Thu, Oct 16, 2008
October 16, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer Applegate Speaks at UNL
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the seventh annual Carol R. Pauley Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 W Q St.
This year's speaker is Pulitzer prize-winning biographer Debby Applegate, who will lecture on "Religion, Sex, and Politics: The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and 19th-Century American Culture." A reception begins at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the departments of History and English and the Program in 19th-Century Studies at UNL. more...
Levin Gives Reading
Willa Cather Professor of History Carole Levin will give a reading and autograph copies of her new book tonight at 7 p.m. at the University Bookstore. The book, "Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture," explores how dreams shaped events—and at times the course of history—in Renaissance England.
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Opens Season With An Experiment with an Air Pump
UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film's University Theatre presents Shelagh Stephenson's drama An Experiment with an Air Pump. The play, set in 1799 in a Northern English home abounding with scientific experiments, raises many of the same ethical quandries that challenged people living in 1999.
Performances will be held October 16, 17, 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre, first floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are $16 regular, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizen, $10 student with ID. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th or by telephone at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231.
NEBRASKA UNION, 11:30AM
NU Technology Meeting - WebAppDev Focus Group - "Web Usability - How to define usability? How, when, and where can you improve it?"
Meeting agenda
DUDLEY BAILEY LIBRARY, ANDREWS HALL, 2PM
English Department Panel Discussion - "The Art, Craft, and Ethics of Biography and Autobiography"
Pulitzer Prize-Winning biographer Debby Applegate and faculty and students from the departments of English and History
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series - "Can Systems Biology and the Computer Protect Mankind From Killer Viruses"
Dr. Michael Katze, University of Washington
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
WGS Colloquium Series - "Biases in Female Mate Choices: What Biologists Have Learned About Swordtail Fishes"
Dr. Alexandra Basolo, UNL School of Biological Sciences
211 BRACE LAB, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Chasing Gravitational Waves"
Dr. David Reitze, University of Florida, Gainesville. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Brace Lab 201. Colloquium abstract
14 RICHARDS HALL, 5PM
Artist lecture
Sean Caulfield, visiting artist in printmaking
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
In Search of a Midnight Kiss and Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents In Search of a Midnight Kiss and Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts. Both films will show one week only through October 16.
Funny, quirky, and bittersweet, In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a romantic comedy with a heart and a brain -- and stands as a sharp debut for director Alex Holdridge. It's New Year's Eve in Los Angeles, and 20-something Wilson (Scoot McNairy) has no one to kiss. But a Craig's List ad brings him Vivian (Sara Simmonds), and maybe they won't be alone at the stroke of midnight. Shot in black and white, this sweet indie comedy has won hearts at festivals across the country. Legendary KCRW music director Nick Harcourt plays a radio DJ.
In July 2005, filmmaker Scott Hicks started shooting a documentary about the composer Philip Glass to celebrate his 70th anniversary in 2007. Over the next 18 months, Scott followed Philip across three continents - from his annual ride on the Coney Island "Cyclone" roller coaster, to the world premiere of his new opera in Germany and in performance with a didgeridoo virtuoso in Australia. Allowed unprecedented access to Glass' working process, family life, spiritual teachers and long time collaborators, Hicks gives us a unique glimpse behind the curtain into the life of a surprising and complex man. Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts is a remarkable mosaic portrait of one of the greatest - and at times controversial - artists of this or any era.
More information is available at the Ross website.
