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Common Experience

WELCOME TO THE IU SOUTHEAST COMMON EXPERIENCE
An annual program designed to cultivate a common intellectual conversation across campus, to strengthen the sense of community at Southeast and in the region, to encourage open discussion, civil discourse, and critical thinking, and to enhance the reputation of Southeast as a regional center of learning excellence.

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Program Committee

The following are the members of the 2011-12 IU Southeast Common Experience Program Committee:

  • Maria Accardi (co-chair)
  • Mary Bradley
  • Lisa Carter-Harris
  • Ronald Dunlop
  • Sarah Gierke
  • Jim Hesselman
  • Meghan Kahn
  • Kathy Meyer (co-chair)
  • Mary Beth Nanz
  • Ron Severtis
  • Diane Wille

Schedule of Events

September

Social Justice of the Worker
Thu., September 8, 2011 
UC 127, 7:30 – 10:00pm
Social [In] Justice? Capital Punishment in the US
Tue., September 13, 2011 
UC Hoosier West,, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Understanding the Stigma of Mental IllnessSpotlight
Tue., September 20, 2011 
UC 127, 7:30 - 10:00pm
Celebrate Deaf Awareness Week
Tue., September 27, 2011 
UC 127, 12:20 - 1:10pm

October

Living and Working with Students with Disabilities
Tue., October 4, 2011 
UC 127, 12:20-1:10pm
Student Safe Zone Training
Fri., October 7, 2011 
UC 127, 9:00am - 1:00pm
Embrace National Coming Out Day — Wear Jeans
Tue., October 11, 2011 
across campus and nationwide, all day
Fall Student Leadership ConferenceSpotlight
Fri., October 21, 2011 
Ogle Center and Knobview Hall, 10:00am - 2:00pm

November

Women in Poverty: Effects of Partner Abuse
Wed., November 2, 2011 
UC 121, 12:15 - 1:05pm
The Immigrant Mystique: When Sentiment and Policy Collide and the Mess It MakesSpotlight
Thu., November 3, 2011 
Library 3rd Floor, 12:15 - 1:30pm
Film: Stand and Deliver
Thu., November 10, 2011 
UC 127, 7:30 - 10:00pm
Making the Working Poor Visible: A demographic and economic profile of the working poor in the Indiana University Southeast Service RegionSpotlight
Tue., November 15, 2011 
Library 3rd Floor, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Change
Wed., November 30, 2011 
Library 3rd Floor, 6:00 - 7:00pm

January

Film: TransAmerica
Fri., January 13, 2012 
Woodland Lodge Great Room, 7:30 - 10:00pm
Food, Body Image, and You: Healthy Living for 2012
Wed., January 18, 2012 
UC 121, 12:15 - 1:15pm
The Black Jew DialoguesSpotlight
Tue., January 31, 2012 
Stem Concert Hall, Ogle Center, 7:00 - 9:00pm

February

Compassionate Conversations: Living with HIV/AIDS
Tue., February 7, 2012 
UC 126, 6:00 - 7:00pm
African American History in Southern Indiana
Thu., February 16, 2012 
Library 3rd Floor, 12:30 - 1:15pm

March

Compassionate Conversations: Living with HIV/AIDS
Tue., March 13, 2012 
UC 128, 7:00 - 8:00pm
Making a Difference: Volunteerism in Africa
Wed., March 14, 2012 
Library 3rd Floor, 5:00 - 6:30pm
Samuel Beckett and the Human Condition
Wed., March 21, 2012 
Robinson Theatre, Ogle Center, 7:30 - 9:30pm

April

Film: A Day without a Mexican
Tue., April 10, 2012 
UC 127, 7:00 - 9:00pm
National Day of Silence
Fri., April 20, 2012 
observed across campus and nationwide, all day

For Classrooms

Instructional Materials

Instructional Materials for The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler and A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto by Jorge Ramos:

OUR SPONSORS

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!

Thank you to The Ogle Center and IU Southeast Sponsors for their contributions to the 2011-2012 Common Experience.

PRIOR YEARS

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You can download and view Common Expereience booklets from past years and see previous contest winners by visiting our Common Expereience in Prior Years page.

CONTACT INFO

Maria Accardi, co-chair
Assistant Librarian
Coordinator of Instruction
IU Southeast Library
Phone: (812) 941-2551
Email: maccardi@ius.edu

Kathy Meyer, co-chair
Coordinator, New Student &
Leadership Programs
Campus Life
Phone: (812) 941-2366
Email: katmeyer@ius.edu