Event promotion policy
The Department of Political Science promotes services and programming we are directly connected to on our website. If the department is co-sponsoring an event, the department will support promotion of the event on our website through the University of Iowa Events Calendar.
If the event is not hosted by the department or is not a co-sponsored event it will not be displayed on our website calendar.
Department events
Winifred Tate | Art After the Unspeakable: Reflections on Works by Doris Salcedo and Jeremy Frey
This talk examines mourning and worldmaking through community action and art in the wake of violence, dispossession, and collective loss. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with communities in southern Colombia and rural Maine, Tate considers the intersections, possibilities and limitations of rights activism and art through an exploration of the visual repertoires and material practices of Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo and Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey. This program is free and open to all...
Conflict and Resolution — An Obermann "Wide Lens" Event
The Obermann Center's Wide Lens series aims to inspire and connect the University of Iowa community across the disciplines. For each Wide Lens event, researchers, scholars, and artists from across the university briefly present their work on a shared topic of interest PechaKucha–style. Then, we open the floor to questions and conviviality over hors d'oeuvres and drinks.
Presenters:
Stephanie DiPietro, Sociology & Criminology: Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War: Life Course Legacies of Conflict...