Fri, Jan 25, 2008
January 25, 2008
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 1:30PM
Institute for Ethnic Studies Presents Lecture
The Institute for Ethnic Studies presents Don Pepion, associate professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University, in a lecture from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25 in the Nebraska Union (room posted). Pepion will discuss the Marias Massacre of 1870, in which the U.S. Army killed 173 Blackfeet Indians in northern Montana.
A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture, and is free and open to the public.
Annual Banquet Closes out MLK Week
MLK Week at UNL concludes on Saturday, Jan. 26 with the 13th Annual Afrikan Peoples Union MLK Banquet at 6:30 p.m. in the Van Brunt Visitor's Center. Tickets for the event can be purchased at the APU booth in the Nebraska Union and are $10 for students or $15 for the public. Tickets can also be purchased at the door for $15 and $20 respectively.
MLK WEEK AT UNL
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER CONFERENCE ROOMS A,B,C, FRI 8:30AM-10AM
CAPS Grand Rounds Series - "Normative Development in Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Cross-Cultural Perspective"
Jill Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Creighton University
BESSEY HALL ROOM 117, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "ANDRILL Overview: From Developmental Challenges to Recent Drilling Successes"
David Harwood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, FRI 5:30PM
Keynote Lecture - "Why Blakelock?"
Norman Geske, Sheldon director emeritus
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
'Unknown Blakelock' Offers Comprehensive View of Artist's Work
Presenting more than 40 paintings on view together for the first time, "The Unknown Blakelock" offers a grand vision of the work of Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) beginning Jan. 25 at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Sheldon has organized the exhibition with works from its collections and loans from 34 museums and collectors throughout the country. In October, the exhibition will be on view at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts in New York City.
Known as a 19th-century tonalist painter, Blakelock has been historically associated with two dominant themes -- moonlight scenes and Indian encampments. Critics have largely overlooked the painter's broader accomplishments, which have been obscured by his tragic mental illness and numerous forgeries produced in his style. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
CAMPUS RECREATION CENTER, 11AM-5PM
2nd 'Get Rec'd' Event at UNL Offers Prizes, Activities
Thousands of UNL students, and campus and community supporters will have fun checking out the latest products, fashions, technology, services, sounds and tastes from local and national companies at "Get Rec'd" on Jan. 25 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Campus Recreation Center from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Admission to the two-day interactive festival is free and all are welcome. Attendees will haul away free gifts, sample some food, and enjoy a variety of entertainment. more...
GET REC'D
WOMEN'S TENNIS | WOODS TENNIS COMPLEX, FRI 4PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Creighton Bluejays
WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS | DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, FRI 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Missouri Tigers
RIFLE | NEBRASKA RIFLE RANGE, SAT 9AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs TCU Horned Frogs
TRACK AND FIELD | DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, SAT 11AM
Conference Challenge
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
I'm Not There and Forever Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents I'm Not There and Forever. Both films will show through January 31.
Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven) delivers this dazzling, experimental take on the life of popular music's most revered and enigmatic artist: Bob Dylan. In keeping with the impossible-to-pin-down nature of Dylan himself, Haynes chose to cast six different actors to portray several incarnations of the groundbreaking troubadour. The result is a challenging, sprawling work that spans several decades and genres. Much in the same way that Dylan appropriated a vast array of musical styles to create his own vernacular, Haynes does the same thing with I'm Not There, using his expansive knowledge of movie history to pay homage to a variety of movements and directors (Godard, Fellini, Lester, etc.).
Award-winning documentarian Heddy Honigmann (Crazy) captures the spirit of Paris's Pere-Lachaise cemetery in the fascinating film Forever. From Amadeo Modigliani to Jim Morrison, some of the world's greatest artists are buried there, and Forever explores this site visited by both fans and family of the departed. Through a leisurely tour of the world-famous Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters and other artists from around the world, Forever provides an unusually poignant, emotionally powerful meditation on relations between the living and the dead, and the immortal power of art.
More information is available at the Ross website.
