Friday and Weekend March 5 - 7, 2010
ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, SAT 1PM
UNL Senior Showcases Award-Winning Documentary and Theatrical Reading of New Script
Jennifer Olson, a senior in UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, has been working for the past 6 months with Will Eisner Studios, Inc. to adapt the first ever graphic novel (comics' long form) A Contract with God into a play as part of her thesis.
On Saturday, March 6 at 1:00 p.m., the premiere reading of her new script will be held at The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Performing in the reading are 16 local actors, mostly UNL students. more...
UNL Hosts "No Limits" Conference
The UNL Women's and Gender Studies program will host their annual "No Limits" Conference on March 5-6, 2010 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This year's theme is "Global Issues, Local Voices" and features a variety of events.
On Friday, March 5 at 4 p.m., professor Obioma Nnaemeka will deliver a lecture titled, "Captured in Translation: Feminisms in a World in Motion," at the Sheldon Museum of Art. A reception, in conjunction with the Sheldon’s "First Friday" series, will follow. On Saturday, March 6, a roundtable discussion titled, "Community Connections" will take place at at the Nebraska Union. This event features alums from UNL’s WGS Program who now work with community agencies and advocacy groups in the Lincoln area. more...
HARDIN HALL AUDITORIUM, SUN 2PM
Garden Writer Pam Duthie to Lecture at UNL
Chicago area author and gardener Pam Duthie is the featured speaker at a free public lecture beginning at 2 p.m., Sunday March 7 in the Hardin Hall Auditorium at 33rd and Holdrege streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus
The lecture, sponsored by the UNL Garden Friends, will include colorful photos and illustrations based on Duthie's "Continuous Color, The Easy U-Can Plan Way," a simple method to plan a garden starting with shrubs, conifers and small trees and adding perennial partner plants to create a garden with color in every season. more...
Lectures
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 12:30PMSociology Department Colloquium - "American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate"
Dr. Pete Simi, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Agricultural Economics Seminar Series - "Could Packers Manipulate Cash Markets by Linking Contract and Futures Prices?"
Tian Xia, Kansas State University
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Responses of High-Latitude Ecosystems to Climatic Change: From DNA Input to Solar Output"
Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois. Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.
Mathematics Colloquium - "Tales of a Local Algebraist"
Ananth Hariharan, UNL. The talk will be preceded by refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Avery 348.
Lincoln Quilt Guild Scholarship Lecture
Carolyn Ducey, Curator of Collections
'Czech Memories' Photo Exhibit Opens at Great Plains Art Museum
The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present an exhibition of black and white photographs by Jean Lewis titled "Czech Memories: Ethnicity and History Preserved in the Built Environment."
The exhibit runs March 5 through April 18 and features scenes from Wilber and other immigrant communities throughout Nebraska. It coincides with "Czech and Slovak Americans: International Perspectives from the Great Plains," the 36th Interdisciplinary Symposium sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL. more....
LIED CENTER, SAT 7:30PM
Abraham Inc. to Bring 'All-Out Klezmer Funk Dance Party' to Lied Center
Klezmer clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer will collaborate with long-time James Brown trombonist Fred Wesley and beat architect Socalled to create an all-out klezmer-funk dance party when Abraham Inc. rocks the stage at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. March 6.
Tickets for this performance are $19. UNL students and those at other participating colleges with a valid ID and youth age 18 and younger may purchase tickets for half price. Call the Lied Ticket Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for availability. Regular ticket office hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. For weekday evening performances, Lied Center Ticket Office hours are from 11 a.m. until 30 minutes after show time. The Lied Center is located on the UNL City Campus at 301 North 12th Street. Tickets may also be purchased online at the Lied Center website. more....
HOWELL THEATRE, FRI, SAT 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents "Tartuffe"
The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film's University Theatre opens its Spring season with the Moliere comedy "Tartuffe," translated by Richard Wilbur and directed by professional guest director Robert Bonaventura on March 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Howell Theatre. The production is designed by undergraduate Kevin Queen (scenic) as his Capstone production and graduate student Shannon Paulick (costumes) as her thesis production.
Tickets are $16; $14 faculty, staff and seniors; and $10 students. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 North 12th Street, by calling 472-4747 or on-line at the UNL Theatre tickets website.
The White Ribbon, Oscar-Nominated Crazy Heart Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The White Ribbon and Crazy Heart. Both films will show through March 11.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
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/.
