WorldCanvass: Recent Episodes

University of Iowa International Programs

WorldCanvass explores topics that are international in scope and central to our understanding of ourselves as part of the global landscape.

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An Evening with the Meitar Ensemble at Voxman School of Music

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UI Stanley Museum of Art: New Home, New Vision

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Translation and Global Literacy

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2022 International Impact and Global Student Awards

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Global Implications of MeToo

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2021 International Impact Awards

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Dostoevsky: From Revolutionary Outcast to Man of God

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Wellspring: The Power of Partnerships

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Gandhi at 150

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COVID Care for Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations

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The Ghanaian-American Experience in Literature and Art

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Teaching and Learning Post-COVID

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Iowa in the World

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Pursuing Racial Justice

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Coronavirus: Perceptions and Precautions

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The Future of Museums

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WorldCanvass: Simon Estes, A Life in Music

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Space, Cancer Treatments, and Iowa's Bioscience Priorities

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Art and the Face of War: Goya and Tolstoy

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Why School? Education and Social Transformation

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What's in a Word? The Translator's Challenge

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Artificial Intelligence

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U.S. Foreign Policy, Geopolitical Realignment, and Global Stability

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Educational Cross-fertilization: the Iowa/India Connection

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The Politics and Impact of Immigration

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Climate Science and the Environment

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Translating Music

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Against Amnesia: Archives, Evidence, and Social Justice

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Against Amnesia: Archives, Evidence, and Social Justice

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Art and the Afterlife

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Russian Revolution 100 Years On

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Journalism and a Free Press in the Age of Fake News

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Embracing Complexity: Islamic Art and Culture

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Women's Health and the Enviroment

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Resilience Over Trauma

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Resilience Over Trauma

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Our Lives Online

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White Privilage, Structural Racism, and the Dream of America

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Higher Education in the Age of Internationalization

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Creation and Discovery: The Unlikeliness of It All

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Redefining Nationhood

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Fracking and the Iowa Divide

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Big Data: Big Brother or Big Sister?

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Taking it to the streets

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Encountering New Techology

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Research to Real Life Full Show

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Cuba: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Communicating for Social and Behavioral Change

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Social Justice After Ferguson

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The Evolution of Climate Change

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Don Quixote's Four Century Saga

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Reel to Real

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The Arab Spring in a Global Context

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Energy Cultures and the Age of the Anthropocene

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Tobacco, Pot, and the Public Interest

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Food for Thought

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Gender and Identity

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The Tenacious Cycle of Poverty, Hunger, and Disease

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Snapshot: Brazil

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Hoba Hoba Spirit

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The Passion that Drives Innovation

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The Language of the Brain

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The Crossroads Project

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Child Protection: A Global Responsibility

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A Century of Film in the Public Sphere

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Cultural Memory and Commemoration

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Teaching Innovation

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The Social Impact of Sustainability

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The Rise of Chinese Public Opinion

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The Arts as Vocabulary

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A Global Look at Interpersonal Psychotherapy

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Remaking the Body

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Refugees in the Heartland

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Book Culture, Languages and Arts of Indigenous Peoples

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Genetics and New Technologies

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The Rupture of Civil War

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Globalization and the World Economy

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IWP: Writing the Stories of the World

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Face to Face

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The Latino Midwest

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Napoleon and His Legacy

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Art and Memory

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Global Science Fiction

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Japan

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History of Sustainability

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Women, Hysteria and Medicine

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Iowa and "Invisible Man"

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Being the Other

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Art in India

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Roy Bennett and Zimbabwe’s Hard Road to Democracy

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Comics, Creativity and Culture

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Italian Art and Culture

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After the Berlin Wall: Women in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe

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Starving for Water: The Global Water Crisis and Its Impact on Food and Health

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Author James Zogby discusses “Arab Voices: What They are Saying to Us and Why it Matters”

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East Africa

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The Counterculture of the 60s and 70s

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The American West of the Imagination

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The Value of an International Education

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Slavery and Gender

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Author Eliza Griswold discusses “The Tenth Parallel”

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Documenting Humanity: A Sense of Place