Fri, Jan 16, 2009
January 16-18, 2009
ROOM 24, CBA, FRI 11:30AM
Darwin Bicentennial Lecture Series Begins
Local, national and international experts hosted by University of Nebraska-Lincoln departments will address variations on evolution to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
The eight-lecture series begins with the lecture "'All for One and One for All': Euergetism, Monuments, and Asia Minor Polis Viability and Growth in Antiquity," by LuAnn Wandsnider, associate professor of anthropology. It will take place at 11:30 a.m. Friday, January 16 in Room 24 of the College of Business Administration. All lectures are free and open to public and are appropriate for non-specialized audiences.
MLK Week Events Start Monday
MLK Week at UNL will kick off on Monday, Jan. 19 with the Chancellor's Program & Fullfilling the Dream Awards at 2 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium. The event will feature keynote speaker Lloyd Daniel.
MLK WEEK AT UNL
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
Unsettling Stripes Focus of New Quilt Exhibition
Arresting, unsettling striped quilts light up the walls this winter in the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "Yikes! Stripes: Eye-Catching Visual Effects in Quilts," is on display Jan. 16 through April 5, features 16 quilts from the center's collection.
Elizabeth Andrews, quilt studies graduate student in the UNL Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, designed the exhibition to show the striped textile surface from new vantage points. Visual, cultural, and historical accounts of the striped surface illuminate the unique nature of the stripe. Zebras, prison uniforms, flags and race cars all feature stripes. The exhibition explores the stripe as it relates to these examples and as it is used in quilting traditions from various cultures. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Synecdoche, New York and Slumdog Millionaire Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Synecdoche, New York and Slumdog Millionaire. Synecdoche, New York will show through January 22, while Slumdog Millionaire will screen through January 29.
To say that Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now. That at least would be an appropriate response to a film about failure, about the struggle to make your mark in a world filled with people who are more gifted, beautiful, glamorous and desirable than the rest of us — we who are crippled by narcissistic inadequacy, yes, of course, but also by real horror, by zits, flab and the cancer that we know (we know!) is eating away at us and leaving us no choice but to lie down and die. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…
More information is available at the Ross website.
