University of Louisville Law Professor James Jones lived in silence about his struggle with mental illness for years while establishing his career. Learn from his experiences and why it is not necessary for a mental illness to prevent you from achieving your goals. Co-Sponsored by the Psychology Club/Psi Chi.

This year’s annual Student Leadership Conference will feature breakout sessions exploring topics in identity, such as ethnicity, religion, nationalism, and gender. Pre-registration required. Contact the office of Campus Life at (812) 941-2316 for details.

In A Country for All, Jorge Ramos sets forth what he believes is a point of common ground: that the U.S. immigration policy is broken and in desperate need of repair. But is it really? Whether it’s broken or not depends on what results it was intended to create, and whether those results are ones we still want. One historical theorist asserts that the immigration system we have is exactly what U.S. citizens want and have always wanted: a system of de facto inclusion, but de juris exclusion, with the flexibility to revert from one to the other when it is most convenient for the country. In this presentation, we’ll rewrite the points of common ground and explore the disconnect between the sepia-toned, mythologized image of U.S. immigration history — the one captured by the famous Emma Lazarus poem at the foot of the Statue of Liberty — and our actual policy of addressing foreigners in our midst as expressed by our legislative and court action.

Acounty-by-county demographic and economic profile of the IU Southeast service region will provide a snapshot of the geography and prevalence of issues facing the working poor in our area. The presentation will bring David K. Shipler’s Working Poor: Invisible in America into the local context of the IU Southeast community. AREC students will explore the challenges the working poor face in meeting their families’ needs and will discuss implications for community development and public policy.

The Applied Research and Education Center (AREC) is a non-profit team of IU Southeast faculty and students that respond to requests from organizations to research, analyze, and report trends and patterns in communities and neighborhoods throughout the IU Southeast service region.

In The Black-Jew Dialogues, Larry Jay Tish and Ron Jones take the audience on a hysterical and poignant ride through three days they spent together in a cheap hotel room discussing their own experiences, the history of their people, and why there has been a growing rift between the two groups since the early 70s. Through their dialogue, the audience gains insight to the true nature of prejudice and how our inability to face our own biases separate us in ways that we may not even think about. The comic journey begins in the Egypt of the Pharaohs and travels through Africa and colonial times to present-day America.