Wed, Oct 11, 2006
October 11, 2006
UNL CAMPUS, THIS WEEK
'Week Without Violence' Observed at UNL
Statistics show that one in three college women experience sexual assault, and up to 60 percent of students experience an abusive dating relationship by high school graduation. These forms of violence and what can be done to reduce their occurrence are the focus Oct. 9-14 of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Week Without Violence.
The UNL Women's Center has coordinated Week Without Violence events for more than 10 years, and collaborates with other UNL and Lincoln groups to raise awareness about the impact of violence on all, and to empower the community to create a safer environment for everyone. more...
WOMEN'S CENTER
107 BURNETT HALL, 3:30PM
Psychology Department Colloquium - "Katrina in my Community: How Intergroup Contact, Individuating Information, and Perceived Threat Affect Stereotypes and Prejudice"
Dr. Jenn Hunt, Assistant Professor of Psychology, UNL
BURNETT HALL, 3:30PM
Psychology Colloquium - "Katrina in my Community: How Intergroup Contact, Individuating Information, and Perceived Threat Affect Stereotypes and Prejudice"
Dr. Jenn Hunt, Assistant Professor of Psychology, UNL
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar Series - "Regulation of wild-type gene expression by the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway"
Dr. Audrey Atkin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ANDREWS HALL, 4PM
Classics and Religious Studies Lecture - "Moses, Myth, Archaeology, and History"
Robert J. Littman This illustrated talk looks at the Egyptian material, archaeological remains and inscriptions and what they can tell us about the early history of the Hebrews, particularly Moses, Jacob, and Joseph.
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, FRI, SAT 7:30PM
UNL's University Theatre Presents 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 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
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
