Fri, Apr 11, 2008
April 11-13, 2008
GREAT PLAINS ART GALLERY, SUN 7:30PM
Anti-Semitism Expert to Speak at UNL
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, a Jewish Studies scholar and expert on anti-Semitism, will speak at 7 p.m. April 13 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q St.
His lecture is "Anti-Semitism: The Intellectual Assault Against the Jews and the Jewish State." The event is sponsored by the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies, and is free and open to the public. more...
ROOM 15 ANDERSEN HALL, SAT 9AM-4PM
CBS photojournalist to Hold Free Workshop
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications will host a free video storytelling workshop hosted by CBS News Photojournalist/producer Les Rose April 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The workshop is for UNL journalism students, news professional interested in learning video storytelling techniques, TV news professionals.
Rose, a Lincoln native and UNL graduate student, has led storytelling workshops at the Poynter Institute and National Press Photographers Association. Some tips about technology and shooting video will be offered, but the main emphasis will be telling great stories with video. Space for this free workshop is limited. To participate, e-mail cojmc@unlnotes.unl.edu.
LAB THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING
Theatrix Presents Delillo's The Day Room
Theatrix, the student producing theatre organization under the auspices of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film (JCSTF), closes out its 2007/2008 season with Don Delillo's critical success, The Day Room, a postmodern look at the difference between appearance and reality set in a Beckett inspired psychiatric ward.
The Day Room will play at the Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of the Temple Building. Show times are Friday April 11th at 7:30pm and 10:30pm, Saturday April 12th at 7:30pm and Sunday April 13th at 2:00pm. Individual Show Tickets are $6 (some user fees may be applied) at UNL Theatre Tickets website or at the theatre the evening of performance (subject to availability).
THEATRIX
707 OLDFATHER HALL, FRI 12:30PM
Sociology Department Colloquium - "The Role of Gender Products in the Production of Gender"
Dr. Jolene Smyth, Department of Sociology and Survey Research and Methodology, UNL.
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy & Horticulture Seminar - "Sustainable Biofuel Feedstock Production"
Wally Wilhelm, USDA-ARS. Refreshments at 2:30 p.m.
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Conceptualizing, Testing, and Transferring Watershed Characteristic-Runoff Generation Relationships"
Brian McGlynn, Montana State University
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, FRI 4:30PM
College of Architecture Hyde Lecture Series
Doug Jackson
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, SUN 3PM
International Quilt Study Center & Museum Lecture - "American Women's Quilts in the Context of 19th-Century American Visual Culture"
Janet Berlo, Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester. Free with admission.
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, FRI 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Missouri Tigers
MEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, FRI 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Texas A&M Aggies
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Baylor Bears
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SUN 11AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Colorado Buffaloes
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN NOON
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Baylor Bears
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Snow Angels Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Snow Angels. Both films will show through April 24.
On the heels of Cristi Puiu's brilliant The Death of Mr. Lazarescu comes another outstanding picture, 4 Months, 3 Week, and 2 Days, which firmly establishes Romania as a major force in early 21st-century world cinema. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu's excruciatingly intense drama is set in Bucharest in the mid-1980s, as Nicolae Ceaucescu and his evil dictatorship continue to reign. In a country where abortion is outlawed, a young college student, Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), finds herself in big trouble. Unsure what to do, she turns to her roommate, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), for help. The pair connects with a black market doctor Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), in order to take care of Gabita's pregnancy--but, of course, it isn't that simple. The resulting 24 hours reveals a harrowing descent into a world in which the possibility of tragedy lurks around every corner.
Snow Angels, adapted from the novel of the same title by Stewart O'Nan, is two stories of love and loss converging. One is of a recently separated couple attempting to pick up the threads of a future when faced with tragedy. The second is about an awkward young man, currently in the throes of discovering his first romance, forced to deal with the separation and subsequent strife of his parents' relationship. Snow Angels is written and directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker David Gordon Green.
More information is available at the Ross website.
