Mon, Nov 17, 2008
November 17, 2008
International Education Week Celebrated This Week at UNL
International Education Week, celebrating and promoting international educational exchange, will be observed Nov. 17-21 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The week's observance at UNL will include a display at the Nebraska East Union, an International Food Bazaar, and a Career Services Workshop. more...
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Renaissance Expert to Speak at UNL
The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host a lecture from a visiting scholar this fall. Renaissance studies expert Carla Zecher will speak at 5 p.m. today in Bailey Library, 228 Andrews Hall, 14th and T streets.
Zecher will speak on "Soundscapes in 16th-Century French Travel Writing: Descriptions of Music Making in Lands to the East and the West." She is the director of Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and author of "Sounding Objects: Musical Instruments, Poetry and Art in Renaissance France."
Two Exhibitions Open at Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
Two exhibitions open at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery on Nov. 17. A Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition featuring the photography of Kimberly Thomas and an exhibition featuring the work of Peggy Gomez open today and continue through Dec. 4, 2008.
Gomez's exhibition is entitled "Have a Good Life, No Really" and utilizes both two- and three-dimensional mixed-media collage. Her work incorporates a collection of images, including propellers, bug splats, zeppelins, bicycle parts, frogs and more. Thomas's exhibition is entitled "Decay of the Domestic." The abandoned homes portrayed in these photographs are not the result of a large-scale natural or man-made disaster. These homes are scattered throughout the small towns and rural areas of several Midwest states. They have remained after their inhabitants left.
WICK ALUMNI CENTER, NOON
Economics Department Seminar - "Poverty, Legal Status, and Pay Basis in U.S. Agriculture: Evidence and Implications for Public Policy"
Dr. Anita Alves Pena, Assistant Professor of Economics at Colorado State University
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Secrecy and Rachel Getting Married Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Secrecy and Rachel Getting Married. Secrecy will screen for one week only through November 20, while Rachel Getting Married will play through November 26.
The process by which our government classifies documents is something that most Americans have little knowledge about. In a single recent year, the United States government classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress at a cost of about eight billion dollars. Secrecy, a powerful and provocative new film by Robb Moss and Peter Galison, examines the complexities and layers of our government's obsession with secrecy and the effects it has had on individuals and on our government. Using original animation, a powerful score, and expertly edited interviews with both proponents and detractors of our government's policies, Secrecy takes us deep into the dark shadows of this process, shedding light on the implications of reasons behind the need to classify a document as secret-and also asking who polices the state's ability to do so.
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.
