Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Jennifer Banks will read from her fascinating and thought-provoking book Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth. She will be joined in conversation by IWP Director Christopher Merrill. This special event has been co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Department of History, the International Writing Program, Digital Studio, and the Office of the Vice President for Research, and a grant from AHI. "Banks’s insights are nothing short of revelatory. Using Arendt’s...

On Baldwin: Celebrating a Great American Writer (Night #1) Hosted by Donika Kelly Hancher Auditorium / Stanley Café Presented by Hancher Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, 5 p.m. Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival This year marks the 100th anniversary of James Baldwin, who was born on Aug. 2, 1924. His achievements as an American writer and critic of our cultural condition remain incredibly poignant in these early decades of the 21st century. Across two distinct reading events, local and...

Dr. Mgbechi Erondu of Stanford Medicine will be speaking at Iowa's Fall 2024 Medicine and Humanities Celebration on Monday, Sept. 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Medical Educational Research Facility (MERF) Auditorium. This is the second in a series of events striving to highlight the powerful relationship between great literature and great medicine, with the first being Dr. Liana Meffert's Humanities in Medicine lecture last Fall. Speaker Info: Mgbechi Erondu, MD, MFA, graduated from Princeton...

Please join us for the International Writing Program Sunday Afternoon Reading Series with Yassin Adnan (Morocco), Lisa Allen-Agostini (Trinidad and Tobago), Victoria Sanchez (USA)  Yassin Adnan is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and television presenter. He is the author of six poetry collections, three short story collections, one novel, and one book about travel. The novel, Hot Maroc, was published in English by Syracuse University Press in 2021. Adnan serves as president of the Marrakech...