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"Kate Bornstein:
A Work in Progress" Screening
Newcomb Film Series
 

Wednesday, November 20, 6:30pm
Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium
Free and open to the public

This film is a character-driven, feature-length, portrait film about the internationally renowned and celebrated author Kate Bornstein — a post-modern gender theorist, performance artist, trans-dyke, former high-ranking scientologist, heavily tattooed and pierced, 64 year old Jewish, queer icon. This is not a standard biopic or a linear story. The film chronicles the life of one of the most influential minds in gender theory. It is a study of a complex human being and an exploration of form and content to reflect Kate Bornstein and her universe. The film engages with Kate’s personal and public persona illuminating her multifaceted, sometimes contradictory, and always charming personality that has won the hearts of people worldwide but at times have alienated others’ sensibilities. This event is brought to you by the Office for Gender and Sexual Diversity (OGSD), the Newcomb Film Series, and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (GeSS).

November 11, 2013



Newcomb College Institute-affiliated events:

TEDxTU

Tuesday, November 12, 6pm
Dixon Hall
TEDxTU will celebrate and cultivate social innovation in New Orleans. From students at Tulane University to native New Orleanians, residents of our city are acting to create sustainable, scalable solutions to our city's biggest social challenges. We'll highlight some of these passionate and transformative individuals, but also, we'll bring change-makers from all of our city's different micro-communities together to share an evening of storytelling and inspiration. Speakers will include some of New Orleans's most active innovators, from entrepreneurs to educators, and public service professionals to students including Tulane seniors Mwende Katwiwa (aka FreeQuency) and Ophir Haberer, Nick Sarillo, Sonny Lee, Todd Shaffer, Jerry DeWitt, Sally Kenney, Roxanne Heston, and Shira Abramowitz.

This year, the theme is Unlearning, and our diverse group of speakers will talk about how they have unpacked their biases and assumptions about the world and unlearn what they thought they knew. This unlearning process is where progress and growth happens. We ask that our attendees come in with open minds, ready to unlearn along with our speakers. Get your tickets for TEDxTU 2013 here!

Fridays at Newcomb: "Leaning In, The Unwritten Chapters - Leading a High Growth Tech Company as a Female CEO" with Jen Medberry

Friday, November 15, Noon
Anna Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Building
The founder and CEO of Kickboard will share the history of New Orleans’ fastest growing education technology company, including successes, surprises, lessons learned along the way and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs - both women and men - just setting out on their startup journey.

A conversation with Newcomb alumna class of 2008, Ally Halperin

Monday, November 18, 7pm
Newcomb College Institute
Join the Newcomb Senate on Monday, November 18th, 2013 at 7:00pm for a candid conversation with recent graduate, Ally Halperin. Halperin, class of '08 studied in the A.B. Freeman School of Business. As a sophomore during Hurricane Katrina and current employee of Tulane University, she will offer insight on the structural changes that occurred for Newcomb-Tulane at this time and the benefits Tulane can offer alumnae. Refreshments will be provided.
 

Other student-interest events:

A Lecture by Angela Davis

Monday, November 18, 8pm
McAlister Auditorium
Free and open to the public
Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. Davis is the author of nine books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List." Angela Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex.
 
Sponsored by the TUCP Direction Lecture Series, the Tulane Reading Project, the Anna Julia Cooper Project, the Office for Multicultural Affairs, the Office for Gender and Sexual Diversity, and the Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Cocurricular Programs. For more information, contact TUCP Direction at tucp.direction@gmail.com or 325-370-2473.

White House Internship Program

Deadline: Sunday, January 5, 2014
Are you an emerging leader? Apply to the White House Internship Program! The White House Internship Program’s mission is to make the "People’s House" accessible to future leaders from around the nation and cultivate and prepare those devoted to public service for future leadership opportunities. If you are interested, please visit www.whitehouse.gov/internships for more information.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2014  Email internship_info@who.eop.gov for more information.
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