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Working with Refugees and Displaced Persons: The International Rescue Committee in Iowa | ICFRC

Join speakers Sarah Terlouw and Aimerance Nzinga for this important conversation. Sarah Terlouw, IRC's Executive Director in Iowa, will speak about her 15-year career supporting refugees, her...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Author Visit: Jerry Harrington | Thunder from the Prairie: The Life of Harold E. Hughes

Author Jerry Harrington will present on the life of former Iowa Governor and US Senator, Harold E. Hughes.

Hughes was an impactful actor within the rise of postwar American liberalism, the...

Books and Writing, Current Issues and Politics, Local History Visiting Authors

Growing Your Own Veggies 101 | Second Sunday Garden Forum

Lisa Hinzman Howard or as she’s known in the gardening world, Midwest Garden Gal, will cover GIY (Grow It Yourself): Veggies 101, to encourage gardeners to adopt the worldwide trend to grow your...

Gardening, Nature, and Home Project GREEN

Digital Democracy and Youth Empowerment | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Young people are increasingly using digital technologies to participate in democracy. This event will explore how digital technologies can be used to empower young people and encourage them to...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Labor Strikes: An Obermann Conversation | Iowa City Public Library

This summer, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) both went on strike, something that hadn’t happened...

Current Issues and Politics Obermann Conversations

Latinos in Iowa: Planting Seeds of Prosperity, Power and Progress | ICFRC

In honor of this year's Hispanic Heritage Month theme, Elizabeth Bernal, Marcela Hurtado, and Paola Jaramillo will speak to the progress Latinos and Hispanics have made over the last fifteen...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Surviving a Dictator, A Dictator Surviving | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

What happened in Syria since it stopped being a "Breaking News" hot topic? How are the Syrian people surviving post civil war living conditions? Is Assad still at large? And why does it...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Border Imperialism: Control of Land and Bodies Through Colonial Violence | ICFRC

Speaker Sikowis Nobiss, Founder/ED of the Great Plains Action Society, talks about how Colonial border policy enforcement, coupled with settler-state immigration laws, are critical factors in...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Public Education for the Public Good: Past, Present and Future | Iowa City Public Library

Guest speaker Dr. Jean Donham. The mission of public education originally was to educate all citizens to understand their role in a democracy. Public education was intended to support the public...

Current Issues and Politics League of Women Voters of Johnson County

Iowa City Community School District Visiting Author: Stacy McAnulty

The Visiting Author program is a targeted program the ICCSD Foundation supports. In partnership with Hills Bank’s Community Reading Month, two book authors are selected each year to visit the...

Books and Writing Children's Visiting Authors, Visiting Authors, Community Reading Month