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It was a busy week for IU Indianapolis Arabic and Islamic Studies Program Director Edward Curtis, the Gail M. and William M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts. On April 8, he received the Chancellor’s Award for Civic Engagement and then just five days later, Curtis took home the Asian Student Union’s Faculty Leader of the Year …

Join us for an interesting discussion in which faculty from IU McKinney School of Law and IU Indianapolis Department of Philosophy will debate the topic of “Is there a God?” Panel Members: John Hill, R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law, IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law & Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, IU Indianapolis School …

The act of storytelling is among the most profound of human endeavors. Across centuries and civilizations, we have crafted narratives to make sense of the universe and our place within it. Ray Bradbury understood this well. His work—equal parts poetry and prophecy—bridged the imagined and the inevitable, the speculative and the deeply human. And so, …

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, …

IU-I Professor Edward Curtis invites you to attend the Arab American Community Fair at the Indianapolis Global Village on April 12, 2025, from 12 Noon to 4pm.  A professional dabka (Arab line dancing), troupe from Detroit in addition to an art exhibit and free food are headlining the community fair. The fair, which will take …

Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power – Exhibit is now open in the stunning lobby of the Holliday Park Nature Center, January 25- March 29, 2025. The exhibit explores how environmental harm and advocacy for justice are part of our citywide past, present, and future. With support from the Bantz Community Fellowship and IN …

After a two year delay, the unrecognized Republic of Somaliland held presidential and political party elections on November 13, 2024. The elections led to the defeat of the incumbent president and the emergence of a new political party. IU Indianapolis Professor of Political Science Dr. Scott Pegg who served as an international election observer for …

Indiana University-Indianapolis Sociology Professor Carrie Foote, is featured in the #CelebrateUU Art Campaign which opened at the Indianapolis Public Library on World AIDS Day, Dec 1.  The exhibit highlights 25 stories of Hoosiers living with HIV in the modern era of U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable). With U=U, we know a person living with HIV who …

Professor Edward Curtis has added another documentary to his list of film credits, which include The Great Muslim American Road Trip and the Emmy award-winning Arab Indianapolis. Curtis, director of the Arabic and Islamic studies minor and the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis, recently served as …

Dr. Carrie Foote was recognized at the Annual Indiana University Harvey Milk Dinner, which honors the memory of Harvey Milk and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community at IU Indianapolis and beyond. She was awarded the Sylvia Rivera Award for her activism for the last decade building the HIV Modernization Movement-Indiana and working to end HIV stigma, …