Events Calendar
Riverine Walks: Deep Maps: Historic Geography of Pool 16 of Mississippi River
Riverine Walk participants explore the Quad Cities through a series of guided walks at various area locales. The Riverine Walks series for August features “Deep Maps: Historic Geography of Pool 16 of the Mississippi River" with Dr.
Channel Cat Talks: River Landscape Mosaic
Channel Cat Talk participants tour the Mississippi River aboard the Channel Cat Water Taxi. August programs include “River Landscape Mosaic,” in which Dr. Reuben Heine and Dr.
Riverine Walks: Deep Maps: Historic Geography of Pool 16 of Mississippi River
Riverine Walk participants explore the Quad Cities through a series of guided walks at various area locales. The Riverine Walks series for August features “Deep Maps: Historic Geography of Pool 16 of the Mississippi River" with Dr.
Virtual Nordic Book Club, August
Join the Swenson Center book club to discuss books on Nordic topics or by Nordic authors.
August's book is "A Drop of Midnight" by Jason Diakité
QC College Career Fair
The inaugural QC Career Fair will include students from five local colleges and universities.
I-74 Graduate and Professional School Fair
The annual I-74 Graduate and Professional School Fair will be a one-day virtual event Oct. 28, 2020. Hours will be 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Birthing Ideas in Ancient Greece and the Modern World
Dr. Yurie Hong will present the Antiquity in the New Millennium Lecture on how ancient practitioners thought about and treated reproductive issues.
Archaeological Institute of America Lecture: "The Lynch Site and 13th and 14th Century Ethnogenesis on the Central Plains"
Douglas Bamforth from the University of Colorada, Boulder, will be holding a lecture on "The Lynch Site and 13th and 14th Century Ethnogenesis on the Central Plains".
Antiquity in the New Millennium Lecture: "Beyond Black vs White: Africans in the Visual Imagination of the Roman Empire"
The representation of foreign cultures with manifest “racial” differences, such as unfamiliar physical traits or strange-seeming ethnic customs, has been a longstanding and often visceral site for human artistic expression. The visual and material culture of the Roman Empire (c.
Archaeological Institute of America Lecture: “The Etruscan Helmets from Vetulonia: New Evidence for the Life of an Etruscan Soldier”
Hilary Becker from Binghamton University will give a lecture on “The Etruscan Helmets from Vetulonia: New Evidence for the Life of an Etruscan Soldier”: