Department of American Studies

Floating Friday lectures

February 9 (Thursday)
Mary McDonald
Professor of Sport Studies, Miami University
"Are We All Penn State?: Comments on Sport Scandals and the Neoliberal University"

February 10
DEEPLY DEMOCRATIC: A Symposium on Dr. Manning Marable
Iowa City Public Library, 12:30-5:30 p.m.
Sponsored by The African American Studies program, Departments of American Studies, Religious Studies, History, Sociology, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, and International Programs
http://africanamericanstudiesuiowa.blogspot.com/p/events.html

February 24
Jerald Schnoor
Allen S. Henry Professor, College of Engineering, The University of Iowa
"Water Sustainability in a Changing World"

March 23
Tom Arne Midtrod
Assistant Professor of History, The University of Iowa
"American Indian Landholding in the Colonial Northeast: The Case of the Hudson River Valley"

March 27 (Tuesday)
Lawrence Wenner
Von der Ahe Professor of Communication and Ethics, Loyola Marymount University
"The MediaSport Interpellation: Gender, Fanship, and Consumer Culture"
4:00 p.m., 101 Becker Communication Studies Building

March 30
Nicholas Brown
PhD Candidate, Departments of Landscape Architecture, and American Indian Studies, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Vanishing Indians/Vanishing Glaciers: Denaturalizing Dispossession in the Alberta/Montana Borderlands"

April 13
Cinda Nofziger
PhD Candidate, Department of American Studies, The University of Iowa
"Shooting the Rapids: Photographing the Grand Canyon's Colorado River"

April 27
Nik Dickerson
PhD Candidate, Department of Health and Sport Studies, The University of Iowa
"Weeding Out the Body: Corporeal Representations of Marijuana Use in Film and Anti-Drug Commercials"

All talks begin at 4:00 p.m. in 704 Jefferson Building unless otherwise noted and will be followed by an informal reception.

Anyone needing an accommodation to attend these events please call
(319) 335-0320.