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The Machine Stops : A New Opera by John Lake & Cecile Goding | Iowa City Book Festival 2023

The Machine Stops: A New Opera by John Lake and Cecile Goding
Selected Videoclips and Talkback

Opera fan and UI Professor Emerita Miriam Gilbert leads a talkback session on The...

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Jamaica: Holdin' a Vibe in a Textured Landscape | Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

From Lorna Goodison’s third-world woman as mystic healer to Reggae and Dancehall pulsing through Kingston nights, Jamaica moves to its own drum beat, making a dance out of its troubles. It is a...

Arts, Music, and Hobbies Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Geometrizing Ethnoracial Formation Narratives in BIPOC Teen Comics | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Texas, Austin): "Geometrizing Ethnoracial Formation Narratives in BIPOC Teen Comics...

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How Do We Look? Panel Discussion | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Panelists:

Frederick Aldama
Stacey Robinson
Rebecca Wanzo
Bishakh Som

Co-sponsored by The Mellon...

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Trans/Migration: Explorations in Gender, Culture and Identity through Comics | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Bishakh Som: "Trans/Migration: Explorations in Gender, Culture and Identity through Comics"

Co-sponsored by The...

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Redrawing the Western Canon: Race, Identification, and 'High' Art in Comics | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Rebecca Wanzo (Washington University in St. Louis): "Redrawing the Western Canon: Race, Identification, and 'High'...

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Calculating the Sensory Aesthetics of Black Liberation | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Stacey Robinson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "Calculating the Sensory Aesthetics of Black Liberation"

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MusicIC Festival | Whitman's "Lilacs"

As part of the City of Literature's annual MusicIC festival, University of Iowa Professor and Walt Whitman scholar Ed Folsom will discuss Whitman's poem, "When Lilacs Last in the...

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Reading Anne Frank: Dear Kitty - The Act of Keeping a Diary | Iowa City Public Library

Speakers: high school teacher Ali Borger-German, renowned Anne Frank scholar Kirsten Kumpf Baele, and author Jennifer New.

This series provides three different lenses through which to view...

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