Mon, Apr 02, 2007
April 2, 2007
UNL CAMPUS, APR 2 - 6
Ethnic Studies Week Celebrates Multicultural Offerings on Campus
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Institute for Ethnic Studies will hold its annual Ethnic Studies week April 2-6. The department will coordinate a series of speakers, brown-bag lunches and information sessions designed to inform the campus and local community about the discipline of ethnic studies. Only one of the events -- the April 6 Ethnic Studies Spring Celebration -- is by invitation only; all other events are free and open to the public.
Cecilia Fire Thunder, former tribal president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and one of the founders of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, will speak at 11:30 a.m. today in the Nebraska Union. more...
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Seminar - "Entomology in greater Nebraska"
Dr. Jack Campbell, West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte, NE
CULTURE CENTER, 6:30PM
Ethnic Studies - Film/Discussion - Gatekeeper
Kellie Hagewen
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
Ware Exhibition Continues At Sheldon
"Chris Ware" is an exhibition that includes drawings and materials related to the artist's upcoming graphic novel based in Omaha. The exhibit will continue through April 29 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
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
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Namesake, Berliner Schule: A Retrospective of Contemporary German Cinema Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Namesake and Berliner Schule: A Retrospective of Contemporary German Cinema. The Berliner Schule will have showings through April 5, while The Namesake will play through April 12.
The Namesake is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irfan Khan, Tabu) long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.
From March 23 - April 5, the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is presenting a major Retrospective of Contemporary German Cinema, titled "Berliner Schule," curated by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Professor Marco Abel. The event will encompass 12 films and host two filmmakers: Christoph Hochhausler, the director of Milchwald (2003) and Falscher Bekenner (2005) will be present on March 30 through April 3; and Benjamin Heisenberg, the director of Schlafer (2005) and co-screenwriter of Milchwald will be visiting from March 23 through March 27.
More information is available at the Ross website.
