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27th Annual Spirit & Place Festival Public Conversation: American Identity
Hosted by Spirit & PlaceExplore the forces that have shaped Americans’ individual and collective sense of identity and the role that the arts, humanities and religion can play in helping to cultivate a shared sense of identity during divisive times.
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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 Spirit & Place Festival Public Conversation invites historian Kathleen Belew (author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America and coeditor and contributor to A Field Guide to White Supremacy), religious studies scholar Stephen Prothero (author of Religion Matters: An Introduction to the World’s Religions), and former White House staffer Carri Twigg (cofounding partner of Culture House Media) to engage in a moderated conversation that examines how Americans identify and what role the arts, humanities and religion can play in helping to cultivate a shared sense of identity during divisive times.
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For more information, email festival@iupui.edu.
This program received support from an Indiana Humanities Action Grant.