Events Calendar

Science on Screen® Presentation: Weathering With You

Date: Tuesday, April 1
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: FilmScene at The Chauncy
Tickets:  $10 each
Special Offer: The first 40 University of Iowa students to register will receive a free ticket to attend!  Register here.

Join us for a captivating Science on Screen® presentation featuring the acclaimed animated film Weathering With You. Before the screening, enjoy an insightful pre-show presentation titled "When It Rains It Pours: Climate Change and Extreme Events."

Film Synopsis: "Shinkai's sensitive treatment of these real-world problems gives the fantasy of Weathering With You a thought-provoking edge many more lavish American animated films lack." — Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

Pre-Show Presentation: Dr. Erika Wise and Dr. Feng Wang will join us for a presentation on why we’d expect global warming to cause more extreme rain events, and how we can tell if recent climate events are “weird.”

About the Speakers:

Dr. Erika Wise is a professor in the Department of Geography & Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies extreme events like floods and droughts, trying to understand what happens in the climate system to cause them and how they might change in the future. She relies on long-term climate records found in the Earth’s natural archives, like trees, corals, and glaciers.

Dr. Feng Wang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa. He uses tree rings to study Earth's climate change from the past to the future and examines how climate has shaped our forest ecosystems through time.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to explore the intersection of science and cinema. Register now to be one of the first 40 students to get a free ticket!