To continue our year-long Mellon Sawyer Seminar devoted to “Racial Reckoning Through Comics,” we turn to critical and creative approaches to representing historical as well as potential futures of racial trauma, testimony, possibility, and expanded narrative. How have comics neglected as well as addressed racialized histories or imagined racialized futures? In addition to presentations from our dynamic speakers, this event will include a guided archival tour of rare comics artifacts from the...

Launched in 2015 as an initiative of the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) consortium, this annual workshop welcomes 30 participants each summer from higher education institutions across the United States. HWW Summer Workshop Fellows work in a variety of academic disciplines. They are scholars and practitioners who bring experience in community building, museum curation, filmmaking, radio programming, social media, project management, research, writing, and teaching. They are invested in issues of...

The Creative and Critical Practice and Pedagogy Obermann Working Group is exploring the potential of creative dissertations Friday, Oct. 28 at 3:30 p.m. on Zoom. They’re reading three online articles by Nick Sousanis, Professor at San Francisco State University and the first of a growing number of scholars translating research into graphic forms. 

Free and open to all. For the Zoom link and links to the readings, please contact the group's co-directors, Professor Harry Stecopoulos (harilaos...

Please join us for a screening of Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden.

After the screening, KoRN and GWSS director Hyaeweol Choi will join Corey Creekmur (English, Cinematic Arts) to discuss the impact of Park Chan-wook on cinema. 

Open to all.

On Jan. 9, 2020, an Instagram post and a new website from Royal Sussex announced that The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, aka Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, were stepping away from full-time royal duty to live a more private life. Dubbed by the British tabloid’s The Sun as “Megxit,” their seemingly self-imposed exile became non-stop fodder for days as revelations about the long-term planning of the scheme from the couple littered the pages of every online outlet. Watching the tsunami of supportive...

“A Chinese Geo-Narrative Painting at the Stanley Museum of Art”
Visiting scholar: Elizabeth Kindall, Associate Professor, University of St. Thomas
Oct. 26 (Wed) 5:30 p.m. CT, ABW116 or Zoom (register here) https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrd-GoqT0oG9HbMoMnfCKSui75xDimEbSN
Hosted by the School of Art and Art History, co-sponsored by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Elizabeth Kindall is...