Mon, Sep 04, 2006
September 4, 2006
UNL CAMPUS, SEPT 4-6
UNL Hosts ANDRILL Pre-Drilling Workshop
Scientists and educators from the United States and partner nations will be in Lincoln Sept. 4-6 to prepare for the first Antarctic drilling season in the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) program.
The ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf Project Pre-drilling Workshop will bring nearly 40 scientists and four of the six educators chosen to participate in this year's drilling season to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. They will meet in Morrill and Bessey halls to finalize plans for the October to early January McMurdo Ice Shelf Project, to be led by co-chief scientists Tim Naish of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences in New Zealand and Ross Powell of Northern Illinois University. more...
ANDRILL
FIRST THOMPSON FORUM LECTURE OF 2006
Tickets for Bolton Lecture Available at Three Locations
Free tickets for the Sept. 8 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues featuring U.S. United Nations Ambassador John Bolton are being distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at the Lied Ticket Office, the Nebraska Union and Westfield Gateway, 61st and O streets.
The lecture is Sept. 8 at 3:30 p.m. at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. It is free and open to the public, but because of the anticipated level of interest, free reserved-seat tickets will be distributed. Ticket distribution started Aug. 28. They will be distributed in person only at the Lied Ticket Office (no Internet orders), at the shopping concierge center at Westfield Gateway and at the service desk at the Nebraska Union. Numbers will be limited to two tickets per person. Ticketing questions can be directed to the Lied Ticket Office, 472-4747.
E.N. THOMPSON FORUM
UNL CAMPUS, SEPT 5-8
UNL leads Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
From Aug. 25 to Aug. 28, 2005, thousands fled the Gulf Coast or awaited a predicted devastating hurricane. In the year since, the world has watched residents struggle to rebuild their homes and communities, observed policymakers wrestle with answers to issues of sustainability, and examined what went wrong in preparedness and emergency reaction.
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, faculty, students and invited guests will spend four days examining Hurricane Katrina with panels, lectures and discussions, and give people time to reflect emotionally and intellectually on an event that had historic significance.
From Sept. 5 to Sept. 8, UNL will present documentaries, panels on Nebraska's response and local hurricane evacuees, a presentation from a historian from Tulane University, other talks by people affected and a lecture by a New York Times correspondent who covered the disaster, and discussion by UNL students who have helped in the recovery effort. On Sept. 8, a cultural gala at the Champions Club, 707 Stadium Drive, will end the events. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Road To Guantanamo, Russian Dolls Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Road To Guantanamo and Russian Dolls. Russian Dolls will be showing through September 7, while The Road To Guantanamo will play through September 14.
Winner of the Silver Beat at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Road To Guantanamo is the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the "Tipton Three," in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to Britain and released, still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal. The film has already engendered significant controversy due to its critical stance towards the American and British governments. Part documentary, part dramatization, the film chronicles the sequence of events that led from the trio setting out from Tipton in the British Midlands for a wedding in Pakistan, to their crossing the Afghanistan border just as the U.S. began their invasion, to their eventual capture by the Northern Alliance and their imprisonment in Camp X-Ray and later at Camp Delta in Guantanamo.
Precisely observed, charming, and light as air, Cedric Klapisch's update of his 2000 romantic comedy, L'Auberge Espanole, offers at minimum the pleasure of checking back in with a bunch of comely but hopelessly neurotic young things after five years of life experience have washed over them. The fly in the ointment is that Klapisch's alter ego, Xavier (played by Romain Duris, who gave a brilliant performance as an artistically inclined gangster in last year's The Beat That My Heart Skipped), has hardly changed unless you count the fact that he's stitched together a modicum of career success as a multitasking writer in the new world economy. Rushing between London and Paris via the Chunnel, Xavier further demonstrates his ongoing failure to commit to any one of a bevy of biddable women, among them Audrey Tautou, as his equally screwed-up but terrifyingly candid ex, and the excellent Kelly Reilly, as an old friend with romantic troubles of her own. Russian Dolls is rarely less than engaging, but I was never able to make up my mind as to whether I was watching a movie trying, Truffaut style, to uncover its deeper meanings as it went along, or a serious attack of psychological vanity. - Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO | RUSSIAN DOLLS
