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IU Southeast to host four-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves at Sanders Speaker Series on Sept. 9
Indiana University Southeast will present Helio Castroneves as the featured speaker for the 2026 Sanders Speaker Series at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9 in the Stem Concert Hall of the Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center. Admission is free but a ticket is required.
Indiana University Southeast announced that Helio Castroneves will be the Sanders Speaker Series guest at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in the Stem Concert Hall at the Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center in New Albany. The university says the appearance is free to attend; attendees must have a ticket for entry.
The release notes Castroneves is a four-time Indianapolis 500 winner, including consecutive victories in 2001 and 2002 and additional wins in 2009 and 2021, and that he has broader public recognition from winning Dancing with the Stars, occasional work as an entertainment correspondent and a 2010 memoir.
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