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Africa
Feb. 5: Watch
Nigerian artist Prince
Twins Seven-Seven work wood magic
Feb. 15: Engage with activist Salih
Booker on what Americans can do to help Africa
Feb. 16: Watch the film
Moolaadé on female genital mutilation in Africa
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
Feb. 23: Watch the African
film "Daughters of Keltoum"
March 15: Join the ICWA as Laura
Engelbrecht shares her experiences with child soldiers in Africa
April 3: Join a Community
Summit on Citizen Diplomacy at Marian College
April 18: Listen to prize-winning Nigerian
writer Chris Abani
April 26 to May 4: Spend nine days at the International
Film Festival of Indianapolis!
May 15: Celebrate USAID director Randall
Tobias, Indianapolis International Citizen of the Year
Art
Feb. 5: Watch
Nigerian artist Prince
Twins Seven-Seven work wood magic
Feb. 21: Watch Master
Au Ho-nien at work at the University of Indianapolis!
Business
Feb. 2: Listen to Doctor Richard
Gunderman on "Doing Well By Doing Good" in medicine
March 1: Attend an Employer’s Forum on "Working
with the World -- Effective Intercultural Communication"
March 8: Attend a major conference on "The
Health Care Conundrum"
March 15: Listen to a talk
by Jim McClelland, a giant of Central Indiana’s
nonprofit sector
March 21: Come hear Steve
Akard explain the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s global goals
March 28: Seize your first chance to hear Kelley
School's Charles
Dhanaraj on India and China
April 19: Take your second chance to hear Charles
Dhanaraj explain whether China and India are rivals or allies
May 3: Hear Sally
Pipes on market-based solutions for the American health crisis
China
Feb. 15: Join IUPUI’s Susan
Erickson in a discussion of conflict between India and China
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
Feb. 21: Watch Master
Au Ho-nien at work at the University of Indianapolis!
March 1: Attend an Employer’s Forum on "Working
with the World -- Effective Intercultural Communication"
March 2: Come to Butler to see former
President Bush
March 21: Come hear Steve
Akard explain the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s global goals
March 28: Seize your first chance to hear Kelley
School's Charles
Dhanaraj on India and China
April 13: Join Chinese
dissident and possible Nobel Prize winner Bei Dao
April 19: Take your second chance to hear Charles
Dhanaraj explain whether China and India are rivals or allies
April 26 to May 4: Spend
nine days at the International
Film Festival of Indianapolis!
Energy politics
Feb. 8: Join a discussion the global
politics of energy led by electrical engineer Dick Davis
Feb. 15: Hear journalist Odil
Ruzaliev explain the crisis in his native Uzbekistan
Feb. 21: Hear Butler’s Peter
Grossman on "The energy policy conundrum"
March 21: Listen to Central Asia
Productivity Research Center head Harry
Lepinske talk about Turkey
April 26: Discuss energy
security with John Clark
Europe
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
Feb. 21: Listen to IUPUI’s Robert
White on Terrorism in Ireland (and buy his new book)
Feb. 24: Chat with Kós
András, the diplomat who negotiated Hungary into the European Union
April 26 to May 4: Spend
nine days at the International
Film Festival of Indianapolis!
Faith and religion
Jan. 30: Hear JC
Watts talks about faith, race, and leadership
Jan. 31: Attend a discussion of "The
Coverage of Religion in the Middle East"
Feb. 7: Join the ACLU for a discussion of “Intelligent
Design in Science Class?”
Feb. 28: Come to Butler for a discussion of "The
Search for God and Meaning in Contemporary Film"
March 4: Attend a conference on “The
Realms of Science and Faith” at IUPUI
March 4: Attend a Darwin
Day Conference at IUPUI
March 16: Spin, Spin and Touch the Divine with Sufis
at IMA
April 3: Join a Community
Summit on Citizen Diplomacy at Marian College
Film
Feb. 11: Come to the Eiteljorg for
“Shadows
of High Noon: Legacies of an American Icon”
Feb. 16: Watch the film
Moolaadé on female genital mutilation in Africa
Feb. 23: Watch the African
film "Daughters of Keltoum"
Feb. 28: Come to Butler for a discussion of "The
Search for God and Meaning in Contemporary Film"
March 18: Watch “Alice,”
Jan Švankmajer's distressingly beautiful film of Alice in Wonderland
March 31: Ask film expert Dennis
Bingham of IUPUI "who deserves a biopic?"
April 26 to May 4: Spend nine days at the International
Film Festival of Indianapolis!
Global public health
Feb. 28: Prepare to have your world
rocked by Sarah
Archer on global pandemics and security
March 15: Be both frightened and reassured by Sarah
Archer's discussion of pandemics and global security
May 10: Discuss pandemics
and global security with Eric Meslin of the Center for Bioethics
May 15: Celebrate USAID director Randall
Tobias, Indianapolis International Citizen of the Year
Global trade
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
March 1: Attend an Employer’s Forum on "Working
with the World -- Effective Intercultural Communication"
March 21: Listen to Central
Asia Productivity Research Center head Harry
Lepinske talk about Turkey
March 21: Come hear Steve
Akard explain the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s global goals
March 28: Seize your first chance to hear Kelley
School's Charles
Dhanaraj on India and China
April 19: Take your second chance to hear Charles
Dhanaraj explain whether China and India are rivals or allies
April 21: Join a discussion
of “Latin
America - The political environment and economic opportunities with
a look at Cuba”
Health and medicine
Feb. 2: Listen to doctor Richard
Gunderman on "Doing Well By Doing Good" in medicine
Feb. 22: Come IUPUI for the Joseph
Taylor Symposium -- “The Crisis in Urban Health Care”
Feb. 28: Prepare to have your world rocked by Sarah
Archer on global pandemics and security
March 8: Attend a major conference on "The
Health Care Conundrum"
March 15: Be both frightened and reassured by Sarah
Archer's discussion of pandemics and global security
May 3: Hear Sally
Pipes on market-based solutions for the American health crisis
May 10: Discuss pandemics
and global security with Eric Meslin of the Center for Bioethics
Human
and civil rights
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
March 1: Hear Sheila
Kennedy on preserving human rights in the war on terrorism
March 7: Join the ACLU in
their discussion about the US
government spying on Americans
March 14: Hear Fran
Quigley of the ACLU-Indiana on human rights in an age of terrorism
April 12: Hear Fran
Quigley on human rights and the war against terrorism
May 17: Join another discussion of UN
Reform with Ed DeLaney
India
Feb. 15: Join IUPUI’s Susan
Erickson in a discussion of conflict between India and China
Feb. 21: Join a World Trade
Club discussion of "Trade
with India - The Other Asian Giant"
March 1: Attend an Employer’s Forum on "Working
with the World -- Effective Intercultural Communication"
March 28: Seize your first chance to hear Kelley
School's Charles
Dhanaraj on India and China
April 19: Take your second chance to hear Charles
Dhanaraj explain whether China and India are rivals or allies
Journalism
Jan. 31: Attend a discussion of "The
Coverage of Religion in the Middle East"
Feb. 15: Hear journalist Odil
Ruzaliev explain the crisis in his native Uzbekistan
March 20: Hear journalists
from Lebanon and the US on the Middle East and its evolving news media
Latin America
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
Feb.22: Hear John
Clark discuss Brazil, the eternal “next superpower”
Feb. 25: Hear the Masters
of Mariachi: Los Comperos de Nati Cano
March 7: Welcome GeoPol analyst Pedro
Cardoso talking about Brazil
April 3: Join a Community
Summit on Citizen Diplomacy at Marian College
April 8: ¡Tango con Tanguísimo!
April 21: Join a discussion of “Latin
America - The political environment and economic opportunities with
a look at Cuba”
April 26 to May 4: Spend nine days at the International
Film Festival of Indianapolis!
May 24: Analyze Brazil
with Craig Auchter of Butler University
Literature
March 20: Talk with novelist and essayist
Nick
Hornby
March 30: Observe Nin
Andrews and Brady's Leap push the bounds of intellectualized sexuality
April 13: Join Chinese
dissident and possible Nobel Prize winner Bei Dao
April 18: Listen to prize-winning Nigerian
writer Chris Abani
Middle East
Jan. 31: Attend a discussion of "The
Coverage of Religion in the Middle East"
Feb. 1: Join Charles
Winslow to discuss US-Iran relations
Feb. 14: Hear DePauw’s Sean
Foley discuss US-Iran relations
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
March 2: Come to Butler to see former
President Bush
March 8: Hear IUPUI’s Scott
Pegg explain where Turkey is headed
March 20: Hear journalists
from Lebanon and the US on the Middle East and its evolving news media
April 3: Join a Community
Summit on Citizen Diplomacy at Marian College
April 5: Hear University of Indianapolis professor Milind
Thakar analyze US-Iran relations
April 26: Discuss energy
security with John Clark
April 26 to May 4: Spend nine days at the International
Film Festival of Indianapolis!
Music
Feb. 25: Hear the Masters
of Mariachi: Los Comperos de Nati Cano
March 10 and 12: Attend Indianapolis Opera’s performance
of "The
Marriage of Figaro"
March 16: Spin, Spin and Touch the Divine with Sufis
at IMA
March 30: Observe Nin
Andrews and Brady's Leap push the bounds of intellectualized sexuality
April 8: ¡Tango con Tanguísimo!
April 26 to May 4: Spend nine days at the International
Film Festival of Indianapolis!
Philanthropy
Feb. 2: Listen to doctor Richard
Gunderman on "Doing Well By Doing Good" in medicine
March 15: Listen to a talk
by Jim McClelland, a giant of Central Indiana’s
nonprofit sector
April 3: Join a Community
Summit on Citizen Diplomacy at Marian College
Political leadership
Jan. 30: Hear JC
Watts talks about faith, race, and leadership
Feb. 6: Hear conservative
pundit Deroy Murdock at the Economic Club
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
March 2: Come to Butler to see former
President Bush
April 19: Hear the historian Forrest
McDonald tell us why we are in trouble
May 15: Celebrate USAID director Randall
Tobias, Indianapolis International Citizen of the Year
Race and ethnicity
Jan. 30: Hear JC
Watts talks about faith, race, and leadership
Feb. 6: Hear conservative
pundit Deroy Murdock at the Economic Club
Feb. 22: Come IUPUI for the Joseph
Taylor Symposium -- “The Crisis in Urban Health Care.”
Feb. 23: Watch the African
film "Daughters of Keltoum"
Science and society
Feb. 7: Join the ACLU for a discussion
of “Intelligent
Design in Science Class?”
Feb. 8: Listen to astrophysicist Neil
deGrasse Tyson on “The Cosmic Perspective”
March 4: Attend a conference on “The
Realms of Science and Faith” at IUPUI,
March 4: Attend a Darwin
Day Conference at IUPUI
April 12: Watch Steven
Pinker, the world's foremost popularizer of cognitive psychology,
and his hair
The United Nations
Feb. 7: Hear Ed
DeLaney analyze the UN’s need for reform
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
March 2: Come to Butler to see former
President Bush
May 17: Join another discussion of UN
Reform with Ed DeLaney
Turkey
Feb. 24: Chat with Kós
András, the diplomat who negotiated Hungary into the European Union
March 8: Hear IUPUI’s Scott
Pegg explain where Turkey is headed
March 16: Spin, Spin and Touch the Divine with Sufis
at IMA
March 21: Listen to Central Asia
Productivity Research Center head Harry
Lepinske talk about Turkey
May 3: Talk Turkey
with Çigdem Balim of IU
US foreign policy
Feb. 1: Join Charles
Winslow to discuss US-Iran relations
Feb. 6: Hear conservative
pundit Deroy Murdock at the Economic Club
Feb. 7: Hear Ed
DeLaney analyze the UN’s need for reform
Feb. 14: Hear DePauw’s Sean
Foley discuss US-Iran relations
Feb. 15: Engage with activist Salih
Booker on what Americans can do to help Africa
Feb. 15: Hear journalist Odil
Ruzaliev explain the crisis in his native Uzbekistan
Feb. 15: Join IUPUI’s Susan
Erickson in a discussion of conflict between India and China
Feb. 19: Come to Marian College to hear Senator
Richard Lugar
Feb. 24: Chat with Kós
András, the diplomat who negotiated Hungary into the European Union
March 2: Come to Butler to see former
President Bush
March 8: Hear IUPUI’s Scott
Pegg explain where Turkey is headed
March 15: Join the ICWA as Laura
Engelbrecht shares her experiences with child soldiers in Africa
April 3: Join a Community
Summit on Citizen Diplomacy at Marian College
April 26: Discuss energy
security with John Clark
May 15: Celebrate USAID director Randall
Tobias, Indianapolis International Citizen of the Year
May 17: Join another discussion of UN
Reform with Ed DeLaney
May 24: Analyze Brazil
with Craig Auchter of Butler University |
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