This Week, May 23 - 27, 2011
Think Tank Registration Deadine is May 25
The fifth annual "Think Tank" conference is June 2 at North Star High School. The conference is designed for campus communicators. The application deadline is May 25.
The conference theme is "Think Big." Registration begins at 8 a.m., with a 9 a.m. keynote presentation by Rwitti Roy of Purdue University. Other sessions include: a branding case study by Heather Swain, Michigan State University; social media presentation by Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University; "Making a Visual Impact," by Chris Ervin, VelocityApeFX; "Social and Brand Engagement" by Clint Runge, Archrival; and a cause marketing for audience engagement presentation. Read more on Today@UNL.
'Hancock's War' Winner of Great Plains book prize
"Hancock's War: Conflict on the Southern Plains" by the late William Y. Chalfant, is this year's winner of the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize from the Center for Great Plains Studies. James Stubbendieck, director of the center, made the announcement at the center's annual fellows meeting earlier in May.
When Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock led a military expedition across Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska in 1867, his purpose was a show of strength that would intimidate the Indian tribes - mostly southern Cheyennes, Lakotas, southern Arapahoes and Kiowas - and curtail Indian raiding sparked by the Sand Creek massacre of 1864. But the havoc Hancock and his troops wrought on the Plains only served to further incite the tribes and inflame passions on both sides, disrupting United States-Indian relations for more than a decade. Read more on Today@UNL.
Lectures
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM, TUE NOONTuesday Talk: Patterns of Patterns: What We Saw at the Quilt History Days
Dr. Kari Ronning, a member of the Nebraska Quilt Project team
Nebraska Jazz Orchestra to Kick Off Jazz in June
Celebrating its 20th season, the Jazz in June concert series presents four Tuesday evenings of great jazz on City Campus June 7-28.
Organized by the Sheldon Museum of Art and many other sponsors, this year's free jazz series kicks off June 7 with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra with guest Greg Abate. The concerts begin at 7 p.m. and will draw thousands of revelers to sit under the trees on the plaza west of the Sheldon. Read more on Today@UNL.
'Carlos,' 'Greatest Movie Ever Sold' Continue at the Ross
The five-and-a-half-hour film "Carlos," which offers the definitive portrait of the international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, is showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Also continuing for a second week at the Ross is Morgan Spurlock's "Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold."
Directed by arthouse favorite Olivier Assayas, "Carlos" is a biopic of the ultra-left wing Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, popularly known as "Carlos the Jackal." The role of Sanchez is played by Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez. The film is shown in three parts. Read more on Today@UNL.
