Rick Knupfer, the executive director of the Iowa Humanities Board, talks about the Board’s goals and projects. He states that the Board attempts to fund projects that bring academics and Iowa communities together. Knupfer discusses some specific...
President Hancher Reports on The State of the University -- "I'm Tired" -- The Attitudes of Iowans -- International Spotlight on SUI Physicists -- Complete in this Issue: American Higher Education—1958 -- Reunions -- The Buried Story of Man --...
The Ticklish Art -- SUI Ding Darling Cartoon Collection -- Cartoonists in a Grand Tradition -- Their Favorite Cartoons --
Rx For Pharmacists -- Manufactured Hallucinations -- Peace Corps Service: Challenge of the Mid-Sixties -- Creative Heart of...
Hungarian author Miklós Molnar begins by talking about his family history including Attila Joseph, whose prize Molnar won later in life. He also discusses being imprisoned for eight months for speaking out against Marxist philosophy. He then reads...
American author Laura Kalpakian discusses her novel, Grace Land, about an Elvis fan. She reads an excerpt of the book and talks about the use of music in her work. She describes Elvis and Shakespeare as the masters of emotion and then discusses the...
Professor Emeritus from Iowa State, Charlotte Bruner, discusses her two anthologies of African women writers. She discusses what lead to her interest in African women authors, and the similarities and differences between women authors across the...
Thomas Dent from New Orleans discusses the founding of the Umbra Workshop in New York City. Umbra was a workshop for aspiring black writers in the 60’s, and according to Dent served as a place for African Americans to share ideas about art and...
Inaki Zabaleta Urkiola from the Basque Country of Spain and Ukzenel Bucpapa of Albania discuss the influence of Elvis in their own countries. Bucpapa discusses the Albanian government’s ban on any music that did not originate in Albania....
Israeli author Igal Sarna talks about fighting for Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and being a member of Peace Now. Sarna states that fighting in the war led to his conclusion to never trust his government and that such seeming contradictions...
Peter Nazareth interviews Hungarian authors, Pal Bekes and Kornel Hamvai. Bekes discusses living in a cellar in 1956 and experience he used for his play entitled “Cellar Play,” about refuges that have been hiding so long they are unable to find...
Jaroslav Koran of the Czech Republic discusses his time as mayor of Prague. A former IWP resident, Koran talks about translating several English and American books for the Czech audience, most of which deal with the absurdities of power dynamics....
This interview opens with Milton Hartoum of Brazil reading an excerpt from his novel, The Tree of the Seventh Heaven. He then explains that the novel is based on his real-life family who moved to Brazil from Lebanon. He goes on to explain his...
Polish poet and 1989 IWP resident Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska discusses writing and politics in Poland. Borun-Jagodzinska discusses the effects on Polish culture and literature of communist repression, and the changes introduced by the...
Poet, journalist, and 1985 IWP resident Wayne Brown discusses his writing and the contemporary West Indian literary scene. Brown goes on to talk about his biography of Edna Manley, artist and mother of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael...