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October 2019
Events
The following are Obermann or Obermann co-sponsored events:
- Sept. 25-29 - Over the Levee, Under the Plow: An itinerant seminar in WI and IL
- Sept. 26 - How to Write Effective Letters of Recommendation: A Get It Done workshop
- Sept. 27 - Obermann Humanities 3-Minute Thesis Competition
- Oct. 3 - "When Women Won the Right to Vote: An American Fiction," A Hard Won, Not Done lecture by historian Lisa Tetrault
- Oct. 4 - "No Room for Maria at the Inn": Race, Nation, and the Restriction of Maternity Care in El Paso, TX, 1922-42 - A talk by Heather Sinclair
- Oct. 10 - Research Services Fair; Teresa Mangum, director of the Obermann Center, will be on a roundtable from 4-5 pm
- Oct. 14 - Media Clown: The Analog Clown Enters Digital Space - An IDRG presentation
- Oct. 18 - Cultures of Courtship: Scientific & Historical Perspectives on Charles Darwin's Descent of Man - A lunchtime seminar
- Oct. 22 - Latina/o/x Identity, Popular Culture, and Arts Education with Poet José Olivarez - An Imagining Latinidades Sawyer Seminar program
- Oct. 23 - Conversation: A Vital Tool for Mending Our Democracy - An Obermann Conversation
- Oct. 23 - The Burden of Gun Violence: Trends and Policy Solutions
- Oct. 25 - Latina/o/x Migration - A daylong Imagining Latinidades Sawyer Seminar symposium
- Oct. 28 - Black Curators' Roundtable - A preliminary event of "What Can the Museum Become?"
Deadlines
News & Achievements
Celebrating the work of current & past Obermann scholars and friends
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ATTEND
TOMORROW!
9/27, 4-5 p.m., Iowa City Public Library
Our first-ever Humanities 3MT is a great way for graduate students to share their research, improve their presentation skills, and more intimately understand their arguments. In cooperation with the Graduate College, we are providing a fun and supportive space for humanities students to cut their teeth on this concise presentation style. The winner will go straight to the campus-wide finals in November, while everyone else will have gained crucial experience to participate in all-disciplinary competition.
Come cheer on friends, colleagues, and students! Everyone is welcome. Our competitors are
Luke Borland, History; Enrico Bruno, English;
Jeremy Cline, Dance;
Hadley Galbraith, French & Italian;
Jake Jones, Art & Art History;
Nino Kintsurashvili, Art & Art History;
Michael Overstreet, French & Italian;
Ben Owen, Music;
Pranav Prakash, Religious Studies;
Holly Stevenson, Philosophy;
Christie Vogler, Anthropology; and
Hao Zhou, Cinematic Arts.
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A Clown Enters the Matrix
Or, how to crack the holy grail of live entertainment
Paul Kalina is wearing a suit that has three kinds of technology embedded in it. He is a clown who has performed bedside for kids in hospitals and on the barest of stages. But in June 2019, he is in Prague for the world's largest festival of theater and stage design, the Prague Quadrennial. He is going onstage ostensibly to play a ukulele and get into comic shenanigans, but really he is part of an experiment exploring how to interact with technology in real time during a life performance.
Media Clown was initially created by Kalina, a professor in Theatre Arts, and Daniel Fine, a faculty member in the Digital Performing Arts cluster, as part of a 2018 Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Grant project.
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Obermann Faculty Institute
Spend four days learning about publicly engaged teaching
From January 13 to 16, 2020, Darryl Heller (GWSS) and Teresa Mangum (GWSS, English, and the Obermann Center) will lead a one-time Faculty Institute on Engagement and the Academy. Participants will learn how to be a good collaborator, best practices for course and assignment design, and the ethics of of publicly engaged work.
The Institute will also feature visitors from the Center for Teaching and the Office of Outreach and Engagement, a community partner fair, and panels of graduate students and faculty on campus who are already doing this work.
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Lead the 2021-22 Humanities Symposium
Take your research to a new level
The annual Obermann Humanities Symposium is a unique opportunity to curate a major event around a topic of your choosing. This annual 3-day event is intended to explore an important issue through the lens of the humanities. Recent symposia have included:
- Against Amnesia: Archives, Evidence, and Social Justice
- Misfitting: Disability Broadly Considered
- German Iowa and the Global Midwest
- Energy Cultures in the Age of the Anthropocene
This award comes not only with funding but with the assistance of the Obermann staff to sculpt public events, think through scheduling flow, plan guest travel, secure venues, and oversee catering and meals. Many past co-directors mark the symposium as a career highlight. We especially invite applications that address large social issues and highlight what the humanities can add to public conversation and response to significant intellectual, social, cultural, economic, health, environmental, and other pressing issues.
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Get Trained in New Funding Opportunity Database
We're excited by the possibilities of a tool new to the UI community.
Pivot is an easy-to-use, searchable database that provides information on funding opportunities from federal, non-federal, foundation, corporate, and other private sponsors across all disciplines. Pivot also identifies researcher expertise within or outside the UI to help you connect with potential collaborators.
Hands-on training sessions to help you work with Pivot's features are planned from 2pm-3pm in 2523 UCC on the following dates: Oct. 9, Nov. 13, and Dec. 11. If interested, please click
here
to register for a session. Space is limited to 16 for each session.
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