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An Iowa Perspective on the Refugee Crisis and the United Nations | Iowa City Public Library

The number of refugees and forcibly displaces people have swelled to nearly 100 miliion worldwide - mostly women and children. The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, works every day to aid these victims of...

Current Issues and Politics

Iowa's Childcare Predicament | An Obermann Conversation

Quality childcare is an elemental need. It allows parents to work at paid jobs, which in turn helps to support the economic well-being of our communities. Equally as crucial, it provides early...

Current Issues and Politics Obermann Conversations

Days of Future Past: Panel Discussion on Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Days of Future Past: Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics Panel with Lara Saguisag, Julian Chambliss and Rachel...

Books and Writing

Days of Future Past: Panel Discussion on Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Days of Future Past: Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics Panel with Lara Saguisag, Julian Chambliss and Rachel...

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

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