Events

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, which you "...won't get ... from Iowa’s agricultural and political leaders." (icecubepress.com) Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature...

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...

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. The book explores Iowa's infamously poor water quality through an analysis of research and reportage. Until recently, Jones was a research engineer with IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa. He holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Montana State University and a BA in chemistry and biology from Simpson College. Previous career stops include...

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

Friday, April 4, 2025 4:30pm

Biology Building East

Tyrone Hayes is the Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair for Innovative Teaching and Research and a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the role of steroid hormones in amphibian development and he conducts both laboratory and field studies in the U.S. and Africa. The two main areas of interest are metamorphosis and sex differentiation, but he is also interested in growth (larval and adult) and hormonal regulation of aggressive behavior...

A Healthy Iowa Needs Clean Water: A public talk by David Cwiertny

Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:00am

Phillips Hall

David Cwiertny is the William D. Ashton Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Environmental Policy Research Program at the University of Iowa. His research specializes in the development of nanomaterials based approaches for resource sustainability and the environmental occurrence, fate and effects of emerging pollutant classes. At the UI, he directs the state-funded Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination, which conducts research to identify, measure, and prevent...

Science, the State, and the Public Trust: Historical Perspectives. A Panel Discussion

Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:45am

Phillips Hall

A discussion of historical perspectives on science, the state, and the public trust with Department of History faculty Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Shane Bobrycki, Robert Rouphail, Nicholas Yablon, and Beth Yale This event 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. The 2025 speakers are Tyrone Hayes (UC Berkeley), Chris Jones (Iowa Driftless Water Defenders), and David Cwiertny (Civil...

Anthropology Colloquium: Reworking Citizenship in South Africa

Friday, May 2, 2025 2:30pm

Macbride Hall

In scenes reminiscent of the apartheid era, 2021 saw South Africa's streets filled with mass protests. While the country is lauded for its peaceful transition to democracy with citizenship for all, those previously disenfranchised, particularly women, remain outraged by their continued poverty and marginalization. As one black woman protester told a reporter, reflecting on the end of apartheid: "We didn't get freedom. We only got democracy." What obligations do states have to support their...

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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