Fri, May 29, 2009
May 29-31, 2009
NCard Office Now an Authorized Passport Application Center
The NCard Office now makes it easy for you to apply for a passport. Complete the entire application process at our NE Union office and we'll submit your application to the State Department. You receive your passport in the mail.
Passports are valid for 10 years and are normally processed within 4-6 weeks. It is recommended that people apply for passports at least two months prior to the planned date of departure. Full information can be found on the Passports page on the NCard website.
Introducing the Future Design of UNL.edu
A process within the UNL Web Developer Network to create a refreshed and reimagined UNL.edu has culminated in a reference design, presented to WDN last week. The design is currently being coded into a new version of UNL site templates and is set for release on August 17, one week prior to the beginning of fall semester. Read more about the new design here.
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER AND MUSEUM
Quilt Museum Presents 'Grace Snyder: A Life in Extraordinary Stitches'
Quilts made by Grace Snyder, an icon of American quiltmaking, will be exhibited at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum through June 14. Recognized in the United States as one of the 20th century's most accomplished quiltmakers, Snyder's legacy lives on in the 24 quilts she created for exhibitions and competitions, several of which are included in this exhibition.
In 1999, Quilter's Newsletter Magazine asked 29 quilt experts to select the 100 best American quilts of the 20th century. In the first round of nominations, more than half the participants chose Snyder's "Flower Basket Petit Point," which automatically qualified the quilt for inclusion in the final list. Finished in 1943, Snyder made this remarkable masterpiece in 16 months using approximately 87,000 tiny triangles to reproduce a china design produced by the Salem China Co. of Salem, Ohio. more...
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER AND MUSEUM
Wilma B Crumley
Wilma B Crumley, emerita professor of journalism and former associate dean of the College of Journalism, died May 21, 2009.
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George Schade
George Schade, an associate professor in mechanical engineering, died May 22, 2009.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Examined Life, and One Day You'll Understand Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Examimed Life and One Day You'll Understand. Examined Life will screen through June 4, while One Day You'll Understand will show through June 11.
In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it. Featuring Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor.
One Day You'll Understand is set in Paris, 1987. As the trial of Lyon's Gestapo head Klaus Barbie plays out on television, French businessman Victor Bastien (Hippolyte Girardot) finds himself distracted from his work and increasingly obsessed with piecing together the truth about his family's history. As he sorts through photographs, letters and memorabilia, the documents he discovers – including an Aryan declaration written by his father – tell of the fate that befell his parents during the war, and he is quick to rush to judgment. But to his frustration, his mother Rivka (Jeanne Moreau) has shuttered away her past and refuses to share any memories with him. With tensions growing between Victor and his sister Tania (Dominique Blanc) – who defends their father's declaration and mother’s silence – his wife (Emmanuelle Devos) and children accompany him on a visit to the tiny village where Rivka’s parents were forced to hide during the war. And as Victor finally begins to reconcile himself with his family’s fate, Rivka makes the decision to confide her past to the members of her family who may have a chance at shaping the future.
More information is available at the Ross website.
