Part of the series: Jewish Stories of Identity and Belonging: Spain, Portugal, and the Americas "In the Shadow of the Inquisition: The US Constitutional Right to Liberty of Conscience" Dr. Isaac Amon Director of Academic Research, Jewish Heritage Alliance  Adjunct Professor, Washington university School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri Sponsors of the series: The Jewish Studies Working Group; The Anne Frank Initiative; International Programs; Obermann Center for Advanced Studies; Center for...

Join us for a Public Talk: "The Legacy of Sefarad: (Crypto) Jewish Experiences in Spain and Portugal,” Dr. Isaac Amon, Director of Academic Research, Jewish Heritage Alliance and Adjunct Professor, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri "Zamora Sefardí: Jewish Legacy in Zamora, Spain,” Dr. Jeśus Jambrina, Professor of Spanish, Viterbo University, LaCrosse, Wisconsin   This is part of the series: "Jewish Stories of Identity and Belonging: Spain, Portugal, and the...

Join us to celebrate the University of Iowa's new Jewish Studies Program, featuring remarks by members of the campus community and a discussion of Sephardic history, identity, and citizenship with: Dr. Isaac Amon Director of Academic Research, Jewish Heritage Alliance  Adjunct Professor, Washington university School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri Dr. Jeśus Jambrina Professor of Spanish, Viterbo University, LaCrosse, Wisconsin Founder of the Centro Isaac Campantón This is part of the series:...

Throughout history, gardens have come to be understood as a powerful setting in which societies embed a series of beliefs, myths, and fictions. A garden may well be a physical place, but it also has the potential to transcend its physicality through the actions that take place there and the meanings these actions produce. However, as John Dixon Hunt (2004) has argued, we tend to be drawn more towards origin stories of gardens, focusing on the initiation of sites and the original designs or...

Film Viewing and Q & A

Please join us at FilmScene for the continuation of "Out of the Archive: Envisioning Blackness," a monthly screening and discussion series that celebrates the vibrant  tradition of Black cinema by featuring rarely screened, newly restored, and archivally engaged films. Tickets are pay-what-you-can (with students, in particular, encouraged to pick $0). Join us before each screening for a free dinner reception catered by local restaurants, and stay after each film for post-screening conversations...

In the early 13th century, Athapaskan speakers from Canada entered the Great Basin and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains creating opportunities for later ancestral Apache groups to move into the southern and central Great Plains. These groups were the ancestors of modern Plains and Lipan Apache people who figured so prominently in Great Plains ethnohistoric records in the 1500s to 1800s. In this talk Dr. Hill will summarize our current understanding of the archaeological record for...

This symposium is a culmination of the Obermann Center’s multi-year grant from the Mellon Foundation focused on the transformation of humanities graduate education, Humanities for the Public Good. During the last four years, over 100 faculty, staff, graduate students, and visiting speakers have envisioned and created a host of ways that graduates from humanities PhD programs can fuse their studies in specific disciplines with skills and learning experiences that prepare them to adapt the methods...

Religion for Breakfast's Dr. Andrew Mark Henry joins the UI Department of Classics to present a colloquium sponsored by the UI Office of Innovation and Bible & Archaeology.

The walk will begin at the Brown Street entrance, which is at the east end of Brown Street.