Wed, Feb 07, 2007
February 7, 2007
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
South African Scholar to Discuss Township Women in Time of HIV/AIDS
A South African scholar will speak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during Black History Month in February. Nthabiseng Motsemme, a visiting scholar at De Paul University in Chicago, will deliver "Loving in a Time of Hopelessness: On Township Women's Subjectivities in a Time of HIV/AIDS" at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union (room posted). The lecture is free and open to the public.
A native of Pretoria, South Africa, Motsemme investigates aspects of human interactions and the ways cultural artifacts such as language and practices of witchcraft are used by women in the urban ghettoes of South Africa's Kwa/Zulu Natal province. Situating her research within a socio-historical and cultural framework, Motsemme teases out broader issues of personhood, responsibility, risk, interrelationships, love and intimacy. Her lecture is timely as South Africa copes with the distinction of having the world's highest HIV/AIDS infection rates.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
BEADLE CENTER, 2PM
Dermot P. Coyne Distinguished Lectureship - "A Gorgeous Mosaic: Horizontal Gene Transfer Gone Wild in Plants"
Dr. Jeffrey D. Palmer Indiana University, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biology, Class of 1955 Endowed Professorship, Member, National Academy of Sciences USA
HARDIN HALL, 3:30PM
Water Center, WRRI and School of Natural Resources - "Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the Environment: Are We Overlooking Androgens?"
Gerald (Gary) Ankley, US Enviromental Protection Agency, Duluth, MN.
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Black History Month Lecture/Women's and Gender Studies Colloquium - "Loving in a Time of Hopelessness: On Township Women's Subjectivities in a Time of HIV/AIDS"
Nthabiseng Motsemme, Visiting Scholar/Depaul University. For event details, see our website.
BEADLE CENTER, 2PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2007 Seminar - "Gene regulation through the control of ribosome movement"
Dr. Jeffrey D. Palmer Indiana University, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biology, Class of 1955 Endowed Professorship, Member, National Academy of Sciences USA
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 29
Sheldon Exhibit to Focus on Relationship Between Comic, High Art
Drawn from the permanent collection and loans from collectors, "Comic Art," a new exhibition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, plots the relationship between comic and high art.
Chris Ware, one of the leading comic artists in the United States today, has written an essay for the gallery guide to the exhibition. In it, he shares his views on the place that comic art occupies in American culture and in the high art world today. The exhibition, on view from Feb. 6 through April 29, will include works from Enrique Chagoya, Jon E. Gierlich and S. Clay Wilson, Howard Finster, Red Grooms, Philip Guston, George Herriman, Roger Shimomura, Saul Steinberg, Art Spiegelman and Walt Kelly, among many others. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
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.
