Aug. 25: Beginning of Fall 2008 classes

Aug. 1: Close of 6- and 8-week Summer classes

June 24-August 1: 6-week Summer Session

June 10-August 1: 8-week Summer Session

July 4: University Holiday

May 26: University Holiday

May 19-June 6: 3-week Summer Session

May 17: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (9:00AM) & Graduate College (3:00PM) Commencement

May 12-16: Final Exams Week

May 10: The May Brodbeck Symposium-"New Directions in Women's and Gender History" -- participants included current graduate students (Valerie Vistain, Katherine Massoth, Michael Hevel, Sharon Romeo, Jake Hall, Karissa Haugeberg, Cari Campbell, Meghan Warner, Brian Miller, Sara Shreve, Wangui Gathua, and Larissa Wehrnyak) and alumni of the History program (Kim Nielsen, Christopher Gerteis, Katherine Jellison, and Sharon Wood). (Additional details and printable PDF)

May 9: Last day of Spring Semester

May 9: Life After Schaeffer Hall -- Alumni taking part included Christopher Gerteis (Professor of History at Creighton University), Katherine Jellison (Professor of History at Ohio University), and Sharon Wood (Professor of History at University of Nebraska, Omaha).

Apr. 25: University of Iowa History of Medicine Society Banquet (R. Palmer Howard Dinner)-Program: Walton O. Schalick III, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, " 'Humanizing' Disability Care: Pediatrics, Policy and Crippled Children in the US and Europe, 1802-1945."

Apr. 25: Deborah Whaley (Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies and African American Studies) presented: "African Goddesses, Mixed-Race Wonders, and Baadasssss Women: Black Female Comic Book Characters of the 1970s and 1980s".

Apr. 24: GHS Colloquium -- Professor Linda Kerber presented Learned Societies and You: A View from the Trenches to History graduate students.

Apr. 21: CLAS Faculty Honors Celebration

Apr. 21: The 18th- and 19th-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium 2007-08 Lecture Series presented a lecture by Martial Guedron, Professor of Art History at UFR Sciences Historiques/Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France --"Nature, Ideal, and Caricature: The Perception of Physical Types by the First Anthropologists."

Apr. 18-20: The 2008 University of Iowa Provost's Forum on International Affairs - This year's Forum addressed "Terrorism and Civil Society:  The Impact of Anti-Terrorism Policy and Law on Civil Society in Comparative Perspective."

Apr. 19: Professor John Tagg participated in a faculty-graduate seminar focused on his essays: "Melancholy Realism: Walker Evans's Evasion of Meaning," Narrative, 11.1 (January 2003): 1-77 and "The Pencil of History" in Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video, ed. Patrice Petro (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995): 285-304.

Apr. 18: Professor John Tagg (Chair, Art History and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, State University of New York) presented the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature's Annual Film Studies public lecture, titled "Crime Story: Walker Evans, Cuba, and the Corpse in a Pool of Blood." Professor Tagg is one of the foremost historians and theorists of photography and a key figure in the so-called post-1980s 'new' art history movement.

Apr. 11-13: University of Iowa Global Health Studies Program Conference - For students and faculty as well as others with an interest in international affairs; health care providers interested in working in international crisis situations; members of the general public with an interest in foreign affairs. Additional audience were addressed through a special theme edition of International Journal of Global Health, published by University of Northern Iowa.

Apr. 11: Vershawn Young (Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric and African American Studies) presented: "Compulsory Homosexuality and Black Masculine Performance."

Apr. 8: The UI Center for Human Rights hosted a lecture and discussion given by Dr. Trudy Peterson. Students had the opportunity to ask questions about her adventures working around the world (Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Switzerland, and Guatemala) and learn about the career of an archivist.

Apr. 7-9: Dr. Trudy Peterson, History alum and the Former Acting Archivist of the United States, was on campus to teach a three-day Archives Master Course.

April 6: Dwight Bozeman Retirement Dinner

Mar. 28-29: 10th Annual James F. Jakobsen Conference -- Fine arts presentations and the keynote speaker, D.C. Spriestersbach. Followed by research presentations, with activities and a reception.

Mar. 25: The History of Medicine Society presented Ronald Strauss, MD, of the Elmer L. DeGowin Blood Donor Center, Blood Transfusions in War and Peace.

Mar. 15-23: University on Spring Break

Mar. 12: Michael Hill (Assistant Professor, Department of English and African American Studies) presented: " 'What is Africa to Me?': Cultural Identity in Reagan Era African American Novels."

Mar. 4-5: The Department of History presented a talk by Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg, "New Boundaries for the World: The Plans of Eight World War II Leaders." Dr. Weinberg is an internationally renowned scholar of World War Two, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. For more information about this event and Dr. Weinberg's published works >>. Dr. Weinberg also participated in a breakfast seminar with the History graduate students, and presented "What's Important about World War Two?".

Mar. 3: Michael Warner, Yale University, Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, presented "The Evangelical Public Sphere." This event was co-sponsored by the departments of Religious Studies, History, American Studies, Sexuality Studies, Communication Studies, and English. Professor of English and American Studies at Yale, Michael Warner is a groundbreaking scholar of American literature, social theory, and queer identity.

Feb. 26: David Morrison from Grant Writers' Seminars and Workshops, Inc. presented an all day workshop entitled "Write Winning Grants -- A seminar on the fundamentals of good proposal writing."

Feb. 26: UI Library hosted a workshop featuring the online access to the British Periodical Collections Part I and II. The workshop was designed for graduate students and faculty members whose work focuses on 18th- and 19th-Century British and American history and culture.

Feb. 26: The History of Medicine Society presented Emily Alden, student from Interdepartmental Studies Program, "Physicians of the Deaf: Perceptions and Treatments in 19th Century America."

Feb. 25: UI Center for Human Rights held the second of three 2007-08 Human Rights Reading Group sessions. Sara Shreve (PhD candidate, American Studies) facilitated a discussion of Francis Adeola's "Cross-National Environmental Injustice and Human Rights Issues - A Review of Evidence in the Developing World" (2000) and Julian Agyeman's "Alternatives for Community and Environment: Where Justice and Sustainability Meet" (2005).

Feb. 22: Omar Valerio-Jimenez delivered a lecture, "Getting Un-Hitched along the Rio Grande: Mexicans, Anglos, and Divorce, 1832-1893" as part of the American Studies "Floating Friday" series.

Feb. 18: James Campbell, Professor of American Studies and Africana Studies at Brown University, presented "Navigating the Past: Slavery, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and Brown University" as part of the 18th- and 19th-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium 2007-08 Lecture Series.

Jan. 22: The History of Medicine Society presented Russell Noyes, MD, "On the Transformation of Hypochondriasis: 1680 to 1880."

Jan. 22: Spring Semester Began

Jan. 5: AHA Meeting in Washington, D.C.: Colleagues and alumni were invited to an Iowa Gathering.