Spirit & Place, IU Indianapolis

27th Annual Spirit & Place Festival Public Conversation: American Identity
2022-11-13 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
How have the ways in which Americans identify been shaped by race, religion, region, and gender? What other forces have shaped our individual and collective sense of identity? Can we even speak of a singular “American identity?”
This year’s Public Conversation invites historian Kathleen Belew (Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America and co-editor and contributor to A Field Guide to White Supremacy), religious studies scholar Stephen Prothero (Religion Matters: An Introduction to the World’s Religions), and former White House staffer (2013-16) and co-founding partner of Culture House Media, Carri Twigg, to engage in a moderated conversation where we will examine how Americans identify and what role the arts, humanities, and religion can play in helping cultivate a shared sense of identity during divisive times. (VIRTUAL EVENT.)
Presented by Spirit & Place and The Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture at IUPUI. This program has been made possible through a grant from Indiana Humanities in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Contact Spirit & Place at 317-274-2462 or festival@iupui.edu.
RSVP by noon on November 13 to receive the Zoom link. The webinar link and login instructions will be sent 48hrs and again 2hrs ahead of the event. Read the entire email from Eventbrite to locate the link.
*The Public Conversation will be recorded, but only available upon request for 30 days following the event. “Live” attendance during the webinar on Nov. 13 is strongly encouraged!
Register below.

Kathleen Belew

Carri Twigg

Stephen Prothero

Spirit & Place Festival Exhibits
2022-11-13 - 2022-11-24, 2022-11-14 - 2022-11-25, 2022-11-15 - 2022-11-26, 2022-11-16 - 2022-11-27, 2022-11-17 - 2022-11-28, 2022-11-18 - 2022-11-29, 2022-11-19 - 2022-11-30, 2022-11-20 - 2022-12-01 and 20 more dates
Image Credit: Marti LaMar by Kaila Austin
An exciting array of exhibits are included in this year’s festival! Information about exhibit hours are below. To check the festival programming tied to the events, return to the Event Page to search for the event. You must register for events separately.
Tearing Down Boxes and Embracing Change
Nov. 4-14, 1-4pm (Tues.-Fri.)
Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center, 705 N. Illinois St.
Monumental Changes: History and Power in Public Art
Nov. 5-17, 10am-5pm (Tues.-Sat.)
Garfield Park Arts Center—Main Gallery, 2432 Conservatory Dr.
The Memory Keepers / Los Guardianes de Memorias
Nov. 4-14, click here to schedule a gallery visit
201 Studio, 201 S. Rural Ave.
The (W)hole in Our Hearts
Nov. 4-12, visit website for hours
Friday, Nov. 5, 5-9pm (First Friday extended hours)
Saturday, Nov. 6, 10am-12pm (Family Day activities)
Nov. 8-12, M-F, 9am-5pm
Circle City Industrial Complex—Stokol Gallery & Hallways, 1125 Brookside Ave.
Introduction to Black Hue-manity: Imagining Blackness Then and Now
Nov. 8-11. Public hours vary.
Eskenazi Fine Arts Center, 1410 Indiana Ave.
We Are the Change We’ve Been Waiting For
Nov. 10, 5:30-8:30pm
Indiana Interchurch Center, 1100 W. 42nd St.
Changing Direction: The Evolution of Treatment at Indiana’s State Psychiatric Hospitals
Nov. 4-14
Online Exhibit

Powerful Conversations on Race (Nov. 2022 - "Exterminate the Brutes")
2022-11-20 10:00 - 12:15
Powerful Conversations on Race [PCR] is a monthly community dialogue series exploring topics around race and racism and the resulting impact.
Powerful Conversations on Race is a way for us to get comfortable talking about uncomfortable histories and is, therefore, rooted in historical documents and subject matter.
This IS NOT a lecture or book club, but a space for community to come together and dive deeply into a variety of topics concerning race. This is an immersive experience. As such, we’ll spend a considerable amount of time in small groups to dialogue with each other about these topics.
All dialogues are virtual and occur on Eastern Standard Time / Eastern Daylight Time.
Registration ends at 12noon on the day of the event. A Zoom link is sent prior to the event start time.
**NEW INFORMATION**
The November 2022 dialogue will be about 15 minutes longer. We will watch and discuss part 1 of the documentary Exterminate All the Brutes, which dives into the historical context of white supremacy and whiteness. The documentary is 1 hr. long followed by 1 hr. of dialogue.
