November 4, 2011
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undergraduate students with information about upcoming events and
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In this Issue:
Newcomb College Institute-affiliated events:
- Fridays at Newcomb: Ann Dunlop, " The Mongols, Materials, and the Rise of European Painting"
- Cuban Hip Hop: Obsesión Events
- A reading with Marie Howe, the 13th Florie Gale Arons poet
- Reading Project Film Series: 'Tuskegee' + a Panel Discussion on Medical Ethics
- Celebrate Newcomb Week
- Newcomb Night at Tulane Women’s Basketball
- Mortar Board Last Lecture with Dr. Liz McMahon: “Why Africa”
- Catching Men Who Kill Women: Louisiana Serial Killer Cases and Law Enforcement Response
- Applications Now Available to Start a NEW Newcomb Student Organization
Other student-interest events:
10. The Roots of Music Needs Volunteer
11.Prospect 2 Art Lecture with Jennifer Steinkamp
Newcomb College Institute-affiliated events:
1. Fridays at Newcomb: Anne Dunlop, “The Mongols, Materials, and the Rise of European Painting”
Friday, November 4, Noon in the Anna Many Lounge of the Caroline Richardson Building
In
the years around 1300, European painting were composed of Asian lapis
lazuli and African gold, earth pigments we still call 'burnt Sienna' and
silvers and tins from Germany and northern Europe. Such paintings were
small mappings of a larger geopolitical shift: the uniting, for the
first time since Antiquity, of much of the known world in the
thirteenth-century Mongol conquests. As Sanjay Subrahmanyam and others
have argued, this initial encounter of East and West set patterns and
networks for the whole early-modern period, as merchants, missionaries,
and other travelers circulated as they had not done for a thousand
years. It is Prof. Dunlop's contention that the Mongol
moment also shaped the development of early-modern European painting,
which underwent rapid shifts and changes in precisely these same years.
This talk is an exploration of the links. Lunch will be provided from a
local restaurant for all those staying for the talk.
2. Cuban Hip Hop: Obsesión Events
Friday, Nov 4, 7-9pm - Obsesión concert with invited local musicians in The Rat
*Saturday night Nov 5 – Show with local MCs at the Dragon’s Den at 435 Esplanade Ave. (doors at 9:30pm, $5 cover).
The
pioneering Cuban hip hop group OBESION, the Havana-based duo of Magia
López (MC Magia) and Alexey Rodríguez (El Tipo Este), have played a
leading role in Cuba’s evolving hip hop movement, and their music offers
entre into the current complexities of Cuban society, while providing
perspectives of these realties as young Afro-Cubans. Garnering ample
international attention, Obsesión has toured in the UK, France,
Venezuela, Canada, and the US. Member Magia López, moreover, is
currently the director of the Cuban Rap Agency, the island’s official
state-run institution responsible for the promotion of Cuban hip
hop. As such, Magia offers a unique vantage point as both a female
artist and governmental representative vis-ŕ-vis hip hop’s evolving
position within rapidly changing Cuba.
This
event is co-sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, New Orleans Gulf South Center, Newcomb College
Institute and Tulane International Society, Departments of Music,
Anthropology, Spanish & Portuguese, and ADST. Questions: email
mperry3@tulane.edu
* off-campus event
3.
Marie Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008); What the Living Do (1998); and The Good Thief (1988); and is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994).
Winner of a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of
Poets, she has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe
College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Her poems
have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni,
Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others.
Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College,
Columbia, and New York University.
4.Reading Project Film Series: 'Tuskegee' + a Panel Discussion on Medical Ethics
Tuesday, November 8, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium
Between
the years of 1932 and 1971, the U.S. government used approximately 600
poor, rural African American men from Macon County, Alabama, as human
guinea pigs for syphilis research under the guise of treatment for bad
blood. This short film investigates the tragic details of the
Tuskegee syphilis experiment, cited as “arguably the most infamous
biomedical research study in U.S. history,” which eventually led to
federal laws to ensure the protection of human subjects in studies
involving human subjects.
A special panel discussion on medical ethics will follow immediately
after the 22-minute film. The panel will be co-moderated by Nghana
Lewis, associate professor of English and African & African
Diaspora Studies, and Lauren Lim, a member of the Women in Science
student organization. Panelists include: Dr. Hans C. Andersson, director
of the Hayward Genetics Center at Tulane University Medical Center;
Susan L. Krinsky, associate dean and adjunct professor of law, Tulane
University Law School; and The Reverend Donald P. Owens, Jr., Ph.D., the
James A. Knight, M.D. Chair of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine,
Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, and Chaplain of
Episcopal Ministry to Medical Education at Tulane University School of
Medicine. A reception will be held after the panel.
This
event is sponsored by: Reading Project, Newcomb College Institute
as well as Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Co-curricular Programs. For
more information send email to
donuts@tulane.edu or by phone 504-865-5728
5. Celebrate Newcomb Week
November 6-11
Sunday, November 6
7-9:30 pm, Anna Many Lounge in Caroline Richardson (next to Woldenberg Art Center)
Sunday Sundaes
Come watch the documentary "Cover Girl Culture" and make ice cream sundaes!
Monday. November 7
12-2pm, Newcomb College Institute Patio
Crepes Kick-off
Join us for FREE Nutella crepes from Crepes a la Cart and pick up your Celebrate Newcomb Week schedules of the week!
Poetry Event
7:30-8:30 pm, Freeman Auditorium
Arons Poet Reading featuring Marie Howe
Tuesday, November 8
6:30-8:30pm, Freeman Auditorium
“Tuskegee” + a Panel Discussion on Medical Ethics
Reception to follow.
Sponsored by the Reading Project, Newcomb College Institute, Newcomb-Tulane College and Women in Science
Wednesday. November 9
7:30-9 pm, Anna Many Lounge in Caroline Richardson (next to Woldenberg Art Center)
“Through the Looking Glass: Women and Politics in Mass Media”
This program features a lecture by Prof. Melissa Harris-Perry; finger food will be served
Sponsor: Women In Politics
Thursday, November 10
7-9 pm, Qatar Ballroom in the LBC
“Women Around the World”
Different cultural student organizations, including AAWS, ASSU, IATU,
TIS, and TUFI, will present a trifold on women in their
culture; food from every culture present will be served
Friday, November 11
4-6 pm, LBC Quad
Celebrate Newcomb Quad Party and FAQ
Free food, t-shirts, activities, Athletics promo, and great music by TULA and the band Minute Head
Sponsors: FAQ & Newcomb Senate
6. Newcomb Night at Tulane Women’s Basketball
Friday, November 11, 6 pm, Fogelman Arena
Join
Newcomb in supporting our fantastic Women’s Basketball Team as they
play their home opening game against Loyola! (Game two of the Green Out Double Header
pits the Tulane Green Wave men against Alabama A&M directly after
the women’s game, giving you the chance to catch two great Tulane
games!) Pick up a wristband at the Athletics table at the Celebrate
Newcomb Week Quad Party from 4-6 pm in front of the LBC and get free
food at the game! If you have a Newcomb t-shirt we encourage you to wear
it on Friday, and come cheer at the game! Email
nsp@tulane.edu with questions.
7. Mortar Board Last Lecture with Dr. Liz McMahon: “Why Africa”
Monday, November 14, 7-8:30 pm, Stibbs room in the LBC. Reception to follow.
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 Dr. Liz McMahon from the
department of history that question. McMahon's lecture, called "Why
Africa," will explore the nuances of a country and people that she has
dedicated her life towards studying. From safari animals to child
soldiers, many Americans imagine Africa as a place wholly distant from
their own lives. This lecture reflects on the personal reasons why
McMahon chose to work in Africa and the larger political reasons why all
Americans should reconsider how they view the continent. Email
aholiday@tulane.edu for information.
8. Catching Men Who Kill Women: Louisiana Serial Killer cases and Law Enforcement Response
November 15, 7:30, Anna Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Building
In
the past 16 years Louisiana has had several serial killer cases
targeting women, including a case which ended in 2003 in which at
least two LSU students were murdered. How these cases were resolved
and new technologies and technologies used in investigating serial
killing patterns will be the focus of the presentation. Dr.
Peter Scharf is a Research Professor of Public
Health, who specializes in murder risks and solutions received his
doctorate at Harvard University, has published 8 books and was
actively involved in the investigations of the cases to be
discussed in the presentation. This event is organized by Newcomb
Senate; email
amills1@tulane.edu with questions.
9. Applications Now Available to Start a NEW Newcomb Student Organization
Rolling Admissions; final deadline November 18, 2011
Interested
in starting a new student organization on campus? Passionate about
women’s issues and interests? Applications are now being accepted and
reviewed by Newcomb Senate for NEW Newcomb Student Organizations to
receive funding starting Fall ’11. Applications will be accepted and
reviewed on a rolling basis. Please complete the application and submit
it to
cheaney@tulane.edu no later than November 18, and feel free to email with any questions.
Click here for the application
Other student-interest events:
10. The Roots of Music Needs Volunteers!
The
Roots of Music is looking for volunteer tutors! Roots is a non-profit
organization founded by Rebirth Brass band drummer Derrick Tabb, Allison
Reinhardt, and Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews. The Roots of Music
preserves and promotes the great music heritage of New Orleans by
providing free music education, academic tutoring and mentorship to
at-risk youth ages 9-14. Tulane students provide the majority of the
academic tutoring and homework help. NO KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC IS
NECCESSARY. We meet in the lobby of Wall Residential College Monday
through Thursday at 3:15, travel by van to the Louisiana State Museum in
Jackson Square, and return by 6PM. This is not a daily commitment, come
as your schedule allows. For further information, please email Marykate
Romagnoli at
mromagno@tulane.edu or Mary Soule at
msoule@tulane.edu.
11. Prospect 2 Lecture: Jennifer Steinkamp
Wednesday, November 23, 7:30 pm, Freeman Auditorium
Interested
in contemporary art? Check out this Prospect 2 lecture! Steinkamp’s
animated installations challenge viewers’ perceptions of architectural
space, motion, and perception through the use of videos and new media.
For more information visit
www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu.
