Rotarian Chet Woodman and his spouse, Joanne, were recognized by President Thais for achieving Major Donor status with the Rotary Foundation.    

 

President Thais Winkleblack introduced Teresa Mangum for today’s program on the University of Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.  

 

Teresa Mangum is a Professor in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and was appointed as Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies in 2010. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on the ways that nineteenth-century British novels shaped readers’ understanding of women, of late life, and of connections between humans and other animals. She also publishes on current issues: publicly engaged pedagogy, the place of service in an academic career, and graduate student placement.

 

In her role as Director, Teresa helps to support The Obermann Center for Advance Studies mission of serving the research mission of the University of Iowa. The Center is a convening space dedicated to debate and discovery. Their grants for University of Iowa artists and researchers support imaginative collaborations and multi-disciplinary exploration. Their programming connects scholars across campus and engages the larger public in the amibitious, illuminating, and transformative works of the artists and scholars they serve. The Center hosts a number of public programs including a major annual humanities conference, small group collaborations, lectures, workshops, working groups, and performances as well as an intensive seminar for graduate students. For more information, please visit: http://obermann.uiowa.edu/.

 

Rotarians are welcome to attend any of the 10th Anniversary Celebrations of the Obermann Graduate Institute next week. Here is a link to the schedule: https://gradinstitute10.wordpress.com/.