Fri, Mar 28, 2008
March 28-30, 2008
HARDIN HALL, SAT 9AM - 5PM
UNL Hosts Severe Weather Symposium
The Central Plains Severe Weather Symposium and Weatherfest will focus on the severe weather climatology of the central plains. A family-friendly educational event, there will be chances for the public to interact with the featured speakers, video presentations, hands-on experiments for kids and much more.
The event will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the newly renovated Hardin Hall, home to the School of Natural Resources.
CPSWS
'Technology's Impact on Design' Opens at Kruger Collection
The Kruger Collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will open its 2008-2009 exhibition, "Technology's Impact on Design," March 28 in Architecture Hall-West, 10th and R streets on UNL's City Campus.
This exhibition explores how technology changes material culture from handcrafted, small-scale products to mass-produced, machine-made factory goods. Innovations in technology, materials and design feed the ever-changing taste of consumer culture, transforming the household and the way people interact with their environment. more...
KRUGER COLLECTION
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Oklahoma Sooners
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, SUN 9AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Minnesota Gophers
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, SUN 11AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Kansas Jayhawks
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN NOON
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Oklahoma Sooners
Grand Opening Celebration, Free Admission at Quilt Study Center
The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will celebrate its grand opening with a free public open house event from 1:30-4:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 30.
Grand opening activities include the opening of major exhibitions of masterpiece quilts from around the world, antique and contemporary, and an exhibition of the quilts of featured artist Nancy Crow. A new virtual gallery provides Web-based digital access to the center's quilt collection for interactive experiences. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, FRI 2PM
Photographer Palma Speaks at Opening of 'Metaphors of the Heart'
"Metaphors of the Heart," featuring the spiritual and spellbinding photographs of Luis Gonzalez Palma, will open March 28 at Sheldon Museum of Art. Palma will speak at the exhibition opening at 2 p.m. Friday in the museum's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The exhibition and lecture are free and open to the public.
For more than 20 years, Palma has challenged standard photography through experimenting with media, using a painterly style and incorporating collage. The photographs in the exhibition date between 1989 and 2005. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
NEBRASKA UNION (ROOM POSTED), FRI 1:30PM
Institute for Ethnic Studies Colloquium - "Rural Bandit & Insurgent Populism: About Leonardo Favio's film"
Juan Pablo Dabove, Assistant Professor Spanish Department, University of Colorado
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy & Horticulture Seminar - "What College Teachers Should Know About Learning"
David Brooks, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education. Refreshments at 2:30 p.m.
210 FILLEY HALL, FRI 3PM
Dept. of Agricultural Economics Spring Seminar Series - "Modeling Multiple Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs at Landscape Scales"
Steve Polasky, University of Minnesota
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Extreme Warmth 55 Million Years Ago: Fossil-Fuel Burning in the Early Cenzoic"
Lee Kump, Penn State University
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Metabolomics: New Technology and Applications to Investigations of Gene Knockouts in Arabidopsis and Red Blood Cells"
John L. Markley from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
638 OLDFATHER HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Research Roundtable - "The Early Years of Russian Monasticism"
Dr. Jennifer Garza
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "An Introduction to Noncummutative Algebraic Cryptography"
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University. Preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Band's Visit and City of Men Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Band's Visit and City Of Men. Both films will show through April 10.
Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin's debut feature, The Band's Visit, is a subtle, heartfelt, and humane work that goes a long way toward dissolving the incredibly complex cultural divide that continues to plague the Middle East. Kolirin perfectly navigates his film's slice-of-life tone, blending comedy and drama and poignancy without ever succumbing to one completely. In the wrong hands, this material could turn into a quirk-fest that parodies everyday life. Yet under Kolirin's assured command, it becomes something that feels like life itself.The Band's Visit is funny, lonely, inspiring, sad, and beautiful all at once.
In City Of Men, producer Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardner) returns to the Brazilian favelas of his Academy Award-nominated film, City of God. Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past.
More information is available at the Ross website.
