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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 …

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 …

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 …

Professor Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, team member of the Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power exhibit, invites you to view the exhibit at the Riverside Park Family Center through September 28th. There will also be a public conversation on Thursday, September 26th, 5-7pm with photographer Wildstyle Paschall and journalist Enrique Saenz. They will be sharing their …

Drs. Jennifer Bute and Maria Brann, Department of Communication Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis, recently presented a live webinar for the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care’s “Research Reveals” series to discuss their groundbreaking research on a novel reproductive grief screening tool, which according to an MSN article, has the potential to “reshape mental health treatment, …

Associate Professor of Sociology Andrew Whitehead appears as a featured voice in a new documentary on Christian nationalism titled GOD & COUNTRY. The film opens in theaters nationwide–including Indianapolis–on Friday, February 16. GOD & COUNTRY takes a closer look at the dangerous implications and explores how a base of Christians has radically stoked a movement …