Tue, Nov 18, 2008
November 18, 2008
Schwartz Leads Reading and Discussion
Mimi Schwartz will appear at 228 Andrews, Dudley Bailey Library at 7:30 p.m. for a reading and discussion of her recent memoir, "Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village."
Books will be available for sale before and after discussion and book signing after discussion. The reading is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Harris Center for Judaic Studies, The Prairie Schooner and the University of Nebraska Press.
W183 NEBRASKA HALL, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Series - "Generation of Surface Waves and Lamb Waves By Laser Illumination"
Dr. Jan Achenbach, Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Informal reception at 3:00 p.m. in W317.7 Nebraska Hall.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, 5:30PM
Artist Lecture Series - "TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art"
Artist Liliana Porter
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7PM | LIVE STREAM | PROMO VODCAST
Nebraska Native Sorensen Will Give E.N. Thompson Lecture
Theodore C. "Ted" Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy and a widely published author on the presidency and foreign affairs, will be the next E.N. Thompson Forum speaker at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His talk, "America and the World, 1962 to 2008: Contrasts and Contradictions," will begin at 7 p.m. at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
This free event requires a ticket. At this time, all tickets have been distributed. Check the Lied Center ticket office because tickets are sometimes returned, especially on the day of the lecture. Anyone holding tickets to this lecture and not able to attend is asked to return tickets to the Lied Center for redistribution. Overflow seating will be available in the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th St. The lecture will be broadcast live at www.unl.edu, TimeWarner Cable Channel 21, NETSAT 104 and KRNU radio station (90.3 FM).
E.N. THOMPSON FORUM
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 sheds light on the reasons for classifying documents as secret.
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.
