Seminars and Events

"Spatial Politics, Violence, and Homonormativity in New York City" - Professor Martin Manalansan IV

Friday, 4:00 p.m. October 15 in 112 Macbride Hall. Martin Manalansan IV is assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also taught at Wesleyan University and New York University. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke U Pr 2003), which won the Ruth Benedict Prize. He is editor of Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Temple U Pr 2000) and co-editor of Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (NYU Pr). He is currently at work on another book, entitled Altered Tastes: Culinary Routes Beyond a Palatable Multiculturalism. One of a series of speakers sponsored by The University of Iowa OBERMANN CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Interdisciplinary Research Semester on “Sex, Economics, Politics: Sexuality as a Social Phenomenon." Co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department, Sexuality Studies Program, and Department of Women’s Studies.

Tim Eriksen

101 BCSB – Friday, October 22nd, 7pm. Tim Eriksen is a founding member of Cordelia’s Dad, Northampton Harmony and Zabe i Babe; bands with which he has toured the world, made dozens of recordings and explored a tremendous range of musical styles. American folk genres, Bosnian traditional and popular music and underground rock are the tip of an iceberg of musical experience. His unusual distinctions include being the only musician to have shared the stage with both Kurt Cobain and Doc Watson, and in the studio he has worked with T-Bone Burnett (Oh Brother Where Art Thou), Joe Boyd (Nick Drake, Fairport Convention) and Steve Albini (Nirvana, PJ Harvey). Download poster in PDF format. One of a series of speakers sponsored by The University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Semester on “Sounding the Voice”

Obermann Summer Research Seminar This annual seminar brings together competitively-selected researchers and scholars worldwide for 2-4 weeks to present and discuss original papers and to develop a publication on an important interdisciplinary topic.

Obermann Humanities Symposium Award This annual symposium supports a competitively-selected interdisciplinary symposium designed to encourage the cooperative efforts of humanities scholars, often working in collaboration with scholars from other disciplines.

Interdisciplinary research meetings The Obermann Center helps scholars plan and organize special interdisciplinary research meetings involving a broad range of disciplines and formats: faculty-graduate seminars, curriculum and training workshops, informal colloquia, public programs, research seminars and symposia, and international conferences.

Language, Art, Programming and Networks: The Relationship of New Media Literature. A mini-seminar, November 1-2, 2004.

• "The Scholar and the Citizen: The Necessity of the Humanities to Democracy" Bruce Cole, Chair of the National Endowment of the Humanities. October 6, 2004. Details & downloadable poster here
   
• Summer 2002 Research Seminar, The Emergence of the Modern Disciplines (June 10-26, 2002) Director, David Depew (Communication Studies & POROI)
   
• The Obermann Center/Spelman Rockefeller Symposium "Virtual Environments as Tools for Studying Human Behavior." Friday, April 5th, 2002 - S401 Pappajohn Business Administration Building.
   
• Summer 2001 Research Seminar, Opera in Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Creation, Performance, and Reception. June 11-27, 2001. Directors: Roberta M. Marvin (Associate Professor and Head of Musicology) and Downing A. Thomas (Associate Professor of French and Chair, Department of French and Italian).
   
• Visual Rhetorics Conference, August 3-6, 2000. Directors: Barbara Biesecker (Rhetoric) and John Lucaites (Communication Studies).
   
• Disability Research Seminar, July 26 to August 1, 2000. Director: Peter Blanck (Law).
   
• Civility Symposium, May 5-7, 2000. Director: Melissa Deem (Rhetoric).
   
• Tobacco, Culture, and Public Policy: An International Seminar - June 11-12th. Director: Christopher Squier (Dentistry).
   
• Tobacco and Oral Disease, June 13-16, 2000. Director: Christopher Squier (Dentistry).
   
• Summer 2000 Research Seminar, The Usable Past: Historical Perspectives on Digital Culture, June 12-29, 2000. Director: Lauren Rabinovitz (Comparative Literature).
   
• Planning as Storytelling: Sustaining America's Cities. Humanities Symposium June 15-17, 2000. Directors: Barbara Eckstein (English) and James Throgmorton (Urban and Regional Planning).