spring 2004 events

Please not that Caroline Richardson Hall, Richardson Hall, and Richardson Memorial Buiding are NOT the same building. Caroline Richardson Hall is located between the Student Health Service and the Woldenberg Art Center just inside the Willow Street entrance to the Tulane campus. The other Richardson Buildings are located on the Tulane front quad close to St. Charles Avenue.


All are welcome. There is no charge to participate in any of the events listed below. Note the many events happening in the Anna E. Many Lounge on Wednesdays at 4 pm. Come wind down on Wednesday with a dose of women's studies, and bring friends and colleagues. If you would like to discuss ideas for our Spring 2005 afternoon lectures series, please contact Crystal Kile – ckile@tulane.edu or 865 5248.


Wednesday 15 September – CANCELLED DUE TO HURRICANE IVAN; TO BE RESCHEDULED FOR SPRING 2005

"Drag Kinging: Politics, Performance, Community"

Alana Kumbier, King, archivist and doctoral student in
Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University

4 pm , Anna E. Many Lounge
2nd Floor, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Caroline Richardson Hall

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Wednesday 22 September

Which Post-Colonial? The Relevance of Transnational Feminism to U.S. Southern Studies

A talk by and reception to welcome Mab Segrest,

Fall 2004 Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in Women’s Studies and English at Tulane University

4 pm , Anna E. Many Lounge
2nd Floor, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Caroline Richardson Hall

“Post-Colonial” maps the furthest geographic bounds of U.S. Southern Studies, an expansion that has taken place over the past fifteen years as postmodern literary theory has finally rooted New Critical American modernity out of its deepest and original lair -- the U.S. South. Into that cool, damp, and hegemonic space have crawled and bedded a plethora of critical creatures -- African Americanists, feminists, queers, Marxists, white trash -- all fornicating wildly to produce a new, hybrid generation of canons and critical texts as returns of the repressed. Mab Segrest will explore the relevance of transnational feminism to reconstituting our understanding of southern spaces as material and transnational rather than mythopoeic “postage stamps of native soil” (as Faulkner famously described Yoknapatawpha); to locate the “burden of Southern History,” C. Vann Woodward’s haunted phrase, within the “white man’s burden” of colonialism even as we ask where (brutally, variously) were the women?

Co-sponsored by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, The Tulane Women's Studies Program, and the Tulane Deep South Regional Humanities Center.


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Wednesday September 29
WANTED: WOMEN'S VOTES – A panel discussion about American women and their participation in the democratic process

Thirty-six million eligible American women did not vote in the 2000 elections. This time around, the "women's vote" is particularly coveted. Our panelists will reflect on the activism, apathy, organization, and civic identity of women voters in the United States since 1920, with a strong emphasis on the current electoral season.

The Panel: The Honorable Cheryl Gray (D-LA House District 98 and an alumna of Tulane Law School) and Tulane Professors Rachel Devlin (History) and Celeste Lay (Political Science)

6:30pm, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

The forum follows the Dude, “Where’s My Party?” voter registration/voter registration expo on the Newcomb Quad from 4-6 pm the afternoon of September 29 organized by the members of Intensive Newcomb.

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Wed October 6

“Gendered Bodies and Sexual Objects: A New Theoretical Framework for Links Between Sexuality and Body Comportment”

Mimi Schippers, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
4 pm, Anna E. Many Lounge

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Wed October 13
Collection Debut
“Zines, Comics, and Grrrly Ephemera: How I spent my summer vacation developing the feminist alternative media collection of the Nadine Vorhoff Library”
Ariana Reid, N '05, Newcomb Foundation Summer Grantee
4 pm, Anna E. Many Lounge

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“A Language Few Are Speaking”

A talk by Rauda Morcos,

Palestinian Lesbian Activist and Co-founder of Aswat (Voices)

Rauda Morcos will share her experience as a Palestinian living under Israeli rule, a woman in a male-dominated culture, and a lesbian in an Arab community that has no official word for “gay.”

Brown Bag/Lunch Discussion
12:30-1:30 pm, Monday 18 October
University of New Orleans Women’s Center, 201 Earl K. Long Library, UNO, 504 280 7285 for info

Talk/Discussion/Reception
7:30 pm, Monday 18 October
Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd Floor, Caroline Richardson Hall, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University.

Co-sponsored by the New Orleans Dyke March, NOLA Palestine Solidarity, the New Orleans Women’s Studies Consortium, the University of New Orleans Women’s Center, the Tulane Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women

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Wed October 20
“Whither “Newcomb Spirit”? 21st Century Newcomb Students and the Traditions of the College”

Ked Dixon, N ’05, Newcomb Foundation Summer Grantee
4 pm, Anna E. Many Lounge

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24-25 October 2004

Natasha Trethewey is the sixth Florie Gale Arons Poet at Newcomb College

The public is invited to a reading at 8 pm, Monday 25 October in the Myra Clare Rogers Chapel, Newcomb College, Tulane University. A reception will follow in the atrium of Caroline Richardson Hall.

Please download a PDF announcing the 2004 Florie Gale Arons Poetry Program to post and/or distribute to friends and students via e-mail.

Natasha Trethewey’s first book of poems, Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000) was selected by Rita Dove for the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Domestic Work also received the 2001 Lillian Smith Book Award and the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Her second volume, Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002) was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Prize. Trethewey’s work has appeared in numerous reviews and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2000. Her poem "Storyville Diary" won the Grolier Prize, a prestigious annual award from the Grolier Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass., and the Margaret Walker Award for Poetry from Poets & Writers magazine and QBR: The Black Book Review. Her other honors include the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. A native of Mississippi, Trethewey now lives in Decatur, Georgia, and teaches creative writing at Emory University. 

Domestic Work and Bellocq's Ophelia are available for purchase at the Tulane Bookstore and at Maple Street Books. Learn more about Natasha Trethewey ( Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School site)

The daughters of Florie Gale Arons, Newcomb 1950, established the Poetry Forum in 1999 in honor of their mother’s seventieth birthday, and it continues in her memory.

In addition to delivering a reading to members of the greater University community, the Arons Poet offers a Sunday afternoon-long workshop for student and community poets, and meets with poetry classes in the Tulane Department of English. Please phone 504 865 5238 or e-mail nccrow@tulane.edu for more information, or if you are interested in signing up for the Sunday workshop at the Center for Research on Women.


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Wed Nov 3
Election aftermath perspective gathering. Visiting Scholar Sarah Duncan (Yale) will discuss her work exploring genderings of the power legitimacy struggles that swirled around Mary Queen of Scots. We will serve tea and proper biscuits.
4 pm, Anna E. Many Lounge

Poetry Behind Bars

A talk by 2003-2004 Josephine Louise Newcomb Fellow

Clarie Kiefer

7 pm, Thursday 4 November, Myra Clare Rogers Chapel

2003-2004 Josphine Louise Newcomb Fellow Claire Kiefer returns to Newcomb discuss her year spent teaching creative writing (poetry) in prisons across the United States. Claire taught in San Quentin, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami, and in St. Albans State Prison in Vermont.



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"Queer Life Before and After the Closet"

A talk by Steven Seidman

Friday November 5
3:30-5 pm, Anna E. Many Lounge, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Caroline Richardson Hall


Steven Seidman is Professor of sociology at the University at Albany. He is an internationally reknowned social theorist and scholar of sexuality studies. His work is in the fields of social theory, cultural sociology, Lesbian, Gay and sexuality studies, and nationalism. He is the author of, among other books, Contested knowledge: Social Theory Today, Embattled Eros: Sexual politics and ethics in Contemporary America, and Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian life. He has also edited many books including Culture and Society,  Habermas on Politics and Social Theory, and Queer Theory/Sociology.  He is coeditor a series with Cambridge University press called Cultural Social Studies and  a series with Blackwell, "21st Century Sociology." Recently, he received the Simon and Gagnon award for lifetime contributions to the sociology of sexuality.


His talk is sponsored by the Department of Sociology, The Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, GSSA, and Mosaic.



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Wed Nov 10
"Medicinal and Spiritual Connections Between the Foodways of New Orleans and Brasil"
Dolores Izabel Martins de Barros, M.D., Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, NCCROW; globetrotting humanitarian and researcher
4 pm, Anna E. Many Lounge


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November 19-20

Shake Loose My Skin: A Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Zale-Writer-in-Residence Program at Newcomb College, Tulane University

Convened by Mab Segrest and featuring the return of Zale Writers Linda Hogan, Sonia Sanchez, and Joanna Scott

Suggested reading: Linda Hogan, Power; Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: Collected Poems; Joanna Scott, The Closet Possible Union.

Panel Discussion
4 pm, Friday 19 November
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

Choral Reading by
Linda Hogan, Sonia Sanchez, Joanna Scott, and Mab Segrest
8 pm, Friday 19 November
Dixon Auditorium, Dixon Hall,

Readings and Discussions @ McMain
11 am-2:30 pm, Saturday 20 November
The Auditorium, McMain Secondary School,
S. Claiborne at Nashville Avenues
(If you are a student, teacher, or parent interested in more information about participating in this program for high school students with interest in literature and creative writing, please phone 504 865 5238.)

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Tuesday 30 November
The Mellon Lecture:

"Drag You Off to Milledgeville: Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Southern Regimes of (In)Sanity"

Mab Segrest

Distinguished Mellon Professor of Women's Studies and English, Tulane University (Fall 2004)

4 pm, Tuesday 30 November
Myra Clare Rogers Chapel
Reception to follow

For additional information about any programs listed above, please phone 504.865.5238. Unless otherwise noted, all programs are free and open to the public. Note: If you wish to print a hard copy of this page, copy and paste the text to a word processing program, or adjust your browser to over-ride page colors.


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