Wed, Feb 11, 2009
February 11, 2009
School of Music Opera Wins National Opera Association Award
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music's 2008 opera production of Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking" has won the National Opera Association Award for Best Production. It is the third time in 10 years that UNL Opera has won the award.
The opera "Dead Man Walking" is inspired by Sister Helen Prejean's book about a caring nun who receives a desperate letter from a death row inmate trying to find help to avoid execution for murder. The book was also turned into a movie in 1995 starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon. more...
NEBRASKA UNION, 11:45AM
Brown Bag Lunch Discussion - "The Intersections of Race and Sexuality"
Patrick Jones and Jeannette Jones
NEBRASKA UNION, 3PM
Black History Month Event - Oasis Lecture - "And Still I Rise: Reflections from Two Community Civil Rights Activists"
Leola Bullock and Lela Shanks
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, 3:30PM
Spring 2009 Water Seminar Series - "Nebraska Irrigation Survey: Uncovering Changing Attitudes and Challenges"
Alan Corr, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Host: Rachael Herpel.
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Spring 2009 Seminar - "Metagenomic analysis of the obese and lean human gut microbiome"
Dr. Peter Turnbaugh, Washington University in St. Louis: School of Medicine. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m.
Forsythe Studies, Lectures on International Relief on Fulbright in Denmark
When fighting broke out in Gaza earlier this year, relief workers struggled to deliver medical care and supplies amid near-constant shelling. Without aid, civilians in war zones often cannot survive. How, then, can governments and nongovernmental organizations create "neutral humanitarian spaces," which protect relief workers and enable care of civilians caught in conflict situations?
David Forsythe, professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sought answers to this question while serving as a senior Fulbright professor in Denmark in fall 2008. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Slumdog Millionaire and I've Loved You So Long Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Slumdog Millionaire and I've Loved You So Long. Both films will screen through February 12.
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...
Juliette (Kristen Scott Thomas) has been estranged from her family for 15 years. Although life once violently separated them, Lea (Elsa Zylberstein), her younger sister, takes her into her home which she shares with her husband Luc, his father, and their little girls. I've Loved You So Long is a film about the strength of women, their capacity to shine forth, reconstruct themselves and be reborn. A story about our secrets, about confinement, about the isolation we all share.
More information is available at the Ross website.
