Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about the online MSW program.

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Questions? Contact Lauren at ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

This program offers accountability to artists, scholars, and researchers working on any kind of writing project (articles, essays, fellowship or grant applications, dissertations, book projects, edited volumes, etc.) who want dedicated time, a cozy space, and a community for the practice of writing.

In spring 2026, four writing groups will meet in our Writers' Attic at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at 111 Church St. Each group will meet once a week for 1.5 hours, beginning the week of...

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the third presentation in this series of intergalactic music poetics. Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future.

Featuring selections from Quartet for the End of Time

Katie Wolfe, violin
Jorge Montilla Moreno, clarinet
Carey...

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.