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INDIANAPOLIS — Writers and scholars from around the country are coming to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis to discuss “dangerous ideas.”
In a public event co-sponsored by the American Studies program in the IU School of Liberal Arts and the Arts and Humanities Institute at IUPUI, a panel of experts will provide context to the issues shaping the 2016 elections.
Borders, gender-neutral bathrooms, economic inequality and economic outrage are among the ideas that will be discussed at the event. It will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. July 21 at the Athenaeum, 401 E. Michigan St. It is free and open to the public.
Panelists include Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela (New School), Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University), Lisa Szefel (Pacific University) and Ruben Flores (University of Kansas); each brings expertise in different areas of American intellectual and cultural life.
This discussion will cap a two-day symposium on the IUPUI campus as part of IU’s New Frontiers/New Currents, a competitive program that funds workshops, symposia and small conferences with distinguished thinkers on timely topics of significant and broad interest.
Essays presented at this symposium will be published by Cornell University Press.