2009-11-16 (Englert Theatre)
Author of Graceland and Song for Night Stories of Struggle, Stories of Hope: Art, Politics and Human Rights "Chris Abani may be the most courageous writer working right now," says Dave Eggers. Imprisoned by the Nigerian government as a teenager for his writings [more...]
2009-11-04 (IMU Main Lounge)
"Whistle blower...health insurance insider." -President Barack Obama Wendell Potter has served since May 2009 as CMD's Senior Fellow on Health Care. After a 20-year career as a corporate public relations executive, last year he left his job as head of communications for one of the [more...]
2009-09-15 (IMU Main Lounge)
- Author, Gang Leader for a Day (2008) and Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
- Professor of Sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University
- Director of the Center for Urban Research and Po
2009-08-25 (IMU Main Lounge)
The Annual Cassandra S. Foens, M.D. Welcome Week lecture Exclusively Representing Frank Warren, Creator of the PostSecret Project. Frank Warren is the sole founder and curator of the PostSecret Project: A collection of over 200,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonym [more...]
2009-04-01 (IMU Second Floor Ballroom)
Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin, writes about race, politics, and culture for Vibe, The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, and has been doing so for over twenty years. As an expert covering hip-hop culture, he has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York [more...]
2009-03-04 (IMU Main Lounge)
The University Lecture Committee presents Alice Sebold, author of the number one best-sellers Lucky, The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon. Rarely has an author had such an impact on international literature with her first novel, especially when it focuses on the dark subjects of rape, child murder, [more...]
2009-02-20 (Bijou Theater, IMU)
Tuition is on the rise and funding for our education is in danger of being cut. Now is our opportunity, as students, to talk with someone who can do something about it. This forum gives students the chance to speak with Representative Winckler about why budget changes are happening, and how it will [more...]
2009-02-18 (IMU Main Lounge)
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is being translated into 20 languages to date. The six minute [more...]
2009-02-11 (IMU Main Lounge)
His accomplishments include pioneering work on chemical communication in the 1950s to 1970s, featuring a first comprehensive account of pheromones in ants, and (with William H. Bossert) a first evolutionary analysis of the physical and chemical properties of pheromones; the creation (with Robert H. [more...]
2009-02-03 (IMU Main Lounge)
Inga M. Muscio is the author of "Cunt: A Declaration of Independence"and "Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society." She is presently working on a new book about sex and violence, which will be published sometime in 2009. Inga is a dynamic public speaker [more...]
2008-10-29 (First United Methodist Church)
The University of Iowa Lecture Committee Presents: Ishmael Beah, former child soldier and author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone on November 23, 1980. When he was eleven, Ishmael's life, along with the lives of millions of other Sierra Leoneans, [more...]
2008-10-08 (Location TBA)
THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED due to a family emergency. More details will be made available soon. [more...]
2008-08-27 (Englert Theatre)
The University of Iowa Lecture Committee Presents: Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto and Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story.
More than anyone else in his generation, Chuck Klosterman captures what it feels like to live in'and expres
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2008-04-22 (The Hawkeye)
The University of Iowa Lecture Committee Presents: Let Me Stand Alone. The Journals of Rachel Corrie. A book discussion with readings, question and answer period, and book signing by Craig and Cindy Corrie A lifelong writer, Rachel Corrie (1979-2003) grew up in Olympia, Washington and was a stude [more...]
2008-04-06 (IMU Main Lounge)
Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, on the edge of the Caspian Sea. Part Azerbaijani, part Turkmen, part Muslim, part Zoroastrian—Iranian, in other words—she grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the Llycée Français, before leaving for Vienna and, later, Strasbourg to study Decorative Arts. [more...]
2008-03-10 (IMU Main Lounge)
Laurie Garrett is one of America's premier authorities on healthcare and disease prevention, and a powerful advocate for a more forceful response to threats to human health. Currently the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Laurie Garrett is the author of the best [more...]
2008-03-09 (IMU Main Lounge)
The lecture originally scheduled for Sunday, February 17 has been POSTPONED until March 9, 2008 due to inclement weather. Watch this space for further details. In his role as deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to Bush, Rove oversaw the strategic planning, political affairs, public l [more...]
2008-01-28 (Hancher Auditorium)
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg made headlines around the world when he released the Pentagon Papers through the New York Times and Washington Post. A native of Detroit, he earlier graduated from Harvard University, served as a company commander in the U.S. Marine Corps for two years, and then returned to [more...]
2008-01-26 (Location TBA)
We are a group of concerned economic human rights advocates who will host an Economic Human Rights Conference on Saturday, Jan. 26th, 2008 in Iowa City, IA, to empower and educate people, to join in an international dialog, and raise community awareness about poverty. This grassroots effort will, in [more...]
2008-01-23 (Location TBA)
Part of Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Week Presentation of MLK's "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech, followed by a panel discussion. We will have various community members and Civil Rights activists leading discussion on current race relations in the United States, and the im [more...]
2007-12-06 (Richey Ballroom)
The British Council is the United Kingdom's international nonpolitical organization for educational opportunities and cultural relations. The council builds relationships and understanding between people in the United Kingdom and other countries, and increases appreciation of the United Kingdom's id [more...]
2007-11-05 (Location TBA)
MacBride Auditorium Joshua Wolf Shenk is an essayist and the director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, among others, and in the national bestseller Unholy Ghost: Wr [more...]
2007-10-17 (IMU Main Lounge)
The forum will consist of two panels, the first of which will talk about energy security and alternative energy sources, specifically focusing on biofuels. The second will discuss the role that energy plays in America's foreign policy. Each panel will discuss questions from the moderator for abou [more...]
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