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Friday, October 1
Thomas Moran, Louis Prang, and the Chromo-Controversy
Joni Kinsey
4 p.m.
Jefferson Building, 704
Contact: Department of American Studies

Fiction to Film: Adapting One's Work for the Screen
Nick Meyers
11:30 a.m.
Dey House, basement
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts, The Writers' Workshop

Edward Carey and D.A. Powell
8 p.m.
Becker Communications Studies Building, 101
Contact: The Writers' Workshop

Wednesday, October 6
The Scholar and the Citizen: The Necessity of the Humanities to Democracy
Bruce Cole
4 p.m.
IMU, Richey Ballroom
Contact: Year of the Arts and Humanities

Symphony Band Concert: Liszt, Strauss, Susato, van Beurden, Turina, Revueltas, & Grainger
Myron Welch & Benjamin Coelho, conductors
8 p.m.
Clapp Recital Hall
Contact: School of Music

Friday, October 8
Writing Across Borders
Suketu Mehta

11 a.m.
Shambaugh House
Contact: The Writers' Workshop

Darra Keeton
7:30 p.m.
Art Building, E109
Contact: School of Art and Art History

Live from Prairie Lights
Suketu Mehta
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: The Writers' Workshop


The Ties that Bind and First Comes Love Screening and Q&A
Su Friedrich
8 p.m.
Becker Communication Studies Building, 101
Contact: Institute for Cinema and Culture, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature

Saturday, October 9
The Odds of Recovery Screening and Q&A
Su Friedrich
8 p.m.
Becker Communication Studies Building, 101
Contact: Institute for Cinema and Culture, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature

Tuesday, October 12
Paul Engle Memorial Reading : Agnes Gergely
7:30 p.m.
Shambaugh House
Contact: International Writing Program

Wednesday, October 13
Culture and Sensitivity: An Operoscopic Biopsy
Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon
4 p.m.
General Hospital, William Bean Conference Room
Contact: Opera Studies Group, International Programs

Live from Prairie Lights
Ted Solotaroff & Frank Conroy
6:30 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: The Writers' Workshop

The Young History of Age: Creativity and the Human Life Course
Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon
8 p.m.
Art Building, E109
Contact: Opera Studies Group, International Programs

Thursday, October 14
Film Screening and Discussion: Phil Alden Robinson
4 p.m.
John Pappajohn Business Building, C107
Contact: International Writing Program

Death, the Holocaust, and the Human Spirit
Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon
7:30 p.m.
Schaeffer Hall, 140
Contact: Opera Studies Group, International Programs

The Sarajevo Documentaries
Phil Alden Robinson
8 p.m.
English-Philosophy Building
, 107
Contact: International Writing Program

The Artist as Hunter: Animals, Empiricism, and the French Academy at the Turn of Eighteenth Century
Sarah R. Cohen
8 p.m.
Art Building, E109
Contact: School of Art and Art History, 18th-19th Century Interdisciplinary Studies Colloquium


The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
8 p.m.
Theatre Building
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Friday, October 15
Feeling in the Dark: Empathy and Inextricable Whiteness in Monster's Ball
Aimee Carrillo-Rowe
4 p.m.
Jefferson Building, 704
Contact: Department of American Studies

Orientalist India: Empire and Opera in a Post-Colonial World
Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon
4 p.m.
English-Philosophy Building, Gerber Lounge
Contact: Opera Studies Group, International Programs

Creation Tales: An Evening of Storytelling by Creative Folks
Steve Thunder-McGuire hosts Rene LaCuona, Dave Zollo, Mary Helen Stefaniak, & Alan Sener
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Creation Tales

Afro/Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble
8 p.m.
North Hall
Contact: Department of Dance

The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
8 p.m.
Theatre Building
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Saturday, October 16
Global Express
7:30 p.m.
Theatre Building, Theatre B
Contact: International Writing Program

Afro/Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble
8 p.m.
North Hall
Contact: Department of Dance

The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
8 p.m.
Theatre Building
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Sunday, October 17
Iowa City Viola Quartet
3:30 p.m.
Voxman Music Building, Harper Hall
Contact: School of Music

International Writing Program/Writers' Workshop Reading
Sami Berdugo (/srael), Adam Wiedemann (Poland), & Jody Caldwell

5 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: International Writing Program

Iowa Viola Society
7:30 p.m.
Voxman Music Building, Harper Hall
Contact: School of Music

Monday, October 18
2004 Brownell Lecture: Remember We Are Travelling as Relations
Susan Howe

5:30 p.m.
Art Building, E109
Contact: Center for the Book

Tuesday, October 19
Triple Jump D
Melle Hammer
7 p.m.
Art Building, E100
Contact: School of Art and Art History

Wednesday, October 20
Why I Write What I Write II
3:30-
5 p.m.
Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A
Contact: International Writing Program

Thursday, October 21
Denis Johnson
8 p.m.
Van Allen Hall, Lecture Room I
Contact: The Writers' Workshop


The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
8 p.m.
Theatre Building
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Iowa Brass Choir
8 p.m.
Clapp Recital Hall
Contact: School of Music

Friday, October 22
Latino Lecture Series: Michele Serros
1-2:30 p.m.
Samuel L.
Becker Communication Studies Building, auditorium
Contact: Opportunity at Iowa


International Writing Program Reading
Maung Tha Noe (Burma), Amma Raj Joshi (Nepal)

5 p.m.
Shambaugh House
Contact: International Writing Program

The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
8 p.m.
Theatre Building
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Nina Gordon, cello
8 p.m.
Voxman Music Building, Harper Hall
Contact: School of Music

Saturday, October 23
Soundpainting Lecture & Demonstration
Walter Thompson
7:30 p.m.
Voxman Music Building, Harper Hall
Contact: School of Music

The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
8 p.m.
Theatre Building
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Sunday, October 24
International Writing Program/Writers' Workshop Reading
Gozo Yoshimasu (Japan), V.K. Tirumalesh (India)
, & Dina Hardy
5 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: International Writing Program

The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
8 p.m.
Theatre Building
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Oystein Baadsvik, tuba
8 p.m.
Voxman Music Building, Harper Hall
Contact: School of Music

Monday, October 25
The Other Voice: An Evening of Poetry, Music, and Song
Gozo Yoshimasu, Marilya Corbot, Jean-Francois Pauvrois
7 p.m.
MacBride Hall, MacBride Auditorium
Contact: Center for Asian and Pacific Studies


The Conversion of Abraham to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Jon D. Levenson
8 p.m.
Van Allen Hall, Lecture Room 2
Contact: Department of Religious Studies

Margot Sawyer
8 p.m.
Art Building, E109
Contact: School of Art and Art History

Greg Sauer, cello
8 p.m.
Clapp Recital Hall
Contact: School of Music


Wednesday
, October 27

Writing and Politics
3:30-
5 p.m.
Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A
Contact: International Writing Program

Jean-Michel Espitalier Reading
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: International Writing Program

Friday, October 29
International Writing Program Reading
Alamgir Hashmir (Pakistan)

5 p.m.
Shambaugh House
Contact: International Writing Program


Know the Score LIVE!
Joan Kjaer and guests
5-7 p.m.
UI Museum of Art
Contact: KSUI

Claudia Anderson, flute, & Diane Burr, piano
8 p.m.
Clapp Recital Hall
Contact: School of Music

Soundpainting Opera
Walter Thompson
8 p.m.
North Hall, Space/Place Theatre
Contact: School of Music

Live from Prairie Lights
Chuck Rosenthal
6:30 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Prairie Lights Bookstore

Saturday, October 30
Soundpainting Opera
Walter Thompson
8 p.m.
North Hall, Space/Place Theatre
Contact: School of Music

Sunday, October 31
Soundpainting Opera
Walter Thompson
3 p.m.
North Hall, Space/Place Theatre
Contact: School of Music

International Writing Program/Writers' Workshop Reading
Vivienne Plumb (New Zealand), Sulkhan Zhordania (Georgia)
, & Leslie Parry 5 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: International Writing Program