Wed, Sep 10, 2008
September 10, 2008
UNL Grants Foster Digital Research on Whitman, Omaha and Ponca Languages
Two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support digital humanities research projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kenneth Price, University Professor and Hillegass Chair of 19th-Century American Literature, and Mark Awakuni-Swetland, assistant professor of anthropology and ethnic studies, recently received major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Price received a $300,000 grant from the NEH to support his editing of Walt Whitman's writings about the Civil War, while a $348,800 NEH grant will fund the work of Awakuni-Swetland through a joint NEH-National Science Foundation-Smithsonian Institution "Documenting Endangered Languages" initiative. more...
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Fall 2008 Seminar - "Commercial Production of Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids by Microalgae: Lessons for Biofuels Production"
Dr. Bill Barclay, Martek Biosciences Corporation. Reception at 3:30 p.m.
Lentz Center Exhibit Celebrates Alumna's Travels, Bhutan
The Lentz Center for Asian Culture's fall exhibition, "The Daily Arts of Bhutan" is a celebration of a gift of 50 items and 67 books to the Lentz Center. These gifts were given by University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumna Kay Kirby Dorji.
The gift to the center includes textiles, jewelry, ritual items and some everyday items as well. Textiles are the most important art form in Bhutan and are only produced by women. The weaving is done on backstrap looms and occasionally on looms with treadles or card looms. Bhutanese men and women are required to wear their woven national dress in public. more...
LENTZ CENTER
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Encounters At The End Of The World and The Animation Show Year Four Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Encounters At The End Of The World and The Animation Show Year Four. Both films will show through September 11.
Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations with Encounters At The End Of The World. In this visually stunning exploration, Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home to eleven hundred people during the austral summer (Oct-Feb). Over the course of his journey, Herzog examines human nature and Mother nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal, and sometimes absurd experiences of the marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers who choose to form a society as far away from society as one can get.
"The Animation Show," which has put together three previous feature-length collections, started in 2003 with Mike Judge of "Beavis and Butt-head" fame and Oscar-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt curating, but this year finds Judge solely in control. After last year's somber program, or, as May called it, "a dozen shorts on death," Judge and the producers wanted the show to play lighter and faster. "This year we tried to focus more on comedy," Judge said. "This tour is like the midnight shows I loved to watch [at the International Tourneés of Animation] with a good mix of comedy and shorts that are visually amazing to look at on the big screen."
More information is available at the Ross website.
