Mon, Feb 26, 2007
February 26, 2007
GET YOUR VOTE IN
UNL Administrator Quarterfinalist in Contest to Anchor NBC Today Show
David Burge - a University of Nebraska-Lincoln admissions recruiter - has a chance to be a guest anchor on the NBC Today Show and voting is now taking place in the quarterfinals round.
Burge, associate director of admissions, is known to the UNL community and prospective students from his lighthearted appearances in online "Real Nebraska" student recruiting videos. more...
VOTE AT MSNBC
FEB 26 - MAR 2
UNL Hosts Eating Disorders Awareness Week
A week to "Be Comfortable in Your Genes" is planned at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in observance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Feb. 26-March 2. The week begins with the one-woman show "Insides OUT!" performed by Katie Rubin at 7 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Rubin uses stand-up comedy, poetry, song, improvisation and monologue to tell the story of one young person's journey from her high school and college years through her introduction to the working world. Rubin has studied classical, jazz and musical theater vocal techniques for 15 years.
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week began as a national outreach campaign sponsored by the Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention organization, a national nonprofit organization. more...
EATING DISORDER WEEK
GALLERY HOURS NOON - 4PM
Annual Undergraduate Competition Opens Today
The 19th Annual Undergraduate Competition opens today and continues through March 22 at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus.
Undergraduate students present their artwork in all media in this annual juried exhibition. The awards will be announced at the opening reception on Feb. 26, from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. Awards to be presented include the Jean R. Faulkner Memorial Awards, the Department of Art and Art History Freshman and Sophomore Awards, and Entry Fee Awards.
EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 29
Sheldon Exhibit Focuses 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
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Women's and Gender Studies Colloquium
Dr. Maria Prendez-Lintel (FIRST Project), Ms. Carmela Sanchez de Jimenez (El Centro de las Americas), Ms. Ingrid Kirst (Community CROPS), and others.
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Seminar - "A tail of weevils"
Dr. Raul Guedes, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Our Daily Bread, The Secret Life Of Words Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Our Daily Bread and The Secret Life Of Words. Both films will show through March 1.
Our Daily Bread reveals the little-known world of high-tech agriculture. In a series of visually stunning, continuously tracking, wide-screen images that seem right out of a science-fiction movie, we see the places where food is cultivated and processed: surreal landscapes optimized for agricultural machinery, clean rooms in cool industrial buildings designed for maximum efficiency, and elaborate machines that operate on a 'disassembly line' basis. There's little space for humans here. They almost seem like flaws in this system: undersized and vulnerable, though they adapt as best they can, with chemical suits, respirators, ear protectors, and helmets. They do the jobs for which machines have not yet been invented. Dispensing entirely with explanatory commentary or 'talking-head' interviews, Our Daily Bread unfolds on the screen like a disturbing dream: an endlessly fascinating flow of images, an insistent gaze, accompanied only by the persistent industrial soundtrack - whirring, clattering, booming, slurping - of the ingenious marvels of mechanization employed by agri-business.
The Secret Life Of Words, written and directed by Isabel Coixet, follows Hanna (Sarah Polley), a factory worker who lives alone in a barren apartment, wears a hearing-aid, and keeps to herself with a rigorous daily routine. While on an extended holiday in Northern Ireland, she volunteers as a nurse, tending to a burn victim Josef (Tim Robbins) stationed on an oil rig. While Hanna coaxes him back to health, Josef, who has suffered temporary blindness, reaches out to her urgently, wanting to connect. With the shaky-camera technique, absence of a film score, and the backdrop of a lone oil rig, writer and director Coixet (who also wrote and directed Polley in the 2003 critically-acclaimed My Life Without Me), emphasizes the vulnerability and seclusion of the characters.
More information is available at the Ross website.
