Leo Eko of the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication writes about freedom of speech in the wake of protests and murders provoked by an amateurish anti-Muslim video.

The 2012 series of free Sunday Prairie Lights readings, featuring writers from the International Writing Program and the University of Iowa’s graduate writing program, will continue at 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30.

The Latino Midwest, the 2012-13 University of Iowa Obermann-International Programs Humanities symposium, will examine the history, education, literature, art, and civil rights struggles of Latinos in the Midwest in light of the demographic changes experienced by states in this region with growing Latino populations.

The University of Iowa School of Music's 2012-13 Distinguished Clarinet Lecture/Recital Series on Brazilian Music will begin with a free event by faculty clarinetist Maurita Murphy Mead, assisted by guitar student ZeEmilio Gobbo, at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol.

Hancher will present Stew & The Negro Problem Sept. 27 and Ti-Coca & Wanga Nègès Oct. 5, both at The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. in downtown Iowa City with performances at 7:30 and 10 p.m. for both events.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts and the UI International Writing Program will present Global Express, a free evening of staged readings of works by current participants in the IWP at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building.

Law faculty member Adrien Wing, who teaches a class about law in the Muslim world, says violence in the Middle East has drawn fresh attention to the Arab Spring.

Libyan fiction writer Hisham Matar, who is based in London, will be an Ida Beam Visiting Professor in the University of Iowa International Writing Program, a residency that includes free public events.

The Cinematheque film series of the University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP) will screen the 1962 Czechoslovakian feature "The Sun in a Net" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, in Room E105 of the Adler Journalism Building.

Argentine writer Frederico Falco, who is in residence at the University of Iowa this fall through the International Writing Program (IWP), will read from "The Future Is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction" in a free event at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, in Prairie Lights Books.

The free public events presented by the University of Iowa International Writing Program Sept. 11-16 will begin with a Cinematheque screening of "The Chess Players."

The University of Iowa WiderNet Project installed the 500th eGranary Digital Library this summer in the remote island village of Lamu, off the coast of Kenya.