Fall 2010 IP Event Posters

6:30-8:00 p.m. | 2520D UCCIndonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country and home to the world’s largest Muslim population. Its 17,508 islands contain around 300 distinct ethnic groups, 742 di�erent languages and dialects, and six o�cially recognized religions. What do these facts mean for Indonesia?

INDONESIAUnity in Diversity

November 2, 2010

�is lecture is part of the “Images of the Muslim World” series.�is event is free and open to the public.

ARI NATARINAFulbright language

teaching assistant from Bali SUDIRMAN HASAN

Fulbright researcher in Religious Studies from Malang

�is event is sponsored by Middle East and Muslim World Studies, African Studies

Program and International Programs.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Denise Filios in advance at denise-�[email protected] or 319-335-3451.

thurs, oct 14/9:30am Neighbors: Polish Gentiles and

Polish Jews in the Holocaust Adler Journalism Building, E126

thurs, oct 14/4:30pm Antisemitism and the Holocaust:

Rethinking Old QuestionsIowa City Public Library Meeting Room A

(Reception at 4PM)

fri, oct 15/12pm A Discussion with Holocaust

Historian Doris BergenUI Hillel Jewish Center (includes luncheon)

fri, oct 15/8:30pm Mothers and Daughters in the Holocaust

Agudas Achim Congregation, Iowa City

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Lisa Heineman in advance at 319-335-2299.

�e Holocaust in History A Series of Events with

All the events are free and open to the public.

Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto.

Bergen’s visit is made possible with help from the following: UI O�ce of the Provost; European Studies Group; UI Center for Human Rights; International Programs; and the UI departments of German, History, Religious Studies, and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting ProfessorDoris Bergen

• Students interested in the Latin American Studies Certificate and Minor are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served!

• Pick up information, meet fellow students and faculty, and learn about Spring classes!

• What is Latin American Studies at Iowa? An opportunity to study the language, culture, history and politics of Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean.

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES NIGHT!TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH5:30-6:30PMIP COMMONS, 1117 UCC

EAT, LEARN, DANCE!

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all Univer-sity of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation

in order to participate in this program, please contact Joy

Hayes or Ana Merino in advance at [email protected] or

[email protected].

Visiting Lecturer in Musicology, University of IowaWILLIAM GIBBONS

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Heidi Vekemans in advance at 319-335-3862.

Sponsored by the Opera Studies Forum and International Programs

Staging Orphée in 1896 Paris

GLUCK, WAGNER, AND SYMBOLISM:

The University of Iowa Opera Studies ForumProfessor Gibbons will offer new perspectives on the cultural importance of Gluck’s operas in fin-de-siècle Paris through a discussion of the

1896 revival of Orphée et Eurydice.

WEDNESDAYOCT 20, 20104:30PM GERBER LOUNGEENGLISH-PHILOSOPHY BUILDING

PROFESSOR

ED FOLSOM } the Roy J. Carver Professor

of American Literature

PRESENTS

A SPIRT OF MY OWN SEMINAL WET:

SPERMATOID

DESIGNIN WALT WHITMAN'S

1860

“LEAVES OF GRASS”

WEDSEPT 1 | 3:30-5PMIowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A

EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

sponsored by the 18th and 19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium and International Programs

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in

this program, please contact the Office for Study Abroad in advance at 335-0353.

Two formal responses will follow:

• Sid Huttner of the UI Libraries Special Collections

• Sara Sauers of the Center for the Book

with host Joan Kjaer

Topic: The Value of an International Education

Join us as President Mason presents the inaugural “International Impact

Award” to Richard and Mary Jo Stanley of Muscatine. An exceptional group of

guests will discuss personal and professional growth through international

experiences, the role of citizen diplomacy in creating a better world and Iowa’s

economic development in the global marketplace. A live performance of

tangos by Astor Piazzolla will be given by Kenneth Tse and Alan Huckleberry.

Please come!

For more information visit: http://international.uiowa.eduWe thank our partners: UI Pentacrest Museums, UITV, KRUI, and ITS

Friday, November 12 | 5–7 pmSenate Chamber of the Old Capitol Museumfree admission

®

Richard Wagner: AND THE

MAKING OF A BRAND?

Sept 16 at 4:30pm2010

NICHOLASVAZSONYI

presents

Professor Vazsonyi will address the extent to which the techniques Wagner used to attract an audience were special and the ways in which we might reconcile the thesis that Wagner created a brand with the composer's claim that his aesthetic agenda emphasized the sanctity and purity of art.

NICHOLAS VAZSONYI is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.

Thursday,GERBER LOUNGE IN THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY BUILDING (EPB)

SPONRSORED BY THE OPERA STUDIES FORUM AND THE EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-

CENTURY INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM

CROSSINGBORDERS

SCREENING

Floor plan available at

http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~eshop/map.dir/2.pdf

To view a trailer of the film, visit http://crossingbordersfilm.org

An award-winning documentary that follows

four Moroccan and four American university

students as they travel together through

Morocco and, in the process of discovering

"The Other," discover themselves.

OCTOBER 26 | 6-7:30PM

1505 SEAMANS CENTER


Part of the “Images of the Muslim World” series, co-sponsored by Middle East and Muslim World Studies & the African Studies Program

“Images of the Muslim World” is a series of public

lectures, discussions, and film screenings that

illustrate the diversity of the Muslim World.

Presenter: Nupur Barua Amaltas Consulting, New Delhi, India toPic: HIV/AIDS in India: Current realities and emerging challengesWhen: Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.Where: W128 Chemistry Building Presenter: Nupur Barua Amaltas Consulting, New Delhi, India toPic: “It is better to die than to let people know that you have the curse”: AIDS-related stigma and treatment seeking behavior among the urban poor in Delhi, IndiaWhen: Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.Where: W128 Chemistry Building Presenter: Chandrika KaulUniversity of St. Andrews, Fife, ScotlandtoPic: Communications and the Indian Empire: The British Media and Imperial ControlWhen: Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.Where: 1117 University Capitol Centre

Presenter: R. Balasubramaniam, MD, Founder-member, Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, Saragur, IndiatoPic: The Hospital in the Jungle: A Vindication of Human Rights for a South Indian Adibasi CommunityWhen: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.Where: 1117 University Capitol Centre

Presenter: Shahnaz Khan Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, CanadatoPic: Native Informing and the Muslim WomanWhen: Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.Where: 1117 University Capitol Centre

Presenter: Jael silliman, Ford Foundation (ret.), Kolkata, IndiatoPic: Making Women Safe in India: Innovative Campaigns, Diverse Audiences and New InitiativesWhen: Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 at 4 p.m.Where: 2520D University Capitol Centre Presenter: Kathleen O’ReillyTexas A&M University, College Station, TexastoPic: Toward a Political Ecology of Sanitation in Rural India When: Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 at 4 p.m.Where: 315 Phillips Hall Presenter: Hans Henrich HockUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaigntoPic: Appropriating the Past: Language, Archaeology and Ideology in South Asia and the DiasporaWhen: Friday, Nov. 19, 2010Where: TBA

The seminars are free and open to the University community and general public.

These events are sponsored by the South Asian Studies Program, the Global Health Studies Program, the Department of Linguistics, and International Programs.

FALL 2010SEMINAR

SERIES

South Asian Studies Program


POSTCOLONIAL AUDACITY: THE POLITICAL ICONOGRAPHY OF THE 2009 STRIKE IN GUADELOUPEMONDAY, OCT. 11, FROM 5:30-7:00 P.M. IN ROOM 1117 OF THE UNIVERSITY CAPITOL CENTRE

On January 20, 2009, as the first black president of the United States was sworn into office, the island of Guadeloupe witnessed the launching of the biggest general strike in the island’s history. Over 50 cultural and civic organizations came together with the island’s leading labor unions in order to form a coalition “kont pwofitasyon” – that is, against profiteering, exploitation, and the expensive life (la vie chère) that characterizes the French Caribbean. Armed with a list of 120 claims that spanned the terrain of disability rights, environmental policies, cultural nationalism, syndical freedom and economic gains (and sporting their recently acquired Obamat-shirts) Guadeloupean militants took to the streets, declaring their own version of the “Yes we Can” motto. With their chants of Guadeloupe is ours, not theirs, they effectively asserted that they had the right to shape the course of their social, economic, and political futures -- despite their colonial relationship with France. This presentation will examine the political icons of the 2009 mass strike and how the Obama political esthetic was deployed within a particularly Guadeloupean form of postcolonial audacity.

Yarimar Bonilla is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the Univer-sity of Virginia. She teaches and writes about Caribbean historical memory, colonial and postcolonial politics, and contemporary social movements. She is currently completing her first book manuscript which examines contempo-rary labor activism in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe as a site of emerging postcolonial politics.

Sponsorship for the event is provided by the Caribbean, Diaspora and Atlantic Studies Program (CDA); European Studies Group (ESG); International Programs; the UI Department of French and Italian, part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and African Studies Program (ASP).

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Anny Curtius in advance at 319-335-2261.

YARIMAR BONILLA

Baraza Fall 2010 African Studies Program

SeriesPresenter: Sunday Goshit Oil, Ethnicity and Religion: The woes of a blessed nation in the face of outright political ineptitudeOctober 11 / 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. / UCC 2520D

Presenter: Kathy Garms and John W. KiserWhy is Abd El-Kader Relevant Today? The Legacy of an Algerian Leader of Anti-Colonial Resistance and Namesake of Elkader, IAOctober 12 / 12 - 1:30 p.m. / 315 Phillips Hall

Presenter: Cliff MisseneGranary evaluation and update on progressOctober 18 / 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. / 315 Phillips Hall

Presenter: Fungisai NotaThe economics of language of instruction in Africa - an example from TanzaniaOctober 25 / 12 - 1 p.m. / 315 Phillips Hall

Presenter: Moussa FallThe Figure of Griot in Ousmane Sembene's CinemaNovember 8 / 12 - 1 p.m. / UCC 1117


A presentation as part of the Images of the Muslim World Series sponsored by the African Studies and Middle East and Muslim World Studies programs.

WHY IS ABD EL-KADER RELEVANT TODAY?

THE LEGACY OF AN ALGERIAN LEADER OF ANTI-COLONIAL RESISTANCE AND NAMESAKE OF ELKADER, IA

KATHY GARMS, The Abd el-Kader Education Project (Elkader, IA)JOHN W. KISER, author of Commander of the Faithful: the Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader (1808-1883): A Story of True Jihad

October 12Noon – 1:30 p.m.315 Phillips Hall

Abd el-Kader led resistance by the Algerian people against French conquest of their country in the mid-1800s. His fame spread as far as eastern Iowa, where the founders of Elkader, IA named their new town after him in 1846. This presentation brings together a biographer of Abd el-Kader and an educator from Elkader. They will discuss the legacy of Abd el-Kader, as well as the educational initiatives which it has inspired in Iowa.


MANDARIN CHINESE CLASSES

All ages and skill levels are welcome! The University of Iowa Confucius Institute is offering Mandarin Chinese language and culture classes for community members and families in 2011. Classes are available in Iowa City and Davenport for everyone from beginners to advanced-level students. A second session

of classes will begin in March.

FIRST-SESSION CLASSES

COMMUNITY CLASSES IN DAVENPORT January 24 – March 9 Mondays & Wednesdays5:30-7 p.m.

COMMUNITY CLASSES IN IOWA CITYJanuary 25 – March 10Tuesdays & Thursdays7:15 – 8:45 p.m.

FAMILY CLASSES IN IOWA CITY January 30 – March 6Sunday, 2-3:15 p.m.

For more information and to register, visit http://international.uiowa.edu/confucius

or e-mail [email protected].

Confucius Institute 爱荷华大学孔子学院

Offering Iowans courses in Chinese language and culture

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to

participate in this program, please contact Yu Huo in advance at 319-335-0159.

Johnson County Senior Center members receive a 10 % discount on Community Classes.

THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

ONE COMMUNITY, ONE BOOK

Sponsors & Participants: Coralville Public Library, The Department of English, Department of Religious Studies, Hancher Auditorium, Hills Bank and Trust Company, International Writing Program, Iowa Book, ICFRC, Iowa City Human Rights Commission, the Iowa City Public Library, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, MidWestOne Bank, North Liberty Community Library, Prairie Lights, Solon Public Library, University Book Store, UI International Programs and The University of Iowa Libraries. See www.uichr.org for additional information.Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Liz Crooks at (319) 335-3900.

A story of two families and two faiths in Turkey during and after a massive earthquake near Istanbul.

BY ALAN DREW

Sunday, November 7 @ 4PMC20 Pomerantz Center

graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Join us for an evening with Alan Drew

Both events are free and open to the public.

Sponsors: This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, International Programs, Prairie Lights, and the UI

Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese, both in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

MON, NOV 1

5:30PMPrairie Lights, downtown Iowa City

A reading in Spanish from two of his past books, “Desencuentros” and “Los vivos y los muertos,” and fragments from his forthcoming novel “Norte”

1117 University Capitol Centre

A talk in English about his experiences as a Latin American writer living in Alabama, Berkeley and Ithaca, and the complexities of articulating himself as a Latino

TUES, NOV 2

4:00PM

A Latin American

WRITER IN THE U.S.A.:

THREE POSTCARDS

Edmundo Paz Soldán is a professor of Hispanic literature at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Ana Merino in advance at [email protected] or 319-335-2244.

IMAGES OF THE MUSLIM WORLDa series of public discussions, lectures, and �lm screenings illustrating the diversity of the Muslim world

sponsored by Middle East & Muslim World Studies, African Studies Program and International Programs

WHO: Ghada Abdel Aal IWP writer from EgyptWHEN: Tues Sept 21, 6:30-7:30 p.m.WHERE: UCC 2520D

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

GHADA ABDEL AAL, an International Writing Program resident from Egypt, is a �ction writer and screenwriter whose novel “Aiza Atgawez” has been translated into several languages and adapted into a television series. �e English translation, “I Want to Get Married!” is due out in October 2010.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Denise Filios in advance at 319-335-3451.

Harvesting Dignity in Midwestern Fields and Factories: Understanding and Defending Immigrant Workers’ Rights on the Job

A one-day conference designed to bring together Midwestern immigrant rights

advocates, labor leaders, and community service providers to review basic

workplace legal protections and discuss the role of local community organizations in promoting compliance with these laws.

NOV 13, 2010 University of Iowa campus 1117 University Capitol Centre

SESSIONS WILL INCLUDE:

OVERVIEW OF WORKERS’ RIGHTS UNDER U.S. LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW. A basic introduction to federal legal protections governing workplace conditions.

UNDERSTANDING WORKERS’ RIGHTS UNDER FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW. Includes discussion of the federal E-Verify program, the I-9 process, re-verification of documents, and I-9 audits.

GAPS BETWEEN LEGAL RIGHTS AND COMPLIANCE: With attention to the barriers immigrant workers face in defending labor standards

LOCAL COMMUNITY STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING EDUCATION AND COMPLIANCE. How are labor and community organizations around the country working together to promote quality jobs in their communities?

Keynote Address by Ana Avendaño, Assistant to the

President and Director of Immigration and Community

Action at the AFL-CIO

To register, contact [email protected] and open to the public.Visit www.uichr.org for conference updates and general information.

Sponsored by University of Iowa Labor Center, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, Office of Special Counsel for

Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (Civil Rights Division) of the U.S. Department of Justice, with the cooperation of the Iowa

Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO.

Printed at UI Copy Centers by workers represented by AFSCME Local 12, Council 61.

Latin American Comedy

THE MEXICAN TRAMPAhí está el detalle (Juan Bustillo Oro, Mexico 1940; 112 min)

THE ARGENTINE CLOWNPayaso (Lucas Demare, Argentina 1952; 93 min)

CARNAVAL CARIOCACarnaval Atlântida (José Carlos Burle, Brazil 1952; 95 min)

UNIVERSAL HORROR TOOK A WRONG TURN AT ALBUQUERQUEChabelo y Pepito contra los monstruos (José Estrada, Mexico 1973; 90 min)

GRINDHOUSE: LATSPLOITATION EDITIONSangre de vírgenes (Emilio Vieyra, Argentina 1967; 72 min)Satanico Pandemonium (Gilberto Martínez Solares, Mexico 1975; 90 min)

BLEEPING UNDERGROUNDBang Bang (Andrea Tonacci, Brazil 1971; 85 min)

YOU’RE GOING TO NEED A PERMIT FOR THAT REVOLUTIONDeath of a Bureaucrat (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba 1966; 85 min)

LAUGHTER, INTERRUPTEDPalomita blanca (Raoul Ruiz, Chile 1973; 125 min)

NOT DEAD YETEsperando la carroza (Alejandro Doria, Argentina 1985; 87 min)

NOBODY’S PERFECTDona Flor and her Two Husbands (Bruno Barreto, Brazil 1977; 110 min)

CAPITALIST VAMPIRES DISCOVER SUNSCREENVampires in Havana (Juan Padrón, Cuba 1986; 80 min)Elpidio Valdés contra la policía en Nueva York (Juan Padrón, Cuba 1976; 7 min)Filminuto Series (Various, Cuba 1980-present; 1 min)

ART CINEMA ISN’T FUNNYGuest Speaker: Laura Podalsky, Ohio State UniversitySilvia Prieto (Martín Rejtman, Argentina 1999; 92 min)

CRAWL, DON’T RUNLa estrategia del caracol (Sergio Cabrera, Colombia 1993; 116 min)

THE LITTLEST WHOREHOUSE IN THE AMAZONPantaleón y las visitadoras (Francisco Lombardi, Perú 2000; 137 min)

VIGILANTE JUSTICE, EN ESPAÑOLLibertador Morales, el justiciero (Efterpi Charalambidis, Venezuela 2009; 106 min)Cédula ciudadano (Diego Velasco, Venezuela 2000; 24 min)Tarde de machos (Carlos Caridad Montero, Venezuela 2001; 12 min)

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the fall 2010 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture

Thursday evenings

in 101 BCSB7PM �is series is organized by Nilo Couret, PhD student in Film Studies

sponsored by International Programs and the Latin American Studies Program

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact the Institute for Cinema and Culture at (319) 335-1348 or e-mail [email protected].

December 3-4, 2010 • 315 Phillips Hall

GREENPOLITICS

Second Annual

European Studies

Conference

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

Catered Lunch

Downing Thomas, Opening of the Conference

Session #1 Water and Mills

Chair: Roland Racevskis

Heather Wacha (History)

Constance Berman (History)

Laura Rigal (English and American Studies)

Session #2 Green Cities of Europe: Paris, Rome

Chair: Waltraud Maierhofer

Brenda Longfellow (Art History)

Lucie Laurian (Urban and Regional Planning)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4

Session #3 Nature, the Arts and Literature

Chair: Constance Berman

Roland Racevskis (French and Italian)

Rachel Horner Brackett (Anthropology)

Julie Hochstrasser (Art and Art History)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Ursula Heise

12-1PM

1PM

1:15-3:30PM

4-5PM

9-11AM

11:30AM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Ursula HeiseUrsula K. Heise is a professor of English and director of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University.

“Red List Blues: The Politics of Extinction”Humankind is currently confronted with a loss of biodiversity that may eliminate up to 50% of existing species by the end of the century, with unknown consequences for human well-being and natural ecosystems. "Red List Blues" explores how different countries have engaged with this crisis culturally and politically: through narrative and visual representations of endangered species, as well as through scientific classifications and legal regulations and treaties concerning them.

For more information, contact Michel Laronde, director of European Studies Group at [email protected] or visit

http://international.uiowa.edu/centers/european-studies

Co-sponsors: European Studies Group, Department of French and Italian, Department of German, International Programs

All events are free and open to the public.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Michel Laronde in advance at 319-335-2264.

GLOBAL HEALTH STUDIES PROGRAM

POSTER DISPLAY

Dr. Barua will present two public lectures during her upcoming visit to campus:These lectures are free and open to the public.

HIV/AIDS in India: Current realities and emerging challengesWednesday Oct. 6, 4:30 p.m. Room 128W Chemistry Building

“It is better to die than to let people know that you have the curse”:

AIDS-related stigma and treatment seeking behavior among the urban poor in Delhi, IndiaWednesday Oct. 13, 4:30 p.m. Room 128W Chemistry Building

Dr. Nupur BaruaDr. Nupur Barua of Amaltas Consulting in New Delhi is a medical anthropologist with extensive experience in the

development of national HIV-AIDS strategies in India.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Paul Greenough in advance at 319-335-2222.

These events are sponsored by the Global Health Studies Program, South Asian Studies Program and International Programs.

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Fall 2010 IP Event Posters