Department of American Studies

Floating Friday lectures

September 4, 2009
Kim Marra, chair and Faculty Collaborators
"The State of the American Studies Department"

September 11, 2009
Lena Hill (Assistant Professor, Department of English and African American Studies Program)
"Painted Ladies Speaking Out: Ekphrasis and the Harlem Renaissance"

October 9, 2009
Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies)
"That Will Be $3 Millions Dollars, Please": Copyright Issues and Multimedia Scholarship

November 13, 2009
Corey Creekmur (Asociate Professor, Departments of Cinema & Comparative Literature, English, and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies)
"Race, Revision, and Revenge: Alternate American Histories of the Black Superhero"

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

Related Events

September 17, 2009
Gordon Hutner talk in English

October 14-15, 2009
Tracy C. Davis
Barber Professor of Performing Arts, and
Professor of English & Theatre, Northwestern University
Ida Cordelia Beam Distringuished Visiting Professor

“Acting Black, 1824”
Wednesday 14 October 5:00 pm, Gerber Lounge (304 EPB)

"The Witness Protection Program: Making Theatre, Everyday"
Thursday 15 October 5:30 pm, 107 EPB

October 15-17, 2009
Platforms for Public Scholars
The 2009 Obermann Humanities Symposium
complete schedule available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~obermann/platformsforpublicscholars/

October 23, 2009
Presenting American Studies
(one session/3 presenters, date conducive to prep for ASA)

November 5-8, 2009
American Studies Association national meeting in Washington, D.C.

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