Mon, Apr 14, 2008
April 14, 2008
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, 6PM
Visiting President Professor to Give Lecture
Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska Enrique Martinez Celaya will present a public lecture titled "Art in Museums" at 6 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art. The lecture is free and open to the public.
During his three-year appointment, Martinez Celaya will work with art students and will lead faculty and graduate student seminars and colloquia on art, philosophy and literature. In addition, students will have the opportunity to participate in internships in Martinez Celaya's studios in Florida and California.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Novelist Franci Washburn to Give Reading
Franci Washburn, an award-winning novelist and poet, will give a reading at 3:30 p.m.at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.
Her appearance is sponsored by UNL's creative writing program, the English Department, and the Center for Great Plains Studies. A book signing and reception will follow the reading. more...
NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM
Forsberg's 'On Ancient Wings' Exhibit Celebrates Sandhill Cranes
An exhibit of photographs by Lincoln photographer Michael Forsberg at the University of Nebraska State Museum coincides with the sandhill cranes' arrival in Nebraska. Through 44 stunning color photographs, "On Ancient Wings," on exhibit through Aug. 14 in the museum's third-floor Cooper Gallery, intertwines the lives of cranes, people and their common places.
Forsberg engaged in an extraordinary five-year, 65,000-mile personal odyssey from the Alaskan tundra to the arid high plains of the American West, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards in Florida to document the cranes' native habitat, flyways and annual journeys. Forsberg's work also recorded the extraordinary human efforts undertaken to raise young birds and return them to their natural habitat, and his exploration reveals the challenges cranes face to adapt and survive in a rapidly changing natural world. more...
NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM
BRACE LAB 211, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Using Leptons and Bosons to Search for New Physics in Hadron Collisions"
Dr. Ben Brau of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Colloquium Abstract. Refreshments served in Brace Lab 202 at 3:30 p.m.
ROOM 145 VETERINARY BASIC SCIENCES BUILDING, 4PM
Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences Seminar - "Influence of Mutations in Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus"
Jamie Henningson, PhD Candidate, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, UNL. Host: Dr. David Steffen
EAST CAMPUS UNION, 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "Is There a Difference in Soybean Aphid Resistance Between Seedling and Reproductive Soybeans?"
Lanae Pierson, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology
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.
