Wed, Jan 21, 2009
January 21, 2009
MLK Week Events Continue
Martin Luther King Jr. Week events continue today with the Clinton student play, "Big Words, Strong Words" in the Nebraska East Union at 10:30 a.m. At 11:30, there will be a brownbag panel titled, "424: The Aftermath," in the Nebraska Union Crib. This discussion will be moderated by Patrick Jones.
MLK WEEK AT UNL
Northwestern's Shear Selected to Head University of Nebraska Press
Donna A. Shear has been named director of the University of Nebraska Press effective March 1.
Shear has been involved with scholarly publishing for many years. She comes to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from the Northwestern University Press in Evanston, Ill., where she has been director since 2003. She became interim director in 2002 after joining Northwestern's Press in 2000 as associate director and chief financial officer. more...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Scofield to Discuss Nebraska Infrastructure Needs at Olson Seminar
A talk on infrastructure might be prescribed as a sure cure for insomnia, but the subject is a vital issue for Nebraska and the rest of the union.
Sandra Scofield, director of the University of Nebraska Rural Initiative, will take on the challenge of making that talk Jan. 21 when she delivers a Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Scofield will present "A Crash Course in Infrastructure: Expensive but Essential Components for Rural (and Urban) Nebraska's Future" from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the museum are free and open to the public. more...
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
Spring 2009 Water Seminar Series - "Evapotranspiration from Riparian Vegetation in Nebraska"
Dave Rus, USGS Nebraska Water Science Center
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2009 Seminar - "Plasma membrane microdomains promote cell wall organization, morphogenesis, and virulence of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans"
Dr. James Konopka, SUNY-Stony Brook University. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7PM
Honors Forum - "Democracy and Human Rights in the Context of Terrorism"
David Forsythe, Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor in Political Science
BAILEY LIBRARY ANDREWS HALL, 7:30PM
Medieval & Renaissance Studies Program Spring Lecture Series - "Old and Unwonted Words: Middle English in Early Modern England"
Sarah Kelen, Nebraska Wesleyan
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.
