Wed, Nov 05, 2008
November 5, 2008
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Environmental Historian Blackbourn to Give Talk
David Blackbourn, Coolidge professor of history and director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, will present a lecture Nov. 5 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Blackbourn's lecture, "Landscape and Identity in Modern Germany," will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. The lecture is free and open to the public. more...
iTunes and UNL Offer Free Fall Music Mix
Enjoy this special collection of songs hand-picked by the iTunes team for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With 80 free songs from some of the biggest names in music and today's hottest up-and-coming artists, this mix is sure to put your fall semester in tune. Get your Fall Music Mix and check out the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on iTunes U.
ITUNES U
'Dia de los Muertos' Display Continues at Sheldon
Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln celebrated Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, and the decorations and art created for the day will continue to be displayed until Nov. 23.
The Museum's Great Hall is elaborately decorated for the art and cultural celebration with papier-mache sculptures and papel picados hanging from the windows. Community artists and UNL students in Sandra Williams's Art in the Community class worked with young students from the community to create the art installations, and an ofrenda (altar) was constructed for visitors to honor their loved ones. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
77 BURNETT HALL, 3:30PM
Psychology colloquium - "A potential role of cue competition in nicotine addiction"
Jennifer Murray, Department of Psychology, UNL. A reception will follow the talk.
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Fall 2008 Seminar - "Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Hemoglobin as Revealed by High-Field NMR"
Dr. Chien Ho, Carnegie Mellon University. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
J.C. SEACREST LECTURE HALL, ANDERSEN HALL, 8PM
Election 2008: Why Did That Happen?
Jim Crounse, a political advertising consultant who works with the Obama campaign
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Elegy and I Served the King of England Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Elegy and I Served the King of England. I Served the King of England will show one week only through November 6, while Elegy will screen through November 13.
Like director Isabel Coixet's previous film My Life Without Me, Elegy is consumed by the ideas of love and mortality. But while that film focused on a young protagonist, the hero of this drama is an aging writer and professor played by Ben Kingsley. David Kepesh (Kingsley) is a minor literary celebrity in New York City who shies away from commitment, happy with his casual relationship with a businesswoman (Patricia Clarkson) who is rarely in town. But a date with a stunning grad student named Consuela (Penelope Cruz) surprisingly turns into a long-term romance, changing David from a confident Lothario into a jealous boyfriend. His age and her beauty haunt their romance until David begins to push her away. The largely classical soundtrack further adds to the film's contemplative mood.
Jan Dite (Ivan Barnev), the plucky little waiter who bounces around central Europe in Jiri Menzel's epic comedy I Served the King of England, has colossal ambitions. Catering to political and military fat cats at a fancy brothel in 1930s Czechoslovakia, his appetites are piqued as he observes these pompous boors washing down obscenely rich banquets with beer and brandy. As the song says, "Them that’s got shall get..." These scenes of marathon gourmandizing offer some of the most pungently satirical observations of unfettered gluttony ever filmed. There is hardly a moment in this new film in which you are not aware that its absurdist view of the human condition was shaped by traumatic 20th-century events.
More information is available at the Ross website.
