Thu, Jan 31, 2008
January 31, 2008
NEBRASKA UNION, VARIOUS TIMES
Lectures Highlight 4th Day of Focus The Nation
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be one of 1,300 colleges and universities participating in Focus the Nation's national "teach-in" Jan. 28 - Feb. 1. Promoted by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska (ASUN) student government, the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Thompson Scholars, this is UNL's first involvement with the organization working to educate and act on global warming solutions for America.
Events for today include lectures by Dennis Schulte of Biological Systems Engineering (1:30 p.m.), John Janovy of Biological Sciences (2:30 p.m.), and David Harwood of Geociences and ANDRILL (3:30 p.m.). There will also be an oral presentation of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," by computer scientist Ken Mankoff, who was personally trained by Gore to re-present his slides to help spread the word about global warming.
FOCUS THE NATION
BRACE LAB 211, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Catching Neutrinos in the Antarctic Icecap"
Dr. David Z. Besson, University of Kansas. Colloquium abstract. Refreshments: Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m.
Kooser's 'Valentines' Offers Poetic View of Romance
For Valentine's Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote "Pocket Poem" and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to 50 women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next 21 years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to more than 2,700 women all over the country.
"Valentines," a new book out by Kooser, published by University of Nebraska Press, collects Kooser's 22 years of Valentine's Day poems, complemented with illustrations by Robert Hanna and a new poem appearing for the first time. more...
NEBRASKA PRESS
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.
