Pairing Art with Literature will be led by Stanley Docent David Duer. Participants will consider and discuss selected artists, such as Pueblo potter Lucy M. Lewis, and their artworks in light of kindred writers and their literary works. David Duer is a poet and memoirist who recently retired from teaching English language arts at Cedar Rapids Washington High School. He is a docent at the Stanley Museum of Art and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, a member of the Iowa City Poetry Advisory Board...

A comprehensive initiative composed of several integrated elements that features a Digital Diaries Exhibit that showcases the firsthand experiences of youth across the globe, focusing on themes of war, struggle, and resilience across time.

Come join proficient signers for lunch! Practice your skills using American Sign Language (ASL) and get to know your campus colleagues more!

How do politics affect what poets or novelists write, and even how they write it? How does literature inform political discourse? What is cultural diplomacy, why is it so important, and what is the UI’s role in promoting it? For this inaugural event in the Obermann Center’s new Counterpoint public conversation series, Christopher Merrill — poet, nonfiction writer, translator, editor, and director of the UI’s renowned International Writing Program — and Loren Glass, a historian of creative...

Sit in on a one-of-a-kind evening with writer and Iowa graduate Tracy Kidder, “a master of the nonfiction narrative” (Baltimore Sun), as he reflects on his lengthy literary career and reads from some of his bestselling work. The event will feature a conversation about the power of long-form investigative writing between Kidder and renowned author Stuart Dybek (73MFA), as well as a Q&A session and book signing. Register here: https://foriowa.info/3yUJ2h8 The author of nonfiction classics such...

"My research examines the intersection of citizenship, kinship, and economy in the everyday lives of South African families. As the availability of wage labor declines globally, I research how women rework the obligations entailed by kinship and citizenship in order to combat their social and economic insecurity. Drawing on approaches from feminist anthropology, women’s history, and gendered theories of capital, my work considers how intimate relationships—such as those between couples or kin...

Come enjoy a coffee while practicing your American Sign Language (ASL) skills! We will practice by chatting and getting to know one another more!

Join us for an hour to practice signing! Develop your American Sign Language (ASL) skills by chatting with people of multiple levels!

Join UI's Japanese language learning community for Tadoku Club every other Wednesday (3:45-4:45) and Friday (3:30-4:30)!

Starting Aug. 29, 2024, Life in Iowa, hosted by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and International Student Support and Engagement (ISSE), invite international students and scholars at the University of Iowa to join them for a weekly coffee hour.

Bring your lunch to 612 PH and get to know on-campus users of American Sign Language (ASL) better! It's a great opportunity to practice your ASL skills and also learn more about those your work and study with!

Students from Iowa City, fluent in 15 different languages, will present passages from Anne Frank’s diary.

Come join proficient signers for lunch! Practice your skills using American Sign Language (ASL) and get to know your campus colleagues more!

Celebrate the release of the novel Invisible Kitties with a conversation between author Yu Yoyo and Jeremy Tiang, the novel's translator.

Come enjoy a coffee while practicing your American Sign Language (ASL) skills! We will practice by chatting and getting to know one another more!

Join us for an hour to practice signing! Develop your American Sign Language (ASL) skills by chatting with people of multiple levels!

Starting Aug. 29, 2024, Life in Iowa, hosted by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and International Student Support and Engagement (ISSE), invite international students and scholars at the University of Iowa to join them for a weekly coffee hour.

Bring your lunch to 612 PH and get to know on-campus users of American Sign Language (ASL) better! It's a great opportunity to practice your ASL skills and also learn more about those your work and study with!

Join UI's Japanese language learning community for Tadoku Club every other Wednesday (3:45-4:45) and Friday (3:30-4:30)!

Connect with fellow Hawkeyes, hear about current happenings at the University of Iowa, and learn about the future of the Japan Iowa Club. 2024 October 25 (Friday) 6 p.m. (18:00) Tokyo American Club 2-1-2 Azabudai Minato-ku Tokyo 106-8649 Japan Register here: https://foriowa.info/3yoOFUw Hors d’oeuvres and a hosted bar will be provided. Katharine Lasansky, executive director of development at the University of Iowa Center for Advancement, will be your host for the evening. Registration...

Connect with fellow Hawkeyes, hear about current happenings at the University of Iowa, and learn about the future of the Korea Iowa Club. 2024 Oct. 26 (Saturday) 6 p.m. (18:00) Register here: https://foriowa.info/4e5IILe Mondrian Seoul Itaewon 23 Jangmun-ro Yongsan-gu, Seoul 04392 South Korea Hors d’oeuvres and a hosted bar will be provided. Katharine Lasansky, executive director of development at the University of Iowa Center for Advancement, will be your host for the evening.

Come join proficient signers for lunch! Practice your skills using American Sign Language (ASL) and get to know your campus colleagues more!

The Stanley Undergraduate and Graduate Awards for International Research are given annually to outstanding University of Iowa students for the pursuit of research and learning activities outside of the United States.

Presenter: Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Dr. David Price, Vanderbilt University

Come enjoy a coffee while practicing your American Sign Language (ASL) skills! We will practice by chatting and getting to know one another more!

Presenter: Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Dr. David Price, Vanderbilt University

Join us for an hour to practice signing! Develop your American Sign Language (ASL) skills by chatting with people of multiple levels!

Join UI's Japanese language learning community for Tadoku Club every other Wednesday (3:45-4:45) and Friday (3:30-4:30)!

Starting Aug. 29, 2024, Life in Iowa, hosted by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and International Student Support and Engagement (ISSE), invite international students and scholars at the University of Iowa to join them for a weekly coffee hour.

Renowned foreign policy expert and University of Iowa (UI) alumna Debra Cagan (BGS ‘75, MA ‘77), will deliver a timely lecture leading up to the 2024 general election, offering critical insights into the current landscape of U.S. geopolitics.

Presenter: Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Dr. David Price, Vanderbilt University

Bring your lunch to 612 PH and get to know on-campus users of American Sign Language (ASL) better! It's a great opportunity to practice your ASL skills and also learn more about those your work and study with!

A young postman secretly records an opera singer and becomes entangled in a dangerous chase when his tape is confused with evidence of a crime.

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists. Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session...

Since 2010, Viktor Orban has consolidated power as prime minister of Hungary, a central European country whose democratic institutions he has weakened primarily through a form of governance he terms "illiberal democracy" as well as through the nationwide advancement of Christian nationalism. Dr. H. David Baer and Ben Novak will discuss the intersections of modern Hungarian politics and religion, how the people there are impacted by Orban's autocratic policies, and why some here view Orban's...