Title: Pornography and Censorship in Japanese Slasher Films
Presented by: Miri Nakamura, Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University
When: Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 at 4 p.m.
Where: 101 Becker Communication Studies Building (BCSB)
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posted onNov30, 2010
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posted onNov29, 2010
By Brian Morelli, The Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/29/2010
A semester studying abroad turned into much more for a University of Iowa student who received a 2010 award recognizing academic accomplishments while studying overseas.
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posted onNov29, 2010
This is an excerpt of an article that appeared in The New York Times. See the full article here.
By Jeffrey Gettleman
11/27/2010
NYAL, Sudan — Joseph Gatyoung Khan made a vow, uttered in the back seat of a Land Cruiser on a very bumpy road, as he headed home for the first time in 22 years: I will not cry.
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posted onNov29, 2010
By Brian Morelli, The Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/29/2010
Interest in the Peace Corps is increasing at University of Iowa, the university’s Peace Corps representative said.
So far this fall, 123 people have attended information sessions, local representative Meredith Mahy Gall said. The next information session is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1 in the International Commons of the University Capitol Centre.
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posted onNov29, 2010
By Nina Earnest, The Daily Iowan
11/29/2010
Bill Clinton. Edwin Hubble. George Stephanopoulos.
A 20-year-old University of Iowa senior is joining their ranks.
Renugan Raidoo is now a Rhodes Scholar.
The Rhodes Scholarship enables students to study for two or three years at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom on a full-ride scholarship.
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posted onNov24, 2010
By Brian Morelli, Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/24/2010
Iowa’s public universities are in the import-export business when it comes to international studies, and overall, business is good.
The state’s public universities have been sending more and more students to study abroad while nationally there has been a decline, and the number of international students enrolling at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa is increasing at a greater rate than the national average.
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posted onNov22, 2010
Renugan Raidoo spent summer 2010 in Mainz, Germany, on an internship arranged by the German Academic Exchange Service, called RISE (Research Internships in Science & Engineering). The program pairs an undergraduate student with a German Ph.D. student to assist in doctoral research.
See Raidoo’s blog from his time abroad: http://abenteuerergeschichten.blogspot.com/.
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posted onNov22, 2010
By Rob Daniel, The Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/22/2010
A senior at the University of Iowa has been named a Rhodes Scholar and will study at the University of Oxford in England next year.
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posted onNov22, 2010
This announcement appeared in the Iowa City Press-Citizen on Nov. 19, 2010.
University of Iowa student Evelyn Cardenas has been awarded the $10,000 Pearson Prize for Higher Education.
The award, given by the Pearson Foundation, recognized “exemplary students who are distinguishing themselves through commitment to community service” while continuing their studies, according to a news release.
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posted onNov18, 2010
11/18/2010
International Programs held its annual Student Funding Expo on Wednesday, Nov. 17, as part of International Education Week. At the open house, students could learn about funding opportunities for international research, language learning and more, and past award recipients were available to share their stories.
The below photo by Ricky Bahner was featured in The Daily Iowan’s “Today’s Photos” Nov. 18.
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posted onNov18, 2010
The next “Slavery in Global Cinema” film series screening will be held Thursday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. in 2520D UCC. The event is free and open to the public.
This series from the University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies allows audiences to explore the history and meaning of slavery practices through a variety of documentaries, feature-length films and personal accounts by filmmakers.
This week’s films is:
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posted onNov18, 2010
The UI Center for Human Rights (UICHR) will present a screening of the film “Owners of the Water: Conflict and Collaboration Over Rivers” Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. in 1505 Seamans Center for Engineering Arts and Sciences. This event is free and open to the public.
The film is a unique collaboration between two native Amazonian filmmakers and Laura Graham, an associate professor of anthropology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It explores an indigenous campaign to protect a river from the devastating effects of uncontrolled Amazonian soy cultivation.
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posted onNov18, 2010
The upcoming second-annual European Studies Conference will explore such diverse environmental topics as the role of watermills in the Middle Ages, green spaces in Ancient Rome and today’s Paris, and saving a certain breed of pig in 21st century Italy by eating it.
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posted onNov18, 2010
UI International Programs’ Confucius Institute will offer a Chinese calligraphy workshop Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in 248 Jessup Hall. Participants will learn the art and history of calligraphy while gaining hands-on experience. No prior knowledge of Chinese or of Chinese calligraphy is required and all materials will be provided.
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