From News at IU Tackling pandemics new and old, Indiana University is investing in additional racial justice research and is creating a task force to address the negative impact COVID-19 has had on female researchers at IU. The university is funding 31 research projects exploring racial justice, including the pandemic’s impact on Black-owned businesses, a […]
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May 1 is the day that thousands of community members gather at their spiritual headquarters, located an hour outside the Brazilian capital, Brasília. They gather to observe the Day of the Indoctrinator, one of the valley’s biggest rituals. They would be gathering there this May 1, that is, if COVID-19 hadn’t forced a change of plans. […]
By Dan Grossman Holly Cusack-McVeigh, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has been recognized by the FBI — along with her graduate students — for her efforts to repatriate stolen artifacts to Haiti and China. She has also researched the importance of place among the Yup’ik Eskimos on the […]
Her colleagues at the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute (IAHI) call Shonda Nicole Gladden by her first name. But off-campus, things are different. “Most people call me Reverend Gladden,” she says. Shonda Gladden’s PhD research on Black Trans lives will inform the online symposium titled “The Soul of Black Folx” that will take place March 31, the International […]
The COVID-19 Oral History Project is a rapid response oral history focused on archiving the lived experience of the covid-19 epidemic. We have designed this project so that professional researchers and the broader public can create and upload their oral histories to our database. All the data that participants collect and produce will be open […]
In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois published “The Souls of Black Folk,” a seminal work that spurred and under-girded Black protests movements for more than a century. In the essay entitled, “On the Dawn of Freedom,” DuBois suggests that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,—the relation of the darker to the […]
The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library welcomes faculty of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute in delivering their first Public Art & Ethics Seminar for 2020 at the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. This session will introduce several big ethical questions as a way to think about contemporary public art. Co-hosted by IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute Director and KVML […]