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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...

(Re)Defining the Autoerotic in Medieval Religious Enclosure
Friday, March 28, 2025 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Michelle Sauer is the Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor at the University of North Dakota and an expert on medieval women, sexuality and religiosity.

Rapid Response History
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 5:00pm to 6:50pm
Rapid Response History offers historical and scholarly perspectives on current events. This spring, we examine the implications and historical background of “Project 2025” as a blueprint for political transition, and for the policies of the second Trump Administration. Scholars will examine a range of topics, including social policy, the federal civil service, immigration, native policy, energy and the environment, reproductive rights, and antisemitism. All sessions are open to the public...

Science, the State, and the Public Trust: Historical Perspectives. A Panel Discussion
Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:45am
A panel of Department of History faculty members discuss historical perspectives on science, the state, and the public trust. Panelists: 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.

From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men. A public talk by Tyrone B. Hayes
Saturday, April 5, 2025 11:30am
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. 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.

Rapid Response History
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 5:00pm to 6:50pm
Rapid Response History offers historical and scholarly perspectives on current events. This spring, we examine the implications and historical background of “Project 2025” as a blueprint for political transition, and for the policies of the second Trump Administration. Scholars will examine a range of topics, including social policy, the federal civil service, immigration, native policy, energy and the environment, reproductive rights, and antisemitism. All sessions are open to the public...


UICB presents the Nancy Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book featuring Barbara E. Mundy
Thursday, April 10, 2025 5:30pm
Join us for a lecture from Barbara E. Mundy called "The Queen, the tlahcuilo and the printing press: Cultures of control and spaces of freedom in the sixteenth-century Americas."
Mundy is a Professor of Art History and the Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art, Tulane University.

Interdisciplinary Consortium for the Study for War & Genocide Monthly Workshop Meetings
Friday, April 11, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
The CLAS Office of the Dean and the Research Development Office invite you to a monthly workshop series focused on the Interdisciplinary Consortium for the Study of War and Genocide. The fourth monthly workshop will be held on Friday, April 11, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in 1117 UCC. This session will feature presentations by Elizabeth Menninga (Associate Professor; Political Science) and Ashley Howard (Assistant Professor; History and African American Studies) . An agenda is provided below.
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Faculty Colloquium - Will Brown's Lynching and the Violence of History
Friday, April 11, 2025 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Ashley Howard - Will Brown's Lynching and the Violence of History

Book Matters University of Iowa Author Celebration
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Join the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of the Provost as we celebrate faculty and staff who have published books since spring 2023. University leadership will make remarks at 4:30 p.m., followed by short readings by scholars who have recently authored books:
Sarah E. Bond, associate professor in the Department of History, and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (Yale University Press, 2025)
Jill Wieber Lens, Dorothy M. Willie...

Rapid Response History
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5:00pm to 6:50pm
Rapid Response History offers historical and scholarly perspectives on current events. This spring, we examine the implications and historical background of “Project 2025” as a blueprint for political transition, and for the policies of the second Trump Administration. Scholars will examine a range of topics, including social policy, the federal civil service, immigration, native policy, energy and the environment, reproductive rights, and antisemitism. All sessions are open to the public...
Faculty Colloquium - Making Unfreedom in Pennsylvania, 1680-1780
Friday, April 18, 2025 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Cory Young - Making Unfreedom in Pennsylvania, 1680-1780

Rapid Response History
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5:00pm to 6:50pm
Rapid Response History offers historical and scholarly perspectives on current events. This spring, we examine the implications and historical background of “Project 2025” as a blueprint for political transition, and for the policies of the second Trump Administration. Scholars will examine a range of topics, including social policy, the federal civil service, immigration, native policy, energy and the environment, reproductive rights, and antisemitism. All sessions are open to the public...
Faculty Colloquium - What caused demographic decline at the ancient-medieval transition in Europe?
Friday, April 25, 2025 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Shane Bobrycki - What caused demographic decline at the ancient-medieval transition in Europe?

Rapid Response History
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 5:00pm to 6:50pm
Rapid Response History offers historical and scholarly perspectives on current events. This spring, we examine the implications and historical background of “Project 2025” as a blueprint for political transition, and for the policies of the second Trump Administration. Scholars will examine a range of topics, including social policy, the federal civil service, immigration, native policy, energy and the environment, reproductive rights, and antisemitism. All sessions are open to the public...

History Senior Send-off
Thursday, May 1, 2025 5:00pm to 6:30pm
History majors and minors are invited to the annual Senior Send-off!
Faculty Colloquium - Introduction to Guacamole Ecosystems
Friday, May 2, 2025 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Viri Hernández - Introduction to Guacamole Ecosystems

Rapid Response History
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 5:00pm to 6:50pm
Rapid Response History offers historical and scholarly perspectives on current events. This spring, we examine the implications and historical background of “Project 2025” as a blueprint for political transition, and for the policies of the second Trump Administration. Scholars will examine a range of topics, including social policy, the federal civil service, immigration, native policy, energy and the environment, reproductive rights, and antisemitism. All sessions are open to the public...