Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Australian artist, rancher, and UNL panel to address environment
Mandy Martin and Guy Fitzhardinge
"Braided Channels: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Environmental Art, Science, and Humanities focused on the Australian Outback and the American Great Plains" is the focus of two talks and a panel discussion 2-5 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum.
Mandy Martin, one of Australia's leading contemporary artists, will speak on "Landscape Studies: Environmental Art and the Impulse to Conserve." Guy Fitzhardinge, a rancher who manages several properties in New South Wales and Queensland, will speak on "Production Lands, Philanthropy, and Biodiversity." Both speakers are involved in promoting environmental protection and sustainable rural economic development in arid and semi-arid grasslands. Read more about these talks on Today@UNL.
Author to discuss Plains Indians war book
Hugh Reilly will read from and discuss his book "Bound to Have Blood" at 7 p.m. at the University Bookstore. The book is published by University of Nebraska Press.
The book uses primary sources and eyewitness accounts of eight watershed events in the Plains Indians war. Those events are: the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Sand Creek massacre, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the flight of the Nez Perce, the Cheyenne outbreak, the trial of Standing Bear and the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 and its aftermath. Read more about this dicussion on Today@UNL.
NEBRASKA UNION, 10AM - 3PM
Career fairs to attract nearly 300 employers
It's career fair season and nearly 300 employers will be on campus Oct. 4-6 and Oct. 13 to recruit UNL students and alumni for internship and full-time opportunities in all areas. Today, the Business, Service, Government, Liberal Arts, and Science Career Fair will take place in the Nebraska Union from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Students and alumni should plan to dress professionally and bring several copies of their resume. Faculty and staff are welcome to come and visit with employers as well. Read more about the fall Career Fair on Today@UNL.
Lectures
OLDFATHER HALL ROOM 538, 11:30AMPolitical Science Brown Bag Speaker Series - "Women, War and Political Transformation in the Balkans"
Jill Irvine, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Oklahoma
Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Seminar Series - "Nanostructured polymer materials for molecular electronics, sensors, and organic photovoltaics"
Valery Bliznyuk
Materials Science and Engineering Department
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Western Michigan University
SNR Fall Research Seminar - "Independent Environmental Acts of Kindness or Focused Conservation Delivery the Changing Conservation Delivery Paradigm"
Andy Bishop, Rainwater Basin Joint Venture Coordinator
David Meyer, University of Michigan
BEADLE CENTER ROOM E103, 3:30PMMeyer continues seminar series with multitasking presentation
"Multitasking, Mind and Brain: Challenges to Healthy Productive Living in The Digital Information Age," will be presented by David Meyer at 3:30 p.m. in room E103 of the Beadle Center. Meyer is a psychology professor at the University of Michigan and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The seminar is free and open to the public.
This seminar is presented as part of the Big Ten National Academy of Sciences Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar Series. Read more about Meyer on Today@UNL.
Yamato
Lied offers $15 tickets today only
Today only, the Lied Center for Performing Arts is offering tickets to eight shows at the reduced rate of $15 per seat. A code, available at 11 a.m. on the Lied Center website, is needed to purchase tickets at the reduced price.
Shows included in the one-day sale are: Oct. 15, Yamato; Oct. 19-23, Local Wonders; Nov. 4, Tiempo Libre; Nov. 7, Munich Symphony; Jan. 31, Ladysmith Black Mambazo; Feb. 8, Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata; Feb. 11, Cocktails with Larry Miller; and April 11, Ragamala. Read more about this offer on Today@UNL.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, 7:30PM
The Alloy Orchestra to perform at the Ross Oct. 5-6
The works of the Alloy Orchestra, a three-man musical ensemble, will accompany two different programs of silent films at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater at 7:30 p.m., Oct 5-6. General admission tickets are $25, seniors aare $20 and students and Friends of The Ross are $15.
The Oct. 5 program will accompany a screening of "From Morning to Midnight," a German film based on a play by Georg Kaiser about the odyssey of a bank teller who tries to evade the monotony of his bourgeois life. The film is drenched in the black of an endless nightmare, pierced by flashes of abstract light rendered by white cutouts. Read more about these performances on Today@UNL.
Image from the "Celebration of Youth" exhibit at the Hillestad Gallery.
Hillestad hosts 'Celebration of Youth' exhibit
Thirty-four Nebraska youths have their work showcased in the 18th annual Celebration of Youth exhibition, "Risk and Reward," running through Oct. 15 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.
Items were selected from the thousands of exhibits in the Clothing, Fashion Show, Home Environment and Quilt Quest departments at the 2011 Nebraska State Fair. Read more about this exhibit on Today@UNL.
