Tue, Feb 27, 2007
February 27, 2007
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
BRACE LABORATORY, 3:30PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Physics and Applications of Laser-Plasma Interactions"
Dr. B.A. Shadwick, Institute for Advanced Physics. Refreshments: Brace Lab 201 @ 3:30 p.m. Colloquium abstract
OTHMER CHEMICAL ENGINEERING BUILDING, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Series - "The Tensile and Fatigue Failure of Organic Fibers"
A. R. Bunsell,Visiting Research Professor from Ecole des Mines de Paris, France. A reception with refreshments will precede the seminar at 3:00 PM in W317.1 Nebraska Hall.
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Bright and Ultra-short Duration Charged Particles and X-Rays from High-Power Lasers"
Dr. Donald Umstadter, Physics and Astronomy Department, UNL
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 7:30PM
Department of English Robert Knoll Lecture - "Black Neoconservatism Shelby Steel Style: How the Civil Rights Movement Has Been Betrayed"
Prof. Houston Baker, Vanderbilt University
NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, 11AM - 5PM
Campus Red Cross Holds Annual Spring Blood Drive
In conjunction with the Community Blood Bank of the Lancaster County Medical Society, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Red Cross will be holding a spring blood drive in the Nebraska Union Ballroom today from 11 am - 5 pm. You can register on the web for a time that suits your needs best, and walk-ins are also welcome.
As a proud member of America's Blood Centers network of 500 community-based blood centers in 46 states, the CBB distributes a portion of the blood supplied to more than half of the nation's 6,000 hospitals. In fact, through this affiliation with America's Blood Centers, CBB has helped respond to some of our nation's urgent calls for blood; the Oklahoma City bombings, the Columbine shootings, and the attacks on the World Trade Center.
BLOOD DRIVE REGISTRATION
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.
