Thursday, 28 Sep 2023
Workshop: The Command Line for Absolute Beginners (Part 1)
Understanding the command line can be a powerful skill for digital humanists, but it can be intimidating to get started. This two-part workshop allows participants to build familiarity and confidence with the command line interface, learn the syntax of the command line, develop basic navigation and file manipulation skills, and get experience calling and using programs within the terminal.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Gnome Week
An enchanting cast of characters awaits you! Meet Norm, Norma, Nate, Nora, Elwood, Jake, and the ever-popular foot-tall Ginormagnome. Start (or keep building) your gnome village with cute little mushrooms, a small planter, or a fairy house.
Workshop: Escape from Spreadsheet Hell
This workshop introduces ways to structure data that is computer and human friendly, practices for documenting your work, and functions for simple data processing and quality control. There's no escaping spreadsheets but you can escape spreadsheet hell. This is a beginner-level workshop that covers how to format data and simple data processing in a spreadsheet program such as Excel. No prior experience is needed.
Farewell reception: Marcia Anderson
Marcia Anderson, secretary in university marketing and promotions, is leaving the university after four decades of service. A short program will begin at 6 p.m.
Bookbinding Class w/ Rhonda Scott
Create your own soft bound leather journal and personalize it with special papers and closures. Learn to fold papers and the long stitch technique, a way to bind the sections without the use of an adhesive. At the end of the class, you will have a small blank journal ready to fill with stories, lists, doodles, sketches, poems, or whatever you like!
Rumba: Tales of Sound & Sentiment in the Afro-Latinx Diaspora
Berta Jottar is an independent scholar and media maker with a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, TISCH School of the Arts. She specializes in the research, recording, and editing of the music and dance practices of the Afro-Latinx Diaspora in the East Coast, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Her scholarly work has been published in several academic journals; and her videos have been featured at international...
Soccer vs. Houston
Iowa State women's soccer hosts Houston. Dates and times subject to change. Updates available on cyclones.com.
Cyclone Cinema: Joy Ride
Cyclone Cinema is presented by the Student Union Board and showcases a variety of film genres, screening a different movie every weekend Thursday - Sunday during the semester. Sunday film screenings are in open caption format. All other screenings can be open caption as well, as long as the request is made to the staff prior to the movie starting.
Concert: Vehicle Dynamics and Display Case (rock)
Display Case band members came together in a basement in suburban Des Moines Iowa, releasing their first album, "Make Your Mark" in 2012 and completing their first two national tours in 2013 & 2014.