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

GPSG Meetings Spring 2026

meetings

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

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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.

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.

Follow us on Instagram here:
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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!
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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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UI Symphony Orchestra with Liebermann & Kahane

Friday, February 20, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

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A concert bringing composers and musicians together.

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra will perform a suite of murder ballads by Hancher’s composer-in-residence Gabriel Kahane — and Kahane himself will join the ensemble. In addition, composer Lowell Liebermann will be in attendance to experience the U.S. premiere of his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra Op. 145, written for and performed by UI Professor of Saxophone, Dr. Kenneth Tse, during the first half of...

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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Friday, February 20, 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...

The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026 promotional image

The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026

Saturday, February 21 to Sunday, February 22, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
Welcome students, faculty, and all members of the community to our annual UIowa Computing Conference!

VOB Competition Oral Arguments—First Round

Saturday, February 21, 2026 8:00am to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Appellate Advocacy II: VOB Competition Oral Arguments, First Round

10th Annual Hawkeye Classic - Women's Indoor 7s Rugby Tournament promotional image

10th Annual Hawkeye Classic - Women's Indoor 7s Rugby Tournament

Saturday, February 21, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex
Collegiate Women's Indoor 7s Rugby Tournament
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Silent Disco @ the Museum

Saturday, February 21, 2026 2:00pm to 6:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History hosts Silent Disco @ the Museum for Iowa City's FREE WEEK
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Iowa women's gymnastics vs. Penn State

Saturday, February 21, 2026 5:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena

The Iowa women's gymnastics team hosts Penn State.

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Symphony Band Showcase Concert

Saturday, February 21, 2026 6:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Symphony Band Showcase Concert

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This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public, and is part of Free Week 2026, a festival sponsored by Think Iowa City and the Iowa City Downtown District.

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Del Sol Quartet, presented by UI String Quartet Residency Program + UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Saturday, February 21, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Del Sol Quartet, presented by UI String Quartet Residency Program + UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

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Benjamin Kreith & Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violin
Charlton Lee, viola
Kathryn Bates, cello

The Del Sol Quartet residency is a UI String Quartet Residency Program / Center for Asian and Pacific Studies/ Obermann Center for Advanced Studies collaboration with support from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Endowment Fund

delsolquartet.com

This concert is free and open to the public, and...

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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Saturday, February 21, 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...

The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026 promotional image

The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026

Sunday, February 22, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
Welcome students, faculty, and all members of the community to our annual UIowa Computing Conference!

Jessup Competition Oral Arguments—First Round

Sunday, February 22, 2026 8:00am to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Appellate Advocacy II Jessup Competition Oral Arguments, First Round

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Women's basketball vs. Michigan

Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00am
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Michigan.
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Iowa Honor Band Showcase Concert

Sunday, February 22, 2026 1:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Honor Band Showcase Concert

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This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public, and is part of Free Week 2026, a festival sponsored by Think Iowa City and the Iowa City Downtown District.

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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Sunday, February 22, 2026 2:00pm
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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Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, February 22, 2026 2:30pm to 4:15pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece.

Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen and adult writers in all genres are welcome.

Write at the Stanley meets every fourth...

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Gabriel Kahane

Sunday, February 22, 2026 4:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
The confines of “singer-songwriter” are too limiting to hold this artist and his searching work.

Chamber Music: Caleb J. Estrada-Valentín, flute

Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music: Caleb J. Estrada-Valentín, flute

Sayyod Mirzomurodov, clarinet
Alec Gabel, oboe
Keegan Hockett, bassoon
Ana Clark, flute

This concert is free and open to the public.

Canceled
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Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

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Part of Free Week 2026, a festival sponsored by Think Iowa City and the Iowa City Downtown District.

More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.

This concert is free and open to the public. It's also part of New Work City, the spring initiative by Performing Arts At Iowa to...

Clarence Tow Seminar Series in Economics: Cormac O'Dea

Monday, February 23, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Cormac O'Dea is an assistant professor of Economics at Yale University.

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