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A Novelist’s Playlist: The Music of Jane Austen
A Novelist’s Playlist: The Music of Jane Austen
📅 Thursday, November 20, 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
📍 Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A
(123 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA 52240)
Join us for coffee and cookies at 11:45 a.m. The talk will begin at 12:15 p.m.
(Note: This is an in-person event, unfortunately no Zoom available.)
Every reader of the novels of Jane Austen knows that a proper heroine plays the pianoforte. But what did Austen actually know about music? In this lecture-recital...
A Conversation with UI President Barbara Wilson
Dr. Barbara J. Wilson is the 22nd president of the University of Iowa. She earned a BA in journalism and MA and PhD degrees in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She came to Iowa having served as the executive vice president/vice president for academic affairs of the University of Illinois System.
Prior to that, she served in several administrative positions, including interim chancellor, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she was a member of the...