Events

Let's Be Friends! How to Connect With Other College Students

Thursday, Sep 03, 2026
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7:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Marisa Franco
Flushing Out the Facts: Farm Manure and the Environment

Tuesday, Sep 08, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Daniel Andersen
The Play's The Thing: The Role of Theatre in our Democracy From Colonial Times to Today

Wednesday, Sep 16, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Joel Eis
America @ 250 Presents: What Do We Stand For?: The Political Philosophy of Our Country on Its 250th Birthday

Tuesday, Sep 22, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Scott Samuelson
Where are the Women? Preventing the Erasure of Women Judges through Wikipedia

Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Sally Kenney
Don't Swipe Right: How Hookup Culture Is Destroying Our Generation

Monday, Sep 28, 2026
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7:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Isabel Brown
America @ 250 Presents: Why the Electoral College Is Terrible

Tuesday, Sep 29, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Mr. Beat
America @ 250 Presents: An Evening with Alyssa Farah Griffin

Tuesday, Oct 06, 2026
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6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Alyssa Farah Griffin
A Hyena's Tale: 35 Years of On-the-Ground Research

Thursday, Oct 08, 2026
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7:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Kay Holekamp
The Romance of Technology: The Human Desire for Intimacy With and Through Machines

Thursday, Oct 15, 2026
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5:30 pm

Campanile Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Megan Ward
Is Learning Dead? How AI is Changing Our Assumptions About Human Achievement

Thursday, Oct 15, 2026
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7:30 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Meghan Sullivan
Culture, Ecosystems and the Art of Social Change: Favianna Rodriguez Artist Lecture

Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Favianna Rodriguez
America @ 250 Presents: Strongmen and How to Push Back Against Them

Monday, Oct 26, 2026
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6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
America @ 250 Presents: The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Gregg Hecimovich
Sustainable Economics, Systems Change, and Collapse Resilience

Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Gaya Herrington
11th Annual 3-Minute Thesis Final Competition

Tuesday, Nov 03, 2026
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6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Iowa State Graduate Students
After Jeffrey Epstein: How One Survivor Is Seeking Accountability, Government Transparency, and Empathy

Thursday, Nov 05, 2026
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6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Dani Bensky
Rabbis, Priests, Imams, and Infidels: Engaging the Other’s Religion in the Medieval Mediterranean

Thursday, Nov 05, 2026
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7:00 pm

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Speaker: Tom Burman
The Barber of Little Rock: Building Community Trust Through Economic Trust

Thursday, Nov 12, 2026
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6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Arlo Washington
The Couple with the Pitchfork: American Gothic from Easel to Icon

Tuesday, Nov 17, 2026
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6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Wanda Corn