The University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums explores the current exhibition Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank through the Exhibition Spotlight program series in a special two-part virtual panel event.

Registration is open for Working Internationally (IS:2500), a 1-s.h. course meeting from 2/24-2/26. The course offers practical insight to prepare for the international job search, including presentations and panels by students and professionals.

Congratulations to International Studies Academic Advisory Board member and Director of Arabic Studies Yasmine Ramadan, whose book Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction was reviewed in the independent pan-Arab newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi.

Human cognition occurs within social contexts, and nowhere is this more evident than language behavior. Regularly using multiple languages is a globally ubiquitous individual experience that is shaped by social environmental forces, ranging from interpersonal interactions to ambient language exposure. Here, we develop a Systems Framework of Bilingualism, where embedded layers of individual, interpersonal, and ecological sociolinguistic factors jointly predict people’s language behavior.

“Emma’s research contributes to examining how fiction and mainstream media not only reflect public attitudes but influence them.” – Waltraud Maierhofer, Professor, German

On this episode of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe explores the literature of the Holocaust, and the importance of reading books written about the Holocaust by those who witnessed the atrocities, with Elke Heckner.