Fri, Nov 07, 2008
November 7-9, 2008
UNL's Plains Song Review Issues Call for submissions
The Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has issued its annual call for submissions for its literary and arts journal, "Plains Song Review."
This is the 11th year that the center has sought submissions from college students and the community. The journal includes poetry, essays, fiction, photographs, and black and white art. Past issues have included interviews with well-known Nebraska writers and photographers such as Ted Kooser and Joel Sartore. more...
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
Sheldon Hosts First Friday Reception for TRANSactions
The Sheldon Art Association invites visitors to a First Friday reception on November 7 from 5 - 7 p.m. for TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, an exhibition that explores the important role Latino art plays in the art world today.
Other exhibitions on view include: Journals of the Days: Jacobshagen Notebooks Tour Nebraska's Arboreta, The Purpose of Labor, and Subject(s) to Change: American Art from the Permanent Collection. Visitors are invited to enjoy appetizers and a cash bar in the Great Hall. Admission to the reception and exhibitions are free.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 12:30PM
Sociology Department Colloquium - "At Risk Near Harvard U: Historical and Contemporary Stories of Poverty Amidst Ivy League Affluence"
Dr. Lory Dance, Associate Professor of Sociology and of the Institute for Ethnic Studies, UNL
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI 3PM
Agronomy & Horticulture Seminar - "Site-Specific Nitrogen Management - Does it Pay?"
Richard Ferguson, Professor and Soil Fertility Specialist - Agronomy & Horticulture, UNL. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m.
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Phanerozoic global climates from carbonate platform records"
J. Fred Read, Virginia Tech. Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m.
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Hybrid Solution and Solid-State NMR Approach to Analyze Structure, Dynamics, and Interactions of Membrane Proteins"
Gianluigi Veglia, University of Minnesota
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Department Colloquium
Osamu Iyama, Nagoya University. Preceded by refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Avery 348.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, SAT 7PM
Clean Part Poetry Reading Series
Poets Katy Lederer and Kazim Ali
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, SUN 2PM
Sheldon Sunday Talk - "Journals of the Days: Jacobshagen Notebooks Tour Nebraska's Arboreta"
Painter Keith Jacobshagen
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Elegy and Rachel Getting Married Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Elegy and Rachel Getting Married. Elegy will screen through November 13, while Rachel Getting Married will play through November 26.
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.
Rachel Getting Married is a contemporary drama with an aggressive sense of humor about the return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister's wedding. Kym's (Anne Hathaway) reemergence throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. Rachel Getting Married paints a colorful, nuanced family portrait and is filled with the rich characters that have always been a hallmark of Jonathan Demme's films. - Moviefone
More information is available at the Ross website.
