Events
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Friday, March 24 to Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Saturday, March 25 to Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Sunday, March 26 to Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Monday, March 27 to Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Tuesday, March 28 to Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
Virtual All Majors Career Fair
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 1:00pm to 4:00pm
This fair will focus on recruiting students pursuing any and all majors! All students are invited to attend! There will be a variety of industries of employers represented.
Visit: https://careers.uiowa.edu/virtual-career-fair for more details.
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Wednesday, March 29 to Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora — 2022-23 Obermann Humanities Symposium & IP Major Projects Award
Thursday, March 30 to Saturday, April 1, 2023 (all day)
2022-23 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award: Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora
From March 30 to April 1, "Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora" will feature filmmakers, translators, and film scholars from the Afro-Brazilian diaspora. Organized by Christopher Harris (Cinematic Arts) with partnership from Cristiane Lira (University of Georgia) and Brazilian filmmaker Janaína Oliveira, the...
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Thursday, March 30 to Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
Frequências Keynote Lecture by Janaína Oliveira
Thursday, March 30, 2023 3:15pm to 4:15pm
This is a keynote Lecture by Janaína Oliveira, Federal Instituto of Rio de Janeiro. Introduction by Christopher Harris.
Frequências Humanities Symposium & IP Major Projects Award: Screenings of República and Dazed Flesh
Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:15pm to 5:45pm
This event is part of the 2023 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award: Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora.
Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora brings together filmmakers, artists, scholars, and critics from across the globe in order to inaugurate a practice of collective attunement. How can we best attune ourselves to the waves set in motion by this new cinema? How does Brazil’s current...
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Frequências: Screenings of República and Vaga Carne [Dazed Flesh] by Grace Passô
Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:15pm to 5:45pm
FilmScene at the Chauncey will host film screenings of Grace Passô's República and Vaga Carne [Dazed Flesh]. After the screenings, there will be a conversation with filmmaker Janaína Oliveira.
Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora — 2022-23 Obermann Humanities Symposium & IP Major Projects Award
Friday, March 31 to Saturday, April 1, 2023 (all day)
2022-23 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award: Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora
From March 30 to April 1, "Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora" will feature filmmakers, translators, and film scholars from the Afro-Brazilian diaspora. Organized by Christopher Harris (Cinematic Arts) with partnership from Cristiane Lira (University of Georgia) and Brazilian filmmaker Janaína Oliveira, the...
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Friday, March 31 to Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
Crosscurrents in Time: A Video Trilogy by Aline Motta (Exhibition)
Friday, March 31, 10:00am to Tuesday, August 1, 2023 4:30pm
This multi-channel installation of three related videos will be on view in the Lauridsen Family Gallery at the Stanley Museum of Art. Aline Motta is a participant in Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora, an Oberman Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Project Award, held at the University of Iowa March 30 - April 1, 2023.
Among the Atlantic waters that connect Brazil, Portugal, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, contemporary artist Aline Motta engages...
Frequências: Interventions by Tatiana Carvalho Costa, Grace Passô, and Michael B. Gillespie
Friday, March 31, 2023 10:30am to 11:45am
This event is part of the 2023 Obermann Humanities Symposium, Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora.
Tatiana Carvalho Costa is a curator and teacher. She is a doctoral student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais where she researches Afro-Brazilian epistemologies and Black Brazilian Cinema, in particular the recent production of short films. She works as programmer and juror of festivals and recently joined the curatorial team of the Mostra de Cinema de...
Frequências Humanities Symposium & IP Major Projects Award: Artist Talk by Aline Motta — "Bridges over the Abyss"
Friday, March 31, 2023 1:15pm to 2:45pm
This event is part of the 2023 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award:. Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora.
Following the opening of Brazilian visual artist Aline Motta’s exhibition at the Stanley Museum, the artist Aline Motta and Brazilian curator and scholar Tatiana Carvalho Costa will share their thoughts on the works exhibited and discuss the uses of speculative fiction and archive to piece together a possible family...
Frequências: Interventions by Cristiane Lira, Miryam Charles, and Aline Motta
Friday, March 31, 2023 3:00pm to 4:15pm
This event is part of the 2023 Obermann Humanities Symposium, Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora.
With her artistic practice, Aline Motta (b. 1974, Niterói, Brazil) seeks to point out and fill in the gaps in her own family history as a result of colonial erasure. Her videos, photographs, installations, and performances are based on speculative studies that mix archival research, field trips, and oral history reports that she uses to access, nourish, and reveal...
Frequências Humanities Symposium & IP Major Projects Award: "Black Utopia LP" Performance by Cauleen Smith
Friday, March 31, 2023 4:30pm to 6:30pm
This event is part of the 2023 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award: Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora.
Join us for Cauleen Smith's captivating audio-visual performance, Black Utopia LP. Combining 35mm slide projection with the artist's vinyl LP, this 90-minute "film without film" offers a unique cinematic experience. Emerging from Smith's extensive research on Afrofuturism, this live work ruminates on history, music...
Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora — 2022-23 Obermann Humanities Symposium & IP Major Projects Award
Saturday, April 1, 2023 (all day)
2022-23 UI Obermann Humanities Symposium & International Programs Major Projects Award: Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora
From March 30 to April 1, "Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora" will feature filmmakers, translators, and film scholars from the Afro-Brazilian diaspora. Organized by Christopher Harris (Cinematic Arts) with partnership from Cristiane Lira (University of Georgia) and Brazilian filmmaker Janaína Oliveira, the...
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Saturday, April 1 to Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
Frequências Screening: Director’s Choice programmed by Christopher Harris
Saturday, April 1, 2023 10:15am to 12:00pm
This event is part of the 2023 Obermann Humanities Symposium, Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora.
Christopher Harris makes films and video installations that read African American historiography through the poetics and aesthetics of experimental cinema. His work employs manually and photo-chemically altered appropriated moving images, staged re-enactments of archival artifacts and interrogations of documentary conventions. His current project is a series of...
Frequências: Interventions by Janaína Oliveira, Yasmina Price, and Cauleen Smith
Saturday, April 1, 2023 1:00pm to 2:15pm
This event is part of the 2023 Obermann Humanities Symposium, Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora.
Yasmina Price's Intervention will be a hybrid of lecture/meditation and presentations of film and sound where she will expand on her conversation with filmmaker Miryam Charles. Through video clips from Charles’s short films, Price will reflect on the inerrancy of Caribbean cinema and the silencing of Haiti in film (and otherwise). How, her intervention asks, might...
Frequências: Screening: Janaína Oliveira Short Film Program
Saturday, April 1, 2023 2:30pm to 4:15pm
This event is part of the 2023 Obermann Humanities Symposium, Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora.
Janaína Oliveira is a curator and researcher who holds a doctorate in history and was a Fulbright scholar at the Center for African Studies at Howard University (USA). She is one of the founders of FICINE—Fórum Itinerante de Cinema Negro. Her research focuses on Black Brazilian and aphrodiasporic cinemas and also on African cinematographies. She has served as a...
"Ukraine: War and Resistance" photo exhibit
Sunday, April 2, 2023 (all day)
With the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, a cohort of Fulbright photographers, both Ukrainian and American, found themselves at the epicenter of momentous events, equipped with their ultimate weapon, their cameras. They managed to capture the tragic and heroic, devastating, and hopeful moments of present life in Ukraine.
These photos were exhibited for the first time in fall 2022 at the Vinnytsia Museum of Art, Ukraine.
The University of Iowa is proud to host the "Ukraine: War and...
Refugee Simulation
Thursday, April 6, 2023 5:45pm to 7:45pm
IS:3012 Community Engaged Learning with Refugees and Immigrants in Iowa is partnering with the Catherine McAuley Center in Cedar Rapids to host a Refugee Simulation event on the UI campus. This event is free and open to the public. To encourage people on and off campus to learn about the lived experiences of refugees, we invite people to attend this very unique and interactive opportunity.
Paper Artisan Talk and Q&A
Thursday, April 13, 2023 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Join the UI Center for the Book and UI International Programs in welcoming Masami Igarashi and Hideaki Taki to the university. Both artisans will be discussing the types of papers they make in their respective studios, as well as their personal background with the craft. Presentations will be followed by a Q&A and an opportunity to handle and purchase paper from both mills.
Japanese Papermaking Festival
Friday, April 14, 2023 1:00pm to 4:30pm
UICB graduate students, Masami Igarashi, and Hideaki Taki will be hosting hands-on workshops connected to the world of handmade paper. Bring your friends, roommates, and family and become a part of this wonderful celebration of the art of hand papermaking.
WorldCanvass: An Evening with the Meitar Ensemble
Monday, April 17, 2023 5:00pm to 7:00pm
WorldCanvass will launch the 2023 Provost’s Global Forum titled Festival of Contemporary Music from Israel with an intimate evening of music and conversation featuring the Meitar Ensemble and conductor Pierre-André Valade.
Student Employment Job Fair
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 11:00am to 2:00pm
This is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about the variety of student hourly and Work-Study jobs available on the UI campus & at qualified off-campus nonprofit Work-Study sites.
The University is excited to have students consider campus employment. Research shows that students who are connected to campus are more successful and more likely to continue enrollment and do well academically. Many first-year students choose student employment as their Pick One.
Typically more than 30...