Randall Kennedy, one of the leading scholars and race and the law, will speak at UI on Oct. 4, a week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in a pivotal case regarding affirmative action and college admissions.

Faculty oboist Andrew Parker will be the featured soloist in a free concert by the University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History continues its fall Movies@MNH series at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the Biosphere Discovery Hub of Macbride Hall. This month’s movie is an hour-long PBS special titled “Dinosaur Wars.” The movie series is a free family event open to the public.

Party for art at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) First Friday reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 5, at hotelVetro in downtown Iowa City. For $5, you’ll “get drawn in” to line drawings by West Branch artist Matt Niebuhr and enjoy jazz piano by Henry Finch.

The Oct. 8-11 readings at Prairie Lights Books and on Virtual Writing University live streams will feature two Iowa Poets Laureate, Marvin Bell and Mary Swander, and an all University of Iowa line-up.

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History will present "Tall Tales from a Large Man," a lecture by graphic design artist Aaron Draplin, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

A University of Iowa professor is encouraging Iowans to bring their memories and fondness for the state to a creative process that will inspire floats and more for an Iowa City Carnaval Parade. Four sessions of Carnaval Art will be held at the UI’s Old Capitol Museum beginning Oct. 4.

Enjoy a night of spooky fun that's free and open to the public when the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums host the eighth annual Creepy Campus Crawl Friday, Oct. 26.

Savor the ambiance of the Napoleonic empire! Fine French food—is there any other kind?!—and live music will rule the night when the University of Iowa Museum of Art stages its fall Museum pARTy Saturday, Oct. 13, at hotelVetro in downtown Iowa City.

Geoff Dyer, a visiting faculty member in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will present a free reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Englert Theater in downtown Iowa City. A reception will follow.

The University of Iowa Department of Mathematics will present the third annual Rockwell Lecture, delivered by Suncica Canic, Cullen Distinguished Professor in the University of Houston Department of Mathematics, at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Lecture Room 1 of Van Allen Hall on the UI campus.

The Gallery series of the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present The Rink of Red, a student production written by Eva Adderley and directed by Mark Smolyar, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5 and 6, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, in the UI Theatre Building.