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ECW Craft Talk Series Presents: Using Visual Art in Creative Writing

Monday, October 7, 2024 6:00pm to 7:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
Professor Sarah Minor will deliver a craft talk on using visual art in creative writing. Refreshments will be served.
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Counterpoint: The Politics of (International) Writing

Monday, October 14, 2024 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
How do politics affect what poets or novelists write, and even how they write it? How does literature inform political discourse? What is cultural diplomacy, why is it so important, and what is the UI’s role in promoting it? For this inaugural event in the Obermann Center’s new Counterpoint public conversation series, Christopher Merrill — poet, nonfiction writer, translator, editor, and director of the UI’s renowned International Writing Program — and Loren Glass, a historian of creative...
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Missile Thinking, Space Dreaming: How Science Fiction Pacified the ICBM

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 3:30pm to 4:30pm
English-Philosophy Building
The Criticism Today Lecture Series presents "Missile Thinking, Space Dreaming: How Science Fiction Pacified the ICBM" with Assistant Professor Tom Lin. Tom Lin is author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Little, Brown, 2021), which won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Northern California Book Reviewers’ Award in Fiction. His scholarly research investigates the role of science fiction and...
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Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: Kristen Radtke, Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor

Thursday, October 31, 2024 7:00pm
Nonfiction Writing House
The Nonfiction Writing Program is pleased to present a reading with alum Kristen Radtke, author of Seek You and Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor. Join us Thursday, Oct. 31 at 7 p.m. for a reading, followed by conversation and a reception. This reading is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction.
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Of Black Waters and Happy Islands: Visions of the Terraqueous Globe in Early Modernity

Friday, November 1, 2024 3:15pm to 5:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
Hillary Eklund is Professor of English at Grinnell College, where she specializes in literatures of the 16th and 17th centuries. She has written or edited several books and articles on early modern literature, colonialism, and racial and environmental justice. Her current book project describes how wetlands, often perceived as nature’s mistakes, both compel and elude human designs in the seventeenth century. Wetlands, she argues, demonstrate a series of “unfast” countermoves to the fast violence...
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Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: Q&A with Editor Vanessa Haughton

Friday, November 8, 2024 1:00pm
Nonfiction Writing House
The Nonfiction Writing Program presents a Publishing Q&A event with Vanessa Haughton, editor at Alfred A. Knopf. Join us at the Nonfiction Writing House (530 N. Clinton St.) on Friday, Nov. 8 at 1 p.m. for the conversation, which is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction. This event is open to MFA students and undergraduate writers.
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