Upcoming Events

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Building our Global Community: Developing Your Intercultural Insight

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Instructors: Pauline Beazer James, Senior Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services; and Shuhui Lin, International Education Program and Student Affairs Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services Description: In this two-part interactive class, participants will learn about developing their intercultural insights by exploring the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). The IDI generates an individual profile of “worldview orientation to commonalities and differences,” and...
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International Student Weekly Coffee Hour

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 11:30am to 12:30pm
University Capitol Centre
Starting Jan 22, 2025, Life in Iowa, hosted by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and International Student Support and Engagement (ISSE), invite international students and scholars at the University of Iowa to join them for a weekly coffee hour.
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UI Lunar New Year Celebration 2025

Thursday, February 20, 2025 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Virtual
All across Asia, the arrival of spring is celebrated, and for Chinese, Korean, and various Southeast Asian communities, it is marked with the beginning of the new year on the lunar calendar. 
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Building our Global Community: Developing Your Intercultural Insight

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Instructors: Pauline Beazer James, Senior Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services; and Shuhui Lin, International Education Program and Student Affairs Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services Description: In this two-part interactive class, participants will learn about developing their intercultural insights by exploring the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). The IDI generates an individual profile of “worldview orientation to commonalities and differences,” and...
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International Student Weekly Coffee Hour

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 11:30am to 12:30pm
University Capitol Centre
Starting Jan 22, 2025, Life in Iowa, hosted by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and International Student Support and Engagement (ISSE), invite international students and scholars at the University of Iowa to join them for a weekly coffee hour.
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Engaging Across Cultures: Employment

Monday, March 3, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Virtual
Instructors: Jennifer Teitle, PhD, Assistant Dean for Graduate Development and Postdoctoral Affairs, Graduate College, and Meng Xiao, PhD, Career Counselor, Graduate College Description: This session will help guide graduate and professional students to map out their career path after graduation. Facilitators will help tackle some concerns international graduate students might have regarding employment in the United States. Facilitators will assist participants to discover potential career...
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Building our Global Community: An Introduction to Federal Regulations Affecting International Students

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Instructors: Pauline Beazer James, Senior Advisor, and Kevin Roiseland, Senior Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services Description: Immigration laws regulate many aspects of international students' lives, including entry to the United States, the conditions under which they may remain in this country and re-enter after traveling abroad, and eligibility for immigration benefits such as employment and extension of stay. This session will provide an introductory overview of the...
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International Student Weekly Coffee Hour

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 11:30am to 12:30pm
University Capitol Centre
Starting Jan 22, 2025, Life in Iowa, hosted by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and International Student Support and Engagement (ISSE), invite international students and scholars at the University of Iowa to join them for a weekly coffee hour.
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Night of 1000 Dinners

Thursday, March 6, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Unitarian Universalist Society
Night of 1000 Dinners is a community celebration of International Women's Day focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Climate Change, Gender, and Biomass Cookstoves in India w/LUNCH

Friday, March 7, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Iowa City Public Library
Historically, industrialized countries have created our climate crisis but have yet to take responsibility for the development dilemmas associated with climate change. The solutions proposed at the international level have largely prioritized technical fixes, including new cooking technologies and carbon credit accounting. Highlighting perspectives from below – the lives and livelihoods of marginalized people – illuminates several problems with these approaches.
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IP Series and Annual Events

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Commitment to Internationalization Lecture Series

Started in 2016, this series features experts in the field of international education. These experts help to foster ongoing, campus-wide conversations about the UI’s vision and strategic themes for campus internationalization.

2022 YALI Mandela Washington Fellows

Cultivating Success: A Global Faculty Initiative

Drawing on the expertise of veteran faculty, these panel discussions focus on a range of topics relevant to international scholarship and teaching, including cross-national research collaborations, navigating administrative structures, work-life balance, tenure and promotion, and classroom experiences.

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International Education Week

UI celebrates International Education Week each year, serving as an example of our commitment to preparing Americans for a global environment and to attract future leaders from abroad to come to the U.S.  Multiple events and activities take place across campus to promote the importance of international education.

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Major Projects Award

Through the generous support of the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization, this award promotes important contributions to scholarly debates and exchanges on international topics, issues, discoveries, and arts. These may take the form of collaborations, symposia, conferences, lecture series, artistic exhibitions, and performance events.

Gautam Yadama

Provost's Global Forum

This forum is the premier annual event on campus focused on international and global issues. It brings together experts from the faculty and leading voices from a variety of areas to raise awareness about, and contribute to debate on, the foremost issues in globalization that face us today. 

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Study Abroad Conversation Series

This new series, for prospective and returned study abroad students, covers essential topics like funding study abroad, leveraging international experiences for career growth, gaining global skills, and traveling mindfully.

Series Archive

Global Alumni Spotlight Series

This series featured in-depth conversations with UI alumni who have international backgrounds or experiences, and explore global and international topics that cross disciplines, borders, and connect Iowa with the world.

WorldCanvass

WorldCanvass®, which ran for 15 years, was hosted by Joan Kjaer. Through discussions with scholars, community members, and thought leaders, the program explored topics that were international in scope and central to our understanding of how individuals fit into the global landscape.