Things to do in Des Moines this weekend

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Thu, 1 OctFREE

Welcome Fall Harvest Week

Willard Straight Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Thu, 1 OctFREE

The S.C. Tang Macroeconomics Workshop | Zebang Xu

Rockefeller Hall · Des Moines

businessFREE

Thu, 1 OctFREE

The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Colonization in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

Uris Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Fri, 2 OctFREE

Latina/o Studies Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar Fall 2026

Rockefeller Hall · Des Moines

techFREE

Mon, 5 OctFREE

Authoritarianism and Legitimacy in Afghanistan: The Case Study of Taliban 2.0

Uris Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Tue, 6 OctFREE

Celebrate National Noodle Day at Okenshields

Willard Straight Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Wed, 7 OctFREE

The Struggle for Oversight in Local Government: Mayors vs. Councils in the Heart of Taiwan’s Democracy

Rockefeller Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Wed, 7 OctFREE

Institute for African Development Faculty Book Chat

Uris Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Thu, 8 OctFREE

Gendering Monastic Aesthetics in Thailand

Rockefeller Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Thu, 8 OctFREE

Strange Marriages, Painted Skins, and Ghost Writers: Japanese Responses to Pu Songling from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

Uris Hall · Des Moines

literatureFREE

Thu, 15 OctFREE

The S. C. Tsiang Macroeconomics Workshop | Simon Mongey

Rockefeller Hall · Des Moines

businessFREE

Thu, 15 OctFREE

The Patron’s Dilemma: Recklessness and Restraint Under Nuclear Umbrellas

Uris Hall · Des Moines

techFREE

Thu, 15 OctFREE

Rupal Mehta (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln) at PACS Seminar

Uris Hall · Des Moines

techFREE

Thu, 15 OctFREE

Sprocket: The Cognitive Science Film Series at Cornell

Uris Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Fri, 16 OctFREE

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Uris Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Fri, 16 OctFREE

CCCC: Poems from Visitors to Japan in 858: A Foray into the World of Merchants and Monks beyond Tang High Society

Rockefeller Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Fri, 16 OctFREE

33rd Unity Dinner

Willard Straight Hall · Des Moines

musicFREE

Mon, 19 OctFREE

A New Era of Political Mobilization: Who were the Yellow Vests in France?

Uris Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Thu, 22 OctFREE

Joint S.C. Tsiang Macroeconomics & Development Workshop | Karthik Sastry

Rockefeller Hall · Des Moines

businessFREE

Fri, 23 OctFREE

The Ante-Colonial: A Grassroots Discourse of Korean Diasporic Trans-indigenous Relationality

Rockefeller Hall · Des Moines

artsFREE

Sat, 24 OctFREE

Cornell World Languages Day 2026

Arts Quad · Des Moines

artsFREE

Mon, 26 OctFREE

The Persistence Question: Why Climate Tech Solutions Persist Despite Failing on Their Own Terms

Uris Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Tue, 27 OctFREE

Red Dawn over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

Rockefeller Hall · Des Moines

otherFREE

Wed, 28 OctFREE

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Willard Straight Theatre · Des Moines

wellbeingFREE

Fri, 23 Oct

FAUST at Sage Chapel with Live Score by Invincible Czars!

Sage Chapel · Des Moines

music$15.00