Monday January 25, 2010
International Feminist Organization Based at UNL Earns $1.5 M Grant
The International Association for Feminist Economics located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will receive a $1.5 million grant over the next three years from the Swedish International Development Agency to promote feminist economic research and to inform policymakers, economists, and other scholars about feminist points of view on economic issues.
The grant will provide support for IAFFE's annual conferences held throughout the world, support workshops for the development of special issues to be published by the association's journal, "Feminist Economics" at Rice University, and provide core support for the IAFFE office at UNL. more...
Lectures
NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PMWomen's and Gender Studies Colloquium - "The Life and Surprising Adventures of Film Adaptation: Autobiography as a Mysterious Act of Translation"
Lecture and film screening by Lindsay Kerns, recent UNL graduate in Film and New Media
Antichrist, Broken Embraces Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Antichrist and Broken Embraces. Broken Embraces will screen through January 28, while Antichrist will show through February 4.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
Ed Forde - "Bullriding" (2009)
Faculty Exhibition Opens at Eisentrager-Howard
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Art and Art History Studio Art Faculty will present their work in a variety of media in an exhibition that opens today at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. The exhibition will run through February 18.
An opening reception will be held today from 5 - 7 p.m. in the Gallery. The reception is free and open to the public.
H1N1 Page at UNL Monitors Flu
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/.
