Fri, Mar 27, 2009
March 27-29, 2009
School of Music Presents Jazz Combos
The UNL Jazz Combos will present an evening of contemporary small-group jazz music on Sunday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Westbrook Recital Hall. Original music by UNL composer/arrangers Paul Krueger, Bobby Kunkle, Andrew Janak, and Karl Lyden will be performed.
The event is free and open to the public.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
115 AVERY HALL FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "When is a matrix of functions a function of matrices?"
Paul Muhly, University of Iowa. The talk will be preceded by refreshments at 3:30pm in Avery 348.
Early British Patchwork is Topic of March 29 Quilt Lecture
Bridget Long, an expert on British quiltmaking traditions, will give an illustrated lecture surveying 18th century British patchwork at 2 p.m. March 29 at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum, 33rd and Holdrege streets, on the East Campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Her talk will focus on the earliest surviving dated patchwork bedcover, a silk coverlet dated 1718, discovered in 2000, and now part of the heritage collection of the Quilters' Guild of the British Isles. The lecture is free with admission. more...
IQSC
Celebrating Darwin's Legacy Symposium at UNL
"Celebrating Darwin's Legacy" is the theme of the Center for Great Plains Studies' 35th interdisciplinary symposium March 26-28 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The symposium will bring a diverse group of scholars to UNL in recognition of the bicentennial anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his "Origin of Species."
The conference continues March 27 at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., with sessions from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Speakers include Jeremy Vetter, assistant professor of environmental history and history of sciences at Dickinson College; Donald Worster, Hall distinguished professor of American history at the University of Kansas; Eileen Hebets, assistant professor of biological sciences at UNL; James Van Etten, William B. Allington distinguished professor of plant pathology at UNL; and Jeffrey A. French, Varner professor of psychology and biology at UNO. more...
Sheldon Holds Symposium on Corporate and Private Collecting
Four speakers will present talks on the topic of corporate and private art collecting in the Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium of the Sheldon Museum of Art on Saturday, March 27 starting at 10 a.m. The symposium will explore the history of corporate collecting; dispel myths about why corporations collect artwork, and how art collections are used within the corporation. The symposium will also address private collecting; how and why individuals begin to collect works of art.
To register for the symposium and/or art collection tours, please call 402-472-1170 or email lsipple2@unl.edu. Registration is $10 for non-members, $15 for registration on the day of the event. Symposium registration is free for Sheldon Art Association members and students. Art collection tours are an additional $10. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Class, Che Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Class, Che. Both films will screen through April 9.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, master French director Laurent Cantet's The Class is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year. Francois Begaudeau--an actual teacher and the author upon whose work the film was based--is utterly convincing as François, an open minded teacher in charge of a classroom of youngsters from a wide variety of backgrounds. Of course, the mere fact that he's older and in a position of authority causes his students to challenge him on many occasions. François is stuck in the middle.
November 26, 1956; led by Fidel Castro (Demian Bichir), a band of 80 rebels sails to Cuba. Among these young rebels is Argentine physician, Marxist, soldier, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro). Nation-less, strapped for resources and fueled only by determination, the group engages in swift, bloody battle to free the Cuban people from the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che and his soldiers wrestle the nation's resources and affection from Batista's grasp. Though considered a hero by some, Che becomes a hugely controversial figure. At the height of his fame and power, he disappears. Entering South America incognito, Che recruits another band of guerilla fighters in the harsh Bolivian jungles. They embark upon a mission to spark revolution throughout Latin America.
More information is available at the Ross website.
