Fri, Feb 09, 2007
February 9-11, 2007
ROSS MCCOLLUM HALL, SAT 9:30AM - 1:30PM
Diversity Law Day is Saturday at College of Law
As part of a continuing commitment to diversity, the University of Nebraska College of Law will host its annual Diversity Law Day Feb. 10 as part of National Minority Law Student Recruitment Month.
The Diversity Law Day program will be from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Ross McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Street. The free program is open to students to learn more about law school. For more information, call the Law College's admissions office at (402) 472-2161. more...
COLLEGE OF LAW
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Spring Seminar - "Pathogen Research in Agricultural Environments"
Jeanette Thurston-Enriquez, USDA-ARS, Lincoln. Refreshments at 2:30.
BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "GEWEX Water and Energy Budget Studies"
John Roads, University of California-San Diego
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 3:34PM
Plenary Talk of the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Math
Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Fields Institute and University of Houston
NEBRASKA UNION, SAT 1:30PM
Plenary Talk of the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Math - "The Geometry of Groups"
Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, SAT 7PM
The Clean Part Poetry Reading Series
This series showcases innovative poets from across the country. Sandy Florian and Sommer Browning are scheduled to read this evening. This is a free event and the public is invited.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, SUN 2PM
Second Sunday Gallery Talk - "The photographic techniques used by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison in creating images for The Architect's Brother"
Teacher and photographer Larry Gawel
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING
Theatrix Opens Spring Season With Student Original
Theatrix, the student producing theatre organization under the auspices of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film (JCSTF), opens their spring season at the Haymarket Theatre with the student original "Date Auction." Beginning February 8th this hilarious play about four different dates that converge at one coffee house is an evening of comedy and romance that anyone who has been on a good or bad date will love. The production will have performances Friday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at the Temple Building. Written and directed by Amy Lechtenberg, "Date Auction" is the first of two Theatrix plays to premiere at the Haymarket Theatre this spring.
Theatrix is the academic year's student run stage. It is run completely by students acting as Artistic Director, Managing Director and Technical Director. Five to six productions are performed primarily in the Studio Theatre. Productions are directed, designed, cast with and sometimes written by students.
THEATRIX
NU RIFLE | NU RIFLE RANGE, SAT 9AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Memphis Tigers
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Texas A&M Aggies
WOMEN'S TENNIS | WOODS TENNIS CENTER, SUN 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri Tigers
WRESTLING | NU COLISEUM, SUN 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Minnesota Gophers
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland, Volver Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland and Volver. Both films will show through February 15.
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.
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.
