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Upcoming events

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 12:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Livestream

Will China or the US lead the way in the Fourth Industrial Revolution? To answer this question, leading thinkers and policymakers in both countries draw lessons from past technology-driven power transitions that center the moment of innovation – the...

Adults Current Issues

Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 6:30pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Livestream

Since 2000, Johnson County's population has increased roughly 40 percent, while the housing supply, especially affordable housing has not kept up with demand, and the number of evictions is soaring. This program will bring together Jessica...

Adults Current Issues

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...

Adults Current Issues

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...

Adults Current Issues

Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 1:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

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 who have faced discrimination...

Adults Current Issues