North, South, East, West -- The University -- Always A Smile -- Alumnus Gives $100,000 -- A New Governor -- Looking Back at Schweitzer -- The Educated Mind -- Testimony For The Arts -- SUI European Holiday -- Iowa Heads 'Em Off -- 1961 Commencement...
Justice for All: In her efforts to break down barriers between people, Adrien Wing will talk to anyone. She's invited former gang members to campus and forced her students to examine issues they'd rather avoid. -- Writers' Block: Fill in the blanks...
Nadia Abduljabbar stresses the need to address the similarities between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, considering "different religions as different windows toward Heaven." Nihad Sirees addresses the concept of Jihad in Islam, and the...
International authors and filmmakers meet to discuss their perspectives on translating writing into film and television. Lou Ye experiments with how changing the delivery of message changes the thoughts that get delivered. Rafael Courtoisie's talk...
Kavery Nambisan describes the migrant writer's thought-space, not losing rootedness whether traveling in the real or in the imagination. Saša Stanišić's talk is titled, "How You See Us: on Three Myths about Migrant Writing," and covers the myth...
Elena Bossi's discussion of "Writing as Philosophy and Craft" focuses on pseudonymity in fiction, titling her talk "The Names of the Other." Chris Chryssopoulos recalls philosophies of Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, but...