Friday, May 17, 2019, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PMGerber Lounge, EPB (Room 304) A Humanities for the Public Good Workshop with Bruce Burgett, Professor and Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell,…
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Five Iowa humanities graduate students—Laura Brown (Philosophy), Samuel Jambrovic (Linguistics), Brady Krien (English), Jamie Ritzo (Philosophy), and Shu Wan (History)—have been accepted to the Graduate Certificate in the Engaged & Public Humanities at Georgetown University!
2019 HUMANITIES FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD INAUGURAL CLASS OF SUMMER INTERNS The following humanities and humanities-adjacent University of Iowa PhD students have been competitively selected to spend this summer working with local arts and culture organizations on specific projects. They…
March 8, 2019 | Iowa City Public Library | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Across the country, leaders of PhD programs in the humanities face a conundrum. How can a department honor the subjects, methods, and practices of their disciplines while…
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March 7, 2019 | Gerber Lounge, 3rd floor EPB | 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. | ...with pizza! Across the country, humanities departments are designing more student-centered graduate programs. Many of those programs are re-envisioning the nature of mentoring as a more…
In this short slide presentation, Obermann Center Director Teresa Mangum provides background, goals, and opportunities related to the Humanities for the Public Good program: https://youtu.be/LFdaB0uGLn0 https://youtu.be/LFdaB0uGLn0
One grant will bring exciting speakers to campus for a yearlong seminar on Latina/o/x identities and cultures; the other will create practice-based, cross-disciplinary opportunities for humanities graduate students interested in diverse careers. The University of Iowa (UI) Obermann Center for…
Read More UI Awarded two grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation totaling $1.6 Million
