Wed, Nov 15, 2006
November 15, 2006
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER, 8-10AM
University Health Center Holds Flu Shot Clinic
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln University Health Center will have several influenza vaccine clinics through Nov. 15 on City and East campuses for UNL students, faculty and staff. Today, a clinic is scheduled for 8-10 a.m. at the University Health Center on 15th and U streets.
Flu vaccinations cost $20 and payment via cash or check is required at the time of the vaccination. For those with Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance, a claim will be filed for them by UHC staff for possible reimbursement (proof of insurance must be presented at the time of vaccination). Flu vaccinations are also available by appointment at UHC for those unable to attend the clinics. Call UHC at (402) 472-5000 or visit the Health Center web site.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSUEM, 3:30PM
Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies - "Mari Sandoz and the Making of a Plains Historian: Life at the Raucous and Eccentric University of Nebraska and Nebraska State Historical Society, 1923-1933"
John R. Wunder, Professor of History and Journalism, UNL. Reception begins at 3 p.m.
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Institute for Ethnic Studies Colloquia Series 2006 - "Deconstructing the Visual Narrative of Evolution"
Carleen Sanchez, Anthropology & Geography and Ethnic Studies
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - "The Landscape of Gene Function in the Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans"
Dr. Aaron Mitchell, Columbia University. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Mari Sandoz and Making of Plains Historian at Olson Seminar
Many people and events influenced Mari Sandoz, a young writer-in-the-making at the University of Nebraska during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and they will be the subject of the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
John R. Wunder, professor of history and journalism at UNL, will present "Mari Sandoz and the Making of a Plains Historian: Life at the Raucous and Eccentric University of Nebraska and Nebraska State Historical Society, 1923-1933," from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the museum are free and open to the public.
Wunder will discuss how the years 1923 to 1933 were crucial formative years for the university, for many in Lincoln, and for intellectual life on the Great Plains. He will describe how Sandoz spent her days with aspiring writers such as Weldon Kees, Loren Eiseley and Bess Streeter Aldrich; history professors such as Fred Morrow Fling, John Andrew Rice, and John Hicks; and kindred graduate students and friends such as folklorist Benjamin Botkin and ethnologist Eleanor Hinman. Out of this decade emerged the acclaimed Sandhills author of "Old Jules," "Crazy Horse," and many other award-winning works of history and fiction.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tales Of The Rat Fink, Shortbus Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tales Of The Rat Fink and Shortbus. Both films will be showing through November 23.
From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes Tales Of The Rat Fink, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent - "Rat Fink." Hot Rodding grew from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important. Mann's largely animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Brian Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Matt Groening, Robert Williams, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul LeMat, Billy F Gibbons, and The Smothers Brothers. Filmed in Kandy color. Recorded with real 426 hemi engines. Rated F for Fink's everywhere.
John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | TALES OF THE RAT FINK | SHORTBUS
