Events Calendar

Mar 3, 2020

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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Join the Iowa Women's Archives as we celebrate Women's History Month with Charletta Sudduth, David Jackson III, and Katherine van Wormer, co-authors of The Maid Narratives, and Cornell College professor Catherine Stewart. Featuring civil rights activist and former domestic worker Annie Pearl Stevenson. This event is free and open to the public. 

Mar 11, 2020

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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"Around the Library Table: An Evening with Luther Brewer and Leigh Hunt*" Join us for an evening around the library table with the University of Iowa’s Brewer-Leigh Hunt Collection and Olson Graduate Assistant Laura Michelson. Learn more about Luther Brewer, the Cedar Rapids printer who collected Huntiana in the 1920s and Leigh Hunt, the Romantic era English writer and critic best known as a friend to “the famous.” Through this essential collection—one of the most complete of a single Roman...

Mar 24, 2020

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Rapid Response History Lecture Series: Available as History Course HIST:1166 (1 sh), Also Free and Open to the Public Bringing historical perspectives to bear on current events. The Iowa Colored Conventions Project "Before the 19th Amendment: Black Women and the Struggle for Civil Rights"

Mar 26, 2020

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Iowa PBS will present an advanced screening of its newest documentary, Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women at the Old Capitol Museum. The museum is currently featuring and exhibit on suffrage as well. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided and a discussion panel including the producer of the documentary and local experts will follow the screening. Space is limited so...

Mar 31, 2020

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Rapid Response History Lecture Series: Available as History Course HIST:1166 (1 sh), Also Free and Open to the Public Bringing historical perspectives to bear on current events. Dr. Kären Mason "Uncovering the History of Women’s Suffrage in Iowa"

Apr 7, 2020

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Rapid Response History Lecture Series: Available as History Course HIST:1166 (1 sh), Also Free and Open to the Public Bringing historical perspectives to bear on current events. Professor Joni Kinsey "The Visual Culture of the Women’s Suffrage Movement"

Apr 8, 2020

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women, is the University’s annual tribute to the accomplishments of all women at the UI, will be held Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the IMU 2nd Floor Ballroom. A social begins at 3:00 p.m. followed by the awards program at 3:30 p.m. The program is free and open to the public.   Nominations for the following awards have varying deadlines, please click on the URL for each award for more information including the deadlines for subm...

Apr 14, 2020

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Rapid Response History Lecture Series: Available as History Course HIST:1166 (1 sh), Also Free and Open to the Public Bringing historical perspectives to bear on current events. Professor Lina-Maria Murillo "Suffrage and the Roots of the Birth Control Movement"

Apr 18, 2020

2:00 PM

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Learn about the art and science of art conservation with Chief Curator Joyce Tsai. Saturdays at the Stanley brings the museum’s collection to audiences in a casual, fun, and interactive atmosphere. Each event has a theme that looks at our artwork from a different perspective. Curators lead visitors through a selection of works, share stories about the artists and subject matter, and open the discussion up to the audience. We invite visitors of all ages to participate in these conversations ...

Apr 18, 2020

2:00 PM

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Celebrate May Day, known to many as International Workers’ Day, with a special viewing of artworks that engage concepts of workers’ rights, organized labor, radical politics, and dissent. This event will be led by Associate Curator of Education Brady Plunger. Saturdays at the Stanley brings the museum’s collection to audiences in a casual, fun, and interactive atmosphere. Each event has a theme that looks at our artwork from a different perspective. Curators lead visitors through a selectio...

Apr 21, 2020

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Rapid Response History Lecture Series: Available as History Course HIST:1166 (1 sh), Also Free and Open to the Public Bringing historical perspectives to bear on current events. Professor Ashley Howard "Black Women and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party"

Apr 28, 2020

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Rapid Response History Lecture Series: Available as History Course HIST:1166 (1 sh), Also Free and Open to the Public Bringing historical perspectives to bear on current events. Professor Landon Storrs "Who Did NOT Want Women to Vote?"

May 5, 2020

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Rapid Response History Lecture Series: Available as History Course HIST:1166 (1 sh), Also Free and Open to the Public Bringing historical perspectives to bear on current events. Professor Tracy Osborn "The Fight to Elect More Women"