Fri, Feb 16, 2007
February 16-18, 2007
WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
Big 12 Student Conference Brings 1,200 to Lincoln
More than 1,200 students from Big 12 universities will converge on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Feb. 15-18 for the annual Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government. The leadership conference marks its 30th anniversary with events in Lincoln focused on social and academic empowerment in the African-American community. Its theme is "The Power of One." more...
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School of Music Presents Double Reed Days
The year, Double Reed Day is honored to host guest oboist Mark Ostoich from Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and guest bassoonist Michael Kroth from Michigan State University. There will be a masterclass Friday in the Westbrook Music Building with the guests Mark Ostoich and Michael Kroth and UNL college students. Saturday will include recitals, reed-making sessions, and a masterclass with high school oboe and bassoon students.
All Double Reed Day events will take place in Westbrook Music Building on the city campus of UNL. These events are free of charge and open to all registered participants — students, teachers and parents. For more information about Double Reed Days, including an application form, visit the School of Music web site.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, FRI 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Creighton Bluejays
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SAT 5PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri Tigers
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY | LIVE WEBCAST
Sheldon Gallery Hosts Ware Exhibition and Talk
"Chris Ware" is an exhibition that includes drawings and materials related to the artist's upcoming graphic novel based in Omaha. On view Feb. 16 and continuing through April 29 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the exhibition opens with a reception and public conversation between Ware and Sheldon curator Daniel Siedell from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 16, with their talk beginning at 5:30 p.m. The conversation will be available on a live Web cast at www.unl.edu.
Of his novel, the artist writes: "'Rusty Brown' is a graphic novel I began many years ago and am serializing chapter by chapter in my regular comic book, 'The ACME Novelty Library.' It concerns the doings of a group of seven people all either employed by or attending a private high school in Omaha, Neb., which bears a striking, affectionate and hopefully non-litigious resemblance to the 1970s version of my own high school, Brownell-Talbot, though all of the main characters and situations are completely invented." more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
201 BRACE LABORATORY, FRI 1:30PM
Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience/NSF-MRSEC Seminar - "Predicting Thermodynamics: Applications to Alloys, Silicon Surface, and Hydrogen Storage"
Dr. Nikolai Zarkevich, Materials Science & Engineering Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Spring Seminar - "Food Molecules For Improving Human Health: Overview And Specific Application To Obesity Reduction"
Michael Fromm, Director, Center for Biotechnology, Plant Science Initiative/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. Refreshments at 2:30 p.m.
FILLEY HALL, FRI 3PM
Department of Agricultural Economics Spring Seminar Series - "Optimal Control of Desensitizing Inputs: The Case of Paylean"
Ken Foster, Purdue University
HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Amphidynamic Materials and Molecular Machinery - A New Frontier in Molecular and Crystal Engineering"
Professor Miguel Garcia-Garibay, University of California, Los Angeles
ANDREWS HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Classics and Religious Studies Lecture - "Would You Stomp on a Picture of Your Mother, Would You Kiss an Icon?: Reflections on the Theory of Icons"
Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff
AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "Finiteness Properties of Local Cohomology Modules"
Anurag Singh, Brandeis University
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, FRI 5PM
Sheldon Artist Talk and Opening Reception - "Comic Art from the Permanent Collection and Chris Ware"
Curator Dan Siedell and comic artist Chris Ware
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland, Iraq In Fragments Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland and Iraq In Fragments. Both films will show through February 22.
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.
Iraq In Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in cinema verite style, the film powerfully explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis: people whose thoughts, beliefs, aspirations, and concerns are at once personal and illustrative of larger issues in Iraq today.
More information is available at the Ross website.
