A three-day symposium organized around the premise that narratives about cancer have influenced the way in which cancer is experienced in America. Prose, poetry, performance, and the visual arts constitute the range of narratives the symposium will explore. (more…)
Where does imagination reside? Who or what is cultivating the practice of imagination? When are social, religious, and cultural boundaries appropriate? What is needed to unleash public imagination in ways that benefit our communities’ economic, social, and cultural health? These are just a few of the thought-provoking questions that will be explored across the city through performances, dance, panel discussions, exhibits, workshops, and more during the 2008 Spirit & Place Festival. (more…)
Adrienne Mayor is an independent scholar who investigates scientific realities embedded in myth and classical antiquity. (more…)
A panel of experts from the Indiana University Center for Bioethics and the Indiana University School of Medicine will provide a status report on predictive genetic technology and discuss where ethics, medicine, and science intersect — and where the future is taking us. (more…)
Hear about the outlook for Eli Lilly, courtesy of the Economic Club. (more…)
Johan Galtung is coming to Indy. The most influential living social scientist, he is the founder of the academic study of peace and conflict studies, a discipline now offered as a major or a minor on virtually every college in America and Europe. He’s the author of more than a hundred books and more than a thousand articles. He is reported to have served as a mediator in more than 40 internaitonal conflicts. Think of one degree of seperation: if an academic uses the word “peace,” either she has read Galtung or she studied withsomeone who read Galtung. But is it all just a “peace racket”? (more…)
How to fix society? Simple, get people to change their dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors. The world’s foremost social psychologist explains why this is more complicated than it sounds. (more…)
Since the publication of The Origin of Species, both promoters and detractors have argued that Darwin’s theory has profound implications for how we understand human beings as social and political animals. Explore how political thinkers, both liberal and conservative and secular and religious, have responded to Darwin’s thought. (more…)
As we approach the 200th anniversary of his birth next year, it seems appropriate to ask: WWDT? (”What would Darwin think?”). (more…)
For about two decades John W. Loftus was a devout evangelical Christian, an ordained minister of the Church of Christ, and an ardent apologist for Christianity. Then doubt … (more…)
NUVO gives Provocate 2007 Cultural Vision Award
Provocate featured in Indianapolis Monthly
"Award combines film, activism: Festival to recognize social justice of Sept. 11, Congo in discussions,"
Indiana Lawyer April 16, 2008 ... on Provocate's Eric Parker Social Justice Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival