Campus Events Newsletter
January 7th - 13th
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Weekly Events
A number of individuals, organizations, and offices host weekly events! If you would like to learn more, please check out www.knox.edu/calendar.
- CTL Writer's Workshop: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
- Blessing in a Backpack Evening Packing: Tuesdays
- Spanish Table / Mesa española: Tuesdays
- Red Room Tutoring: Tuesdays
- Red Room SMC: Tuesdays
- Deutscher Tisch (German Table): Thursdays
- French Table! : Thursdays
Monday
Depression, Talk Therapy, and Emotion Management in the Lives of U.S. Women of Mexican Descent
January 7th
4 - 5:15 pm
George Davis Hall 303
Angie Mejia (Syracuse University), a candidate for the tenure-track position in sociology, will give a presentation on her dissertation research
“’I Stopped Going Because I Was Tired of Keeping that Guera Happy’: Depression, Talk Therapy, and Emotion Management in the Lives of U.S. Women of Mexican Descent.”
This presentation focuses on U.S. Latinx women’s reasons behind their decisions to leave treatment early when receiving psychotherapy from Anglo White clinicians. Using data from a larger research project on depression and U.S. Latinx women, Mejia argues that these women’s perceptions of, and decisions to start, engage and, in most of these cases, end psychotherapist treatment early are affected by social trust in providers and the amount of emotion needed to participate and remain engaged in psychotherapeutic sessions. Participants’ narratives point to the therapeutic encounter as another socio-situational context shaped by intersecting systems of oppression, domination, and privilege.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
Bike Shop Open Workshop
Every first Monday of the month
7 - 9 pm
Bike Shop, Old Jail BasementYou can learn about the topic of the month, get help fixing or adjusting your own bike, use our tools, or just hang out.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Last Day to Add or Drop a Class
Jamaica in Post-Colonial Times: Boundaries of Nationhood and Perceptions of Race and Color Inequality
January 9th
4 - 5:15 pm
George Davis Hall 303
Monique Kelly (UC-Irvine), a candidate for the tenure-track position in sociology, will give a presentation on her dissertation research:
Jamaica in Post-Colonial Times: Boundaries of Nationhood and Perceptions of Race and Color Inequality
The quest for forming a national identity is pertinent in post-colonial societies. In Latin America and the Caribbean, national identity was framed and achieved through ideologies of ‘mestizaje’, or racial mixing. Some scholars argue that these ideologies of racial mixing act as ‘color-blind’, ‘race-blind’, or ‘non-racial’ frames that produce generalized denials of racial discrimination.
As most of this scholarship has focused on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the question remains, what role does contemporary ideologies of racial mixing or ethnic fusion play in perceptions of racial discrimination in the Anglo-Caribbean? To answer this question, this study examines the case of Jamaica.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
Thursday
Friday
UB Presents: Nelly's Echo
7:30 - 8:30 pm
Taylor Lounge
"Relying on lessons learned from his childhood in Africa and his everyday experiences, Nelly’s Echo's storytelling style has led to some comparing their musicality & storytelling to that of Jason Mraz and John Mayer. In the end, the goal of Nelly’s Echo is to use music to reach the four corners of the earth, while sharing the message of positivity, life, hope, and love to everyone that it comes in contact."
Doors open at 7:00 PM, performance begins at 7:30 PM in Taylor Lounge.
Saturday
Off Campus Events
Milk Route, a reading series
January 11th
4:30 - 6 pm
306 E. Simmons | The Space
Milk Route is the English Department’s student reading series held on occasional late afternoons throughout the year. An homage to Carl Sandburg, who at the age of thirteen left school to get a job driving a milk wagon so that he could assist in supporting his family, Milk Route honors the transitional period in which our senior writing majors may find themselves. While finishing their studies at Knox, they also are beginning their lives as adults, discovering new experiences in jobs, graduate programs and cities of residence. All the while, too, they are still making room to make their art.
Students and faculty gather for these formal readings, which offer senior writing majors an opportunity to share from their own work.