Tuesday September 29, 2009
Student Documentary on Sudanese Refugees to be Screened
"Paths of the Displaced," a documentary by Natalia Ledford, a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will show at The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center at 7 p.m. The film explores the experiences of several Sudanese men and women who fled civil war in their home country and resettled in Lincoln. The showing is free and open to the public.
Ledford began the project as a 17-year-old senior at Lincoln High School. She became interested in Sudan after interviewing students for her school newspaper and decided to delve deeper. Her classmates' stories of struggle and resilience spurred her to continue researching the civil conflict ravaging the country. more...
International Affairs Hosts Study Abroad Fair
A Study Abroad Fair will be held today at the Nebraska Union from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The fair features information on many study abroad programs, financial aid information, study abroad advising, and a drawing for a $250 study abroad scholarship. Please call 472-5358 for more information.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
UNL Presents Chinese Culture Week Sept. 28 - Oct. 3
Six days of activities, all free and open to the public, celebrate Chinese Culture Week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Events kick off Sept. 28 and conclude Oct. 3. The week observes the second anniversary of the establishment of UNL's Confucius Institute, the 30th anniversary of the normalizing of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska Union will be hosting an exhibition of Chinese calligraphy and art from Sept. 28-Oct. 3. Zenghan Tong, a doctoral student in UNL's Department of Chemistry, is master in the art of Chinese calligraphy. Paintings by Dongmei Wu, an award-winning Chinese artist who is a member of the faculty of the College of Forestry Northwest A&F in Yangling, China, also will be exhibited. The pair will be demonstrating their work from today from noon to 2 p.m. more...
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'Agents of Change: Mexican Muralists, New Deal Artists' at Sheldon
Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present "Agents of Change: Mexican Muralists and New Deal Artists," an exhibition that illustrates the close ties between the art of Mexico and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, Sept. 29 through Jan. 17. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held during Sheldon's First Friday 5-7 p.m. Oct. 2.
From Sheldon's permanent collection and from the private collection of Norman and Judy Zlotsky, the exhibition presents artworks from the Mexican Muralist Movement, which began as a government-sponsored public art program after the Mexican Revolution of 1910, and from artists working in the Works Progress Administration, created during the Depression in the United States in the 1930s. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
Author Alexandra Fuller to Speak at Nebraska Union
Author Alexandra Fuller will be the featured speaker at a research and region lecture tonight at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The 7 p.m. talk in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., is free and open to the public.
Fuller was born in England in 1969 and moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her family when she was two years old. After that country's war of independence in 1980, her family moved first to Malawi and then Zambia, where she met her husband. In 1994, she came to the U.S. and lives now in Wyoming with her husband, two daughters and son. Fuller's first book, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood," was a New York Times Notable Book and national bestseller. Her second memoir was "Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier." more...
Lectures
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PMEntomology Seminar - "Genetic and genomic investigations into pea aphid wing dimorphisms"
Dr. Jennifer Brisson, School of Biological Sciences, UNL
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Fall Seminar - "Redox Reactions for Iron Acquisition by Pathogenic Bacteria"
Dr. Michael Murphy, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia. Refreshments available prior to the presentation.
The Stoning of Soraya M. and It Might Get Loud Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Stoning of Soraya M. and It Might Get Loud. The Stoning of Soraya M. will show through October 1, while It Might Get Loud will screen through October 8.
More information about each film and schedules are available at the Ross website.
H1N1 Page at UNL Updated for Fall
The university continues to closely monitor the worldwide and local impact of H1N1 flu. At this time there is no immediate impact on UNL, its community or operations, except heightened alert and awareness, and efforts to communicate the necessity of proper hygiene and stemming the spread of the virus.
For more information, including Student and Employee attendence policies, visit the H1N1 Information page at http://emergency.unl.edu/.
