Thursday, October 28, 2010
NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, 7:30PM
Ghost Hunter Chad Calek to Speak at Nebraska Union
Paranormal investigator, documentary filmmaker, director and speaker Chad Calek will be at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Oct. 28 to present his experiences for the University Program Council.
This event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Ballroom, 14th and R streets. It is free for all UNL students with valid NCard and $4 for faculty, staff and public. more...
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ROOM 222, 1PM
Department of Economics Hosts Free Seminar
The UNL Department of Economics will host a seminar, "The Effects of Geographic Deregulation in U.S. Banking on the Manufacturing Sector: Growth Accounting Excercise," at 1 p.m., Oct. 28 in 222 CBA. The seminar will be presented by economics doctoral student Viktor Khanzhyn.
The event is free and open to the public. Please contact Barb Keating (bkeating2@unl.edu to RSVP.
Lectures
NEBRASKA UNION, 7:30PMCarroll R. Pauley Memorial Lecture - "A formal hypocrite, A loathsome animal': Scotophobia, anti-Puritanis"
Tim Harris, Brown University
Husker Pumpkin Stencils
Carve a little Husker spirit into your Halloween! Choose from five different stencils. Download a pattern, tape it to your pumpkin, cut along the dotted lines and Go Big Red!
JORGENSEN HALL, FRI 4PM
Jorgensen Hall Dedication to Feature Nobel Laureate, Extreme Ribbon Cutting
The UNL community is invited to celebrate the dedication of Jorgensen Hall, the university's new physics building, where the winners of a ribbon-cutting contest will put their Rube Goldberg device to work.
Nobel laureate and alumnus Alan Heeger will kick off the dedication day events on Oct. 29 with a talk at 4 p.m. in Jorgensen Hall 136. Heeger will address the role risk-taking plays in science. He'll also discuss how the building's namesake, Ted Jorgensen, steered him into a career in physics. The dedication ceremony will follow at 4:30 p.m. in Jorgensen Hall's atrium. more...
VAN BRUNT VISITORS CENTER, 5:45PM
Dance Critic for The New Yorker Holds Lecture
Joan Acocella
Joan Acocella, staff writer for The New Yorker, will lecture on dance at 5:45 p.m., Oct. 28 in the Van Brunt Visitors Center. The lecture is part of the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium's presentation of the dance company GIMP, whose performance is Oct. 29 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Acocella's recent collection of essays, "Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints," was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism and won the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a former Guggenheim fellow and current fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities. more...
NEBRASKA UNION CENTENNIAL ROOM, 7PM
'Porn Nation' Presentation Tonight
"Porn Nation," a critically acclaimed, multimedia-intensive presentation that challenges audiences to consider the impact of living in a hyper-sexual culture, shows at 7 p.m., Oct. 28 in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Michael Leahy will share his story of losing everything and overcoming his sexual addiction. His presentation has been featured on ABC's "20/20," "The View," "Good Morning America," CNBC and USA Today. The event is sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ.
Life During Wartime; Cairo Time Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Life During Wartime and Cairo Time. Life During Wartime will screen through through Oct. 28, while Cairo Time will show through Nov. 4.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
