Thu, Feb 26, 2009
February 26, 2009
Alumni Association Hosts Night of Networking and Fun
Tonight from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the Wick Alumni Center, the Nebraska Alumni Association will help you with a fun, free, and informative night of networking, snacks, and fashion advice, including a mini fashion show. You will leave much better equipped to dress for that coveted interview without committing any fashion faux pas.
To be entered in a drawing to win one of many $50 gift certificates for clothes (must be present to win), email a photo of you in your own current interview attire to awimmer@unlalum.nebraska.edu or upload a photo to the Facebook Event page.
Vidaver Excels on 'Accidental' Career Path
Anne Vidaver was destined to become a globally recognized plant pathologist - though she’s as surprised about it as anyone. After all, how do you chart a career that was nearly snuffed out on numerous occasions, with culprits ranging from Nazis to sexism?
"I am an accidental plant pathologist," said Vidaver, professor of plant pathology. "I never planned this to be my area of work. I've always thought it as a really great adventure." Vidaver was born into a middle-class, secular Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, just before Adolf Hitler's occupation of the country. The Nazis killed most of her relatives, and Vidaver said her family was one of the last allowed to leave Austria. more...
University Theatre Presents The Good Doctor
University Theatre continues its 2008-2009 season at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with Neil Simon's comedy The Good Doctor. The production, directed by Carson School Assistant Professor of Practice Ian Borden, will have performances February 26, 27, 28 and March 4, 5, 6, 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre, first floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets.
Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. Tickets are available from the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12 Monday through Friday 11 AM to 5:30 PM and one hour prior to the performance in the Temple Theatres Lobby, or by telephone at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231. For more information go to Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film website.
NEBRASKA UNION 3PM
Black History Month Event - Oasis Lecture - "The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee"
Patrick Jones, Assistant Professor of the Department of History and Institute for Ethnic Studies
BAILEY LIBRARY ANDREWS HALL, 4PM
Classics & Religious Studies Lecture - "In the Beginning? The Mythological Background of Genesis 1: 1-3"
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Three Films Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Slumdog Millionaire, Obscene, and The Pool. All three films will screen through February 26.
Oscar-award winning 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...
Obscene is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. He acquired the then fledgling Grove Press in 1951 and soon embarked on a tumultuous career of publishing and political engagement that continues to inspire today's defenders of free expression. Not only was he the first American publisher of acclaimed authors Samuel Beckett, Kenzaburo Oe, Tom Stoppard, Che Guevara, and Malcolm X, but he also battled the government in the highest courts to overrule the obscenity ban on groundbreaking works of fiction such as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch. Ultimately he won and altered the course of history, but not without first enduring lawsuits, death-threats, grenade attacks, government surveillance, and the occupation of his premises by enraged feminists.
The Pool is the story of Venkatesh, a "room boy" working at a hotel in Panjim, Goa, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the home. Not content to simply dream about a different life, Venkatesh is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants-indeed about the world around him-and his curiosity changes the shape of his future. Remarkably cogent and affecting, this is inspired storytelling distinctive for its ability to transmit a complete viewpoint in just a phrase or brief conversation. Working in Hindi with young actors and in a country obviously not his own, Smith has nevertheless created a superbly incisive portrait that will take a place on a global stage.
More information is available at the Ross website.
