Leigh Patel, Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, will be presenting March 3-7 at multiple locations in the Iowa City community. 

Patel is a transdisciplinary scholar who studies the narratives that create material realities in society. Her research focuses on both the ways schooling delivers inequities and how education can be a tool for liberation. She is a highly sought-after speaker and well-regarded scholar across the fields of education, ethnic studies, critical higher education studies, and literacy, according to her bio at the University of Pittsburg.

The Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professorship Program was established in 1978-79 with the income from a bequest to the University by the late Ida Cordelia Beam of Vinton. These visiting professorships are a source of intellectual stimulation for students and faculty and provide an opportunity to bring new perspectives in knowledge and teaching to the UI campus.

Sponsored by UI’s College of Education, Center for Teaching, Graduate College, and Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, the themes, dates, times, locations, and registration information for Patel’s presentations, March 3-7, are as follows:

Monday, March 3:
Join Leigh Patel and Iowa City community leaders for a panel discussion
Iowa City Public Library
6 – 7pm
Doors open at 5:30pm
Pizza will be served
Register here: https://bit.ly/Radical-Hope

Tuesday, March 4:
Join Leigh Patel for the Ida Cordelia Beam Visiting Scholar Lecture: 
“Learning, Care, and World-Building in Higher Education.” 
IMU, Iowa Theater
2:30 – 4pm
Register here: https://events.uiowa.edu/92093

Thursday, March 6:
Join Leigh Patel for a reading of:
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education”
Prairie Lights Books
7 – 8pm
Information here: www.prairielights.com/event/leigh-patel-no-study-without-struggle

For more information, please contact Saba Khan Vlach, assistant professor of Elementary Literacy: saba-vlach@uiowa.edu.