Fri, Oct 03, 2008
October 3-5, 2008
Homecoming Arrives
Homecoming activities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are Sept. 28-Oct. 4. This year's theme is "Journey through the decades," with a focus on the 1950s to 1990s. A number of events are free and open to the public.
FULL HOMECOMING 2008 SCHEDULE
EAST CAMPUS UNION, FRI 3PM
Agronomy & Horticulture Seminar - "Think You're Thirsty? Yeah, Right. Try Life as Plant!"
James E. Specht, Charles E. Bessey Professor - Agronomy & Horticulture. Refreshments at 2:30
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Designing, Measuring and Controlling Molecular- and Supramolecular- Scale Properties for Molecular Devices"
Professor Paul S. Weiss, from Pennsylvania State University
AVERY HALL 115, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Department Colloquium
Dr. Matthias Bode, Argonne National Laboratory. Reception in Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Avery 348
Kendall Gives Talk at Sheldon's First Friday
Gail Kendall, Hixson-Lied professor of art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presents new ceramic artworks in "The Purpose of Labor," at UNL's Sheldon Museum of Art. Works in the exhibition respond to Robert Bly's translation of "The Kabir Book," ecstatic poems by the Islamic Sufi poet Kabir. Kendall will speak about her work on Friday, Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. as part of the Sheldon's First Friday reception series.
The large chargers in the exhibition represent a new direction in embellishment in Kendall's work. In a gallery guide to the exhibition, Robert Silberman, an associate professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, writes, "Just as Wayne Thiebaud uses paint to create delectable images of cakes and ice cream, Kendall can make glaze and clay look downright tasty, as in the serpentine ribbons of color that encircle her tureens and platters." more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
SOCCER | NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, FRI 4PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Texas Longhorns
VOLLEYBALL | NU COLISEUM, SAT 3PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Colorado Buffaloes
FOOTBALL | MEMORIAL STADIUM, SAT 8PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Missouri Tigers
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tell No One and Trouble The Water Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tell No One and Trouble The Water. Both films will show through October 9.
In the shortcut language of a movie pitch, Guillaume Canet's delicious contemporary thriller Tell No One is Vertigo meets The Fugitive by way of The Big Sleep. That is meant as high praise. This French adaptation of Harlan Coben's 2001 best seller is the kind of conspiracy-minded mystery almost no one seems capable of creating anymore, except David Lynch in his surreal way. Watching it is like gorging on a hot fudge sundae in the good old days when few worried about sugar and fat. There are no bogus geopolitics weighing it down with a spurious relevance. Beautifully written and acted, Tell No One is a labyrinth in which to get deliriously lost. - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
How is it that Hurricane Katrina managed to revolutionize American attitudes about the environment, but somehow the very people most devastated by the storm have become refugees in their own country, and their experiences have been all but forgotten? In Trouble the Water, this voiceless population becomes vibrantly human as documentarians Tia Lessin and Carl Deal engage with native New Orleans filmmaker and musician Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband, Scott, to create a powerful, partly autobiographical survival story that reflects many of the lives of the people of New Orleans.
More information is available at the Ross website.
