Veterans -- Helping the handicapped -- The Champs -- Prof. John C. Gerber -- Basketball preview -- Old Capitol Restoration -- Alumni Band -- Vladimir Horowitz -- Foreign Students at Iowa -- Alumni Family -- Deceased -- Life Member Honor Roll --...
South African author Maxine Case discusses Miriam Tlali and Bessie Head, two former South African women IWP participants. She then gives a brief history of apartheid and closes by stating that she is grateful for the efforts of authors such Tlali...
The recording begins with Krzysztof Piechowicz in the middle of speaking about the Polish culture during an interview with Clark Blaise. Blaise and Piechowicz discuss Catholicism in Poland and the Jewish Diaspora. Piechowicz talks about how he once...
Dr. Timothy Holtz was raised in Ames, IA, graduated from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and attended the University of Iowa's College of Medicine. Tim spent his final year as an undergraduate studying abroad in Egypt, India, Taiwan and Japan,...
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...
Authors from the International Writing Program come together to discuss the increase in global movement and transition, and how these issues impact writers creating in such an era.
Christopher Merrill introduces the Nobel Prize-winning poet, Derek Walcott. Walcott describes the process of writing his epic poem Omeros, and then reads from Omeros. He discusses themes of post-colonial idenity evoked in Omeros. He explains the...
Christopher Merrill introduces th Nobel Prize-winning poet, Derek Walcott. Walcott describes the process of writing his epic poem Omeros, and then reads from Omeros. He discusses themes of post-colonial idenity evoked in Omeros. He explains the...
Jael Silliman is the Program O_cer for Women's Rights & Gender Equity in the Human Rights Unit, Peace and Social Justice Program of the Ford Foundation. Immediately before that, she was the Program O_cer for Reproductive Rights. Prior to joining...
Aziz Nazmi Shakir-Tash suggests general meanings of the terms "migration," "diaspora," and "exile," relating stories of his own experiences--as well as those of Bulgarian Turks--to these meanings. Verena Tay's talk is titled, "You Are What You Eat:...
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...