Cinematics Arts Prof Paula Amad to give lecture at Figge Art Museum on "The Wizard of Oz"

Friday, July 8, 2016

Paula Amad
Paula Amad

University of Iowa Professor Paula Amad will give a lecture at the Figge Art Museum on July 21 at 7 p.m.

The lecture, titled “There’s No Place Like Home: The Wizard of Oz as a Tale of Migration,” will reexamine the profound influence of the 1939 film through an exploration of Dorothy as a figure of migration who holds urgent relevance, both to the film’s historical context and our contemporary society. The lecture is part of a current Figge exhibit, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Selections from the Willard Carroll/Tim Wilhite Collection.” The exhibit started June 12 and will last until Sept. 25.

Amad is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Cinematic Arts, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.