September 21, 2005
Patricia Heberer
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GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 5PM
Lessons from the Holocaust, Medical Practices Topic of Lecture
The role of Nazi medical practices in the development of medical ethics and the lessons today's physicians have learned from the period leading up to the Holocaust is the focus of a series of public lectures by the American Medical Association and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A public lecture at 5 pm Wednesday, Sept. 21, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Great Plains Art Museum at Hewit Place, will focus on how medical atrocities of the Holocaust have affected modern medical ethics.
The lecture, "The Nazis and Medical Ethics: Contexts and Lessons," and a 4:30 pm reception are free and open to the public. Host for the event at UNL is the Humanities in Medicine program. Alan Wells, an expert in medical ethics, and Patricia Heberer, historian at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will lead the discussion.
"We want to understand why healers became killers and use our understanding as a guide for medicine today," Dr. Wells said. "Even though the horrors of the Holocaust seem to be so long ago, we can never forget this history because it continues to affect medical ethics today. For example, one reason doctors today are so concerned about racial and ethnic health disparities is because our codes of ethics demand that we treat every person equally, without regard to race or ethnic background. This ethical obligation is a direct outgrowth of the horrors of Nazi medicine."
"Many of the most important issues in medical ethics today - from genetic testing and stem cell research to the humane treatment of prisoners of war - are directly affected by the experiences of medicine leading up to and during the Holocaust," Dr. Wells said. "Physicians need to explore these issues without getting caught up in political agendas or the results can be something we never intended and cause great harm.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM | UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
Lied Center Presents Miss Saigon
From the writers of Les Misérables, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, comes another of the most popular musicals of all time, Miss Saigon. Originally produced by Cameron Mackintosh at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, this newly conceived touring production is produced by Big League Theatricals.
Set in 1975 during the final days leading up to the American evacuation of Saigon, Miss Saigon is the story of two young lovers torn apart by the fortunes of destiny and held together by a burning passion and the fate of a small child. This musical masterpiece with its soaring melodies and powerful emotions has captured hearts - and awards - around the world.
Miss Saigon is directed by Mitchell Lemsky, who previously served as Associate Director of Miss Saigon for the Broadway and US Touring productions, as well as productions in Canada, Germany and Japan. Jodi Moccia, who previously served as Associate Choreographer for the Broadway, US Touring and Toronto productions of Miss Saigon, provides musical staging.
The sixth longest running show in Broadway history, and one of the greatest stage successes ever, Miss Saigon has grossed more than $1.3 billion worldwide and won 29 awards. Internationally, Miss Saigon has been performed in 13 countries in 8 different languages, and has been seen by more than 28 million people worldwide. More than 13.2 million people in North America have seen Miss Saigon.
The Broadway production of Miss Saigon received 11 Tony Award nominations in 1991, including Best Musical, and won three. Miss Saigon also received the Outer Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical. The London production of Miss Saigon received Best Musical honors from The Evening Standard Awards and the London Theatre Critics Circle Awards.
LIED CENTER
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week at the Ross: The Aristocrats.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents The Aristocrats, the daft docu-comedy from Penn Jillette & Paul
Provenza.
"A man walks into a talent agent's office with his family and says, Have I got an act for you! The talent agent replies, So what do you do?" So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke that has been handed down from comedian to comedian for decades but is rarely told on stage. The next part of the joke varies, allowing for improvisation, and the only requirement in telling the joke is that it be as offensive as possible. Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette spent two years documenting as many versions of this infamous joke as possible, cornering comedians like Drew Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Susie Essman, and Paul Reiser whenever and wherever possible. The results are surprising, and often take their humor to places that may make sensitive viewers uncomfortable. While comic legends such as Don Rickles, The Smothers Brothers, and Phyllis Diller admit their familiarity with the joke, they shy away from telling their own versions. Some may be surprised, however, to see performers who are normally associated with family-friendly material, including Bob Saget and Jason Alexander, describing scatological and incestuous acts with deadpan glee. Ultimately, though, The Aristocrats is more than just many versions of the same dirty joke--it is an exploration of the workings of the unrestricted comic mind.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE ARISTOCRATS |
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E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biotechnology / Life Sciences Seminar - "Kinetics of Structural Transitions Involved in Virus Maturation and Allosteric Regulations Studied by Time-Resolved X-Ray Scattering"
Dr. Hiro Tsuruta, Stanford University
105 TEACHERS COLLEGE HALL, 4PM
Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education Lecture - "The Limits of School Reform"
Dr. David Berliner, Arizona State University
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VOLLEYBALL |
7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Texas A&M Aggies
NU COLISEUM
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