The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance featuring the All-University String Orchestra and the UI Chamber Orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa hosts a conference this week at which leading regional scholars will talk about the ancient Mediterranean world and its lasting influence on art, architecture, literature, and society. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday.

The University of Iowa American Indian Student Association hosted the 20th anniversary Powwow Saturday and Sunday April 13-14 in the UI Recreation Building.

At the heart of a newly designated historic district in Iowa City stands Stuit Hall, which once housed university hospital patients and later became home to art studies. The building now serves as a hub for the clinical psychology program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Close to 100 junior high students involved with the African American Awareness Program in the Cedar Rapids Community School District will visit the University of Iowa campus on Friday, April 19, learning what life is like on a college campus and discussing the novel "The Skin I'm In."

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of William LaRue Jones, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

The next installment of the Public Digital Humanities for Lunch series is "Public or Perish: The Evolving Audience of the Walt Whitman Archive.” The talk will be take place from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the third-floor English-Philosophy Building Gerber Lounge.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna Allison Amend will read from her new novel, "A Nearly Perfect Copy," at 7 p.m. Monday, April 15, 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.

Iowa KidSight is coordinated through the Iowa Lions Clubs and UI Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and screens thousands of preschool-aged children every year to detect vision impairment and direct them to the help they need.

Ever walk by the same piece of trash day after day on your way to work? Now is your chance to make amends. Volunteers are invited to join members of the University of Iowa Engineering Staff Advisory Council (ESAC) from 9-11 a.m. Saturday, April 20 to pick up trash on the banks of the Iowa River in Iowa City.

The University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums’ Museum of Natural History will continue the spring Movies@MNH series at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28, with the free public screening of "Bag It" in Macbride Auditorium.

Clary Salandy, an internationally known carnival designer, will talk about her work during a free, public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum Senate Chamber on Wednesday, April 24. The talk is sponsored by the UI Museum of Art.