Events

The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.

Guest Solo Recital: Asiya Korepanova, Piano

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Guest Solo Recital: Asiya Korepanova, Piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

Public Lecture: Post-border Poetics: North Korean Refugees and Politics of Narratives

Thursday, February 5, 2026 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Virtual

Dr. Eun Ah Cho, assistant professor of Korean language and culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas, will examine how North Korean female refugees’ narratives against the established images and stereotypical stories that have shaped their representation.

Success, Not Excess

Thursday, February 5, 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...

Women's basketball vs. Minnesota

Thursday, February 5, 2026 6:00pm

Carver-Hawkeye Arena

The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Minnesota.

Art & Write Night

Friday, February 6, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm

University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.

Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.

Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session and...

How to Defend Yourself

Friday, February 6, 2026 8:00pm

Theatre Building

In the immediate aftermath of an assault, a group of college students gather for a DIY self-defense class. This setting quickly becomes a space for channeling their anger, anxiety, trauma, confusion, and desire. In navigating these feelings, the group of strangers unites as a community and works to move forward together. Using humor and candor, Liliana Padilla’s How to Defend Yourself asks us to look beyond the labels of 'perpetrator' and 'survivor,' and to examine the complexities that abide in each of us.

Myths and Fables: A Voice Studio Recital

Saturday, February 7, 2026 3:00pm

West Music

Myths and Fables: A Voice Studio Recital

Students of Dr. Jeremiah Sanders Voice Studio

This concert is free and open to the public.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952024

How to Defend Yourself

Saturday, February 7, 2026 8:00pm

Theatre Building

Women's wrestling For Her Dual

Sunday, February 8, 2026 (all day)

Xtream Arena

The Iowa women's wrestling team hosts the For Her Dual at Xtream Arena.

Optional Recital: Nathan Ortiz, percussion

Sunday, February 8, 2026 1:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Optional Recital: Nathan Ortiz, percussion

Nathan Ortiz, percussion
Drew Hansen, percussion
Ava Chopskie, percussion
Peyton Flynn, percussion
Shaun Everson, percussion

This event is free and open to the public.

Men's basketball vs. Northwestern

Sunday, February 8, 2026 2:00pm

Carver-Hawkeye Arena

The Iowa men's basketball team hosts Northwestern.

How to Defend Yourself

Sunday, February 8, 2026 2:00pm

Theatre Building

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #4

Sunday, February 8, 2026 3:00pm

Voxman Music Building

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #4

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Iowa City MSW Info Session

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Virtual

To learn about the MSW program options and specializations available in Iowa City.

Des Moines MSW Info Session

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Virtual

Learn about the MSW program options and specializations available in Des Moines.

Study Hall

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm

University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

Departmental Brown Bag: Stephanie Leach

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

Brown Bag events feature presentations by Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate students from the Cognitive and Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience training areas.

Stephanie Leach is a Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Stephanie is in the Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience training area and is a member of the Hwang Lab.

Title and abstract to come

Sioux City MSW Info Session

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Virtual

To learn about the MSW program options and specializations available in Sioux City.

Women's basketball vs. Washington

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 6:30pm

Carver-Hawkeye Arena

The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Washington.

How to Defend Yourself

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 8:00pm

Theatre Building

DeLTA Center Colloquium: Bharath Chandrasekaran

Thursday, February 12, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm

University Capitol Centre

Dr. Chandrasekaran is a Ralph and Jean Sundin Endowed Professor and Department Chair in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University

Interests: Auditory Processing, Language Learning and Processing, Neuroscience, Scientific Collaboration

Presentation title and abstract to come.

Barath’s Bio Page: https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/bharath-chandrasekaran.html

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