Edgar Calabia Samar of the Philippines begins the panel with a discussion of the power of lists on readership. He states that the danger that lists of canonical books is the fact they ignore potentially significant works and may further limit...
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...
My Life as a Student: Temperamental roommates, 7:30 a.m. physics finals, and Airliner pizza—in the first excerpts from a yearlong journal project, six undergraduates share their experiences at the UI. – ChangeAbility: Technological devices...
DRIVE THE BUDGET: Getting what it takes to run the UI is getting harder. How can a university prove what it's worth to a state? -- DENTAL COLLEGE CENTENNIAL: 100 years of history have brought the UI dental school to national prominence and some...
FLYING THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE: A graduate of the Writers' Workshop takes a candid look at the new captain Frank Conroy—who is determined to keep the program flying high. -- LET'S GET PHYSICAL: We invite you to discover the lighter side of the...
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...
"The third annual exhibition of contemporary art (The Iowa Summer Show) is presented by the School of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa as one of the major events of the Ninth Annual Fine Arts Festival. The exhibition this year presents...
Sean Shatto is a recent graduate with a degree in English from the University of Iowa. He got his start in videoblogging from a cinema class with Jennifer Proctor and continues to post on a semi-regular basis.
Jennifer Proctor is a filmmaker and former Managing Director of the Cinematexas Short Film Festival and Austin Cinemaker Co-op. Her work has shown at Lincoln Center, Aurora Picture Show, Portland Documentary & Experimental Film Fest, Basement...
Cole Bauer lives in Minneapolis, MN, where he recently graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in Studies in Cinema & Media Culture and German Studies.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Michel Laronde is Associate Professor of French at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 20th-century literature and now works in several areas of Francophone studies, Quebec, Africa and its diaspora in the...
Letters to and from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa. This correspondence is chiefly letters to and from his family during his first semester of law school. Also included are letters regarding his...