Wednesday, 02 Nov 2022
A Conversation About the 1619 Project with Nikole Hannah-Jones
Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science: A Conversation About the 1619 Project. Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. The book version of The 1619 Project was an instant New York Times bestseller. For event restrictions: https://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lectures/conversation-about-1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones
Thursday, 03 Nov 2022
Celebrating Romeo Oriogun: Winner of the Nigerian Prize for Literature
Romeo Oriogun is a current postdoc fellow in Iowa State University's Creative Writing and Environment program. He is this year's recipient of the NLNG Nigerian Prize for Literature for his poetry collection Nomad. At this event, we will be celebrating his accomplishments with a reading from Romeo himself, followed by time to meet and mingle.
Cities and Storms: Challenges and Solutions
Jennifer Cherrier is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Brooklyn College-The City University of New York. She is also the president and founder of Waterway Ecologics. Her 25+ years of research expertise are in aquatic carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry with a more recent focus on water resource sustainability.
Monday, 07 Nov 2022
CANCELED: Monday Monologues series
This event in the series has been canceled and will not be rescheduled.
Remember the Maine! The Spanish-American War 125 Years Later
The most renowned explosion in U.S. history took place on 15 February 1898 when USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, killing 260 American servicemen. An official U.S. Navy investigation concluded that the explosion was the product of an underwater mine, and within weeks the United States and Spain were at war. February marks the 125th anniversary of this seminal historical event.
Tuesday, 08 Nov 2022
Corpus Linguistics and the Law
This talk will include an overview of the ââ'¬Ëœlaw and corpus linguisticsââ'¬â"¢ movement, using examples from empirical studies related to the original meaning of the now nearly obsolete word 'emolument', as well as several of the linguistic canons of construction, concluding by proposing a set of key principles that should guide linguists as they apply their expertise to legal questions.