Mon, Sep 11, 2006
September 11, 2006
J.C. SEACREST LECTURE HALL, ANDERSEN HALL, 7PM
Journalism Faculty Share Their Experiences on 5th Anniversary of 9/11
Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism professors personally involved in reporting efforts that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center will share their experiences in a joint talk on the fifth anniversary of the attacks.
Tim Anderson and Barney McCoy will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 in the J.C. Seacrest Lecture Hall of Harold and Marian Andersen Hall, Q Street and Centennial Mall. Anderson is a lecturer in news-editorial and McCoy is associate professor of broadcasting. The event is free and open to the public. more...
CoJMC
LOCK IT DOWN
Non-secure FTP Disabled Tomorrow
As of Sept. 12, 2006, secure FTP will be required for those individuals at UNL who develop, maintain, or are responsible for websites on the UNL web server, www.unl.edu. Secure FTP must be used to upload content onto the server. Non-secure FTP will be disabled and no longer available for use. If you have questions, visit the CWIS team website or email cwis3@unl.edu.
CWIS
EAST UNION, 3PM
Center for Grassland Studies Seminar - "Water Table Effects on Evapotranspiration in Sandhills Ecosystems"
Tim Arkebauer, UNL
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, OPENING TODAY
'Snail Trails, Broken Dishes, Streak of Lightning' at Hillestad Gallery
The quilt exhibit "Snail Trails, Broken Dishes and a Streak of Lightning: Evidence of Research at IQSC" will be on display at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery Sept. 11-29.
The display is the result of research by artist Mary Anne Jordan, a professor of textile design at the University of Kansas, on selected African-American and Amish quilts at UNL's International Quilt Study Center. It includes new work from Jordan along with quilts she examined while a visiting scholar at the IQSC in 2005-06. Jordan made her constructions out of fabric she dyed, printed and painted.
Visitors will have a chance to compare the work that Jordan studied and responded to, specifically what Jordan called the "bold visual elements and color of these two broad groupings of American quilts." more...
HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Road To Guantanamo, Brothers Of The Head Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Road To Guantanamo and Brothers Of The Head. Both films will be showing 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.
With Brothers Of The Head, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (the acclaimed directors of Lost in La Mancha) present their much anticipated debut feature. Written by Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Brothers Of The Head is the feverish, mind-bending odyssey of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band. Grappling with impossible love, artistic rivalry, and a dark inner life, the twins embrace their freakishness and spit it back in the form of searing Punk Rock. Brothers of the Head is a raucous ride through the seamy underground of 70's rock, and an unsettling glimpse into a relationship that is as beautiful as it is destructive.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO | BROTHERS OF THE HEAD
