This is the first in a series of two workshops (via Zoom) designed for instructors interested in incorporating more writing into content-oriented courses. All faculty and TAs are welcome, particularly those teaching in departments other than Rhetoric and English. Workshops are led by members of the Obermann Teaching with Writing Working Group. REGISTER HERE for one or both sessions. Both sessions will be held via Zoom. Session I, Monday, Jan. 6, 10 a.m.– noon: Low-Stakes Writing Assignments...

Professor Anna Barker will introduce the opera Tosca and provide a historical perspective. Streaming from the MET Opera will be in Marcus Theater Sycamore on Saturday, Nov. 23 at noon.  Learn in a fun way about one of the most-often performed operas. Free and open to all.  Hosted by the Opera Studies Obermann Working Group

Join us for the University of Iowa’s very first Mental Health and Well-Being Pecha Kucha. Pecha Kucha, Japanese for chit-chat, is a fast paced, imagery-focused workshop that elevates the voices of our campus “mental health and well-being innovators.” Attend these workshops to: •    Discover new ways of thinking about work from a mental health & well-being lens •    Get tangible takeaways about innovative mental health and well-being practices occurring on campus •    Create connections to...

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...

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...

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...