Wed, Apr 18, 2007
April 18, 2007
Responding To Crisis
Our students and members of this community are, to varying degrees, in the midst of dealing with a tragedy of immense proportions. While our hearts go out to our colleagues at Virginia Tech, we focus on the role we have in helping one another deal with these unthinkable events, and to facilitate healing and recovery. With the assistance of Dr. Bob Portnoy, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at University Health Center, we outlined some common responses to crises and how to help one another.
Call UHC's Counseling and Psychological Services (472-7450) or the Employee Assistance Program (472-3107) for help.
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents "Suburbia"
UNL's University Theatre continues its season at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with Eric Bogosian's subUrbia. The production, directed by guest director Jennifer Hubbard, will have performances April 18, 19, 20, 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets.
Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. Tickets are available from the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12 Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and one hour prior to the performance in the Studio Theatre Lobby.
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
1875 English Author's Take on Nebraska is Olson Seminar Topic
In 1875, English author Edwin Curley published a book, "Nebraska: Its Advantages, Resources, and Drawbacks," which detailed his impressions of the eight-year-old state. The book will be the topic of the spring semester's final Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Richard Edwards, professor of economics and fellow in the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL, will present "Nebraska, 1875: Edwin Curley's View of its Advantages, Resources, and Drawbacks" at 3:30 p.m. April 18 in the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.
Curley spent two years traveling in the Great Plains, especially Nebraska, and based his book on interviews, inspections and experiences. The result was a look at Nebraska in the midst of the frenzy of (white) settlement, town-building, homesteading and land speculation. Edwards' lecture and a 3 p.m. reception in the museum are free and open to the public.
NEBRASKA UNION, 2:30PM
Czech Komensky Club Lecture - "Work and Study in the Czech Republic"
Matthew Gregory, Czech student and ESL teacher
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies - "Nebraska, 1875: Edwin Curley's View of Its Advantages, Resources, and Drawbacks"
Richard Edwards, Professor of Economics and Fellow in the Center for Great Plains Studies, UNL
HARDIN HALL - SCHOOL of NATURAL RESOURCES, 3:30PM
Water Center, Water Resources Research Initiative, School of Natural Resources Seminar - "Scientific Challenge of Developing a Real-Time Decision Support Tool for Deficit Irrigation on Corn"
Haishun Yang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Hosted by Kenneth Cassman, Dept of Agronomy & Horticulture, UNL.
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Institute for Ethnic Studies Colloquium Series
Greg Rutledge, Assistant Professor English & Ethnic Studies
BURNETT HALL, 3:30PM
Psychology Colloquium
Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 6:30PM
Plains Song Review Reading and Reception - "Plains Song Review, Volume IX"
Contributing authors will read from their work, and the Christine Pappas Award for Best Work by an undergraduate will be presented.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Namesake, Inland Empire Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Namesake and Inland Empire. The Namesake will show through April 19, while Inland Empire will show through April 26.
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.
With Inland Empire, David Lynch - creator of such mind-bending works as Eraserhead and Lost Highway - delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever nightmare of a motion picture, Inland Empire takes the basic structure of Lynch's 2001 masterpiece, Mulholland Drive, and spins it even further out of control. Laura Dern's multi-fractured performance is downright heroic. She gives the film the human grounding that it so desperately needs. Not for the fragile or timid, Inland Empire is a full-blown assault to the senses.
More information is available at the Ross website.
