University of Iowa students may participate in professional seminars and workshops during the 2012 Iowa Museum Association annual conference, Sunday, Oct. 21 through Tuesday, Oct. 23, in Iowa City. This year’s event is hosted by UI Pentacrest Museums.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the composition of Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems, members of the Writers' Workshop faculty will join Robyn Schiff, director of undergraduate writing at the University of Iowa, to read from the collection at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 30, in a free Prairie Lights reading streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Business and 3D imaging of the Earth will be the subject of a University of Iowa College of Engineering seminar from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in Room W10 of the John Pappajohn Business Building on the UI campus.

Don Share, managing editor of "Poetry" magazine, will read from his new book, "Wishbone," at 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 29, in a free Prairie Lights reading streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

An event to mark Saturday, Oct. 20 as the National Day on Writing will combine Iowa City’s two passions: literature and football. The first-ever “Writing Tailgate” will take place at the Iowa City Public Library on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. in Meeting Room A.

The Life of Discovery creative exchange project will bring four of China’s top young writers to Chicago and Iowa City for a series of creative meetings and events in the four-year project’s final exchange.

Before the Hancher presentation of It Gets Better by the Los Angeles Gay Men’s Choir, the public is invited to join students and faculty for a lecture and discussion Friday, Oct. 19, at 6 p.m. in E105 Adler Journalism Building on the University of Iowa campus.

Several events in late October will allow Iowans to come together, share their unique stories, and participate in hands-on workshops to turn those stories into large-scale artistic masterpieces for the 2013 Iowa City Carnaval Parade.

The University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios will present a free event at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, in Room 101 of Becker Communication Studies Building.

Three University of Iowa alumni—Joseph Dobrian, Justin Cronin, and Robert Grunst—will read from their work Oct. 23-26 at free events at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The readings will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website, www.writinguniversity.org.

Kenneth Goldsmith will present a free reading at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 21, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Len Sandler, clinical professor in the University of Iowa College of Law, and students from the UI Clinical Law program will present “Guardianship and Conservatorship Basics for Care Givers” from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 1, in the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.