Thu, Sep 07, 2006
September 7, 2006
PANEL DISCUSSION AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS HIGHLIGHT TODAYS EVENTS
UNL leads Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
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...
UNL HELPS LEAD MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT
Whitman Archive Wins C.F.W. Coker Award
The Walt Whitman Archive Integrated Guide Team was awarded the C.F.W. Coker Award from the Society of American Archivists Aug. 4 in Washington, D.C. The Coker Award recognizes the archives' breakthrough integrated finding guide to Whitman's poetry manuscripts.
The project, co-directed by Katherine Walter and Kenneth M. Price of UNL, was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. "The guide pulls together manuscript information from over 30 institutions into one finding aid," said Price, professor of English and co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL. more...
WALT WHITMAN ARCHIVE
LIED CENTER, 11AM | LIVE STREAM
Perlman to Deliver Annual State of the University Address
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman will deliver his annual State of the University address today at 11 am at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Perlman will discuss the successes of the past year and the challenges and opportunities offered by the 2006-07 academic year. Special guest Paul Barnes, associate professor of piano, will provide a musical presentation. The address is free and open to the public and will be broadcast live on the UNL Web site (http://www.unl.edu), Lincoln Time Warner cable Channel 21, NebSat 107, KRNU Radio (90.3 FM) and Campus Channel 4.
The State of the University address will be preceded by UNL's annual Employee Service Award recognition program at 10 a.m. in the Lied Center. Immediately after the address, the all-university picnic will be held in the Lied Plaza, sponsored by TIAA-CREF and University Dining Services and its vendors. more...
OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR
MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER, 4PM
After the Storm: Hurricane Katrina - A One-Year Retrospective Event - "Dialogue with Kalamu ya Salaam"
Dialogue with Kalamu ya Salaam, Moderator is Dr. Gregory Rutledge.
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7:30PM
After the Storm: Hurricane Katrina - A One-Year Retrospective Event - Keynote Address
Adam Nossiter, National Correspondent for the New York Times. Introduction: Dr. Seanna Oakley.
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
