The UI Stanley Museum of Art invites you to help us turn our new home into a “signed original” by writing your name on our virtual wall between now and Wednesday, September 30, 2020!
We will transfer your message onto a real wall, hidden within the building, before the construction team finishes its work.
Sign Virtual Wall |
A century ago, the world faced a global health crisis that in many ways parallels the present-day challenges we face during the COVID-19 pandemic. This Thursday Forum offers historical perspective and insights on the current public health crisis by providing an overview of the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic, which erupted amidst the already-significant suffering and destruction of World War I. This two-session forum will begin with an overview of the origins, diffusion, mitigation, and impacts of the 1918 influenza outbreak. We will look into how the disease developed and spread, examining the pandemic from a global perspective. The presentation will consider the medical understanding of the disease and attempts to counter it, as well as the social and cultural factors that determined its evolution and treatment. The second forum will examine how the outbreak played out in Cedar Rapids, comparing and contrasting the experience of students at Coe and townspeople in the area. Through use of historical archival and newspaper sources, we will recreate the situation in eastern Iowa and evaluate the impact that the war, gender, and class had on healthcare and survival. This examination will be tied together with a look into the life and legend of Helen Roberts, the only Coe student to die in the epidemic and who is now alleged to haunt Voorhees Hall.
The virtual event will be found at https://portal.stretchinternet.com/coeadmin/
Stanley Reads puts the museum’s recent exhibitions in conversation with literature. This fall we will consider Follow Her Lead in relation to Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Both the exhibition and novel focus on women and motherhood across time and geography. During each meeting of the book club, we will pair artwork from the exhibition with chapters from the book to connect deeply with the themes and expand our understanding of the objects and the story.
Stanley Reads is led by Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement and is presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books.
Homegoing begins in Ghana in the eighteenth century. It follows the lives of two half-sisters and eight generations of their descendants, those who endured enslavement in America and those who remained in Africa. The powerful story shows the deep and lasting effects of slavery.
Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Homegoing won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the NBCC’s John Leonard Award. It is Gyasi’s first novel.
Register for Stanley Reads: https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz.
Once registered, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events.
Registration will cut off at noon the Friday preceding each event. Anyone registered after that will be added to the following meeting.
September 19
- “Effia” (pp. 1–26)
- “Esi” (pp.27–48)
October 3
- “Quey” (pp. 49–86)
- “James” (pp. 87–109)
October 17
- “Kojo” (pp. 110–131)
- “Abena” (pp. 132–152)
October 31 (Led by Derek Nnuro)
- “H” (pp. 155–175)
- “Akua” (pp. 176–197)
November 14
- “Willie” (pp. 198–220)
- “Yaw” (pp. 221–241)
December 5
- “Sonny” (pp. 242–262)
- “Marjorie” (pp. 263–282)
- “Marcus” (pp. 283–299)
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact the SMA in advance at 319-335-1727.
City of Coralville
Coral Ridge Mall
GreenState Credit Union
A century ago, the world faced a global health crisis that in many ways parallels the present-day challenges we face during the COVID-19 pandemic. This Thursday Forum offers historical perspective and insights on the current public health crisis by providing an overview of the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic, which erupted amidst the already-significant suffering and destruction of World War I. This two-session forum will begin with an overview of the origins, diffusion, mitigation, and impacts of the 1918 influenza outbreak. We will look into how the disease developed and spread, examining the pandemic from a global perspective. The presentation will consider the medical understanding of the disease and attempts to counter it, as well as the social and cultural factors that determined its evolution and treatment. The second forum will examine how the outbreak played out in Cedar Rapids, comparing and contrasting the experience of students at Coe and townspeople in the area. Through use of historical archival and newspaper sources, we will recreate the situation in eastern Iowa and evaluate the impact that the war, gender, and class had on healthcare and survival. This examination will be tied together with a look into the life and legend of Helen Roberts, the only Coe student to die in the epidemic and who is now alleged to haunt Voorhees Hall.
The virtual event will be found at https://portal.stretchinternet.com/coeadmin/
Join us for this virtual presentation by Chad Lewis, researcher, author, and lecturer on the paranormal. For 25 years he has traveled the back roads of the world in search of the strange and unusual, this time focusing on the Midwest. If you can’t make it on the 10th, don’t worry—it will be made available to stream later!
Find this program on the Coralville Public Library’s Facebook Live and YouTube accounts starting October 10.
