Friday, 02 Nov 2018
Friday Research Seminar: Urban Investments: Architecture, Detroit and Late Fordism
Doug Spencer, director of graduate education in the Department of Architecture, will talk about urban investment in Detroit through the critical analysis of the campuses, open-plan office spaces and refurbished civic spaces proposed by Ford Motor Company.
Monday, 05 Nov 2018
Lecture: Newspapers, Op-eds, and American Responses to Antisemitism
Eric Schmalz, community manager for the History Unfolded project at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will talk about the role antisemitism played in the general American cultural landscape and how ordinary Americans reacted.
Thursday, 08 Nov 2018
Daily Dialogue: Panel discussion
The Daily Dialogue, hosted by the Iowa State Daily, is a place for conversations you can't always have at the family dinner table. The first event will feature five speakers who each share a story that shaped their personal political awakening.
Gender and Power in Contemporary Somalia
Fartumo Kusow will discuss her most recent novel, Tale of a Boon's Wife, and how her life and experiences as a Somali woman shape her characters and major themes of her work. Kusow draws connections between the main themes of social hierarchy, female relationships, power, and prejudice and present day unconscious biases.