Thu, Feb 12, 2009
February 12, 2009
United Nations Human Rights Expert Speaks at UNL
Fausto Padilla Ferigra, an Ecuador-based human rights lawyer, will speak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
The lecture, "Human Rights and Civil Conflict in Africa: Perspectives of a U.N. Human Rights Officer," is part of the UNL College of Law's celebration of Black History Month. It is free and open to the public. more...
HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY
Wu Hung to Deliver Geske Lecture
Dr. Wu Hung, the founder and director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago, will be the next Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Geske Lecturer.
His lecture, entitled "Contemporary Chinese Art and Urban Transformation," will be presented at 7 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture in the Great Hall. more...
'Celebrating Darwin's Legacy' Opens at Great Plains Art Museum
The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present an exhibition of photographs, drawings, paintings, and Darwinian materials guest curated by Paul A. Johnsgard titled "Celebrating Darwin's Legacy: Evolution in the Galapagos Islands and the Great Plains." The exhibit runs through March 29, with an opening reception 5-7 p.m. on Feb. 12 and coincides with "Celebrating Darwin's Legacy," the 35th Interdisciplinary Symposium sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies March 26-28.
As the 200th anniversary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of his 'Origin of Species' approaches, biologists and scientists worldwide will pause and celebrate the lasting effects that Charles Darwin has had on science, and especially on our understanding of the natural world," Johnsgard said. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
E228 BEADLE CENTER, 3:30PM
Special Seminar - Plant Systems Biologist candidate - "Genomic and proteomic analysis of maize anther development"
Dr. David Skibbe, Stanford University. A reception will be held at 3:00 p.m.
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.
