Wed, Aug 30, 2006
August 30, 2006
23 SPEAKERS & 45 TOPICS
Speakers Bureau Begins 12th Year
The UNL Speakers Bureau begins a 12th year with 23 speakers and 45 topics to choose. A free service, the Speakers Bureau connects faculty and university experts with Nebraska citizens through service organizations, schools and other groups who want knowledgeable, interesting speakers on a variety of topics.
The Speakers Bureau new season opens Sept. 6, with some speakers being available on a year-round basis and others during the academic year only.
SPEAKERS BUREAU
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 5:30PM
Artist Lecture - "Enrique Martinez Celaya Coming Home"
Enrique Martinez Celaya
3 YEAR, $18 MILLION RENOVATION
School of Natural Resources Gets a Makeover
The fall semester has opened doors to a new home for the School of Natural Resources. Previously scattered in eight buildings across East and City campuses, Natural Resources - created in 1997 and renamed in 2003 - has moved into Hardin Hall following a three-year, $18 million renovation. Hardin Hall - named in honor of Clifford Hardin, chancellor from 1954-1968 and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1969-1971 - is on the corner of 33rd and Holdrege streets and was formerly the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education.
"This facility will make our efforts more cohesive," said Mark Kuzila, director of the School of Natural Resources. "It is great to be in one place where faculty, staff and students can interact easily." Gutting the nine-story building to concrete supports and floors, the renovation provides Natural Resources faculty, staff and students with 150,000 square feet of labs and office space.
Included in Hardin Hall are the former departments of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife and Agricultural Meteorology, Conservation and Survey Division, the Water Center, the National Drought Mitigation Center, the High Plains Regional Climate Center, the Great Plains Regional Center for Global Environmental Change, the Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies, and the Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network. The Department of Statistics is also in Hardin Hall. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Strangers With Candy, Lower City Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Strangers With Candy, and Lower City. Both films will be showing through August 31.
Strangers With Candy is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the tale of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. When Jerri arrives at her childhood home, she discovers her earlier disappearance has caused her father to slip into a self-induced coma. Moved by guilt, and with hopes of jarring her father from his eternal slumber, Jerri decides to turn her life around by picking it up exactly where she left off - as a high school freshman. She's going to start her life over, only this time she's going to do the wrong things the right way. Once reenrolled in high school, and seeking to find that special thing that will erase thirty-two years of debauchery, Jerri stumbles upon the school sponsored State Science Fair. Convinced that winning the fair will resurrect her father, she signs up, expecting an easy stroll down the road to victory. Not surprisingly, she finds that the path is fraught with the many adolescent problems and temptations that plague all teenagers, but especially this forty-seven year old former boozer, user and loser.
In Lower City, steamy sex, glistening sweat, dark photography, grungy ghetto colors, and sudden violence pervade this Brazilian feature from director Sergio Machado. Alice Braga (City of God) stars as Karinna, a traveling prostitute who trades her favors to lifelong friends Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) for a ride back to Salvador on their run down boat. After Deco is almost killed at a cockfight, the three form a temporary menage-a-trois friendship, but the intense love each man feels for Karinna coupled with their homophobic macho wariness threatens to destroy their once unbreakable friendship.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | STRANGERS WITH CANDY | LOWER CITY
