Tue, Feb 13, 2007
February 13, 2007
NEBRASKA UNION, 10AM - 3PM
UNL Hosts 2-Day Career Fair
Nearly 200 employers will be in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room today and tomorrow for the Career Services' Spring Career Fair, an annual event that gives students an opportunity to explore full-time employment and internship opportunities.
On Tuesday, February 13th employers will recruit for business, liberal arts, government and non-profit opportunities, and on Wednesday, February 14th employers will recruit for engineering, technology, science and agriculture opportunities. For more information on the event, including participating employers, please visit the Spring Career Fair web site.
CAREER SERVICES
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Women's and Gender Studies Colloquium - "Producing Docile Bodies: Indigenous Women and Eurocentric Feminism"
Dr. Carleen Sanchez, Assistant Professor for the Institute for Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Anthropology & Geography, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry Special Seminar
David Knaff, Department of Chemistry, Texas Tech University
NEBRASKA UNION, 7PM
Peace Corps Presentation and Discussion
Ariella Raley, who served in the Peace Corps in Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan, in Central Asia.
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, THROUGH MARCH 2
Art Quilt Exhibition Showcases Teachers and Students
A new art quilt exhibition at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln celebrates the teacher and student relationship among quilt artists. "Give and Take: The Artist/Student Dialogue," organized by UNL's International Quilt Study Center, is part of the center's biennial symposium and will run through March 2.
The work of professional quilt artists is paired with work of their students. This national exhibition recognizes the contribution of Quilt Surface Design Symposium of Columbus, Ohio, and its successful educational programs for non-traditional quilters. All artists featured in "Give and Take" have been instructors, students, or both at the symposium. Several of these artists' works are included in the permanent collection of the International Quilt Study Center. more...
HILLESTAD GALLERY
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.
