Books and Writing

Days of Future Past: Panel Discussion on Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Days of Future Past: Histories and Futures of Racial Representation in Comics Panel with Lara Saguisag, Julian Chambliss and Rachel...

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Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Rachel Williams (UNC School of The Arts, North Carolina): "Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time...

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Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Rachel Williams (UNC School of The Arts, North Carolina): "Comics and historiography: The process, image, text, story, and time...

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Rethinking the Critical Afrofuturist Framework: Comics, Futurity, and Black Counterpublics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Julian Chambliss (Michigan State University): "Rethinking the Critical Afrofuturist Framework: Comics, Futurity, and Black...

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The Filipino Wave: Comics and Racial Capitalism | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Lara Saguisag (New York University): "The Filipino Wave: Comics and Racial Capitalism"

Co-sponsored by The Mellon Foundation, Iowa City Public Library, the Obermann Center for...

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Why we need Art Spiegelman's MAUS in Holocaust education | Iowa City Public Library

A talk by University of Iowa professor Elke Heckner.
Each survivor generation has created its own powerful representation of the Holocaust. As such, Art Spiegelman’s 1986 Pulitzer Prize-...

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Student Poet Ambassador Johnnie Each and Poet Laureate Debra Marquart | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

A reading by Iowa Student Poet Ambassador, Johnnie Each, and Iowa Poet Laureate Debra Marquart.

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival

Poetry in Public | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Poetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Hear from 2022 Selected Poets.

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Author Visit: "Her Word is Bond" with Cristalle 'Psalm One' Bowen

“Nowhere near famous but still infamous,” Psalm One is a legend to rap nerds, scholars, and “heads,” and has gone on to work with the brightest names in rap and have her work celebrated and taught...

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Author Visit: "Slippery Steps" with Don McLeese in conversation with Kyle Munson | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

"Slippery Steps isn’t your typical, hell-and-back recovery memoir. I never intended to quit drinking, rarely gave it a thought. I’d spent decades as a successful and productive journalist. I...

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