The fifth annual Spirit and Place, a community wide conversation about our local culture and identity, will take place Nov. 3 - 12 at various sites around Indianapolis. The Polis Center will present a public conversation with three vibrant thinkers as the signature event for this year's Spirit and Place.
Admission is free.
Jonathan Kozol and IU Dean of Education Gerardo Gonzales will join local educators for a frank discussion of how to help young people make the most of their gifts. The panel, which also includes IU law students Greg Loyd and Jose Rivero, and local attorney Dan Foote, will address human rights issues across Latin America, including the Mexican state of Chiapis, Argentina, Honduras, and Costa Rica. IU law Professor George Edwards, director of the school's Program in International Human Rights Law, will moderate the panel. Her achievements include serving on two occasions as delegate regarding matters of human rights to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The International Human Rights Law Society, the Hispanic Law Society, and the Program in International Human Rights Law are co-sponsoring the panel discussion.