Friday, 03 Feb 2012
Social Justice Summit
The Social Justice Summit provides students with the opportunity to increase their awareness of inclusion issues and to develop action plans that will assist them in being agents of change on campus. Registration is free and open to ISU undergraduate and graduate students.
Saturday, 04 Feb 2012
Social Justice Summit
The Social Justice Summit provides students with the opportunity to increase their awareness of inclusion issues and to develop action plans that will assist them in being agents of change on campus. Registration is free and open to ISU undergraduate and graduate students.
Tuesday, 07 Feb 2012
Engineering Career Fair
Companies will be recruiting for internship positions and full-time jobs. Come professionally dressed and prepared with your résumé and ISU student ID. Check out the Engineering Career Services website for additional resources.
Wednesday, 08 Feb 2012
Career Fair: Business, Liberal Arts & Sciences, Human Sciences
The career fair enables students to explore career opportunities, obtain employer information and locate internships, co-ops and full-time positions. Employers have the opportunity to connect with promising candidates for job and internship openings as well as network with university personnel and other employers.
Friday, 10 Feb 2012
Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference
"The Butterfly Effect: Evolution to Revolution," MBLGTACC 2012 strives to connect individuals and communities with resources that will help to enrich lives across the Midwest. Our socially just and positive actions work together, leading to a more equitable world. With a focus on LGBTQIA history and identities, and the impact of our multiple identities, MBLGTACC 2012 will provide impetus to expand human potential and transform our communities.
Sunday, 26 Feb 2012
Writing from the Margins: A Conversation
Daniel Woodrell is the author of Winter's Bone, whose film adaptation was nominated for four Academy Awards. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and a father from South India. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination
Poetry Reading: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and a father from South India. Her recently published book of poetry, Lucky Fish, moves from India to the Philippines to New York state to capture a rich life, richly lived. She teaches creative writing and environmental literature at the State University of New York-Fredonia. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and Creative Imagination.
A Reading with Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrell is the author of Winter's Bone, whose film adaptation was nominated for four Academy Awards. He has set most of his eight novels in the Missouri Ozarks, where he grew up and now lives. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination
Monday, 27 Feb 2012
Panel: Outliers and Environmental Literary Criticism
Three literary critics from the Iowa State Department of English will discuss the concept of the environmental imagination in literature. Participants include assistant professors Brianna Burke and Matthew Sivils and lecturer Jeremy Withers. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.
Eco-Voices: Flyway Home Voices Reading
Writers from the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment read from their prize-winning work. Creative pieces will be published in a forthcoming issue of Flyway: a Journal of Writing and Environment.
On Travel Writing
Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, including Memory Wall, which takes place on four continents and addresses issues from Alzheimer's in South Africa to infertility in Wyoming to fishing for endangered sturgeon in Lithuania. Rolf Potts has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler and The New Yorker. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination.
Lecture: Memory Wall
Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, and, most recently, Memory Wall, which takes place on four continents and addresses issues from Alzheimer's in South Africa to infertility in Wyoming to fishing for endangered sturgeon in Lithuania. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination