Thu, Nov 06, 2008
November 6, 2008
LAB THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti to Perform
The Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti, presented in cooperation with the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at UNL, the UNL Lutheran Student Center and Sheridan Lutheran Church, will bring a live performance of Haitian dance and music to the Lab Theatre, third floor, Temple Building, 12th & R Streets, today at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Good will donations will be collected to benefit the Haitian Timoun Foundation (a nonprofit organization focused on improving life for Haitian children).
The Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti is comprised of ten former street children who have become artistic ambassadors of their country and culture. Celebrated for their percussion, dance and storytelling, they have toured the U.S. and Canada.
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER, NOON-2PM
University Health Center Holds Flu Shot Clinic
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln University Health Center will be holding a series of flu shot clinics this year for UNL students, faculty and staff. A clinic is scheduled from noon - 2 p.m. today at the University Health Center.
Flu vaccinations cost $20 and payment by cash, check or NCard is required at the time of the vaccination. For those with Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, a claim will be filed for them by UHC staff for possible reimbursement (please bring your insurance information with you to the clinic), however you will still need to pay at time of shot. Flu vaccinations are also available by appointment at UHC for those unable to attend a clinic.
UHC FLU SHOT SCHEDULE
Climate Change Legislation, Opportunities Are Symposium Topics
"National Climate Change Legislation and Opportunities for Nebraska," is the theme for a symposium 1:30 to 5 p.m. today at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The symposium will be conducted in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. It will feature David Hawkins, director of climate programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, who has been a major force behind the Congressional legislation; and John McClure, vice president and general counsel for the Nebraska Public Power District.
This free, public event is sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research, and the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center through UNL's College of Arts and Sciences' Thomas C. Sorensen Endowment. more...
110 LOVE LIBRARY NORTH, 11AM
Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark and Manifest Destiny
Robert J. Miller, Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR
211 BRACE LAB, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Photo Emission by Individual Electron Wave Packets in Strong Laser Fields"
Dr. Justin Peatross, Brigham Young University. Colloquium abstract. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Brace Lab 201.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, 5:30PM
Artist Lecture Series - "TRANSactions"
Artist Enrique Chagoya
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7PM
Honors Forum - a Nebraska Colloquium event
Professor Loukia K. Sarroub, Literacy for Democracy: Possibilities and Limitations
107 HARDIN HALL, 7PM
2008 Fall Semester Seminar Series - "The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise"
Michael Grunwald, reporter, Time magazine. Refreshments will be served.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 7PM
Schlesinger Professorship for Social Justice Fund Lecture - "A Case of Moral Heroism: Sympathy, Personal Identification & Mortality in Rwanda"
Ari Kohen, Schlesinger Assistant Professor of Social Justice & Assistant Professor of Political Science
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.
