Come to Prairie Lights Books for a special Darwin Day reading by Chris Jones, author of The Swine Republic. Published in 2023 by local publisher Ice Cube Press and named a 2024 "Great Reads from Great Places" book by the Library of Congress, The Swine Republic provides extensive research and reportage on the truth behind Iowa's infamously poor water quality, which you "...won't get ... from Iowa’s agricultural and political leaders." (icecubepress.com) Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature...

a Faculty First Responders Workshop
sponsored by POROI, Iowa’s Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry

At a time when academics are finding their work hyper-surveilled, banned from funding, or even scrubbed by AI, how can we vibrantly sustain our research, writing, and creative practice?

In this Faculty First Responders workshop, participants will learn concrete steps to support freedom of inquiry for themselves and others. Topics include digital security measures, reducing risk of extremist attacks...

All are welcome to attend this informal symposium designed for graduate and professional students who are in the beginning or the middle of their research to share what they've got to a group of people who are not necessarily well-versed in their discipline. We encourage you to come and talk about your works still in progress, your experiments that are under construction, and where you think all of that might lead (no conclusive data necessary). This is an opportunity to practice sharing your...

As calls for transnational solidarity among reproductive justice movements emerge, communities are asking how reproductive liberation is tethered to various social movements. Directed by Lina-Maria Murillo (Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies and History) and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (Communication Studies and Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies), this symposium brings together scholars and artists with local, regional, and global perspectives to bear on the pursuit of reproductive justice as we...

Join the University of Iowa (UI) Jewish Studies Network, an International Programs affinity group, as they host Samira K. Mehta for a discussion on contraception and American religion.

Her forthcoming book, God Bless the Pill: Sexuality, Contraception, and American Religion, examines the role of Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant voices in competing moral logics of contraception, population control, and eugenics from the mid-20h century to the present.

This reading is co-sponsored by the Jewish...

Join the University of Iowa (UI) Jewish Studies Network, an International Programs affinity group, as they host Samira K. Mehta for the reading of her book at Prairie Lights Books.

Her book, The Racism of People Who Love You, is a collection of essays published by Beacon Press in 2023. These essays integrate cultural criticism and personal experiences about multicultural, multiracial South Asian identity to give voice to multiracial experience and to think robustly about the challenges and...