Thu, Nov 02, 2006
November 2, 2006
VARIOUS SITES, UNL CAMPUS, NOV 1-4
UNL Masters Return to Campus To Share With Students
Five distinguished University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumni return to campus Nov. 1-4 for Masters Week, an annual event that connects university graduates with students. UNL faculty nominate alumni each winter for the next year's program. Masters are selected by a committee appointed by the chancellor. Masters Week is sponsored by the Chancellor's office, the Student Alumni Association, Innocents Society and Mortar Board. The program brings successful alumni into contact with students through class visitations, campus tours, and meetings with clubs and organizations.
This year's UNL Masters are: Kent Andersen, executive vice president of the North American Limousin Foundation; Chris Greene, professor of physics at the University of Colorado and chair of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics; John Hoerner, chief executive of Central European Clothing for Tesco, the United Kingdom's largest retailer; Patricia "Patti" Peterson, attorney and partner with Kutak Rock in Omaha; and Rob Reeder, manager of advertising for Hallmark and Hallmark Gold Crown Stores.
The schedules of each Master's activities on campus is listed on the Nebraska alumni Web site.
ASUN
RICHARDS HALL, ROOM 15, 5:30PM
Guest Artist Offers Printmaking Lecture
Margo Humphrey, an artist in residence in the UNL Department of Art and Art History, will offer a lecture and print demonstration today at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Room 15. The lecture will be followed by a reception and print demonstration, 6:30 to 8 p.m., in Nelle Cochrane Woods Building, room 303. Both events are free and open to the public.
Humphrey is an associate professor of printmaking at the University of Maryland. She will be in residence at UNL Oct. 30 to Nov. 3. While in residence, Humphrey will complete an edition of prints for the Under Pressure Print Club, a community support group for the UNL printmaking area. Students and faculty will assist the artist to produce a multiple block color woodcut print. more...
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 3PM
Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies Program Lecture - "What Does Class Inequality Among Women Look Like? A Comparison with Men and Families, 1970-2000"
Dr. Leslie McCall, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series - "To align or not to align: protein family classification in the twilight zone"
Dr. Etsuko Moriyama, Biological Sciences, UNL
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Viva Pedro!: The Films of Pedro Almodovar, Factotum Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Viva Pedro!: The Films of Pedro Almodovar and Factotum. All films will be showing through November 9.
Sony Pictures Classics presents Viva Pedro!, the theatrical re-release of eight of celebrated auteur Pedro Almodovar's greatest films. The theatrical re-release will introduce new audiences to Almodovar and at the same time present the films to his many fans in the manner which they are meant to be seen and appreciated. Brand new prints have been made of all eight films. Several of these titles have not been shown in theaters since their original release. All of the films have been withdrawn from the DVD marketplace to accommodate their theatrical re-release. Films being shown in the retrospective are: Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), All About My Mother (1999), Talk To Her (2002), Flower Of My Secret (1995), Live Flesh (1996), Law Of Desire (1987), Matador (1986), and Bad Education (2004).
The life of celebrated Wildman Charles Bukowski has been brought to the big screen on a number of occasions prior to this adaptation of his book, Factotum. This Norwegian production from director Bent Hamer sees Matt Dillon taking on the role of Chinaski. Dillon gets the character just about right, subtly perfecting the deadbeat behavior that leads to innumerable firings from menial jobs, while also offering a persuasive depiction of a man lost in the throes of an addiction to booze, women, and gambling. Set in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which overflows with the depreciated low-rent apartments and cruddy, soul destroying workplaces Bukowski thrived upon, Factotum is an arresting depiction of humanity at its lowest ebb.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | VIVA PEDRO! | FACTOTUM
