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Now Accepting Proposals
for New Knowledge Seminars

New Knowledge Seminars are designed to foster multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarly collaboration that will lead to new perspectives and innovative ways of thinking. Seminars participants can consist either of Indiana University faculty members from several departments or of Indiana University faculty members and their outside collaborators from any university or research organization in the world.

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Empathy Seminar


Scholars in many fields have suggested the importance of empathy in our lives and have stressed its role in helping to hold societies together. Some have emphasized how it can help humans and other primates care for others and identify with those who are not only similar but—more importantly—different. Empathy is often cited as essential to effective interactions in personal, political, and...

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Introducing a new seminar on "New Faces of International Security in the 21st Century"

For questions and further information, please contact Ivona Hedin, Academic Specialist, at 812-855-3658 or ihedin@indiana.edu.