Fri, Oct 06, 2006
October 6-8, 2006
NEBRASKA UNION PLAZA, FRI 11AM - 2PM
Exhibit on German-American U.S. internment During WWII at UNL
Using 10 narrative panels, an NBC "Dateline" documentary and a 1945 U.S. government color film about this story, TRACES' mobile museum -- a retrofitted school bus called the BUS-eum 2 -- will stop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Oct. 6 on a tour through the Midwest to tell the story of German-Americans interned in the United States during World War II.
The BUS-eum 2 will be at the Nebraska Union Plaza, 15th and S streets, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 6. The event at UNL is sponsored by the Department of History. more...
TRACES
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
Lied Hosts "Crimethink: A 1984 Symposium"
"Crimethink: A 1984 Symposium" concludes Friday, October 6 with a full slate of free events, leading up to the Actor’s Gang's performance of Orwell's novel, 1984, on at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Additional events includde Amy Miller of ACLU Nebraska will present a lunch lecture entitled "Dissent IS Patriotism: The Assault on Free Speech and Protest in America Today" at 12:15 p.m. at the Chestnut Tree Cafe in Lied Center's Steinhart Room. From 1 - 4 p.m., a student symposium will take place featuring debate, panel discussions, artwork, and free food while supplies last. At 4 p.m. in the Lied Center lobbies, artist Ann Gradwohl will discuss her work "Surveillance" and walk through the installation with visitors.
For more information about the weeks events, visit the Crimethink Symposium web site.
KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Fall Seminar - "Skip Row Corn For Improved Drought Tolerance in Rainfed Corn"
Bob Klein, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, West Central Research & Extension Center. Refreshments at 2:30.
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Geometry and Chemistry: Reticular Chemistry and the Search for Open Framework Materials"
Professor Michael O'Keeffe, Arizona State University
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Fully integrated Earth System Modeling in a Petaflop world: Financial feedbacks and beyond"
David Erickson, Oak Ridge National Lab
NEBRASKA HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Centennial Seminar Series - "Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Progress at the National University of Singapore"
Seeram Ramakrishna, Director, Nano-Bio Initiative and Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Natl. Univ. of Singapore. Preceded at 3 p.m. by a reception in W317.1 Nebraska Hall. Open to the public.
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "Modeling gene flow at the landscape level application to coexistence between GM and non-GM supply chains"
Dr. Antoine Messean, Scientific Director of CEYIOM, INRA, Grignon, France
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics colloquium - "C-Star-algebras of Directed and Higher-rank Graphs"
Cynthia Farthing, UNL. The talk will be preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, FRI 4:30PM
Hyde Lecture
Paul Lewis, Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis Architects, New York, N.Y.
MUELLER PLANETARIUM, SAT, SUN 2 & 3PM
Mueller Planetarium to Explain the New Definition of Planets
A new astronomy show at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Mueller Planetarium will attempt to clear up some of the confusion and consternation that has existed since the International Astronomical Union made its decision in August to reclassify Pluto. Planetarium visitors will have the opportunity to learn what happened and find out what they need to know about Pluto and the rest of our neighborhood in "What the Heck Is Happening with the Planets?"
Jack Dunn, coordinator of Mueller Planetarium, said letters to Web sites and questions from the public in general have increased as the public wonders what to make of the IAU decisions. "People act like Pluto has been taken out of the solar system, or had its orbiting privileges revoked. But that's not what has happened," Dunn said. The 30-minute program features beautiful animations of the beginning of the solar system and a flight into the galaxy ending at the Earth. The new show will be presented at 2 and 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays beginning Oct. 7 (except Oct. 21 and Nov. 4, the dates of Nebraska home football games).
MUELLER PLANETARIUM
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, FRI, SAT 7:30PM
UNL's University Theatre Kicks Off 2006-2007 Season With Judevine
UNL Theatre's University Theatre kicks off its 106th season of productions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with David Budbill's Judevine. The production, directed by Associate Professor Virginia Smith, will have performances October 6, 7 & 11, 12, 13, 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. 4-Admission Season Passes are $50, $40 faculty/staff and senior citizens. Tickets and passes are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 North 12th Street or by credit card at 402-472-4747 or 800-432-3231 Monday through Friday 11 AM to 5:30 p.,.
Judevine is a parade of lives seen singly and in relation to others: Raymond and Ann, who in their 50 years together have become a mythic vision of love and warmth and cooperation; Grace, whose tortured and lonely life explodes into bitterness, jealousy and finally into madness; teenage Carol Hopper, middle-aged Conrad and the Vietnam vet, Tommy, who each in their isolation withdraw into themselves; Lucy, who lives in a past that's gone, and Jerry who loves and protects her; Alice who is "half man half woman," who "embraces other people's lives;" Laura and Edgar who pass their ordered, proper and restrained days while bursting with repressed passion for each other; and Antoine, the foul mouthed saint, the irrepressible, effusive, loquacious and ebullient lover of women and life. These and many others populate the town and the life of Judevine and are brought to the stage by David, the poet, who is the narrator of this play and our guide to these compelling portraits of ordinary people, by turns raucous and bawdy, delicate and painful, funny and angry. David reveals to us an intensely passionate and caring song of praise celebrating human nature.
UNL THEATRE ARTS
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, FRI 4PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Baylor Bears
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Colorado State Rams
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 12:15PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Colorado State Rams
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, SUN NOON
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Texas Tech Red Raiders
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 2:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Kansas Jayhawks
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 4:45PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Creighton Bluejays
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
