Wed, Jan 24, 2007
January 24, 2007
SHELDON ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 1
'Architect's Brother' Exhibit Continues at Sheldon Art Gallery
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's "The Architect's Brother" continues at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The exhibition features 42 large-scale, mixed-media images creating a mythical world that mirrors ours, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The show will be on view through April 1. more...
SHELDON ART GALLERY
HARDIN HALL, 3:30PM
Water Center, WRRI, School of Natural Resources Williams Memorial Lecture - "Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Non-Linear Temperature Effects"
Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University, New York, NY
TRIPLES ARCHIVES' COLLECTION OF CATHER LETTERS
Family Donates Hundreds of Willa Cather Letters to UNL Libraries
A new collection containing a large amount of Willa Cather's personal correspondence was donated to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The collection of more than 350 letters is the largest ever donated and triples the University Archives' collection of Cather letters. The correspondence also opens new doors to Cather's life.
"The letters and other materials donated are previously unknown resources for Cather scholars to study. I firmly believe that the Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection will change the face of Cather scholarship, and the University Libraries are honored to be entrusted with the materials," said Katherine Walter, chair of Digital Initiatives and Special Collections and co-chair of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL. more...
UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland Shows at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland. It will play through February 1.
In The Last King of Scotland, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
MacDonald, director of the acclaimed documentaries One Day In September and Touching The Void, makes a startlingly assured transition into fictional filmmaking with The Last King of Scotland. Working with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (The Celebration) and editor Justine Wright, MacDonald brings 1970s Uganda to pulsating life, perfectly recreating that tumultuous era. But ultimately the film belongs to Whitaker: as he shifts from charming to maniacal in the space of a short, unexpected breath, he infuses Amin with startling humanity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
