Upcoming Events

Bring the Noise: Estrogen Sensitivity in Frogs. Tyrone B. Hayes promotional image

Bring the Noise: Estrogen Sensitivity in Frogs. Tyrone B. Hayes

Friday, April 4, 2025 4:30pm
Biology Building East
Seminar talk by Professor Tyrone Hayes, Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair for Innovative Teaching and Research and a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley
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A Healthy Iowa Needs Clean Water: A public talk by David Cwiertny

Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:00am
Phillips Hall
A public lecture by David Cwiertny, the William D. Ashton Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Environmental Policy Research Program at the University of Iowa. This talk is part of Iowa City Darwin Day Science Fest, a celebration of science and its many contributions to humanity, which takes place on April 3, 4 & 5.
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Science, the State, and the Public Trust: Historical Perspectives. A Panel Discussion

Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:45am
Phillips Hall
A panel of Department of History faculty members discuss historical perspectives on science, the state, and the public trust. Panelists: Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Shane Bobrycki, Robert Rouphail, Nicholas Yablon, and Beth Yale. This event is part of Iowa City Darwin Day Science Fest, a celebration of science and its many contributions to humanity, which takes place on April 3, 4 & 5. 
From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men. A public talk by Tyrone B. Hayes promotional image

From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men. A public talk by Tyrone B. Hayes

Saturday, April 5, 2025 11:30am
Phillips Hall
Tyrone Hayes is the Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair for Innovative Teaching and Research and a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. This talk is part of Iowa City Darwin Day Science Fest, a celebration of science and its many contributions to humanity, which takes place on April 3, 4 & 5.
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Upcoming Application Deadlines

Upcoming Application Deadlines

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Application Deadline: Obermann Working Groups (2025–26)

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 5:00pm
Obermann Center Working Groups provide space, structure, and discretionary funding ($500 per year for 3 years) for groups led by faculty that may include advanced graduate students, staff members, and community members with a shared intellectual interest. Groups have used this opportunity to explore new work and to share their own research, to organize a symposium, and to develop grant proposals. This program allows participants from across the campus and beyond to explore complex issues at a...
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Fall Application Deadline: Book Ends Book Completion Workshop

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Book Ends—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. Book Ends brings together a panel of senior scholars for a candid, constructive three...

News

2013 Obermann Graduate Institute Fellows

Eighteen UI graduate students from across campus, representing four different colleges, have been selected for the seventh annual Obermann Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy. This year's co-directors, Carolyn Colvin (Teaching & Learning) and Charles Connerly (Urban & Regional Planning), and Senior Graduate Fellow Eric Zimmer (History) will lead the weeklong program from January 14-18...

Lunchtime Lecture Series Focuses on Public Humanities in Contemporary Culture

PDH4L, or Public Digital Humanities for Lunch, is a new series sponsored by the Digital Studio for the Public Humanities to explore how digital technology is changing humanities, and explores some of the promises, challenges and surprises of digital learning. The talks are all in Room 3052 of the Main Library.Two talks are forthcoming in November. On November 15, UI HASTAC Scholar Audrey Altman...

Barbara Eckstein

Barbara Eckstein is a Fall 2012 Obermann Fellow-in-Residence and a University of Iowa professor of English. She is also on the faculty of the UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) 
and is affiliated with International Programs. She’s previously served as Associate Provost for Academic Administration. Currently, she is in the early phases of an extensive study of the...
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"Circulating Culture" Working Group Hosts UMass-Amherst Scholar Laura Doyle

The Obermann Center “Circulating Cultures” Working Group will host the upcoming visit by Laura Doyle, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Doyle, who specializes in questions of transnationalism, modernity, and empire in literary studies, will give a public lecture, “Reading Otherwise: Interdisciplinarity, History, and the Dialectics of Culture,” on Thursday, October...

Genetics - From Frankenstein to the Future

"The era of personalized genomic medicine is fast approaching,” says Richard Smith, Professor of Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Molecular Physiology, and Biophysics. “Clinicians will provide health care tailored to each person’s genome to inform choices about medications, disease and disease prevention, and surgical risks.” Smith, who is the Co-Director of the University of Iowa Institute of Human...

The Latino Midwest

Latino culture has been helping shape the United States for hundreds of years, even before the U.S. was a country. Though the Latino population in the Midwest is small compared to other areas of the country, it continues to grow, infusing Latino art, literature, and music into the culture of the heartland.The Latino Midwest, the 2012-13 University of Iowa Obermann-International Programs Humanities...

Recent Events

Translating Research into Graphic Forms — A Discussion

Friday, October 28, 2022 3:30pm
Virtual
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...
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The Handmaiden

Thursday, October 27, 2022 6:30pm to 9:00pm
FilmScene (Chauncey)
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress in a secret plot to defraud her.
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Black Audience Labor for Naught: The Long-Term Problem with Embracing Plasticity as Meaningful Representation — Talk by Kristen Warner (University of Alabama)

Thursday, October 27, 2022 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Please join us for a virtual talk by Kristen Warner, Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at The University of Alabama.
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A Chinese Geo-Narrative Painting at the Stanley Museum of Art, with Elizabeth Kindall, Visiting Scholar, School of Art and Art History

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 5:30pm
Art Building West
“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...
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Application Deadline: Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Grants (Summer 2023)

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 5:00pm
The Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Grants (IDRG) foster collaborative scholarship and creative work by offering recipients time and space to exchange new ideas leading to invention, creation, and publication. IDRG groups work at the Obermann Center for two or four weeks, usually in July and/or August. Applicants propose work on a project with colleagues from across the University, across disciplines within their own department, or with colleagues from other parts of the country or the world...
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Application Deadline: Obermann Arts & Humanities Symposium Director (2023–24)

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 5:00pm
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 Arts & Humanities 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...