Indy Toxic Heritage Public Presentation
Hosted by Indiana University Indianapolis’s Museum Studies Program, Indy Parks and Recreation, and the Kheprw InstituteJoin a prominent scholar and researcher to learn about toxic heritage and how environmental harm and advocacy are part of Indianapolis’s past, present, and future.
Event Details
The Indianapolis Public Library’s Central Library hosts the exhibit Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power from June 10 through August 7. The exhibit explores how environmental harm and advocacy for justice are part of Indianapolis’s citywide past, present, and future.
In conjunction with the exhibit, one of its organizers, Dr. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, will offer a public presentation. She’ll explore the exhibit’s development and will also discuss her research around toxic heritage and how places of environmental harm are mobilized and marginalized in formal and informal memory practices. Dr. Kryder-Reid is chancellor’s professor of anthropology and museum studies and the director of the museum studies program at Indiana University Indianapolis.
Both the public presentation and the exhibit are free and open to the public. To register for the public presentation, click on the RSVP link above.
The exhibit is open during Central Library’s regular operating hours. For more information about Central Library, including its hours, visit the library’s website or call 317.275.4100.
To learn more about the exhibit and to view the programming schedule, visit ToxicHeritage.com/ith-exhibit.
This program received support from an Indiana Humanities Action Grant and from the Indiana University Center for Translating Research into Practice.