State of the Arts is a landmark creative convening that explores the role of the arts in the constructions of culture, community, public discourse, and social justice.

At long last, three of our favorite things—books, booze and science—are coming together in a monthly book club for the scientifically curious! This group meets monthly in Indianapolis to talk about recent popular science books. A local scientist whose research relates to the book topic joins to share insights and help guide the conversation.

This moderated panel discussion features instructors from various institutions and disciplines who use multicultural and inclusive pedagogies that have improved learning and success for their students. Panelists will share examples of classroom scenarios that demonstrate multicultural teaching, discuss strategies for designing a class or a course that embodies multicultural teaching, and articulate challenging experiences encountered in their work and how they responded. You will have opportunities throughout the session to ask questions and share your own experiences with multicultural teaching.

This workshop will inform faculty about IUPUI Centers and Institutes (C & I). C & I Directors will present brief descriptions of their respective Center or Institute and then the moderator will help guide discussion on a range of questions.

Since March, over 150 archivists, faculty, staff, students, teachers, and public history practitioners and organizations have been working together on an international COVID-19 digital archive called A Journal of the Plague Year (JOTPY). As of August 2020, we have over 8,000 crowdsourced objects in our archive, and we anticipated accelerated growth this fall as K-20 instructors use the archive in their classrooms, many with modules we’ve created. This roundtable offers transparency about our process and decision-making and creates the opportunity for open peer-review.