Current Student Opportunities

We are working on new seminars for the future. Check back for more information!

What is the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry and how do I get involved?

If you are interested in being a part of our seminars or would like more information, please email vbc@bsu.edu or contact Kristin Ramsey at karamsey@bsu.edu.

Past VBC Seminars

Explore the first 26 years of Virginia Ball Center projects, below:

Summer 2024
 Spring 2024 Seminars

Gender in Post Conflict Zones
Cross-Cultural Study for Sustainable and Resilient Communities

 Queer Stories & Spaces of Muncie: Muncie LGBTQ+ History
Safe Havens: Exploring Spaces for Queer Youth
Spring 2023 Seminars
 Spring 2021 Seminar

A High and Noble Purpose: The Union Literacy Remembered
Underground Hoosiers
The Journey to Freedom

Inform Muncie: Community News Deserts
2019-2020 Seminars
 2018-2019 Seminars

Campus Sexual Assault & Rape Culture
Makerspaces

 Promoting Assessment Literacy
Mother Jones - A New Musical
Beneficence Family Scholars
2017-2018 Seminars
 2016-2017 Seminars

American Women in Film Sound
Fine Focus Journal
Muslims in Muncie
Beneficence Records

 Water Quality Indiana
Book Arts Collaborative
2015-2016 Seminars 2014-2015 Seminars

Dancing Toward Change
Everyday Life in Middletown
Japanese Onomatopoeia Project

 The Freedom Bus
The Infinite Museum
Indiana Crossrails
Representing Religion in Comics
2013-2014 Seminars 2012-2013 Seminars

Crossroads Connect
Down To Earth
The Liar's Bench
Indiana Dunes Prairie Club Excursions

Legacies of Perfection
Teaching Science with Apps
Breaking the Prejudice Habit
Strengthening Opinions about Animal Responsibility
 
2011-2012 Seminars 2010-2011 Seminars

Making Ideas Visible
Vernacular Memorials
Games & Learning
 Redefining the Dream
  

 Freedom Remembered
Hidden Treasures
Sexual Assault Protection Program
Black Baseball in Indiana
2009-2010 Seminars 2008-2009 Seminars

Art To Go
Aging Well in Indiana
Life After Merger
Circus in Winter

State of Assault
Increasing the Odds
Bees: Building an Interactive Exhibit
Coffee, Community and Climate Change
2007-2008 Seminars 2006-2007 Seminars

Expectation of Excellence
Cyber Communities, Cyber Selves, Constructed Realities
Hoosiers Debate Healthcare

Nature at Play
One Small Project
Voice and Vision

2005-2006 Seminars 2004-2005 Seminars

America, the North and the South
Building of a Charter School
Human Faustus Project
Streams

Tornado Alley
Intersections
Legacy of Hate
Consuming a Nation
2003-2004 Seminars 2002-2003 Seminars

The American Dream
Servir y Apreder
Making Your Way Back
Literacy Links

Tell-A-Vision 2004

Enjoyment of Theatre iText
Our Land, Our Literature
Democracy and Education
Other Side of Middletown

Tell-A-Vision 2003 
 
2001-2002 Seminars 2000-2001 Seminars

Crossroads of America
Digital Entertainment
Freedom of Expression
Conversations

Indiana Outdoors
Making of Americans
Love Me, Love Me Not
Transformation