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ILHOP
Posted on January 24, 2022 | No CommentsIowa Labor History Oral Project From its beginnings as a project of the Iowa labor movement to its current form as a dynamic collaboration led by the University of Iowa Labor Center, ILHOP has documented over a century of Iowa and Midwestern history through the lens of workers and their unions in dozens of industries from meatpacking and farm equipment manufacturing to mining, construction, transportation, retail, service, and the public sector. With over 1,500 interviews, ILHOP records the extraordinary stories of generations of everyday Iowans across lines of race, class, gender, religion, sexuality, language, birthplace, and nationality. In so doing, it reveals the ways in which the story of Iowa workers reflects, deepens, and, at times, even challenges our understanding of a range of histories stretching far beyond a single state or region. Join us in making ILHOP a hub for students, teachers, librarians, artists, union members, and historians from Iowa and beyond. To get started, you can either follow the links below, or use the menu icon in the top righthand corner of your screen. Visit the project site Principal investigator(s): John McKerley Project status: Completed Project web link: https://dsps.lib.uiowa.edu/ilhop/ -
ICE in the Heartland
Posted on July 19, 2021 | No CommentsICE in the Heartland: Community Impacts of Worksite Immigration Raids This project brings together interviews from people living in immigrant and mixed-status communities throughout the rural heartland of the United States, and art from young artists to provide a fuller picture of enduring and traumatic impacts of large-scale immigration worksite raids in rural America. Visit the project site Principal investigator(s): Nicole L. Novak & William D. Lopez Project status: CompletedOngoing Project web link: http://iceintheheartland.lib.uiowa.edu/ -
Arrow of Care
Posted on March 29, 2021 | No CommentsSurviving the Indifferents A science fiction video game that engages users in decision-making about allocations of responsibility for a stranded crew. Derived from Asha Bhandary’s care-based liberalism developed in Freedom to Care, and developed in collaboration with UI philosophy graduate students, the game can be used for educational purposes to prompt discussions about the role of care in systems of social cooperation. While they are navigating space dust and time-warp technology, users should also consider how gender and race shape our intuitions about who should act as a caregiver, who expects that their needs will be met, and how these assumptions influence the domain of freedom. Visit the project site Principal investigator(s): Asha Bhandary, Laura Brown, Timothy Sommers, & Jamie Ritzo Project status: Completed Project web link: http://s-lib024.lib.uiowa.edu/arrow-of-care/ -
Geometries of Creation
Posted on December 4, 2020 | No CommentsGeometries of Creation This site exists to document and share the results of Professor Robert Bork’s ongoing inquiry into the geometry of art and architecture, which has deep roots. Visit the project site Principal investigator(s): Robert Bork Project status: Ongoing Project web link: http://geometriesofcreation.lib.uiowa.edu/ -
Medellin After Escobar
Posted on October 12, 2020 | No CommentsMedellin After Escobar Medellín is best known for its worst times, when Pablo Escobar terrorized honest people, recruited children for his narcotrafficking, and upended a proud, hardworking social order. The transformation of Medellín since his death in 1993 has made Medellín a very different place. This project by Dept. of Spanish Prof. Kristine Munoz takes the form of a ride on the world-class Metro, the envy of Latin America, and shows some of Medellín’s triumphs today. Visit the project site Principal investigator(s): Kristine Muñoz Project status: Completed Project web link: http://medellin.lib.uiowa.edu/ -
Shell Oil’s Deepwater Mission to Mars
Posted on September 5, 2019 | No CommentsShell Oil's Deepwater Mission to Mars Associate Professor Tyler Priest presents his new project Shell Oil’s Deepwater Mission to Mars. This ongoing live project features an extensive list of primary source material, audio, visual, a timeline, and interactive map showcasing oil and gas infrastructure. It also serves as a repository for oral histories and personal recollections. Visit the project site Principal investigator(s): Tyler Priest Project status: Completed Project web link: http://dsps.lib.uiowa.edu/mars-deepwater-gulf -
Downtown Pop Underground
Posted on November 14, 2018 | No CommentsDowntown Pop Underground In the 1960s and early 1970s in Lower Manhattan, a tight-knit community of theatrical performers, playwrights, poets, musicians, video-makers, visual artists, activists, and gender rebels began smashing the status quo of American culture. This project takes a kaleidoscopic tour of the deeply interconnected alternative worlds and personalities that flourished in the city during this period. Visit the project site Principal investigator(s): Kembrew McLeod Project status: Completed Project web link: https://dsps.lib.uiowa.edu/downtownpopunderground/ -
Women in Sport
Posted on June 19, 2018 | No CommentsWomen in Sport Women in Sport is a digital home for items and collections related to the history of girls’ and women in sport from the Iowa Women’s Archives. The Omeka-powered website is an effort by faculty and students in the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa to digitize, interpret, and make available the sporting stories of Iowan girls and women. In particular, content for Women in Sport is generated by sport studies faculty in the Department of American Studies and students in SPST 2078 Women, Sport, and Culture. The Women in Sport website is an ongoing work-in-progress. New items, collections, and exhibits are added as new artifacts and histories from the Iowa Women’s Archives are explored. Visit the project site Principal investigator(s): Jennifer Sterling Project status: Ongoing Project web link: https://womeninsport.lib.uiowa.edu/ -
J.H. Ramberg as Illustrator of Books and Almanacs | Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Almanach- und Buchillustrator
Posted on December 1, 2017 | No CommentsJ.H. Ramberg as Illustrator of Books and Almanacs | Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Almanach- und Buchillustrator The German painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763-1840) is regarded as one of the most important German illustrators of the early 19th century. His illustrations include not only German fictional, lyrical, dramatic and operatic literature but also translations from English, French, and Italian, as well as children’s books, young non-fiction, and religious works, further advise literature. This digital catalogue project aims to list the books and almanacs as completely as possible and link text source with a description of the image, and–where available–existing digitizations of the books and/or illustrations in various archives, libraries, and websites, or post new scans of the images as they are discovered. Users may comment and add new finds. The bibliography and catalogue will not only show Ramberg’s immense productivity and breadth. It will also expand our knowledge about the complex relationships between image and text at one of the last high points for the use of copper engravings as book illustrations before photography and the industrialization of the illustration process. Im vorliegenden Werkverzeichnis sollen erstmals Rambergs Illustrationen in Büchern, Taschenbüchern und Kalendern so vollständig wie möglich erfasst und ihren textuellen Bezügen zugeordnet werden. Diese werden gleichzeitig, soweit digitalisiert, verlinkt. Das Werkverzeichnis soll erweiterbar bleiben und dem Benutzer die Möglichkeit der Rückmeldung bieten. Das Werkverzeichnis zeigt nicht nur die Vielfalt von illustrierten Büchern in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts und Rambergs außerordentliche Popularität und Produktivität, sondern erweitert das Wissen um komplexe Bild-Text-Beziehungen zur Zeit eines letzten Höhepunkts der Buchillustration durch Titelkupfer und Titelvignetten. Der Hannoveraner Hofmaler und Kupferstecher Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763–1840) galt im ersten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts als der bedeutendste Illustrator Deutschlands. Zum 250. Geburtstag 2013 ist ein Sammelband erschienen, der ihn erstmals als solchen würdigt: Literatur – Bilder. Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Buchillustrator der Goethezeit, herausgegeben von Alexander Kosenina. Aber auch dieses für den breiten Markt konzipierte Buch behandelt nur einen sehr kleinen Teil des Werks und legt den Schwerpunkt auf die Klassiker der deutschen Literatur (Goethe, Schiller, Wieland). Bei jener Gelegenheit wurde ein Verzeichnis der illustrierten Bücher begonnen, das aber den Rahmen des Buchs sprengte. Rambergs Illustrationswerk ist aber weit umfangreicher und mag geradezu uferlos wirken. Zu nennen sind hier nicht nur die Illustrationen zu fremdsprachiger Literatur (vor allem englischer und da herausragend Shakespeare), aber auch zur entstehenden Jugend-, Ratgeber- und Sachliteratur der Zeit. Principal investigator(s): Waltraud Maierhofer & Olivia von Gries Project status: In development -
CLIP
Posted on November 2, 2017 | No CommentsCarnegie Libraries in Iowa Project The Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project charts the history of Iowa’s Carnegie libraries by creating a digital library of images and other documentary and statistical information. CLIP represents a partnership among students, staff, and faculty at The University of Iowa’s School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa’s library practitioners and members of Iowa communities. As materials are collected and made available in a database record for each community, it will be possible to more completely study and understand the history of Iowa’s Carnegie libraries in the context of their evolving communities. Visit the project site Principal investigator(s): Shana Stuart Project status: Ongoing Project web link: https://dsps.lib.uiowa.edu/clip/