Monthly Archives: February 2012
Love & war
Over on the Twitter account for the Libraries’ Civil War transcription crowdsourcing project, we’re taking a break from our Black History Month tweets to highlight some Valentine’s Day content, such as Albert Cross’s 1862 diary entry indicating a conflicted relationship with the holiday: “I wish the mail would come as this is Valentine’s Day. IContinue reading “Love & war”
Dickens’ bicentenary
Today the University will be marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth with a presentation hosted by the Obermann humanities center. Along with lectures on Dickens by UI and community experts, the event will feature selections from the Libraries’ Dickensiana holdings, including some of the correspondence digitized for our Leigh Hunt Letters collection: CharlesContinue reading “Dickens’ bicentenary”
New site broadcasts the cumulative impact of the UI Political Science Department’s Shambaugh Conferences
Access to lectures and academic papers from the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Conference is now available at http://ir.uiowa.edu/shambaugh/. The conferences, sponsored by the Department of Political Science of the University of Iowa, are supported by funds in memory of Professor Benjamin F. Shambaugh, who headed the department from its founding in 1900 to his death inContinue reading “New site broadcasts the cumulative impact of the UI Political Science Department’s Shambaugh Conferences”
Wisława Szymborska, 1923-2012
Wisława Szymborska, Nobel-prize winning Polish poet, died on February 1, 2012. According to The Telegraph: The Nobel award committee’s 1996 citation called her the “Mozart of poetry,” a woman who mixed the elegance of language with “the fury of Beethoven” and tackled serious subjects with humor. While she was arguably the most popular poet in Poland,Continue reading “Wisława Szymborska, 1923-2012”