Events

Interfaith Worship Service, Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Date: Sunday, January 20, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: First Mennonite Church, 405 Myrtle Avenue, Iowa City, 52246

Human Rights Across Disciplines: Teaching for Public Engagement

Date: Monday, January 21, 2013
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: 1117 University Capitol Centre
Audience: Faculty and Graduate Teaching Assistants
Sponsored by: UI Center for Human Rights, UI Center for Teaching
Contact: Kelsey Kramer (319-335-1375)

Unity March: A silent march around the Pentacrest to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and to walk as a united community.

Date: Monday, January 21, 2013
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Old Capitol Museum, East Entrance (facing Clinton St.)

"Time to Remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." opening remarks by Dr. Michael Hill and featured speaker/poet Robert "Words" Taylor

Date: Monday, January 21, 2013
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Reception to follow
Location: Old Capitol Museum, Senate Chambers
Reception to follow in Museum Lobby

2013 UI Health Care Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture: Isabel Wilkerson: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.

Featured Speaker: Author Isabel Wilkerson
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Reception & Book Signing to follow 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Prem Sahai Auditorium 1110 Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF) - Newton Road
Audience: All are welcome
Contact: 1-877-MED-IOWA
Sponsor: UI Health Care

Brothers on the Line (documentary film screening)

This film explores the legacy of the Reuther brothers - Walter, Roy, and Victor - pioneering labor organizers and social justice statesmen, and their leadership of the United Auto Workers union from the 1930s through the Civil Rights era

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Northwestern Room (Room 345), Iowa Memorial Union
Contact: Sarah Clark
Contact Phone Number: 319-335-4144
Sponsor: UI Labor Center

Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in Minority Populations: Priorities for Research and Community Health

A presentation by Clyde W. Yancy, MD, chief of the cardiology division at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Location: Medical Alumni Auditorium, E331 General Hospitals and Clinics
Contact: David Pederson
Contact Phone Number: 319-356-1498
Sponsor: UI Health Care

SLAM - An Evening of Jazz, Human Rights, Poetry, & Good Eats

Featuring local Jazz group Smawpad Trio and slam poets PoeTree
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013
Time 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: North & South Rooms, IMU
Sponsor: Campus Activities Board

"Community of Color"

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Van Oel Multipurpose Room, Currier Hall (Off of South Lobby)
Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community Members
Contact: Center for Diversity and Enrichment 319-335-3555, cde@uiowa.edu; RSVP by January 21
Sponsor: Center for Diversity and Enrichment
For more information: http://cab.uiowa.edu/events/slam-an-evening-of-jazz-human-rights-and-poetry/

A STEM Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. - "Science and Civilization as Seen By a Physicist"

Professor Vincent Rogers of the Department of Physics & Astronomy will speak. Professor Rodgers coordinates the deparment's K-12 outreach program, "Hawk-Eyes on Science," and organizes the popular Cafe' Scientifique outreach program for adults in Iowa City.

Date: Friday, January 25, 2013
Time: 3:30-5:00 (Reception with refreshments at 3:30, lecture at 4:00)
Location: Stanley Auditorium, 1505 Seamans Center, College of Engineering
Audience: All are welcome
Contact: colleen-mitchell@uiowa.edu
Sponsor: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of Mathematics (CLAS), Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences program (Graduate College), College of Engineering, Math Graduate Board

"Are We Forgetting the Dream?"

A presentation by Dr. Roy Irons who received his DDS from Iowa in 1976 and is currently serving as President of the National Dental Association

Date: Friday, January 25, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Galagan Auditorium, Dental Science Building
Contact: Elaine Brown
Contact: Phone: 319-335-7157

"The Mountaintop," a play by Katori Hall presented by Theatre Arts/Darwin Turner Action Theatre and directed by Professor Tlaloc Rivas of the Department of Theatre Arts

This award winning play is about an imagined conversation between King and a hotel maid on his last night alive in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, just after he gave his famed "Mountaintop" speech and before he got shot the next morning on the balcony.

Date: Saturday, January 26, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Free Admission
Location: EC Mabie Theater, Riverside Drive
Audience: All are welcome
Immediately following, UI faculty will participate in an interdisciplinary panel discussion
Contact: nic-arp@uiowa.edu
Sponsor: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
For more information: http://arts.uiowa.edu/mountaintop-mlk-celebration-human-rights-event

Freedom Reading- A HRAW Event

Calling all Poets, Spoken Word Artists, Lyricists, Singers, and Musicians! Human Rights Awareness Week is hosting a human rights-focused Open Mic Night. For those not wanting to recite poetry, no worries. Please feel free to join us and simply enjoy the event. Perform your work in front of a live audience. -OR- Donate your work of art for someone else to recite. We encourage you to create something relating to human rights, whatever topic best speaks to you.

Date: Monday, January 28, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Java House
Sponsors: Human Rights Awareness Week Student Org Collaborations: Amnesty International, LiNK (Liberty in North Korea), ONE, SAS (Students Abolishing Slavery), COGS, UI Students for Human Rights, and Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa, University of Iowa UNA
Contact: Kyra Seay
Contact Phone Number: 319-520-0178

Free screening - "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide"

Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Audience: All are welcome
Location: N110 CPHB
Contact: Debra Venzke
Contact Phone: 319-335-9647

Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Symposium

Date: Friday, February 1st, 2013
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Audience: All are welcome
Location: N300 Lindquist Center (Jones Commons)
Sponsors: College of Education Diversity Committee
Contact: Marcus Alt, education-diversity@uiowa.edu