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Indiana University-Indianapolis Professor Karen Kovacik will be reading from a new collection of poems on Tuesday, April 29, at the University Library, Lilly Auditorium, at 7:30 p.m. “Portable City is primarily a travelogue composed of introspections on movement through both the physical world and nonlinear timelines. Introducing the concrete and the abstract to one another, …

The Indiana University Indianapolis Philosophy Department is proud to announce the publication of Dr. Kahn’s most recent book, Problem-Based Ethics. As noted on the Rowman and Littlefield website, as a broad critique and invitation to reframe the study of ethics, Problem-Based Ethics welcomes scholars and students across disciplines to engage with ethics as a way …

The IU Indianapolis Philosophy Department is proud to announce the publication of Dr. De Waal’s latest edited volume, The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce. As noted on the Oxford UP website, the volume presents thirty-four original essays on the work of Charles S. Peirce; draws on seasoned as well as emerging Peirce scholars; puts …

The Indiana University Philosophy Department is proud to announce the release of Dr. Timothy Lyons’ recent book, Scientific Realism, published with Cambridge University Press. The scientific realism debate directly addresses the relation between human thought and the reality in which it finds itself. A core question: can we justifiably believe that science accurately describes the …

IU Indianapolis Professor Erik Saak’s latest work, Confessions of a Heretic. Volume One: Philosophical Considerations, is written for all those who have struggled with the concept of God. It is the first of a planned three-volume systematic theology. It seeks to answer the question of how can one believe in God when horrible things happen, …

IU Indianapolis Religious Studies Professor Kelly E. Hayes has been appointed a Permanent Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Hayes will join an international group of researchers studying esoteric religions from a global perspective. Her project, “The Valley of the Dawn: A …

Professor of Sociology Andrew Whitehead‘s lasted book, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church, won the 2024 Midwest Book Award for Non-Fiction, Religion & Philosophy. This is the second book award American Idolatry has won. The Midwest Book Awards is one of the longest running literary recognition programs in the …

Indiana University Indianapolis English Professor Stephen Fox, with the assistance of Senior Lecturer Mary Ann Cohen, manages the Hoosier Writing Project! For the 14th year, this project which is a site of the National Writing Project, partnered with other community members to host the Central and Southern Indiana Region of the Scholastic Art and Writing …

IU Indianapolis Professor of History Xin Zhang was awarded the CHUS Academic Excellence Book Award from the Chinese Historians in the U.S. (Jan. 2024) for his book titled The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2023). The traditional Chinese version of this book has now been …

Four books by three IU School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis faculty members were named to the 2024 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards shortlists. Edward E. Curtis, William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of World Languages & Cultures, had two books on the nonfiction shortlist: Muslims …