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...
A TRIUMPHANT LIFE: Helene Scriabine never imagined she would see her Russian homeland again, but thanks to Glasnost the UI professor emeritus is returning to see work begin on a film inspired by her life. -- ENVIRONMENT BECOMES A HOT ISSUE: The...
Alumna, Artist, Author -- Computer Center -- New Research Center -- Confrontation -- Joseph Benti – Hustlers’ Helper -- Fledgling Photographers -- Pistol Packin’ Proffessor -- Placing U of I Graduates -- The Numbers Game -- Research and LSD...
IN CLASS: Engineering students help equip humans for flight. -- The Flight of a Red-Tailed Angel: As one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, Iowa alumnus Luther Smith played a crucial part in World War II— and also helped wage the battle for racial...
Maryam Ala Amjadi is a poet and translator from Iran. For her, the act of translating is in itself a form of self-exile, because the writer is forced to distance themselves from their mother tongue and in so doing, they become spectators both of...
Professor Jane Gilmor says that certain works are intended "to create a ritualistic ambience not unlike that of some bizarre roadside shrine. I am interested in both the construction and deconstruction of myth and in the deeper relationships...
Professor Jane Gilmor says that certain works are intended "to create a ritualistic ambience not unlike that of some bizarre roadside shrine. I am interested in both the construction and deconstruction of myth and in the deeper relationships...
Election Results -- Family -- FXL Fired -- No Smoking -- Mollenhoff on Politics by Richard Blazek -- Alumni Band -- Energy Crisis by Susan Burden -- Jolly Good T.V. by Dave Helland -- Minority Voices by Richard Blazek -- A Unique and Primary Place...
Field Hockey: The UI team is a national powerhouse with only a meager following. Coach Davidson and her squad have rolled up impressive victories both on and off the field that deserve our attention. -- Computermania! It's sweeping the UI campus....
Among the Dogon, as among many groups in the upper basin of the Volta Rivers, dogs are frequently the victims of sacrifices to ancestral spirits. Griaule (1938: 348.350) describes the sacrifice of a dog during rites marking the opening of the...