We're still accepting applications for our September 22 daylong writing retreat, "Ready, Set, Flow: How to Make the Most of Your Writing Time This Fall." The retreat, led by Michelle Boyd of InkWell Academic Writing Retreats, is intended for faculty, academic staff, and graduate students engaged in academic writing projects across the UI. We'd love to have you join us! |
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The Obermann Center will host a Humanities Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition specially designed to feature the work of UI humanities graduate students on Thursday, September 28, 2023, from 3:00–5:00 p.m. at the Iowa City Public Library. This event challenges graduate students to articulate their complex research clearly and concisely to non-specialist audiences in three minutes or fewer. The presented research can be a student’s thesis or PhD work, research related to an internship or other outside project, or research pertaining to a specific class. The only requirement is that it is the student’s research and that it has a humanities focus.
The winner of the Obermann Humanities 3MT will directly advance to the final, campus-wide competition on November 10 and will be awarded $250.
Graduate students in the humanities and humanities-adjacent disciplines are eligible to register.
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The recent success of the University of Iowa’s women’s basketball team generated excitement and interest in women’s sports across the community. Before there was NCAA women’s basketball, there was 6-on-6 girl’s basketball, a form of the sport that the state of Iowa remained committed to until 1993. This Obermann Conversation with University of Iowa faculty, basketball coach, and former players, will contextualize the past, discuss the present, and look forward to the future of women’s basketball in Iowa. We present this conversation in anticipation of our 2023 Obermann Arts & Humanities Symposium, Sports, Power, and Resistance: Legacies and Futures (September 21-23). |  | |
Led by faculty director Rachel Young (Journalism & Mass Comm, CLAS), 8 UI graduate students worked hard with their site partners across the Iowa City area. Learn about HPG's wonderful summer interns and the engagement they did this summer in our local community!
Here is a preview of what a few of the interns were up to:
Uche Anomnachi, "Is Everything Afrofuturist?"
Jin Chang, "Sharing Identity"
Rajorshi Das, "Digital Storytelling and the Need for Access"
Priyanka Dubey, "Building Trust With Communities"
Jennie Sekanics, "Is the Library the Last Remaining Public Space?"
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As fans flock to sports arenas to cheer for their favorite teams, these spaces are simultaneously important societal battlegrounds. From acts of political protest by players to legislative debates about who can compete on school teams, athletics are at the center of today’s culture wars. Join us as leading scholars of history, sociology, cinema and media studies, rhetoric, and cultural studies map the past, explore the present, and chart future paths in the contested terrain of sports as a political force. | |
This fall, we welcome you to apply to be a member of an Obermann Writing Collective. These small, write-on-site groups will meet in our new Writers' Attic at the Obermann Center. This pilot program offers companionship and accountability to University of Iowa artists, scholars, and researchers working on any kind of academic writing project who want dedicated time, a cozy space, and a community for the practice of writing.
Groups will meet once a week, beginning September 5, 2023. The Obermann Writer's Attic will host dedicated sessions for graduate students, as well as sessions open to anyone in the University of Iowa academic community. The writing space is deliberately small and cozy, so that in this pilot year, we will have spaces for only 10 writers per group. We will maintain a waiting list and can add groups if necessary.
| Are you planning academic events—symposiums, conferences, or public lectures—and don’t know where to start with your communications strategy? Where are the best places to publicize your event around the UI campus and Iowa City? What tools should you use? Join Obermann staff members Lauren Cox (Assistant Director) and Jenna Hammerich (Communications Specialist) for an in-person Get It Done Workshop to learn about strategic communications for academic events, calendaring, and free publicity tools as we launch the Obermann’s updated communications event planning guide. |  | |
A green car with the words “climate change” emblazoned on its doors slams into the back of a red car with the word “healthcare” on it, crumpling the bumper. Other cars with the terms “gun control,” “free speech,” and “abortion” repeatedly crash into each other in the muddy arena at the county fair, until one car emerges victorious.
Just Crushing is an artwork taking the form of a demolition derby to embody American political discourse as a spectacle of competitive wreckage. The Interdisciplinary Research Group (IDRG) consists of Allison Rowe (Teaching & Learning), Maia Sheppard (Teaching & Learning), and Nancy Nowacek (Stevens Institute of Technology).
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