April 16, 2012
Collat Media Internship Program Poster Session
Tuesday, April 17, 4 - 5:30pm
Qatar Ballroom, LBC
Come learn out about the internships that are available through the
Collat Media Internship Program. Students will be sharing multimedia
exhibits and posters about their work in the program. The Collat Media
Internship Program gives students the opportunity to work with Newcomb
Fellows and Newcomb College Institute staff to gain skills with
technology by working on a digital media project. These include blogging
and web design, video game development, interactive mobile exhibits and
video production. For more information about the internship program,
visit
collatlab.tulane.edu.
Ignite Tulane Speaker Event
Tuesday, April 17, 5:30-7 PM
LBC Kendall Cram
Please join the Center for Engaged Learning & Teaching for a series
of short, rapid-fire presentations to celebrate engaged learning at
Tulane. Hear students, faculty, and community members share their
stories of engagement on and off campus. Refreshments provided, RSVP
requested via this link:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3058487017/efbevent. Email
ryou@tulane.edu with questions.
Celebrate Equal Pay Day with Lanier Scott Isom (NC '87)
Tuesday, April 17, 6 pm
Nadine Vorhoff Library, Caroline Richardson building
The next Equal Pay Day is Tuesday, April 17, 2012. This date
symbolizes how far into 2012 women must work to earn what men earned in
2011. Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay
Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap
between men's and women's wages. The Newcomb College Institute is
remembering Equal Pay Day with a talk and book signing with Lanier Scott
Isom (NC '87), co-author, with Lilly Ledbetter, of
Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond,
the inspiring story of Ledbetter's fight against employment
discrimination and how she became the namesake of Barack Obama's first
piece of legislation as president, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay
Restoration Act.
Mortar Board Last Lecture: Prof. Melissa Harris-Perry, “Bridging the
Divides: Politics, Difference and Making our Democracy Work”
Tuesday April 17, 7:30-8:45 pm
Rogers Chapel. Doors open at 7pm.
Every semester Tulane's chapter of Mortar Board Honor Society asks a
professor, "If you knew you had one last lecture to give, what would it
be?" This semester we have asked the distinguished Melissa Harris-Perry,
professor of political science, to answer that question. Harris-Perry’s
lecture is titled “Bridging the Divides: Politics, Difference and
Making our Democracy Work."
Harris-Perry is the founding director of
the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South
at the Newcomb College Institute. She is also the host of MSNBC's
Melissa Harris-Perry. A reception will follow. Email
jmuhlnic@tulane.edu for information.
Women in Architecture Career Luncheon
Wednesday, April 18, 11:30am-12:45pm
Caroline Richardson Building, Anna Many Lounge
Be a part of an interactive discussion with professional women working
in the field of Architecture. This is a great opportunity to learn how
to get involved with architecture or learn about career women in
general. The four panelists will be:
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Eve Blossom, Owner of Lulan Artisans, Author of Material Change
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Cynthia Dubberly, AIA, Cynthia Dubberley, AIA, Architect at Eskew + Dumez + Ripple, (TSA ‘97)
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Angela Morton, AIA, Mathes Brierre Architects, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Professor Wendy Redfield, Associate Dean for Academics, Favrot
Associate Professor of Architecture, Tulane School of Architecture
Lunch will be provided. Business casual dress is requested. RSVP is
required, so sign up soon. For questions and to attend, e-mail
smcallis@tulane.edu.
Bullied: Youth, Gender and Homophobia with CJ Pascoe
Wednesday, April 18, 7 pm
Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium
CJ Pascoe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado College. Her book,
Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, won the American Education Research Association’s 2008 Outstanding Book Award. She is the co-author of
Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media, and has a book forthcoming entitled
Anas, Mias and Wannas: Identity and Community in a Pro-ana Subculture.
Her current research focuses on gender, youth, homophobia, sexuality
and new media.
This event is made possible through a gift from Marla
Custard (NC ’91).
Contact Laura Wolford at
lwolford@tulane.edu or visit
tulane.edu/newcomb for more information.
Professional & Academic Networking Mixer
Monday, April 16, 6-7 PM
CELT Conference Room, 3rd floor Richardson Building
Looking for new ways to get involved with social innovation, service,
and research at Tulane? Get engaged...in three minutes. The Center for
Engaged Learning & Teaching presents a professional and academic
networking mixer, speed-dating style. Mocktails & refreshments
provided. RSVP requested but not required via
https://www.facebook.com/events/362366397139636/. Email
cgalley@tulane.edu with questions.
Effective Communication Workshop
Wednesday, April 18, 7:45 PM
Newcomb College Institute
Come join Newcomb Senate for a workshop on effective communication lead
by professor of Voice and Speech Sara Valentine. This is a great
opportunity to learn how to present information effectively so that it
reaches its intended audience. Reginellis will be provided at 7:45 and
the workshop will begin shortly after around 8:00. Everyone is welcome.
Contact
amills1@tulane.edu with any questions.
Sociology and Psychology Club Pair Up
Thursday, April 19, 7 PM
Newcomb Room 123
Sociology Club and Psychology Club are pairing up this week for a
discussion with Professor Schippers on Gender and Sexuality. Professor
Shippers' most recent work discusses the relationship between the
straight and queer worlds based on observations from Bourbon Street. Her
most recent book is
Polyqueer: the Queer Potential of Polyamory and Non-monogamies. Please come to Newcomb Room 123, this Thursday 4/19 at 7 PM to join us. Dinner will be provided. Email
ckane3@tulane.edu with questions.
SAPHE's Project Clothesline
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 16-18
LBC Pedersen Lobby
SAPHE is hosting Project Clothesline on Monday 11-2, Tuesday 11-2, and
Wednesday 2-5 this week in the LBC Pedersen Lobby. We will provide
shirts and art supplies. The Clothesline Project honors women survivors
as well as victims of intimate violence. Any woman who has experienced
such violence, at any time in her life, is encouraged to come forward
and design a shirt. Victim's families and friends are also invited to
participate. It is the very process of designing a shirt that gives each
woman a new voice with which to expose an often horrific and
unspeakable experience that has dramatically altered the course of her
life. Participating in this project provides a powerful step towards
helping a survivor break through the shroud of silence that has
surrounded her experience. On April 20th, select shirts will be
displayed in the LBC.
Fridays at Newcomb: Women and Violence in the Grassroots Anti-Abortion
Movement in the United States featuring Karissa Haugeberg
Friday, April 20, 12 PM - 1 PM
Caroline Richardson Building, Anna Many Lounge
Haugeberg seeks to reframe the way scholars have understood pro-life
women activists. The standard narrative suggests that peaceful Catholic
women dominated the grassroots anti-abortion movement until the
late-1980s, when evangelical Christian men joined the movement in
significant numbers. However, Haugeberg’s research reveals that Catholic
women initiated the use of provocative and violent tactics in the
1970s. Lunch will be provided for those staying for the talk. For more
information contact Jan Mulvihill via email to
jmulvihi@tulane.edu or by phone at 504-247-1639. Additional information may be found at the event website at
http://tulane.edu/newcomb/.
The Newcomb Feminist Film Series Presents "Screaming Queens" featuring a discussion with Prof. Red Tremmel
Friday, April 20, 7 pm
Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium
Join us for a special screening of the EMMY Award-winning documentary
Screaming Queens,
which tells the little-known story of the first known act of
collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people
in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished
Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New
York's Stonewall Inn. The event will include a discussion with Visiting
Assistant Prof. Red Tremmel, who teaches in the Tulane departments of
History and Gender and Sexuality Studies. A reception will follow the
screening, and this event is free and open to the public. For more
information please contact
nsp@tulane.edu. Sponsored by the Newcomb College Institute and the League of Women Voters.
African American Women’s Society’s “Hair Affair”
Sunday, April 22, 4:30 pm - 6 pm
Qatar Ballroom, LBC
Everyone is invited to attend the annual Hair Affair event. The event
will consist of a panel discussion, free giveaways, a raffle where
proceeds go to Girl/Boys Club and free food. Come to enjoy and
participate in the discussion about hair and how it connects, defines or
relates to a woman's identity. Email
sparker@tulane.edu with questions.
Bike NOLA - A panel discussion
Monday, April 23, 12-1 pm
Newcomb College Institute
Join us for a panel discussing biking culture and policy in New Orleans.
Panelists will include:
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Jennifer Ruley, Bike Engineer with New Orleans Department of Public Works
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Tara Tolford from the UNO Transportation Institute
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Jamie Wine, Executive Director of Bike Easy, a New Orleans Bike Advocacy Organization
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Dan Jatres from the Pedestrian and Bicycle Programs at the Regional
Planning Commission for the New Orleans Metropolitan Region.
Help us celebrate Earth Day and learn more about biking policy in the
city and how to get involved. Audience members will have a chance to ask
the panelists questions. A lunch will be served with the panel. Email
nsp@tulane.edu with questions.
Risks and Rewards: Refiguring the Female Athlete in the Classroom and in Popular Culture
Wednesday, April 25, 6 pm
Bea Field Alumni House
NCI's newest student group, the Athletic Women's Association, presents a
talk by Tulane English Professor Emily Wicktor. Prof. Wicktor will be
discussing the new concept of the female athlete. Email
hcorbett@tulane.edu with questions.
RESCHEDULED -- Walk A Mile: The International Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence
Thursday, April 26, 5:30 pm
LBC Quad
Tulane Women: tell your male friends to walk a mile in her shoes to stop
sexual violence. theWELL has hundreds of women’s shoes (mostly heels
but also sandals and flats) in men’s sizes for participants to wear.
Ladies are welcome, as theWELL has made beautiful posters for women to
cheer the men on as they walk a mile in her shoes. There will be snacks
and music for participants. Forward this link to men to register online
at:
http://tulane.edu/health/wellness/walk-a-mile-in-her-shoes.cfm. Women do not need to register.
Calling all Newcomb Big Sisters
Do you want to welcome new women students to life at Tulane? Was your
Newcomb big sister a great influence on your transition to college? This
is your chance to be a mentor and to share your enthusiasm about life
at Tulane with a new woman student. If you are interested in
registering, simply email
nsp@tulane.edu
from your Tulane email account. This Newcomb tradition dates back many
years and is very popular with the new women students. We hope that you
will want to become a part of the Newcomb legacy at Tulane by
participating as a Newcomb Big Sister. Remember to email
nsp@tulane.edu to register.
Get help finding an internship
Looking for an internship this summer? The Newcomb College Institute wants to help. Check out our special internship page at
http://tulane.edu/newcomb/internships/index.cfm to find out more.
