Mon, Jun 01, 2009
June 1-5, 2009
'Fountain Frolics' Summer Concert Series Begins This Week
The Fountain Frolics summer concert series at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln begins June 4 at the Nebraska Union Plaza, 15th and S streets. This week, Broad Appeal captures the essence of the 1935-1958 era through three-part vocal harmonies and the Your Hit Parade era.
The concerts will be noon to 1 p.m. every Thursday through July 30 (except July 2). UNL's University Program Council sponsors local musical entertainment and sells a picnic lunch of a hot dog, chips and a Pepsi product for $4 under the north overhang of the Nebraska Union.
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.
237 SCOTT ENGINEERING CENTER, TUE 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Series - "A Comparison Between Mechanistic and Mechanistic-Empirical Softwares to Predict Asphalt Pavement Service Life"
MS Thesis Defense by Emmeline Lemos Pereira. Advisor: Dr. David H. Allen.
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, FRI 5:30PM
First Friday Talk - "Grace Snyder's Quiltmaking"
Exhibition Curator, Janet Price
Nebraska Jazz Orchestra to Kick Off Sheldon's Jazz In June
Now in its 18th season, the Jazz in June concert series will present five Tuesday evenings of great jazz in the great outdoors on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. Organized by the Sheldon Art Association, the Berman Music Foundation and the UNL School of Music, this year's free jazz series, presented by Baylor Evnen, kicks off on June 2 with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra and vocalist Christine Hitt. The concerts begin at 7 p.m. and draw thousands under the trees on the plaza west of Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets.
Concertgoers are encouraged to bring blankets or lawn chairs for a relaxing and enjoyable evening surrounded by jazz, outdoor sculpture and sweet summer skies. Jazz in June performances are free to all, but concertgoers are asked to make a minimum donation of $10 per family to continue the series. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
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.
