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Friday, September 20, 2024 - 12:00pm

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Today's panel will examine difficult challenges writers face in times of stress and chaos. From political conflicts to global pandemics, writers feel pressured to respond to our ever-changing world. How do these events shape literature, and...

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Friday, September 27, 2024 - 12:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

This year's IWP residency represents writers from thirty countries, various ages, genres, and interests. Regardless of these differences, one thing unites this year's participants: they write. Today's panel will explore the writers...

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Friday, October 4, 2024 - 12:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Today's panelists will discuss the nuanced process and results of literary translation. Though literary translation plays a role in global literature, can translation transcend cultural differences? The IWP Friday Panel Discussion series...

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Friday, October 11, 2024 - 12:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Today’s panel explores the significance of a writer’s identity in their work, as well as their audience’s interpretation of it. While writers coming from a particular cultural background may fully understand their writing, there may be gaps in...

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Monday, October 14, 2024 - 6:30pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty, It Can’t Happen Here follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country...

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 4:30pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Meeting Room D

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864), his first consequential post-Siberian imprisonment publication, explores the tragicomedy of humanity’s entrapment in the confines soul-sapping modernity and serves as the foundation of the...

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 6:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

This screening is part of a larger program that celebrates the 160th anniversary of the publication of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground.” Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film is the novel’s most famous US adaptation. University of Iowa Adjunct...

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Friday, October 18, 2024 - 12:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Today’s panel will explore what it means to balance life and art. Can a writer remain true to their artistic self while making a living writing? What does work-life balance look like to a writer? How do you stay true to yourself and your beliefs...

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Friday, October 18, 2024 - 5:30pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Meeting Room D

A presentation by University of Iowa Professor Venise Berry and Steve Berry, a professor emeritus from Howard University. Includes a screening of the hour-long film and a post-screening Q&A with the Berrys. The nature of racial ideology has...

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Saturday, October 19, 2024 - 10:00am

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C, Meeting Room D

Amanda Jones has been an educator for 23 years, at the same middle school she attended as a child. She has served as President of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians and won numerous awards for her work in school libraries, including...

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