Tue, Feb 20, 2007
February 20, 2007
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
19th-Century Social History Scholar to Present Lecture
Helen Horowitz, a visiting scholar from Smith College and expert on 19th-century social history, will lecture and participate in a panel discussion today at 3:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum. A panel discussion will be held at 1:30 p.m. at 228 Andrews Hall.
Horowitz's featured talk, "The Flash Press in the 1840s in New York City," is part of the Plains Humanities Alliance Research and Region Colloquium series. The panel discussion, "Sex Workers: The Job of the Cultural Historian of Gender," includes Melissa Homestead, professor of English at UNL, and Margaret Jacobs, professor of history and director of Women's and Gender Studies at UNL. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 5PM
Comic Art Panel
Moderated by Patrick Jones, assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and History, a panel including Richard Graham, a UNL librarian, Timothy Schaffert, an Omaha author, and curator Dan Siedell will discuss the significance of comics.
AT WORK FOR NEBRASKA
IANR is 'Primary Engine' for Nebraska Economy
The Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln annually returns at least $15 in benefits to Nebraskans for every dollar of state support, making it "a primary engine for economic and social sustainability," a new study says.
The study, by Battelle of Columbus, Ohio, was commissioned to capture the benefits of IANR's teaching, research and extension work in Nebraska and to provide solid guidance for setting future priorities. Results are published in a new "At Work for Nebraska" study. more...
IANR
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.
