The Graduate and Professional Student Government hosts a wide variety of events throughout the year! 

GPSG Meetings Spring 2026

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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)

GPSG Events

GPSG Ball 2026

Tickets open on March 1, 2026

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Events Around Campus

Free Week | Cozy Cross-Stitch promotional image

Free Week | Cozy Cross-Stitch

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Cozy up for an evening of cross-stitch, snacks, and good times at the Stanley. Free and open to all!

The Stanley has partnered with ICDD for the upcoming Free Week – a winter festival offering free programming at over 15 venues, celebrating Downtown Iowa City’s Cultural & Entertainment District from Feb. 16 to 22, 2026.

Snack and supplies provided.

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Del Sol Quartet with UI Chinese Program

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Join the UI Chinese Program for an event hosting the Del Sol Quartet!
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Movie Night: Arabic Cultural Hour

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Phillips Hall
This week Arabic Cultural Hour will be hosting a movie night featuring The Battle of Algiers! Join us in the CLCL from 5 to 7 p.m. to watch this historic movie that features Arabic, English, and French. Feel free to bring snacks or dinner!
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Arabic Cultural Hour

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Phillips Hall
Join the UI Arabic Program for Arabic Cultural Hour! We have set up a number of exciting activities to explore the cultural practices behind Arabic and their relationship with the language. These activities include traditional crafts, cooking, movies, and more. Alongside each activity we will practice our in-class vocabulary and learn new terms to describe the activity.
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Bowman House

Success, Not Excess provides a small, safe and supportive space for UI students wanting to make or considering changes in their alcohol or other drug use. The group emphasizes success in academics, relationships, mental and physical health, and other goals through reducing alcohol and other drug use. Meetings are provided by the UI Collegiate Recovery Program. For more information, please visit our website.

This is not a treatment group and will not satisfy legal or other disciplinary mandates...

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WiCS - Career Speaker: Professor Kleiman

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
We'll be joined by Professor Kleiman to talk on behalf of her experience as a computer science educator and researcher!
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Translating Dreams: A Reading and Conversation with Young Korean Wordsmiths

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30pm to 6:45pm
Phillips Hall
Join the University of Iowa (UI) Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, an International Programs affinity group, and the UI Korean Program for a special event featuring three Korean authors presenting about their works and their thoughts on Korean literature.
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Faith on the Plate

Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Explore the intersection of religion and cuisine, guided by Christina Ward's book "Holy Food"
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American Voices: In Conversation with Lowell Liebermann and Gabriel Kahane

Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Moderated by Director of Orchestral Studies and Music Assistant Professor Kenny Lee

Join us in conversation with two great working American composers, Lowell Liebermann and Gabriel Kahane, as they discuss process and artistry. Kahane is Hancher Auditorium’s 2025-26 Composer-in Residence, and Liebermann is an Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor hosted in the UI School of Music. The two composers are engaged in concurrent weeklong residencies at the University of Iowa, and will each...

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Lip Critic at Gabe's

Thursday, February 19, 2026 7:00pm
Gabe's
Lip Critic | SCOPE x Track Zero
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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Thursday, February 19, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building

By Undergraduate Playwrights

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, Artistic Directed by Tony Meneses!

The Ten-Minute Play Festival features 10-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.

Please be advised flashing and strobe lights will be...

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Iowa Track and Field Iowa Open

Friday, February 20, 2026 (all day)
Hawkeye Indoor Track Facility
The Iowa Track and Field team hosts the Iowa Open.

Design Your Own Copilot Agent: Custom AI for Everyday Tasks

Friday, February 20, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Hands-on with Microsoft Copilot Agents: create, customize, and collaborate using everyday AI.
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LaTeX Accessibility with MathJax and Pressbooks

Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

LaTeX markup language is an efficient and powerful way to prepare mathematical equations and formulae to share with others, but PDF outputs of LaTeX don't meet important accessibility standards. This training will demonstrate how to transform your LaTeX files into HTML, use MathJax to make them more accessible, and share them with others in the Pressbooks platform.

Register for event.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and...

"The Battle for the Black Mind": Lecture by Karida Brown, Emory University promotional image

"The Battle for the Black Mind": Lecture by Karida Brown, Emory University

Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building

Dr. Karida Brown is an NAACP Image Award-winning author, sociologist, and public intellectual. A professor at Emory University, Dr. Brown is a leading scholar of systemic racism and the study of Black life. Her work, which spans over a decade of groundbreaking research and analysis, has earned her both national and international acclaim. She is the author of six books, most recently The Battle for the Black Mind by Legacy Lit.

Hosted by the Race Workshop Obermann Working Group; co-sponsored by...

Story Lab Workshop #2

Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Pick ONE workshop, leave with skills, stories, and smiles.
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Friday Crafternoons

Friday, February 20, 2026 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Need a break at the end of the week? Swing by the Stanley on Friday afternoons for Crafternoons. Bring whatever low-mess craft you're currently working on (a sketchbook, knitting, embroidery, coloring books, origami — whatever you're into!) or just show up and use some of the various supplies we'll have on hand. No experience required! Light snacks provided. Stay for five minutes or hang out for a while, it's up to you.

Environmental Engineering and Science Graduate Seminar

Friday, February 20, 2026 1:30pm to 2:20pm
Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory

Adam Pollack, Assistant Professor, School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability, University of Iowa, will be presenting, Quantifying and Managing Climate Risks and Inequitable Outcomes.

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Spiker Memorial Lecture: Nim Tottenham

Friday, February 20, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

The Spiker Memorial Lecture honors Charles W. Spiker's influential research and educational leadership in the field of experimental child psychology. Following Spiker's death in 1993, his students and colleagues endowed this memorial lectureship to honor all that he stood for. Its purpose is to bring to Iowa today's outstanding minds in developmental psychology.

Nim Tottenham is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her...

Welcome to be a mathematician,  from my life and researches

Friday, February 20, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Lihe Wang, Department of Mathematics

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Biology Seminar: "Mutants and Monoclonals: building open science resources for developmental biology and antibody sharing"

Friday, February 20, 2026 3:30pm
Biology Building East
The Department of Biology’s seminar speaker on Friday, February 20, is from our own department, Doug Houston. His seminar will be held at 3:30pm in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101), Biology Building East (BBE).

PILS Movie Night: My Cousin Vinny

Friday, February 20, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Boyd Law Building

Join the Public Interest Law Society (PILS) for a very special airing of the classic 1992 movie "My Cousin Vinny." It stars Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei, Who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in this movie.

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Chinese New Year Festival

Friday, February 20, 2026 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Come to celebrate Chinese New Year with us!
NWP Alumnus Jonathan Gleason reads from 'Field Guide to Falling Ill' promotional image

NWP Alumnus Jonathan Gleason reads from 'Field Guide to Falling Ill'

Friday, February 20, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Nonfiction Writing Program reading at Prairie Lights
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