Wed, Nov 12, 2008
November 12, 2008
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, 3:30PM
Poet and Prairie Schooner Award Winner Guest to Speak at UNL
Poet Paul Guest, winner of the 2006 Prairie Schooner poetry prize, will give a reading from his book, "Notes for my Body Double," at 7:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.
The event is sponsored by Prairie Schooner, the national literary journal published with the support of the English Department and the University of Nebraska Press at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The reading and a reception following are free and open to the public. more...
BAILEY LIBRARY, ANDREWS HALL, 3:30PM
Achebe to Deliver Ethnic Studies Week Lecture
Nwando Achebe, Associate Professor History Department Michigan State University will be delivering a lecture titled, ""Going Too Far: A Radical Igbo [Wo] man Challenges Male Political Ideals in Northern Igboland, Nigeria" today at 3:30 p.m. in the Bailey Library in Andrews Hall. Her talk is part of Ethnic Studies Week at UNL.
Her talk will discuss the life of the only Female Warrant Chief and King in all of colonial Nigeria, and arguably British Africa. A case study about an extraordinary woman, it reveals much about the shifting bases of gendered power under British indirect rule and the ways in which Igbo women and men negotiated and shaped the colonial environment.
Chinese Artist to Present Demonstration at Lentz Center
Xu Yinsen, professor emeritus at the Chinese National Academy of Fine Arts, will demonstrate his skills in painting, calligraphy and seal carving this week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture.
The demonstration by Xu (pronounced shoo) will be 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 11-15 and 1:30-4 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Lentz Center, 1155 Q St. Distinguished artist-in-residence at the Lentz Center this week, Xu will also present a lecture, "An Introduction to Chinese Painting and Calligraphy," at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12 in Room 15 of Richards Hall, T Street and Stadium Drive. All activities are free and open to the public and are presented by UNL's Confucius Institute and the Lentz Center. more...
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Fall 2008 Seminar - "Microbial influences in intestinal inflammation"
Dr. Ryan Balfour Sartor, University of North Carolina. Reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
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.
