04/14/2010
This University of Iowa-community collaboration, “WorldPrairie,” will feature a discussion with UI faculty involved in the WiderNet and Elluminate Internet development projects from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, at M.C. Ginsberg, 110 East Washington St. in downtown Iowa City. The event is free and open to the public.
04/14/2010
Frank Calzón, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba, will present a lecture titled “The Revolution on Balance: Human Rights in Cuba Today” from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, April 23, in Room 315 Phillips Hall on the University of Iowa campus. This lecture is free and open to the public.
04/13/2010
International Programs (IP) at the University of Iowa will conduct a summer institute for teachers and lifelong learners entitled “Caribbean Carnival Arts, Past and Present: Explorations in Community, Diversity, and Creativity within a Colonial and Post-Colonial Context.” The seminar and workshop will be June 14 to 18 in the IP Commons, Room 1117 University Capitol Centre. It is open to teachers and community members with both for-credit and non-credit options.
04/12/2010
Lorraine Piroux, associate professor of French at Rutgers University, will give a talk titled “Between a Hieroglyph and a Spatula: Literary Authorship and Theater in Eighteenth-Century France” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in Room 315 Phillips Hall on the University of Iowa campus. This event is free and open to the public.
4/9/10
The Asian Correspondent, an on-line newspaper, listed The University of Iowa as one of the “Top ten international universities in the US” in an article posted April 1, 2010.
Listed along with universities like Purdue, Columbia and NYU, the article notes that of the UI’s 30,000 students, eight percent are international students from 104 countries, making for a wide array of students.
04/08/2010
Nanette Barkey, a former University of Iowa assistant professor of anthropology and community and behavioral health, will discuss “Health in Haiti: the Case of Léogane Before and After the Earthquake” from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, April 9, in Room 1117, International Commons, in the University Capitol Centre.
Barkey conducted ethnographic research on health care in the city of Léogane throughout 2009 and returned there for two weeks in March 2010. Léogane was near the epicenter and more than half the homes and buildings were destroyed.
04/07/2010
International Mondays Brown Bag Series presents a forum titled “Learning Farsi, Tamil, and Indonesian: The Benefits of Autonomous Language Learning” from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, April 12, at the Iowa City Public Library Meeting Room A. This event is free and open to the public.
The panel is comprised of students and tutors of less commonly taught languages. They will discuss their language learning experiences and the multiple ways this has shaped their academic interests and work in communities around the globe.
04/07/2010
The University of Iowa International Crossroads Community will hold its annual Latin dance festival from 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, April 16, in the second floor ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union. This event is free for UI students, $4 for non-UI students and children, and $6 for adults. Refreshments will be served at the event.
04/02/2010
The University of Iowa’s South Asian Studies Program (SASP) is sponsoring a workshop focused on South Asia beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 15, and continuing all day Friday, April 16, and Saturday, April 17, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 1117 University Capitol Centre, International Commons. The workshop is available to undergraduate students for credit; the public is invited to attend.
03/31/2010
A documentary about the fence built on the U.S.-Mexico border will be shown from 7 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, in Room 140 Schaeffer Hall on the University of Iowa campus. This event is free and open to the public.
03/30/2010
Three Sudanese University of Iowa students will discuss the current political situation in Sudan from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., April 8, at the Iowa City Public Library, meeting room D. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.
03/30/2010
Neil Grungras, founder and executive director of the Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration (ORAM), will give a talk on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) refugees from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, in Room 1117 of the University Capitol Centre (International Commons). Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.
By Lynn Hicks
Charlie Wittmack knew, at age 15, that the trip he dreamed up sounded ridiculous.
Swim the English Channel. Jump on a bike and ride from France to Nepal. Then climb Mount Everest.
So he kept the dream – what he now calls the World Triathlon – to himself. But he started taking small steps toward his goal, despite false starts and failures. That, he would learn over the next 18 years, is how you reach great heights in the adventure called life.
03/30/2010
Yale ethnomusicologist Michael Veal will give a talk on dub reggae, “The Acoustics of Diaspora,” at 4 p.m. Friday, April 2, in Room 1117 (International Commons) in the University Capitol Center.
Veal’s work has addressed various topics about the music of Africa and the African Diaspora. His current research on Jamaican dub music examines the ways in which taped media and the studio-based innovations of Jamaican recording engineers in the 1970s shaped local culture and affected popular music worldwide.
03/30/2010
Prizewinning Colombian author Santiago Gamboa will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, April 5, at Prairie Lights Books, and again at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, at Shambaugh House, 430 N. Clinton St. in Iowa City.
His session at Prairie Lights Books will be conducted in Spanish and revolve around readings from recent novels and a novel in progress. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions following the readings.
