A new immigrant and refugee welcome center is opening in Polk County in 2025. The hub for refugees and immigrants, which has been designed with community input to create an inclusive environment, will feature professionals who provide confidential...
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Upcoming events
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 12:00pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Livestream
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 6:30pm
Meeting Room D
Climate Fiction Book Club is a monthly book club that will read and discuss fiction to explore imagined futures of the climate crisis. This month will be a discussion of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Set in the near future, this hopeful...
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 4:00pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
This event, part of the Locating Reproductive Justice: Global & Regional Perspectives symposium will examine how people in the past and present have engaged with, confronted, and negotiated harmful laws, policies, and structural deficiencies...
Friday, March 28, 2025 - 4:00pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
This event, part of the Locating Reproductive Justice: Global & Regional Perspectives symposium will examine how people in the past and present have engaged with, confronted, and negotiated harmful laws, policies, and structural deficiencies...
Friday, April 4, 2025 - 12:00pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Livestream
Researchers, sovereign tribal communities, and women farmland-owners will discuss how they are collaborating to foster climate resilience through the newly established Central Midwest Climate Opportunities and Learning Team (CM CO-Learn), funded by...
Saturday, April 5, 2025 - 10:30am
Storytime Room
Eid al-Fitr is a holiday celebrated by Muslims around the world, marking the end of the month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from sunup to sundown. Join City High student leader Miamen to learn about the meaning and customs of Eid, and how her...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 6:30pm
Meeting Room D
Climate Fiction Book Club is a monthly book club that will read and discuss fiction to explore imagined futures of the climate crisis. This month will be a discussion of The Deluge by Stephen Markley. In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony...
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 12:00pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Livestream
The inner workings of authoritarian regimes are, by their nature, opaque. Knowledge of how such a regime keeps records is usually understood only after the ruling elite collapses and some level of public access to the archives is gained. The...
Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 1:00pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Meeting Room D
The purpose of Human Library is to help bridge the divide between people of different cultural, ethnic, religious, and social groups through open and meaningful conversation without judgement. At the event, volunteers (Books) who have faced...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 6:30pm
Meeting Room D
Climate Fiction Book Club is a monthly book club that will read and discuss fiction to explore imagined futures of the climate crisis. This month will be a discussion of Dry by Neal Shusterman. When the California drought escalates to catastrophic...
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