Fri, Sep 22, 2006
September 22-24, 2006
SHELDON GALLERY, FRI 7PM
Sheldon Hosts Clean Part Reading Series
Octopusmagazine.com and Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery will present The Clean Part Poetry Reading series this fall and winter in the Ethel S. Abbott auditorium. The monthly series, organized by Mathias Svalina and Zachary Schomburg, editors of Octopusmagazine.com, will open Friday, September 22, from 7 to 9 pm and offer readings by two or three poets.
The Clean Part Series is informal and showcases the thrills of language and inspiration. Admission is free.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
UNL CAMPUS, SEPT 21-23
Campus Hosts 2006 Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning Conference
he University of Nebraska-Lincoln will serve as host to the 2006 Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education’s Annual Conference Sept. 21-23. Featured speakers include Barbara Holland and Barbara Jacoby, both nationally known leaders in service-learning in higher education.
Both Holland and Jacoby will offer pre-conference workshops in the scholarship of engagement and campus-community partnerships. Jacoby will also deliver the keynote address, “Service-learning: What, So What, Now What” on Sept. 21. Concurrent sessions on service-learning research and practice presented by faculty from institutions across the Midwest fills the remainder of the conference schedule. An Undergraduate Leadership Conference will be held for students on Sept. 22.
The conference is open for the UNL community, although registration is required. For more information, call 472-2454 or go to http://si.unl.edu/mcconf/
MIDWEST CONSORTIUM FOR SERVICE LEARNING CONFERENCE
NEBRASKA UNION, SEPT 21-22
Pauley Symposium To Look at 'History in Digital Age'
Two keynote lectures and a luncheon talk by the former president of PBS and NBC News will highlight the Carroll R. Pauley Memorial Endowment Symposium Sept. 21-22 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Titled "History in the Digital Age," the symposium will also feature several leading scholars from the United States and Canada who will give talks examining how computerization has affected research and teaching in the humanities. All events are in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
The keynote address, "The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age," by Alan Liu, professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will begin at 7:30 pm Sept 22. A roundtable discussion with opportunities for audience participation will follow Liu's talk and conclude the symposium. For the roundtable, Liu will joined by Ayers, Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University, and William Thomas, professor of history at UNL. Liu's lecture will be preceded by a dessert reception at 7 pm. more...
DEPT. OF HISTORY
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Arctic Ocean spring melt, are the conditions changing?"
Mark Anderson, UNL
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Nanostructures: Simple Chemistry Meets Complex Physics"
Professor Younan Xia, University of Washington
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics colloquium - "Combinatorial Results Motivated by Computational Biology"
Christine Heitsch, Georgia Tech. The talk will be preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall.
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "The causes and consequences of colony fusion in the termite, Reticulitermes flavipes"
Dr. Christopher J. DeHeer, Post-Doc Research Associate, Department of Entomology
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Quinceanera, Sketches of Frank Gehry Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Quinceanera and Sketches of Frank Gehry. Both films will be showing through September 28.
In Qunceanera, Magdalena (Emily Rios) is the daughter of a Mexican-American family who run a storefront church in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With her fifteenth-birthday approaching, all she can think about is her boyfriend, her Quinceanera dress, and the Hummer Limo she hopes to arrive in on her special day. But a few months before the celebration, Magdalena gets pregnant. As the elaborate preparations for her Quinceanera proceed, it is only a matter of time before her religious father finds out and rejects her. Forced out of her home, Magdalena moves in with great-great uncle Tomas (Chalo Gonzalez), a gentle man who makes his living selling champurrado (a Mexican hot drink) in the street. Already living with him is Carlos (Jesse Garcia), Magdalena's cousin, a tough young cholo who was thrown out by his parents for being gay. The back house rental where Tomas has lived happily for many years is on a property that was recently purchased by an affluent white gay couple (David Ross and Jason L. Wood) -- pioneers of gentrification in the neighborhood. Carlos quickly attracts the couple's attention and they soon make him their plaything in an ongoing three-way. As Magdalena's pregnancy grows more visible, she, Carlos and Tomas pull together as a family of outsiders. But the economics of the neighborhood are turning against them. Ultimately, this precipitates a crisis that threatens their way of life.
Oscar winning director Sydney Pollack takes a sharp sideways turn with Sketches of Frank Gehry, a documentary about the noted architect. Although the two men have been friends for years, Pollock thankfully bypasses the opportunity to pay a fawning tribute to Gehry, instead presenting a well-balanced portrait that offers both positive and negative commentators the chance to etch their thoughts into celluloid. But it quickly becomes clear that the biggest naysayer of all is Gehry himself, who is painted as a highly self-critical man, clearly ill-at-ease with fame and his own achievements. Pollock offers some screen time to Gehry's magnificent creations, but not as much as a less experienced director might have done, instead choosing to focus on the man himself. People such as Gehry's therapist, Milton Wexler, and garrulous artist/director Julian Schnabel (Basquait) offer their thoughts, but the real magic occurs when Pollock and Gehry are on screen together. The series of interviews between the two men have the kind of relaxed atmosphere that could only exist after years of friendship, and Gehry comes across as an astonishingly normal and likeable fellow who keeps his ego firmly in check. Shooting mostly with hand-held digital-video cameras also brings a nice intimacy to the proceedings, creating a warm testimony to a great artist who has somehow managed to keep his integrity intact despite the ruthless nature of the industry in which he works.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | QUINCEANERA | SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY
