Books and Writing

Author Visit: "This Story Will Change" with Elizabeth Crane | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his...

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival

Author Visit: "They Knew" with Sarah Kendzior | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

In "They Knew," New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United States’ “culture of conspiracy,” putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in...

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival

On Critical Race Theory with Victor Ray | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellectual movement became a...

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival

Author Visit: María Sánchez with Curtis Bauer | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Curtis Bauer and María Sánchez will discuss Sánchez’s new memoir, Land of Women. Sánchez, who will appear via Zoom, is a third-generation Spanish veterinarian whose memoir looks at how we view...

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival

Teaching classics on Facebook, Les Misérables at 160 with Anna Barker | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Project Guttenberg, Audible, Facebook, and Zoom in the Afterlife of The Decameron, Paradise Lost, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, and Les Misérables. A session with Professor Anna Barker.

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival

Author of "Shared Sisterhood" Beth A. Livingston | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Dr. Beth A. Livingston is a professor, consultant, author, and speaker focused on human resources, gender & diversity, and the management of work & family–all in the service of the...

Books and Writing Iowa City Book Festival

Geometrizing Ethnoracial Formation Narratives in BIPOC Teen Comics | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Texas, Austin): "Geometrizing Ethnoracial Formation Narratives in BIPOC Teen Comics...

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How Do We Look? Panel Discussion | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Panelists:

Frederick Aldama
Stacey Robinson
Rebecca Wanzo
Bishakh Som

Co-sponsored by The Mellon...

Books and Writing, Arts, Music, and Hobbies

Trans/Migration: Explorations in Gender, Culture and Identity through Comics | Racial Reckoning Through Comics

Racial Reckoning Through Comics: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar

Bishakh Som: "Trans/Migration: Explorations in Gender, Culture and Identity through Comics"

Co-sponsored by The...

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