Fri, Apr 06, 2007
April 6-8, 2007
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 1PM
Ethnic Studies Week Concludes With Keynote Lecture
Spelman College Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Johnnella Butler will speak as part of Ethnic Studies week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She will speak April 6 at 1 p.m. at the Nebraska Union. The topic of her lecture is, "Ethnic Studies, Globalization and Higher Education." A book signing and reception will follow her speech; the events are free and open to the public.
Butler, a professor of comparative women's studies, was the first African American woman tenured at Smith College, and is considered a pioneer in curriculum transformation for diversity and inclusion. Over the course of her career, she has received major grants from the Ford Foundation, the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Two books she has edited, "Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies" and "Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies" are prominent texts addressing U.S. multicultural studies. more...
BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30M
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Iceberg-rafted Sediment in the Deep Ocean-An Ice Volume Story or Not?"
Larry Krissek, Ohio State University JOI/USSAC Distinguished Lecturer
HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Crystal Engineering the Covalent Bond - Self-Assembly Required"
Professor Leonard MacGillivray, University of Iowa
AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "From combinatorial results of Macaulay, Kruskal and Katona to recent progress on a conjecture of Eisenbud Green and Harris"
Giulio Caviglia (University of California-Berkeley). The talk will be preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall. Lecture abstract
THROUGH APRIL 13
'Cashin Plus Six' Exhibit Continues at Hillestad Gallery
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents "Bonnie Cashin Plus Six" through April 13. The exhibition includes 33 garments by American designers who developed a reputation for their independence and vision in the post-World War II era. In addition to Cashin, the show features work by Hattie Carnegie, Pauline Trigere, Claire McCardell, Ceil Chapman, Norman Norell and James Galanos.
The American designers were known for breaking away from the fashion dictates and traditions of Paris after the war and addressing the needs and lifestyles of the modern American woman. Adapting the pea coat for women's suits, designing with wool for evening wear and incorporating hand bags into coats are just some the fashion forward ideas these women and men explored. Many other ideas continue to inspire today's designers, demonstrating the importance of this period in American fashion. more...
HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, FRI NOON
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Denver Ruckus
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, FRI 2:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SAT 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma Sooners
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SUN 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Namesake, China Blue Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Namesake and China Blue. Both films will show 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.
China Blue takes us on a poignant journey inside a blue-jeans factory, where the working conditions Jasmine and her teenage friends must endure are harsh beyond imagination. They are also unlawful by international standards, and tensions in the factory are running high. So when the factory owner strikes a deal with a Western client and demands around-the-clock production to meet the deadline, a confrontation becomes inevitable. Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don't want us to see - how the clothes we buy are actually made.
More information is available at the Ross website.
