Current Issues and Politics

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

Getting Our Legal, Financial and Health Care Affairs in Order | TRAIL of Johnson County and ICPL

End-of-life financial and health care decisions should not be left until the last minute. Advanced planning, putting our “house in order,” to provide clear instructions for our loved ones helps to...

Current Issues and Politics

Why People Don't Vote | League of Women Voters and Iowa City Public Library

Based on her recent research, Dr. Caroline Tolbert will analyze puzzling trends in voter participation and review ways that the machinery of voting, i.e., its organization, could be modernized to...

Current Issues and Politics League of Women Voters of Johnson County

Quality Education for All: UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On UN Day this year we are honoring that historic agreement by emphasizing the rights of youth, especially the right...

Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Struggles with the Truth of Agriculture and Water Quality | Iowa City Book Festival 2023

Author Dr. Chris Jones (The Swine Republic) is joined by journalists Keith Schneider and Erin Jordan to examine Iowa and the Midwest’s efforts at water quality, public information, and the modern...

Books and Writing, Current Issues and Politics Iowa City Book Festival