American Studies' Nicholas Yablon will speak at San Diego time capsule ceremony

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Nicholas Yablon
Nicholas Yablon

University of Iowa Professor Nicholas Yablon will give a talk on Jan. 27 as part of the San Diego Art Institute’s public art series, “Parkeology.” The talk will be delivered via Skype during the unsealing of a time capsule in San Diego’s Balboa Park. Yablon will speak as an expert on time capsules, and will discuss the politics of commemoration.

During the ceremony, a 1999 time capsule from the Y2K era will be opened. The evening will conclude with an open forum anti-time capsule campfire, in which participants are invited to contribute a note describe an object or experience that should not exist for future generations.

Yablon is an associate professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of American Studies, 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.