Friday and Weekend, October 21 - 23, 2011
Chancellor Harvey Perlman (front, right) shakes hands with Zheng Nanning, president of Xi'an Jiaotong University, after signing the agreement to create an American Culture Center in China.
Agreement paves way for American Culture Center in China
The University of Nebraska has signed an agreement with Xi'an Jiaotong University to create an American Culture Center in Xi'an, China. The center — one of only 10 to receive seed funding from the U.S. government — will initiate a variety of programs to expose students, faculty and staff at Xi'an Jiaotong to all things American, including history, government, art, law medicine and culture.
NU President James B. Milliken began discussions with Xi'an Jiaotong University President Zheng Nanning about the possibility of opening an American Culture Center that would serve as a reciprocal center to the Confucius Institute during a visit to Xi'an in November 2010. Milliken also discussed the idea with then-U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, who encouraged the university to move forward. UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman led subsequent discussions and recently signed the university's agreement with Xi'an Jiaotong. Read more about this agreement on Today@UNL.
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, SAT 7:30PM
Barnes to perform 'Liszt and the Cross' Saturday
Paul Barnes
Paul Barnes will perform "Liszt and the Cross: Music as Sacrament in the B Minor Sonata," during a 7:30 p.m., Oct. 22 recital in Kimball Hall. Tickets, available at the door one hour before the performance, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens.
Barnes is a professor of piano in the School of Music. In the recital, Barnes explores the relationship between religion and art in the life and music of Franz Liszt. The recital includes a brief lecture, the singing of a Gregorian chant, an examination of iconography relating to Liszt, and the performance of Liszt's Sonata in B Minor.
Lectures
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 12:30PMSociology Colloquium - "Parental Involvement in High School Education: Variations by Student's Race and Gender"
Lina Traslavina Stover, UNL sociology graduate student
Geography General Seminar - "The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and Geographical Issues in the Humanities"
Katherine Walter, Professor and Co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Public Lecture: The Emergence of Block-Style Quilts in the United States
IQSCM Research Fellowship Recipient Janice Frisch, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University
Students examine a historic North Omaha photo.
'History Harvest' aims to share, preserve North Omaha's story
UNL historians are inviting the public to join them in Omaha to uncover new insights into the past, specifically those that tell the story of African-Americans in North Omaha and across the country.
The UNL Department of History, in partnership with Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, the Great Plains Black History Museum and the Malcolm X Foundation, will host "History Harvest" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 22 at Love's Jazz and Art Center, 2510 N. 24th St. The public is invited to bring in old photographs, letters, memorabilia and other items related to African-American history to learn more about them and how such artifacts connect to the broader national narrative of American history. Read more about History Harvest on Today@UNL.
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 7:30PM
Ruckman lecture features search for extrasolar planets
Jason Wright
The search for planets outside the solar system is the focus of the 2011 Ruckman Lecture, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 21 in the Nebraska Union.
Astronomer Jason Wright from Penn State University will give the free talk, "Exoplanets Abound." Wright will discuss the history of the search for planets outside the solar system, the story of their eventual discovery, and the recent breakthroughs that have allowed the imaging and study of the atmospheres of these planets around nearby stars. He will also discuss the efforts made by astronomers and NASA to detect an Earth-like planet that could host liquid water on its surface. Read more about this talk on Today@UNL.
'We Were Here,' 'Circumstance' open at the Ross
A documentary on the early years of the AIDS epidemic and a drama about two young women growing up in Tehran open today at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
"We Were Here" documents the coming of what was called the "Gay Plague" in the early 1980s. The film examines the personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic, as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. In the film "Circumstance," best friends Atafeh and Shireen explore Tehran's underground scene, determined to be themselves. However, when Atafeh's brother, Mehran, returns home from drug rehabilitation, he renounces his former decadent life — including an obsessive practice of classical music — with more destructive pursuits. Read more about these films on The Ross website.
Art students offer 'Open Studio' event
The work of UNL's Master of Fine Arts students will be on display during open studio night, 5 to 8 p.m., today in Richards and Woods halls. The event will feature the work of 19 graduate students. Undergraduate art will be on display in Richards Hall with the artists present.
Open studio night includes a raffle to win a piece of graduate student artwork. Tickets will be sold during the event for $1 each (or six for $5), with all proceeds going to UNL's Visual Artists in Practice program.
Art exhibit to benefit Lincoln's Friendship Home
An exhibition organized by Kyren Conley, a senior studio art major from Alliance, has grown into a benefit for the Friendship Home, Lincoln's shelter for victims of domestic violence.
The "Sights Unseen," which features portraits and other works for women and children staying at the Friendship Home, is on display in the Nebraska Union Rotunda Gallery through Oct. 21. The exhibit was not developed for course credit. It represents the culmination of Conley's work in community arts with associate professor Sandra Williams. Read more about this exhibit on Today@UNL.
