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Lynn Rosenthal speaks on campus

Mary Jo Bang
2013 Arons Poet Reading

Monday, October 21, 7:30pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
 
Mary Jo Bang is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Apology for Want (1997), which received the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize; Louise in Love (2001); The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans (2001); Elegy (2007), which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award; and The Bride of E (2009). Her latest book is a new translation of Dante's Inferno.

Bang has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Bellagio Foundation, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She has received a "Discovery"/The Nation award, a Pushcart Prize, and her poems have been included in multiple editions of The Best American Poetry. The editor of the Boston Review from 1995-2005, she is currently a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. For more information, contact Laura Wolford (lwolford@tulane.edu).
 

October 14, 2013



Newcomb College Institute-affiliated events:

Pride Week 2013

  • Monday, October 14 - Pride Picnic and BBQueer (LBC Quad, all day)
  • Tuesday, October 15 - Workshop with Robyn Ochs: Embracing an All/And Identity in an Either/Or World" (LBC Riess Room, 1-3pm)
    • Keynote Lecture by Robyn Ochs: "Beyond Binaries: Identity and Sexuality" (Rogers Memorial Chapel, 6-8pm)
  • Wednesday, October 16 - Pride at The O
    • Lounge: LGBTQIA Social (MOSAIC Lounge, 9-10pm)
  • Thursday, October 17 - Queeraoke (the Rat, 9pm-12am)
  • Friday, October 18 - Lavender and Bowtie Friday (wear lavender or a bowtie all day, everywhere)
    • Pride Week FAQ (LBC Quad, 4-6pm)
    • Miss Paul Tulane and Mr. Sophie Newcomb Annual Amateur Drag Show (Qatar Ballroom, 8-11pm)
Sponsored by The O (The Office for Gender & Sexual Diversity & The Office of Multicultural Affairs), Housing & Residence Life, Queer Student Alliance, Student Women Embracing Equality at Tulane, Gender Exploration Society, Gamma Rho Lambda, and The Gender & Sexuality Program, and the Newcomb College Institute. For more info contact The O: ogsd@tulane.edu or 504-314-2183.
 

Tulane International Society Student/Faculty Dinner

Wednesday, October 16, 6pm
Qatar Ballroom, LBC
Open to all Tulane students and faculty
Join Tulane International Society, Tulane faculty, and other multicultural student organizations for a FREE DINNER from various local international restaurants! Faculty members from various backgrounds and international research experiences will be joining us, so this is a great way to network and hear about their work. Contact tulaneinternationalsociety@gmail.com for any questions.

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Take Back the Night Planning Meeting

Thursday, October 17, 5:15pm
Newcomb College Institute House
Come be a part of the planning team for Take Back the Night! Being a part of the planning team is a good opportunity for honing your leadership skills (publicity, planning, communication/outreach, fundraising, etc.) and participating in a good cause.
 

Monajat: A Multimedia performance of Middle Eastern Jewish Music by Galeet Dardashti

Thursday, October 17, 7:30pm
Dixon Hall
Galeet Dardashti's multi-sensory piece, Monajat - commissioned by the Foundation for Jewish Culture - is inspired by old and haunting recordings of the Jewish prayers of Selihot chanted by her grandfather - a master singer of Persian classical music. Dardashti reinvents the deep and reflective musical ritual of Selihot using digital technology to sing with her famed Iranian grandfather, composing original music to other sacred Jewish and Persian poetry, and performing with an acclaimed ensemble of Middle Eastern and jazz musicians. Audiences, are enveloped into the ritual with Persian melodies, poetic Hebrew texts, electronic soundscapes, and dynamic video art. For more information, contact Professor Dan Sharp (dsharp@tulane.edu).

Fridays at Newcomb: "Money and Cultural Production: Middle Eastern Sacred Songs (Piyutim) Hit the Israeli Pop Scene" with Galeet Dardashti

Friday, October 18, Noon
Anna Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Building
Over the past few years, some of Israel's most noted secular rock singers have begun performing their own renditions of traditional Middle Eastern religious songs for large crowds of adoring fans, and few of their recordings of these songs have soared to the top of Israeli pop charts. This lecture examines the causes for some of these recent Israeli musical trends, specifically, the decision of a single American private foundation to heavily fund an extensive program to teach Israelis to learn and appreciate these religious songs initially launched the public's "craze" for these songs.

Take Back the Night

Wednesday, October 23, 6pm
Begins at the Loyola Horseshoe on St. Charles Ave. 
The 22nd annual New Orleans Take Back the Night ceremony and march to end gender-based and sexual violence will be held Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 at 6 pm.  Join with Tulane, Loyola, Dillard, and other community members as we come together to “shatter the silence and stop the violence.” Take Back the Night begins with opening remarks and testimonies from survivors at the Loyola horseshoe, in front of Marquette Hall on St. Charles Avenue.  Candles will be distributed, and the march will begin on St. Charles, turning onto Broadway, and entering Tulane’s campus near Newcomb Hall.  Participants will proceed to the Qatar Ballroom in the Lavin-Bernick Center for an open mic event, where survivors and others are invited to speak out, and conclude after a performance by the Dillard Elites dance team. 
 
Be on the lookout throughout October for raffle tickets to benefit local charities including Crescent House, Metropolitan Center for Women and Children and the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) program.  Items being raffled include Voodoo Arena Football season tickets, Zephyrs tickets, and various other items and baskets. Additionally, faculty and staff are encouraged to help raise awareness by participating in Denim and Teal Day. Just give your $5 donation to your office’s Take Back the Night liaison to wear a teal shirt and ribbon with jeans on Wednesday, Oct. 23. For more information, please contact Haley Ade at hade@tulane.edu.

Newcomb Grants

Fall Deadline: November 1, 2013
Newcomb grants are available to support your academic research, conference attendance, and community engagement projects. You can learn more about applying on our website:

Newcomb College Institute Leadership Retreat

November 1-3, Rivers Retreat Center in Covington
The Fall's Newcomb College Institute Leadership Retreat is coming up! Our theme this year is "Women, Leadership and Community Engagement" and is being co-programmed by CPS and the Office of Student Programs. We will discuss the ways gender roles can play a part in community engagement and how leadership with a goal to serve can be both rewarding and difficult to navigate. You will also learn skills for addressing challenges and for taking advantage of opportunities in our New Orleans community. We have 30 spots available for students. Both established and rising leaders are welcome to apply. The retreat will take place the first weekend of November (1-3) at the Rivers Retreat Center in Covington (http://www.theriversretreat.com/). For more information contact Dr. Karen Reichard at kreicha@tulane.edu. Click here to apply.

Nadine Vorhoff Library Annual Book Sale

Monday, October 28 - Friday, November 1
Nadine Vorhoff Library, Caroline Richardson Building
Library Hours: Monday - Friday 9am-5pm
Cookbooks, mysteries, academic books, various books from donations, and duplicates of books already on the shelves will be available. All proceeds of the book sale support the Nadine Vorhoff library and the Newcomb Archives, part of the Newcomb College Institute.

Deconstructing Sexual Difference: Hélène Cixous's Mole - A talk by Marta Segarra

Tuesday, October 15, 6pm
Anna Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Building
Marta Segarra is a Professor of French literature and feminist theory at the University of Barcelona, Director of the UB Center for Women and Literature, and the coordinator for the UNESCO chair of Women, Development, and Culture at the same university. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Cornell. In this talk, Professor Segarra will discuss the work of Hélène Cixous. Hélène Cixous is widely known as the author of texts that oppose the most widespread assumptions on sexual difference. However, Cixous also deconstructs the boundaries between species, giving a very special place to animals in her oeuvre. Te point which will be elaborated in this presentation is that a particular animal, the mole - which Cixous reads through Shakespeare, Kafka, and Derrida - embodies the spectral presence of sexual difference. 

There will be a reception to follow. This event is sponsored by the Newcomb College Institute, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Department of French and Italian, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. For more information, contact Professor Edwige Tamalet (etamalet@tulane.edu).
 

Other student-interest events:

Newcomb-Tulane College Grants

Deadline: October 15, 2013
All full-time undergraduates are invited to take advantage of the wide range of funding available for your academic pursuits, summer internships, and much more. Newcomb-Tulane College grants are reviewed on a monthly cycle, and the deadline to turn in applications for the October cycle is October 15 at 5:00 p.m., via donuts@tulane.edu or in person at Cudd Hall, room 204. Please note that some grant programs only review applications at certain times, and applications for summer grant programs will be reviewed in February, March, and April. See each grant description for details. For more information, call 504-314-2801, email donuts@tulane.edu, or visit tulane.edu/college/programs/grants.cfm.

Film: The House I Live In

Friday, October 25, 1-2:45pm
Cudd Hall, Room 203 
The House I Live In is a 2012 documentary about America’s War on Drugs, featuring Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, among many others. While recognizing the seriousness of drug abuse as a matter of public health, the film examines how the war has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad for over forty years. Despite these facts, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. To learn more about the film, visit www.thehouseilivein.org.

Lunch will be served, and space is limited to 30 seats. To attend, please RSVP to donuts@tulane.edu by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, October 21. Free and open to the Tulane community. Sponsored by the Tulane Reading Project and the Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Cocurricular Programs.
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