Advising Update

• April 11 - 22, 2022 = Early Registration for fall 2022 University of Iowa courses. After you register for classes, generate NEW degree audits. Review them to make sure that your future classes satisfy remaining requirements. Email meredith-gall@uiowa.edu with questions.  
• Still looking for courses to add to your fall 2022 schedule? Visit the IS database: https://internationalstudies.uiowa.edu/undergraduate/course-database
• May 6, 2022 = Deadline to file a Second Grade Only option to be reflected on a student transcript for the sp22 semester. 

IS:3012 Invites you to a Refugee Simulation Event

The IS:3012 class invites you to attend a Refugee Simulation Event hosted by the Catherine McAuley Center:
Sixty student can  join us and engage in the simulation, which will be facilitated by CMC staff and be held on Thursday, 28 April from 2-3:30pm in the second floor ballroom (room 243) of the IMU.

You can register for the event here: https://forms.gle/ZVLdAqTfC12uQGZD9.

If you would like to read about a similar event offered at Cornell College: https://www.thegazette.com/education/cornell-college-students-simulate-life-of-refugees/.

Highlighted Fall 22 Courses

ENGL 3520 THE PLEASURE AND PAIN OF TRAVEL
Approved for Global South & Diasporic Studies Track, International Human Rights Track and Global Perspectives
Tuesday, Thursday 2:00-3:15 pm in 205 EPB /  Professor Marie Kruger / MyUI

In the twenty-first century everybody travels (unless, of course, a pandemic forces us to stay home). But not all of us travel with the same light luggage. Journeys across geographical and cultural boundaries take on many different shapes: from the leisure activity of travel to the movements of labor migrants and the violent displacement of refugees.

In trying to understand these different journeys – forced or voluntary, temporary or permanent, within a country and across cultural borders – our main emphasis will be on African and on Caribbean literature and film. As individuals and groups cross cultural territories, what experiences do they have in other places? Are they welcomed or treated with hostility? How do local communities respond to tourists, immigrants and those seeking employment? Why do strangers sometimes become easy targets for accusations and prejudices? How are these cross-cultural encounters represented in literature and film? Indeed, what are the pleasures and pains of leaving one’s home?

HIST:3128 Topics in Global Environmental History: Nature and Power in the Modern World (3sh)
Approved for the Global Resources & Environment Track, Global Perspectives, and International Sustainable Development Concentration
2:00P - 3:15P TTh 31 SH / Prof. Rob Rouphail / MyUI 
Great choice for students interested in history, diversity, and of course environmental studies and sustainability.

Our current climate crisis, the inequalities it reveals, and the movements that have emerged to combat it all have a history. This course will examine that history, with particular attention paid to how processes of industrialization, imperial expansion, post-colonial political change, and environmental justice movements have shaped how human societies have encountered the natural world over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

We will draw from a diverse body of sources: the work of historians, the words of poets and writers, and documents produced by governments and everyday people. At the end of the semester, students will have acquired a base of empirical knowledge and the analytical capacity to intervene in contemporary discussions regarding climate change and its attendant social, cultural, and political challenges. The class will be comprised of both lectures and discussions, but an emphasis will be placed on active student engagement with the course material and with class colleagues.

ENGL 3595: International Literature Today (1 or 3sh)|
Approved for Global South and Diasporic Studies Track, International Communication and Information Track, and Global Perspectives
3:30P - 5:20P Mondays / W55 CB / MyUI
Read works of and then meet the international authors attending the International Writing Workshop at the University of Iowa.

IS:3011:0EXW GLOBAL RESEARCH: STRATEGIES AND SKILLS (1 sh)
Taught by Brett Cloyd, Reference Liaison Librarian for International Studies and Fulbright Librarian
Online / Asynchronous / Oct 11, 2022 - Dec 6, 2022
Learn to gather, assess, and use information required for: international jobs, upper-level course work, and individual global research. 

For a full list of courses approved for the IS Major, visit the IS database: https://internationalstudies.uiowa.edu/undergraduate/course-database.

Upcoming Events

Taduko Workshop: A Japanese Reading Extensive Workshop
Friday, April 22 / 2:00-5:00pm / East Asian Reading Room (2ND Floor of the UI Main Library)
https://events.uiowa.edu/59690 
2:00 Poppu Making (Onishi-sensei)
2:45 Mini Library Tour 1 (Harada-san)
3:00 Storytelling by Shimizu-sensei
3:30 "Everyone can read!" (Nishi-sensei)
4:00 Higashitani-sensei’s Book Corner
4:30 Mini Library Tour 2 (Harada-san)
Please come by at any time during the event.

The Authorization for Use of Military Force and U.S. Forever Wars (ICFRC Lecture)
Tuesday, April 26th @ 12pm-1:00pm / Online via Zoom / More info
Speaker: Heather Brandon-Smith  

April Editors Series in Translation
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 2:00pm to 3:30pm: Elianna Kan (literary agent, translator, writer) / More Info
Thursday, April 28, 2022 2:00pm to 4:45pm Jessup Hall: Kendall Storey (Senior Editor at Catapult and Soft Skull Press) / More Info

A Conversation with Amal Kassir (Poet and Performer for the Anne Frank Tree Planting Ceremony)
April 28th, 9:30-10:30, Phillips Hall 318 /  More Info

Anne Frank Tree Planting Ceremony
Friday, April 29, 2022, 5:00 p.m.
On April 29, 2022, a new tree will be planted on the University of Iowa’s Pentacrest—a sapling propagated from the immense horse chestnut tree that grew in the courtyard behind the annex where Anne Frank and her family hid for 761 days during World War II. This living symbol of Anne’s spirit and humanitarian message is the 13th Anne Frank Sapling to be planted in the United States. We encourage you to register so that we can approximate the number of attendees. Attendees should gather on the Pentacrest lawn outside of Macbride Hall. In case of rain, we will meet in Macbride Auditorium. For details, visit the Planting Ceremony webpage. For information about the Anne Frank Tree and associated events, please visit https://uiannefranktree.com/.