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Oct 8, 2024

Oct 8, 2024

6:30 PM

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Join Office of the State Archaeologist's Cherie Haury-Artz at the Swisher Public Library for an educational program, Native American Uses for Plants. Learn about objects in the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist collections that illustrate the many non-food uses that Native People of North America found for plants. Plants from trees to grasses were utilized for building and wood carving, weaving and sewing, and creating colorful and beautiful objects. ...

Oct 10, 2024

Oct 10, 2024

5:00 PM

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Join Cherie Haury-Artz from the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist at Whitewater Canyon on a guided hike. Learn what Iowa was like over 13,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age and how people adapted to the conditions. Registration Required.

Oct 14, 2024

Oct 14, 2024

7:30 PM

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How do politics affect what poets or novelists write, and even how they write it? How does literature inform political discourse? What is cultural diplomacy, why is it so important, and what is the UI’s role in promoting it? For this inaugural event in the Obermann Center’s new Counterpoint public conversation series, Christopher Merrill — poet, nonfiction writer, translator, editor, and director of the UI’s renowned International Writing Program — and Loren Glass, a historian of creative w...

Oct 26, 2024

Oct 26, 2024

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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Join several OSA staff members for presentations on archaeology and archaeological research in Iowa at the 2024 Fall Meeting of the Iowa Archeological Society (IAS). Everyone is welcome to join the IAS and attend the meeting! The Fall Meeting is being held in Polk City in partnership with the Big Creek Historical Society. See the agenda and other details at https://iowaarcheologicalsociety.org/2024-fall-meeting.

Oct 30, 2024

Oct 30, 2024

5:00 PM

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Is there a burning topic in your discipline or a topic that cuts across disciplines that we should bring to campus? Is there a format for the conversation that can energize an intellectual community around that topic? That might be the perfect topic for an Obermann Symposium! These imaginative half- and whole-day symposia connect the arts and humanities with design, politics, health sciences, environmental studies, technology, and other disciplines via a compelling topic. Symposia should fe...