Eric Vázquez, assistant professor of American Studies and Latino Studies, presented "The Innovator's Dilemma - Bitcoin in El Salvador" to the Iowa Foreign Relations Council on April 5, 2022. This talk examines bitcoin enthusiasts' arguments about the viability of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador. It raises specific concerns about bitcoin adoption in a context of growing authoritarianism, a history of unstable monetary policy, and limited technology.

Sport studies major and Daily Iowa Assistant Sports Editor Chloe Peterson examines the impact of former athletic director Christine Grant.

Three trailblazers who led the national effort for gender equality in athletics are being honored through a new fund dedicated to collecting, archiving, and highlighting their achievements and the efforts of other women. The Three Women for Equality: Christine Grant, Peggy Burke, and Bonnie Slatton Fund will provide support for the Iowa Women's Archives at UI Libraries, one of the few archives of its kind embedded within a higher education academic research library in the U.S.

Dr. Eric Vázquez, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Latina/o/x Studies at the University of Iowa, has published an essay in Public Culture entitled, “ 'Your Life Is One-Hundred-Percent at Risk': The Caravan of the Mutilated and the Internationalism of the Vulnerable."

Dr. Eric Vázquez, assistant professor of American studies and Latina/o studies, has an essay in the Duke University Press Public Culture publication.

David Andrews, Professor, Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, will present "Articulating Trump's America: Sport, Politics, and the Culture Wars" on May 6, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. CST. Register in advance for this meeting.

Join us for a presentation by Meskwaki Language Preservation Director Wayne Pushetonequa.

We are planning to tie in our 50th Anniversary Celebration with our 15th Annual Latinx In Action Celebration Week (newly named, LNACC in Action Week) which will take place the week of March 27 - April 2.

Presentation will be held March 1, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. at Art Building West on the University of Iowa Campus.

Natalie Robertson (PhD 1996) is pleased to announce that the story of America's last slave ship and the fate of her 110 West African captives will air on the National Geographic Channel on Monday, February 7th at 10pm (EST). The film will begin streaming on Hulu and Disney+ the following day. The film is based, in part, on her book entitled, The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors whose research was funded by the Stanley-UI Foundation and PASALA (Project for the Study of Art and Life in Africa).