Events

Locating Reproductive Justice: Global & Regional Perspectives — 2024–25 Obermann Arts & Humanities Symposium

Thursday, March 27 to Friday, March 28, 2025 (all day)

As calls for transnational solidarity among reproductive justice movements emerge, communities are asking how reproductive liberation is tethered to various social movements. Directed by Lina-Maria Murillo (Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies and History) and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (Communication Studies and Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies), this symposium brings together scholars and artists with local, regional, and global perspectives to bear on the pursuit of reproductive justice as we...

The Swine Republic: A reading by Chris Jones at Prairie Lights Bookstore

Thursday, April 3, 2025 7:00pm

Prairie Lights Books

Come to Prairie Lights Books for a special Darwin Day reading by Chris Jones, author of "The Swine Republic." Published in 2023 by local publisher Ice Cube Press and named a 2024 "Great Reads from Great Places" book by the Library of Congress, The Swine Republic provides extensive research and reportage on the truth behind Iowa's infamously poor water quality.

Fostering Climate Resilience Together

Friday, April 4, 2025 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Iowa City Public Library

Researchers, sovereign tribal communities, and women farmland-owners will discuss how they are collaborating to foster climate resilience through the newly established Central Midwest Climate Opportunities and Learning Team (CM CO-Learn), funded by the NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnerships program, that supports Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. This panel brings together a tribal community member, a woman farmland owner, and several project researchers to share what they are learning from each other, what tangible climate-wise action is underway, and how these strategies participate in global efforts to adapt to a changing climate.

Iowa: Land of Troubled Water, a talk by Chris Jones

Friday, April 4, 2025 3:30pm

Biology Building East

Chris Jones is author of The Swine Republic which was named a 2024 "Great Reads from Great Places" book by the Library of Congress. It is based on extensive research and reportage of Iowa's infamously poor water quality.

Bring the Noise: Estrogen Sensitivity in Frogs. Tyrone B. Hayes

Friday, April 4, 2025 4:30pm

Biology Building East

Seminar talk by Professor Tyrone Hayes, Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair for Innovative Teaching and Research and a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley

Sacrificing Iowa’s Land and Water to Feed the World: A public talk by David Cwiertny

Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:00am

Phillips Hall

A public lecture by David Cwiertny, the William D. Ashton Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Environmental Policy Research Program at the University of Iowa. This talk is part of Iowa City Darwin Day Science Fest, a celebration of science and its many contributions to humanity, which takes place on April 3, 4 & 5.

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Past Colloquia Events

Past colloquia events

2024-2025

John Doershuk, PhD
A Community-inspired (and Energized) Mastodon Excavation in Southern Iowa
Friday, January 31, 2025
2:30 pm, 27 Macbride Hall

Aaron Seaman, PhD
Friday, December 6, 2024
2:30 p.m., 27 Macbride Hall

Dr. Margaret Beck
The Geology of Color - Red Pigment in the Midcontinent
Friday, September 20, 2024
2:30 pm, 27 Macbride Hall (ground floor)
17 N. Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA

2023-2024

Dr. Ochy Curiel
Decolonial feminism: Contributions and debates for the social sciences.
(El feminismo descolonial. Aportes y debates para las ciencias sociales)
Friday, February 23, 2024, 3:30 pm

Dr. Mary K. Good
Relationships, Responsibilities, and Economies of Care in Tonga and the U.S.
Friday, February 9, 2024

Dr. Emma Pomeroy, University of Cambridge, UK
Insights into life and death at Shanidar Cave from the new Neanderthal skeletal remains
Friday, October 13, 2023

2022-2023

Anna Žabicka, University of Vienna
Aging & Care in Latvia
Friday, April 7, 2023

Tatjana Thelen, University of Vienna
Transforming Kinship and State: Care as Boundary Object
Friday, March 24, 2023
2:30 pm, 1117 UCC

Andrew Kitchen
The Human Geography of Viruses
Friday, February 24, 2023
2:30 pm, 27 Macbride Hall