Wed, Feb 14, 2007
February 14, 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.
Today, 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
HARDIN HALL, 3:30PM
Water Center, Water Resources Research Initiative, School of Natural Resources - "Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System"
Rose Hargrave, US Army Corp of Engineers, Omaha. Hosted by Junke Guo, Dept of Civil Engineering.
BURNETT HALL, 3:30PM
Psychology Colloquium - "Grave Matters: How Reminders of Death Tilt the Scales of Justice"
Dr. Sheldon Solomon, Skidmore College, New York
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2007 Seminar - "Evolutionary and genomic approaches to find gene regulatory sequences"
Dr. Ross Hardison, Penn State University. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
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
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.
