November 7, 2005
UNL CAMPUS, 8AM - 3:30PM
Admissions Hosts Red Letter Day
Red Letter Days are Nebraska's
open-house-style campus visit option for high school seniors. From
about 8 am to 3:30 pm, high school seniors and family
members will be touring campus and attending information sessions.
The next Red Letter Day of the school year is scheduled for Monday,
October 31.
Visiting campus is the best way to learn more about the University – and
it's fun. Visitors meet current students, faculty and staff, receive
important information about majors, dine in a residence hall, and
more. Even if you've been to campus before, it's important to take
part in a Red Letter Day or Admissions Campus Visit. To learn more
about visit options and to print off a registration form for a Red
Letter Day, visit the UNL Undergraduate Admissions website.
ADMISSIONS | RED
LETTER DAYS |
121 HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, EAST CAMPUS, 3PM
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Quilt Lecture Series - "Beyond the Myth: The True History of American Quilts"
Carolyn Ducey and Dr. Patricia Crews
145 VBS, EAST CAMPUS, 4PM
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Seminar - "Characterization and Immunogenicity of Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus as a Viral Vector Expressing GP5 and M Protein of Porcine Reproductive Respiratory Syndrome Virus"
Marilia Oliveira, Masters Student Candidate
15 RICHARDS HALL, 7:30PM
Archaeological Institute of America Lecture - " Brief Encounter in Cuba: An Archaeological Survey of the Cuban Battlefields of the Spanish-American War"
Dr. Douglas Scott, Midwest Archeological, National Park Center, Lincoln, and Professor Peter Bleed, UNL
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HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, ROOM 121, EAST CAMPUS, 3 - 4:15PM
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute to Offer Quilt Study Series
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Log Cabin--Streak of Lightning variation
Maker unknown, possibly made in Jackson County, MO
circa 1880-1900
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will offer a six-week study series, "Beyond The Myth: The True History of American Quilts." The study series is Mondays Oct.17 to Nov. 21, from 3 to 4:15 pm in the Home Economics Building, Room 121, north of 35th Street and East Campus Loop.
Carolyn Ducey, curator of UNL's International Quilt Study Center, will present an overview of American quilt history. Patricia Crews, director of the International Quilt Study Center, will make a special presentation, "Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers." Ducey has been curator of collections for seven years, and has curated a number of exhibitions featuring quilts from the center collections and written articles and contributions for numerous publications.
Textiles, particularly quilts, are records of human progress and achievement. They offer examples of cultural heritage because women and men, from all walks of life, have made quilted bed coverings for more than two centuries. Quilt analysis sheds light on the ways gender, class ethnicity, aesthetics, politics, religion and technology find expression in the textile arts and quiltmaking traditions.
Study series participants will learn practical ways to care for cherished textiles in their homes and the importance of documenting quilt history as they tour the International Quilt Study Center's state-of-the-art storage facility.
For more information about membership and registration, contact the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at (402) 472-6265, visit its web site or send e-mail.
OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING | INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress, 2046 Continue at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress and 2046. Both films run through
Nov. 10.
Based on the international best-seller, Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress is set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China’s “Cultural Revolution,” as two city-bred teenage best friends, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu), are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education. Sons of “reactionary intellectuals,” the boys are required to perform arduous manual labor along with locals while under the supervision of the zealous village headman.
Because of their literacy, the headman sends them to a larger town to watch imported Albanian and North Korean communist melodramas, and then report back to the culture-starved locals. During one of these trips, the two see and fall in love with the local beauty (Xun Zhou), the daughter of the most renowned tailor in the region. They never know her name, referring to her only as "the Little Seamstress," but she captivates them with her innocence and sensuality.
When they discover a hidden suitcase filled with banned books by Western writers, mostly French — Flaubert, Dumas and Balzac among them – they read these works to the Little Seamstress for hours on end in a secret meeting place. Thirsting for knowledge of the world beyond, she comes to love, in particular, Balzac and his characters.
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 | BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS | 2046 |
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