Schedule of Events
April 9-11, 2026
(all events free and open to the public)
Thursday evening, April 9th
| 7:00 pm | Beth Yale and James Costa will share readings and discuss their new book The Descent of Man: An Annotated Edition of Darwin’s Classic Work. |
Elizabeth E. Yale and James T. Costa | Prairie Lights, 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City |
Friday afternoon, April 10th
| 3 p.m. | Targeting the Psychological Roots, Not Branches, of Vaccine Confidence |
Aaron Scherer | 101 Biology Building East |
| 3:45 p.m. | The DTP Vaccine and Narratives of Injury |
Tara Smith | 101 Biology Building East |
| 4:30 p.m. | Global Vaccines in a Time of Climate Change, Megacities, and Antiscience |
Peter Hotez | 101 Biology Building East |
Saturday morning, April 11th
| 9:30 a.m. | How to Have More Productive Conversations About Vaccines (and Other Controversial Topics) |
Aaron Scherer | TBD |
| 10:15 a.m. | Midnight Work: The Women Behind the First Effective Whooping Cough Vaccine |
Tara Smith | TBD |
| 11 a.m. | The Promise of Global Vaccines and Immunizations |
Peter Hotez | TBD |