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Amanda Porterfield is one of the country’s top historians of religion and society. (more…)

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Imagine an 18th century combination of Michael Jordan, Prince, Muhammed Ali, Colin Powell and Cornell West … that was Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, pre-Revolutionary France’s greatest swordsman and equestrian, and one of its finest musicians and composers. UIndy celebrates Martin Luther King’s birthday by performing his music along with other other composers of African descent. (more…)

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Jayne Anne Phillips is an honored fiction writer and winner of numerous awards. Her first collection of stories, Black Tickets (1979) won the prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, awarded by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and has become a classic of the short story genre. Her work has appeared most recently in Harper’s, Granta, Doubletake and the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She has taught at Harvard University, Williams College and Boston University, and is currently Professor of English and Director of a new MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.

This event is part of the Allen & Helen Kellogg Writers Series, which brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis for classroom discussions and public readings. The series presents a wide range of voices of national and international significance. All events are free of charge and open to the public.

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In one of the cruelest marches of World War II, a battalion of American soldiers trekked through nearly impassable jungle in Papua, New Guinea to battle the Japanese. Six decades later, James Campbell attempted to repeat that journey and discovered a deadly trail, ravenous leeches and a rare look into one of the last remote places on earth. (more…)

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Join Ball State University historian Nina Mjagkij as she discusses the battlefront and home front experiences of African-Americans during World War I. (more…)

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According to the 1990 census, people of German descent constitute the largest of the ethnically identified groups in Indiana. The immigration of German-speaking people to these shores began in the 17th century and reached a peak in the late 19th century, but continues to this day. How can we use this ongoing experience to get through the current rancor over newcomers? (more…)

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The Indiana Foodways Alliance is dedicated to promoting and preserving the local food cultural of Indiana. Executive Director Susan Haller will shares foodway oral history excerpts, an “Indiana Culinary Timeline” and some of Indiana’s signature recipes. (more…)

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Says a reviewer: “James McGarrah’s A Temporary Sort of Peace belongs on the same shelf with the great memoirs of the Vietnam War, including Michael Herr’s Dispatches and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.” That’s a pretty heady shelf, hear McGarrah and judge whether the praise is merited. (more…)

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Present discussion on immigration obsesses about the influx of Latino, particularly Mexican, immigrants into America. Let’s try to examine the current “crisis” with emphasis on myths, realities, common concerns, and current efforts to firmly yet humanely enforce America’s immigration laws. (more…)

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