Thu, Apr 02, 2009
April 2, 2009
Web Design Survey Is Underway
As a member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln community, your opinions about the university and its Web site are very important to us. We are asking you to respond to an online survey which takes between 10 and 15 minutes to complete. Your name will not be attached to your responses, and the information from all respondents will be used to make better decisions about our Web site design and about how we communicate about the university.
You are not required in any way to fill out this survey, however your help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for considering this request.
UNL WEB DESIGN SURVEY
Backyard Farmer Kicks Off New Season
Backyard Farmer kicks off its 55th season at 7 p.m. on NET1. Additionally you can view Backyard Farmer Extra Saturday, April 4th at 8:30 a.m. again on NET 1. Backyard Farmer's panel of gardening experts includes University of Nebraska Extension Specialists and Educators and other professionals who specialize in horticulture, plant pathology, turfgrass, landscape design and entomology.
If you miss those times, both programs are rebroadcast: Backyard Farmer - NET2 Fri. 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. NET 3 Fri 7 p.m., Sun 7 p.m. Backyard Farmer Extra - NET 1 Sat 8:30 a.m., NET2 Sun 8:30 a.m., NET3 Sun 5 p.m., Mon 10 p.m. Backyard Farmer will also be available On-demand on Time Warner Cable and is podcasted on the iTunes University of Nebraska site.
BACKYARD FARMER
Global Quilts is Topic for International Symposium
The symposium "The Global Quilt: Cultural Contexts" is attracting scholars and artists from Great Britain, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Japan, France, India, Ireland and Korea to join U.S. counterparts in Lincoln April 2-4. They will share papers and presentations, and network at the academic gathering hosted by the International Quilt Study Center. The symposium's purpose is to explore the full context in which the quiltmaker's art is expressed and transmitted among and across cultures.
Quilts communicate cultural values and serve as a medium for social connection. The topics to be explored during the three-day event cover the spectrum from geometry found in African American quilts to the Japanese importing of colonial American nostalgia via quiltmaking. Registration for the symposium is still open. A full schedule of papers and presentations is available online at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum website.
Business Journalist, Gay Marketing Expert Wilke to Lecture at UNL
Business journalist Michael Wilke, who has charted the emergence of gay marketing and advertising since 1992, will visit the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus as a guest lecturer, including a 7 p.m. presentation in Andersen Hall titled "Outing Madison Avenue."
The presentation is free and open to the public. Wilke's visit is co-sponsored by the UNL Ad Club, the University Program Council and the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. more...
Wai Chee Dimock to Give Knoll Lecture
Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson professor of American studies and English at Yale University, will give the next Robert E. Knoll lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her lecture, "Three Wars: Henry James and Others," will be 7:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. The event is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a dessert reception.
"Three Wars: Henry James and Others" will examine the shadows of war on American democracy. Beginning with a discussion of Henry James and World War I, it loops back to the American Civil War (by way of Walt Whitman), and goes forward as well to World War II (by way of Kurt Vonnegut and Nicholson Baker). more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Class and Che Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Class and 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 Francois, 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.
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.
