November 9, 2005
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MULTIPLE SITES, 6:30PM
Thomas C. Sorensen Forum for Political Leadership
Broadcast to multiple sites statewide, the Thomas C. Sorensen Forum for Political Leadership will take place at 6:30 pm this evening. Participants include Senator Ray Aguilar; Rick Foster, Vice President for Programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; UNK Chancellor Doug Kristensen; and Sandy Scofield, director of the University of Nebraska Rural Initiative. Bill Kelly, executive producer for NET Television will be the moderator. The forum is co-sponsored by the UNL College of Arts and Sciences and the NU Public Policy Center.
More information, including how to register for the series, is available on the UNL Public Policy Center web site.
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EAST UNION, NOON
Credit Union Seminar - "Fraud / Identity Theft"
NEBRASKA UNION, 12:30PM
Ethnic Studies Colloquium - "Glimpses of Ethiopia"
Will Norton, UNL. Sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Colloquium Committee (Institute for Ethnic Studies
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PROGRAM AIMED AT NEXT GENERATION OF RESEARCHERS
4 Distinguished UNL Alumni Return for Masters Week
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Clockwise, from upper-left; Libby Swanson Jacobs, S. Suzane Nielsen Ph.D, Marc LeBaron, Janet Sellon
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Four distinguished University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumni will return to campus Nov, 9-12 for Masters Week, an annual event that connects students with successful Nebraska graduates.
This year's UNL Masters include Elizabeth "Libby" Swanson Jacobs, director of community relations with the Principal Financial Group in Des Moines and member of the Iowa Legislature; Marc LeBaron, chairman and CEO of Lincoln Plating; S. Suzanne Nielsen, professor and head of the Department of Food Science at Purdue University; and Janet (Kruse) Sellon, family physician at Lincoln Family Wellness and former distinguished student-athlete in volleyball.
The schedule of each master's activities while he or she is on campus is listed on the Nebraska Alumni web site.
Masters Week was founded in 1964 by then-Chancellor Clifford Hardin. The program brings successful alumni into contact with students through class visitations, campus tours and meetings with clubs and organizations. More than 200 alumni have returned to campus as masters since the program's inception.
UNL faculty nominate alumni each winter for the next year's program. Masters are selected by a committee appointed by the chancellor. Masters Week is sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and the Nebraska Alumni Association.
NEBRASKA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
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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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