Writers’ Workshop graduate Marcus Burke will read from his new novel, "Team Seven," at 7 p.m. Monday, April 7, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Rabun Taylor, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will present a lecture titled “Between Babylon, Rome, and Judaea: Gardens and Quotation at the Palaces of Herod the Great” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in 116 Art Building West.

When we think about music from other countries, it can be easy to get caught up in a one-note stereotype. UI’s Hancher will present Sones de México Friday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Englert Theatre, where the folk music ensemble will share the full scope of Mexico’s varied traditions.

In honor of Cesar Chavez week, the Association of Latinos Moving Ahead welcomes award-winning artist Joaquin Zihuatanejo to the UI campus for a celebration of diversity and the power of words. Zihuatanejo will perform Wednesday, April 2, at Shambaugh Auditorium in the Main Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

The University of Iowa Main Library Learning Commons, in conjunction with Craft Critique Culture, an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, is hosting a Social Media Boot Camp March 31-April 5.

Come join “Mission Pollock” at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) First Friday on Friday, April 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. at FilmScene, on the downtown Iowa City Pedestrian Mall at 118 E. College St. First Friday is free and open to the public.

The UI Museum of Art annual party April 12 will feature a fashion show of 12 wearable works of art inspired by Jackson Pollock’s masterpiece, "Mural." (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

Want to explore the story behind school lunches in New York City, dive to the depths of the Arctic seafloor, or venture into our possible future if we continue to pollute? The UI Museum of Natural History invites you along on these adventures during the Movies@MNH Earth Month Movie Series.

The Mission Creek Festival and Prairie Lights Books will present a free reading by Writers' Workshop alumnus Kyle Minor and University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alumna Angela Pelster at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights will host a discussion examining current events in Ukraine featuring three experts from among UI faculty. The discussion will be Wednesday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in Room C31 Pomerantz Center on the UI campus.

High school and middle school robotic skills will be on display when the University of Iowa College of Engineering and Rockwell Collins host one of four U.S. national FIRST Tech Challenge Super Regional Championship Tournaments April 3-5 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on the UI campus.

The UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies will hold a working symposium, Health Humanities: Building the Future of Research and Teaching, April 4 and 5. From music therapy to finding well-being through the written word, organizers hope the two-day series of events will allow attendees to build bridges across the arts, humanities and health sciences, offering "incalculable benefits."