Transatlantic Battlefront: How the Exiled Czech Comic Duo Continued Resistance to Nazi Occupation Via Radio Broadcasting.
Jiri Voskovec and Jan Werich (V+W) were Czech comedians and...
Arts, Music, and Hobbies
Perspectives from HPG Postdoc Alums with Laura Perry and Ashley Cheyemi McNeil
Part of the closing events of the Mellon Humanities for the Public Good grant.
To watch a performance of Three Essays for String Quartet, visit: https://youtu.be/GM0zG_5_ox4?si=RmkgYNMyfXQi5_Lv
A...
Arts, Music, and Hobbies, Books and Writing
The Machine Stops: A New Opera by John Lake and Cecile Goding Selected Videoclips and Talkback
Opera fan and UI Professor Emerita Miriam Gilbert leads a talkback session on The...
Arts, Music, and Hobbies Iowa City Book Festival
From Lorna Goodison’s third-world woman as mystic healer to Reggae and Dancehall pulsing through Kingston nights, Jamaica moves to its own drum beat, making a dance out of its troubles. It is a...
Arts, Music, and Hobbies Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar
Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Texas, Austin): "Geometrizing Ethnoracial Formation Narratives in BIPOC Teen Comics...
Books and Writing, Arts, Music, and Hobbies
Panelists:
Frederick Aldama Stacey Robinson Rebecca Wanzo Bishakh Som
Co-sponsored by The Mellon...
Bishakh Som: "Trans/Migration: Explorations in Gender, Culture and Identity through Comics"
Co-sponsored by The...
Rebecca Wanzo (Washington University in St. Louis): "Redrawing the Western Canon: Race, Identification, and 'High'...
Stacey Robinson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "Calculating the Sensory Aesthetics of Black Liberation"