All Videos

Understanding Anti-LGBTQIA+ Law Targeting Iowa Classrooms | Intellectual Freedom Festival

Keenan Crow, Director of Policy and Advocacy of One Iowa, will present an explanation of IA SF496, Iowa's new anti-LGBTQ+ education law. Among other things, this law includes a "don...

Current Issues and Politics Intellectual Freedom Festival

Jamaica: Holdin' a Vibe in a Textured Landscape | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

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

2023 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Writing the Not-Self

A conversation between three IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Writing the Not-Self," followed by Q&A.

Azhar Noonari (poet, translator, journalist; Ukraine) is...

Books and Writing International Writing Program

Is Brazil at a Tipping Point? Democracy and Climate Change | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

From forest fires in the Amazon to a mob storming the presidential palace, scholars warn Brazil could be at a tipping point. Dr. Smith discusses these threats, but also Brazil's hopeful...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen? | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

UI College of Education Associate Professor Carolyn Colvin, Ph.D., and colleagues from West Liberty will speak about the success of a program to bring citizenship and more to immigrants in West...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

2023 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Future Perfect

A conversation between three IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Future Perfect," followed by Q&A.

Tzveta Sofronieva (poet, fiction writer, playwright, essayist...

Books and Writing International Writing Program

Cholera in Lebanon: An Old Disease with a New Comeback | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Cholera has been a global public health problem that resulted in 7 pandemics since 1961. The first cholera case was reported in North Lebanon on October 4, 2022 in an informal settlement followed...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Women’s Basketball in Iowa: From 6-on-6 to NCAA | An Obermann Conversation

Obermann Conversations series returns with an event focusing on the tradition of women's basketball in the state of Iowa. Learning from each other and delighting in the combined knowledge of...

Local History Obermann Conversations

2023 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Nature on Edge

A conversation between four IWP 2023 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Nature on Edge," followed by Q&A.

Reetta Pekkanen (poet; Finland) has published the collections...

Books and Writing International Writing Program

World Order and the South Caucasus | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

The three small countries comprising the South Caucasus – Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan – illuminate the uncertainties and challenges facing foreign policy decisionmakers globally as they...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council