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Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Rachel Williams (UNC School of The Arts, North Carolina): "Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time...

Books and Writing

Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Rachel Williams (UNC School of The Arts, North Carolina): "Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time...

Books and Writing

Rethinking the Critical Afrofuturist Framework: Comics, Futurity, and Black Counterpublics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Julian Chambliss (Michigan State University): "Rethinking the Critical Afrofuturist Framework: Comics, Futurity, and Black...

Books and Writing

The Filipino Wave: Comics and Racial Capitalism | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Lara Saguisag (New York University): "The Filipino Wave: Comics and Racial Capitalism"

Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation, Iowa City Public Library, the Obermann Center for...

Books and Writing

Why we need Art Spiegelman's MAUS in Holocaust education | Iowa City Public Library

A talk by University of Iowa professor Elke Heckner.
Each survivor generation has created its own powerful representation of the Holocaust. As such, Art Spiegelman’s 1986 Pulitzer Prize-...

Books and Writing

Memory Matters: Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia | Alzheimer's Association and ICPL

Do you know someone with Alzheimer's disease or dementia? In the United States alone, more than 6 million individuals are living with Alzheimer’s and 11 million are serving as their unpaid...

Gardening, Nature, and Home

Ballot Basics: Voting Matters | League of Women Voters and Iowa City Public Library

Election law changes in Iowa mean new procedures for voters to prepare and vote in the November 8 General Election. All are welcome at this program on ballot basics presented by Travis Weipert,...

Student Poet Ambassador Johnnie Each and Poet Laureate Debra Marquart | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

A reading by Iowa Student Poet Ambassador, Johnnie Each, and Iowa Poet Laureate Debra Marquart.

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival

Poetry in Public | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Poetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Hear from 2022 Selected Poets.

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival

Author Visit: "Her Word is Bond" with Cristalle 'Psalm One' Bowen

“Nowhere near famous but still infamous,” Psalm One is a legend to rap nerds, scholars, and “heads,” and has gone on to work with the brightest names in rap and have her work celebrated and taught...

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival