Tue, Oct 03, 2006
October 3, 2006
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
El Salvador Peace Corps Volunteer Gives Talk
Peace Corps volunteer and University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate Tara Anderson will speak at 7 p.m. this evening in the Nebraska Union (room posted).
Anderson will talk about her ongoing experience working in El Salvador on a Peace Corps forestry/environmental program. She and local Peace Corps representatives will also discuss post-graduation opportunities in the Peace Corps. The event is free and open to the public.
UNL PEACE CORPS
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Instructor-Regulated Collective Learning in Science Courses"
John Markwell, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
Lied Hosts "Crimethink: A 1984 Symposium"
During the week of October 2-6, the Lied Center will be hosting a CRIMETHINK symposium to celebrate our freedom and right to question, discuss, and disagree. Guest speakers, student presentations, and artwork displays will enrich the symposium, covering topics inculding civil liberties, human rights, war, and media. All events will lead to the Actor’s Gang's performance of Orwell's novel, 1984, on Friday, October 6. All symposium events are free for students and open to the public.
On Tuesday, D. F. Costello (Professor, Computer Science and Engineering) will present a lunch lecture entitled "It's Not Your Grandma's 'Ma Bell' Anymore" at 12:15 p.m. at the Chestnut Tree Cafe in Lied Center's Steinhart Room. At 4 p.m. in the Steinhart Room, Robert R. Tovado, Colonel and Commander in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps will present a talk entitled, "In Defense of America."
For more information about the weeks events, visit the Crimethink Symposium web site.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Who Killed The Electric Car?, Drawing Restraint 9 Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Who Killed The Electric Car? and Drawing Restraint 9. Both films will be showing through October 12.
It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? Who Killed The Electric Car? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business.
Matthew Barney teams up with Bjork for Drawing Restraint 9. In this highly experimental film in the style of Barney's CREMASTER cycle, Bjork also provides the soundtrack, making it essential viewing for fans of her more esoteric ventures. Matthew Barney's stately, ritualistic film takes place mostly on the Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship afloat in Nagasaki Bay. A good part of the film follows Mr. Barney and Bjork, who are welcomed aboard the ship as Occidental guests and undergo elaborate preparations for a traditional Shinto wedding ceremony. Their union, however ecstatic, quickly leads to a solemn, stylized Liebestod that embodies the film's depiction of life as a series of passages in a relentless cycle of creation and destruction. Like Mr. Barney's Cremaster Cycle, Drawing Restraint 9 is a cinematic component of a larger exhibition that will embrace videos, sculptures, drawings and photographs. The complexities of such a multimedia work will perhaps be best scrutinized by art critics and historians. Working as a mostly nonverbal series of interconnected images with a soundtrack composed by Bjork, the film represents a significant advance from Cremaster Cycle. - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? | DRAWING RESTRAINT 9
