The recent success of the University of Iowa’s women’s basketball team generated excitement and interest in women’s sports across the community. Before there was NCAA women’s basketball, there was 6-on-6 girls basketball, a form of the sport that the state of Iowa remained committed to until 1993. This Obermann Conversation with University of Iowa faculty, basketball coach, and former players, will contextualize the past, discuss the present, and look forward to the future of women’s basketball...

This fall, the Out of the Archive screening and discussion series continues at FilmScene! This year’s theme is “Envisioning Blackness,” and the series will showcase the vibrant, multifaceted tradition of Black cinema by presenting rarely screened and/or recently restored films. Tickets are pay-what-you-can (with students, in particular, encouraged to pick $0). The majority of the screenings will include food and drink receptions and post-screening discussions with UI community members as well as...

Reception for Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates

Come meet Dr. T! The reception will be the final event in Dr. T’s visit. Folks are encouraged to come ask questions and share the overlap in their own work with issues of self-actualization, self-determination, and artistry. In other words, time to network!

Refreshments will be available.

The Department of Theatre Arts hosts Ida Beam Distinguished Professor Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, giving her lecture titled “From Shakespeare to Shange.” 

Every artist must question who they are. But for an artist in the performing arts, especially for an artist of color, that question cannot be ignored—not by the student artist, the professional artist or the teachers and professors that teach them, mentor them and ultimately evaluate them. This lecture draws from Tawnya Pettiford-Wates’...

Co-sponsored by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Book Ends—an Obermann/OVPR Book Completion Workshop—supports University of Iowa faculty from disciplines in which publishing a monograph is required for tenure and promotion. The award is designed to assist faculty members in turning promising manuscripts into important, field-changing, published books. Read more about the program.

Interested applicants are invited to learn more about the...

This fall, the Out of the Archive screening and discussion series continues at FilmScene! This year’s theme is “Envisioning Blackness,” and the series will showcase the vibrant, multifaceted tradition of Black cinema by presenting rarely screened and/or recently restored films. Tickets are pay-what-you-can (with students, in particular, encouraged to pick $0).

The opening film for the 2023-24 series is Cauleen Smith’s debut feature film Drylongso (1988, 86 mins). A lost treasure of 1990s DIY...