Fridays at Newcomb: Lynn Paltrow: Pro-life vs Pro-lives: What the Difference Is and Why It Matters

Anna Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Building
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Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise Symposium

Saturday, February 1, 10am - 5pm
Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium and Newcomb Art Gallery
Reception to follow at 4pm in Woodward Way
Organized by the Newcomb Art Gallery and the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service, Women, Art, and Social Change is the largest presentation of Newcomb arts and crafts in more than twenty-five years. The exhibition will provide new insights into the Newcomb community-- the philosophy, the craftsmanship, and the women who made an enduring mark on American art and industry. Women, Art, and Social Change will feature more than 150 objects, from the iconic pottery to lesser known textiles, metalwork, bookbinding, and works on paper. Join us as speakers from across the nation and across curricula deliver presentations on the Newcomb Pottery Enterprise and the way in which it was an unique endeavor in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Free and open to the public.
 

Fridays at Newcomb: Sisters Centering Voices: Developing solutions by centering the voices and stories of the women

Friday, February 7, noon
Caroline Richardson Building, Anna Many Lounge
As New Orleans' only queer Black women-led organization, WWAV has been speaking truth and fighting for low-income women of color and LGBTQ communities for more than 22 years, combining service and advocacy to address the social conditions and injustices that impact our city's most marginalized women. Originally focused on health promotion and community outreach, but have since expanded our focus to include policy-level initiatives that negatively affect women and communities of color within Louisiana and elsewhere. Their major areas of focus include Sex Worker Rights, Drug Policy Reform, HIV Positive Women's Advocacy, Domestic Violence Prevention, LGBTQ Rights, and Reproductive Justice.
 

The Queer Child Now and Its Ghostly Cinematic Effects, Or Who's Afraid of the Sexual Child? A Lecture by Professor Kathryn Bond Stockton

Wednesday, February 12, 6pm
Anna Many Lounge, 2nd Floor, Caroline Richardson Building
What is the figure of the ghostly "gay" child? How has it been changing, conceptually and politically, in our current century? Has its ghostly specificity subsided? Engaging these questions, this talk speculates on something that's been surfacing in Anglo American public culture over the last eight years or so. A future the public fears is coming- child sexuality- evidence of sexting, "gay" kids in middle school, and sexual bullying- is now accompanying exportation of a fading child (the figure of the innocent child) to other lands, where it seems available to be rediscovered. Quite paradoxically, aesthetics of world documentaries on the-child-in-peril-in-the-third-world (a genre enjoying conspicuous success on the art-film circuit in the U.S.) may be "restoring" the Western-style innocent child through, of all things, the sexualized, racialized, "HIV child." What explains this odd development? Moreover, how does this literature, especially experimental literary form, run against this fray? These are the questions addressed in this talk via the films, Born into Brothels, I Am Because We Are, War Dance and Precious and the novels Beloved and PUSH.
Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, where she teaches queer theory, theories of race, the nineteenth-century novel, and twentieth-century literature and film. Her most recent books, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" meets "Queer" and The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, publicized by Duke University Press, were both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award.
A reception with Professor Stockton is scheduled for 5:30 in the Anna Many Lounge, 2nd Floor, Caroline Richardson Building. For more information, email Professor Michele White at michele@tulane.edu.

 

Tulane Black Arts Festival

February 17- 23
Free and open to the public

The Tulane Black Student Union presents the Tulane Black Arts Festival.

• Monday, Feb. 17 - Lecture by Laverne Cox
• Wednesday, Feb. 19- discussion with Big Freedia followed by Big Freedia's Bounce Twerkshop
• Thursday, Feb. 20- No 'Art for Art's Sake' Workshop and "Strong Light" Screening and ProjectBe Panel
• Friday, Feb. 21- Fridays at the Quad- B.A.F. Collaboration
• Saturday, Feb. 22- Preforming Arts Showcase ft. Sunni Patterson
• Sunday, Feb. 23- 'In the Black of Our Minds' Visual Showcase

For more information on locations and times please visit the website or check out the Facebook event page.

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Newcomb Film Series: Girl Rising

Monday, March 24, 8pm
Lavin-Bernick Center, Kendall Cram Lecture Room 
Girl Rising is a groundbreaking feature film about the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to transform societies. The film presents the remarkable stories of nine girls around the world, told by celebrated writers and voiced by renowned actors revealing a critical truth: educate girls and change the world. Co-Sponsored by TUCP and CELT.
 

Newcomb Film Series: Hannah Arendt

Wednesday, April 2, 6:30pm
Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium
This award-winning film profiles the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt’s reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker—controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils—introduced her now-famous concept of the “Banality of Evil.” Co-Sponsored by Women in Politics.
 

An Evening with Kate Bornstein

5th Annual Custard Lecture
Thursday, April 10, 7pm
Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium
Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright, and performance artist. She's best known for her books on postmodern gender theory, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us and My Gender Workbook. She has written Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws, and a memoir, Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger. Co-Sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies, the Office of Gender and Sexual Diversity, and the Gender Exploration Society.