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Wed, Nov 02, 2005

November 2, 2005

NEBRASKA UNION, 11AM - 3PM
"Help Us, Help Them" Ceramics Fundraising Sale Continues

The UNL School of Fine & Performing Arts is hosting a "Help Us, Help Them" fundraising sale in the Nebraska Union (1st Floor Alcove Space) today from 11 am - 3 pm. All pottery for sale was made during a two-weekend throw-a-thon event that involved undergraduate, special and graduate students and faculty from the art department throwing, trimming, glazing and firing all of the work for the fundraising sale. The proceeds of all sales will be donated to CERF (Craft Emergency Relief Fund), a non-profit organization committed to helping artists and craftspeople in times of crisis.

CERF

LIED CENTER, NOON
Evolution Speaker - 'Divided by Darwin: Creations and Popular Politics'
Noah Feldman, author

E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biotechnology / Life Sciences Seminar - "Light Signaling Networks in Maize'"
Dr. Tom Brutnell, Cornell Univ.

EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Seminar - 'Characterization of Cry1Ab Resistance in a Field Population of European Corn Borer, Ostrina nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) - Ph.D. Proposal'
Andre Crespo, graduate student, UNL

LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7PM
War and Ethics Philosopher Walzer to Give Thompson/Kripke Lecture

Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer, one of the world's eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics, will deliver the talk "The Paradox of National Liberation: India, Israel and Algeria" at 7 pm, Nov. 2 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. The talk is free and open to the public. A pre-forum talk by Mark Van Roojen, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will be given in the Lied's Steinhart Room at 6:30 pm.

Walzer's talk is the Kripke Lecture, a collaboration between the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues and the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at UNL. The Thompson Forum lectures are part of the Lied season performance series. An open discussion with Walzer will be held at 2 pm Nov. 3 in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. The topic will be just and unjust wars and will focus on the situation in Iraq.

Walzer has been professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., since 1980. His recent books include "Arguing about War" (2004) and "Politics and Passion: Toward a More Egalitarian Liberalism" (2005).

He has served as a member of the board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1974, and been co-editor of Dissent magazine since 1976 and a contributing editor of The New Republic magazine since 1977. Walzer has written on a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy, including political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state.

He has been credited with taking an active role in the revival of a practical, issue-focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life.

Regarding the Iraq war, Walzer has opposed the doctrine of pre-emptive war that President Bush claimed, but he also criticizes the leaders of France, Germany and Russia for failing to provide an alternative to war. more...

E.N. THOMPSON FORUM

MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Shake Hands with the Devil, 2046 Continue at the Ross

UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Shake Hands with the Devil and 2046. Shake Hands with the Devil runs through Nov. 3; 2046 through Nov. 10.

Shake Hands with the Devil is the most powerful documentary produced about the Rwandan genocide. Peter Raymont's film is a respectful portrait of Roméo Dallaire, the Canadian commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda in 1994, according the Stephen Holden, film critic for the New York Times.

In 100 days – between April 6 and July 16, 1994 – an estimated 800,000 men, women and children were brutally killed in the obscure African country of Rwanda. The victims – many horrifically hacked to death with machetes – were Tutsi, and moderate Hutus who supported them.

Director Wong Kar-Wai's style reaches its fullest expression in his stunning film 2046. Picture period sets and intricate costuming, finely wrought atmospheres, languid shots, glamorous cigarette smoke, lamplight, and allusions to film noir make 2046 one of the most compelling and beautiful films to be released this year.

2046 is a meditation on memory, eroticism, love, loss, and longing which surpasses the director's beautiful, widely acclaimed In the Mood for Love (2000) in terms of formal ambition and visual sumptuousness. With its intriguing, layered structure, the film follows the adventures of Chow Wo Man (Tony Leung), a womanizer who is writing a science fiction novel about a future year in which all memories are suspended. The film shuttles between the Blade Runner-like world of Chow's futuristic novel (complete with androids and other metaphors of emotional disconnection) and late-'60s Hong Kong – where Chow writes from a hotel room, and engages in relationships with a series of beautiful, complex women. The film also journeys to Singapore and through the increasingly mysterious corridors of the protagonist's memory.

More information is available at the Ross website.

MRRMAC | SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL | 2046