Mon, Feb 05, 2007
February 5, 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, 10AM
Dissertation Defense Seminar - "Variations of energetics of cyclones in the mid-latitude North America"
Yacoubou Tawaye, (Supervisor, Dr. Steve Hu)
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 3:30PM
Entomology Seminar - "Current status of WCR in Europe and selected research on trophic interactions;" "Endophytic fungi as mediators of plant-insect interactions"
Dr. Joachim Moeser, Georg-August University, Germany; Dr. Stephan Vidal, Georg-August University, Germany
UNL GRAD FIRST NEBRASKAN TO ATTEND ATF TRAINING ACADEMY
Graduate Chambers Unique Niche in State Crime Lab
I've fired hundreds of guns. And that was just during my first few months on the job." Kent Weber grins and slides a 9mm weapon onto its shelf as he says this.
Weber is not a robber, and he's not a cop. He's an anthropologist. Well, kind of.
Weber received his bachelor's in anthropology and international studies from UNL in 1998, and a formative experience at the university led him to his current work as a forensic scientist in the Nebraska State Patrol's Crime Lab. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Black Gold, Volver Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Black Gold and Volver. Black Gold will play through February 8, while Volver, shows through February 15.
"In an increasingly global economy, where the profit margins of huge multinational coffee companies continue to rise, prices paid for coffee harvests have reached an all-time low, forcing farmers in some of the world's poorest countries to abandon their once bountiful fields. Among the hardest hit by the devastating effects of this crisis is Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to bring a fair-trade market to the more than 70,000 struggling farmers whom he represents. As these hard-working people strive to keep the rich cultural heritage of their country intact by continuing to harvest some of the highest-quality coffee beans available, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find a fair price for the fruits of their labor. This seemingly Sisyphean endeavor takes him on an international journey to some of the biggest coffee marketplaces in the world, where he discovers that there are no easy solutions for the trade issues facing his impoverished countrymen. Black Gold is a moving and eye-opening look into the 80-billion-dollar global coffee industry, whose spoils are sparsely shared with the farmers who make it all possible." - Sundance Film Festival
Volver is not a surreal comedy, though it might seem so at times. The living and the dead live together without problems, but provoking hilarious situations and others full of deep and genuine emotion. It is a movie about the culture of death in my native region, La Mancha. My folks there live it in astonishing simplicity. The way in which the dead are still present in their lifes, the richness and humanity of their rites makes it possible for the dead to never really die. Volver shatters all cliches of a dark Spain and shows a Spain that is as real as it is opposed. A white Spain, spontaneous, fun, fearless, fair and with solidarity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
