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Tonight!

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 21, 2013



Newcomb College Institute-affiliated events:

Annual Crepe Kick-Off for Celebrate Newcomb Week

Monday, October 21, 12-2pm
Newcomb House Courtyard
Enjoy Crepes a la Cart!

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).

GLAM Meeting

Monday, October 21, 8pm
Anna Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Bldg.
This week, Global Health Leaders Across Multicultural Women (GLAM) will be showing a screening of Contagion in the Anna Many Lounge at 8pm Monday. Plenty of snacks will be provided, like popcorn, chips, and candy.
 

Newcomb Faculty Luncheon

Tuesday, October 22, 12-2pm
Newcomb College Institute 
Come to the NCI House to meet faculty and enjoy food.

Cider before Take Back the Night for Celebrate Newcomb Week

Wednesday, October 23, 5pm
Newcomb College Institute
Enjoy cider at the Newcomb College Institute before Take Back The Night at 6pm at Loyola Horseshoe. Meet us here and we will walk over as a group.

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.

Yoga on the Quad for Celebrate Newcomb Week

Thursday, October 24, 5:30-6:30pm
Newcomb Quad
Come out and join us for a yoga session on the Newcomb Quad.


Fridays at Newcomb: A Tour of Newcomb Art Gallery's exhibit Women, Art, and Social Change - The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

Friday, October 25, Noon
Meet in Woodward Way in the Newcomb Art Gallery
Join us for a tour of the exhibition, curated by Newcomb Art Gallery in partnership with the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service. The exhibition is the largest presentation of Newcomb arts and crafts in more than twenty-five years. It 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. 

Quad Party for Celebrate Newcomb Week

Friday, October 25, 3-5pm
Bruff Quad
Meet all the Newcomb Student Organizations! There will be free food, crafts, and a free t-shirt!
 

Wikithon: Writing Under-represented Groups into Wikipedia

Sunday, October 27, Noon-3pm
Collat Media Lab, Caroline Richardson Bldg.
Come help change the history of the world! Wikipedia is used by people around the world to easily access the information they need and is becoming more predominant as a source of information. However, Wikipedia depends on readers and volunteer editors to write, edit, and correct its entries. Theoretically, the vast network of contributors will make for an online encyclopedia that is accurate, objective, and self-correcting, but there is an imbalance in content that is available and well-cited through wikipedia. This is where we come in: by taking part in a Wikithon, we can make history for underrepresented groups like the LGBTQIA community more present online. By making the history of LGBTQIA and queer ideology accessible to a wide range of people via the internet, we will be contributing to the dissemination of the knowledge and history about the LGBTQIA movement. 

Join Women in Technology, the Queer Feminist Collective, and Queer Student Alliance! Participants from the Tulane community are encouraged to join us as we learn to edit Wikipedia, increase visibility of underrepresented groups and contribute to topics important to our communities. No experience necessary! Wikipedia Ambassador, Becky Carmichael, will share her experiences as a contributor and lead a workshop on how to get started editing Wikipedia.

 

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.
 

Other student-interest events:

Krav Maga

Tuesdays, 7pm
Hillel on Broadway
Hillel offers free Krav Maga lessons with a certified instructor every Tuesday night at 7pm at Hillel on Broadway. Krav Maga is a form of self-defense used to train the Israeli army. It emphasizes threat neutralization with simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers. All students are welcome. 

"Almodóvar: Queer Auteur?" - A talk with Prof. Yarbro-Bejarano from Stanford University

Friday, October 25, 9-10am
Newcomb Hall 407
The first six films by openly gay filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, with their identifiably gay and lesbian characters, created expectations among certain gay audiences and critics that turned to outcry and censure when Almodóvar’s subsequent films failed to live up to these rather narrow expectations. Rather than insist that Almodóvar be a gay director making gay films with gay and lesbian characters, I propose to follow Paul Julian Smith’s lead in seeing Almodóvar as a queer auteur, unlinking his work from issues of LGBT identity and focusing on queerness as a vision or modality that disrupts or skews heteronormative gender and sexual arrangements. This approach allows us to appreciate the director’s take on heterosexual romance as well as his consistent centering of non-normative characters. In the Almodovarian universe, there are no happy endings as far as romantic love is concerned, regardless of the gender or sexual identity of the characters, only the inexorable law of desire. Smith anchors his argument in Almodóvar’s earliest writings, deposited in the National Library in 1975, featuring plot lines and characters which will reappear throughout Almodovar’s oeuvre, and centering on two recurring types: the glamorous vengeful trans* figure and the mature, fantasizing woman, both figures for the queer director’s projections and signature vision. I will follow the development of these queer figures up to the present as touchstones in Almodóvar’s queer auteurism.
 

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.

Not My Life: A Human Trafficking Symposium

Sunday, November 3, 5-8:30pm, Doors open at 4:30pm
Zeitgeist Arts Center, 618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
Featuring: Not My Life, Presentations, & Networking Reception
Advance Purchase Required, 
$10 for student members; $15 for members; $20 for nonmembers

This three-part symposium starts with a screening of Not My Life, a documentary about the unspeakable horrors of modern day child slavery directed by Oscar nominee Robert Bilheimer and narrated by Glenn Close. For a look at the trailer and some of the feedback that the film has garnered, follow the link. Following the film, Holly Wiseman, a former attorney with the Department of Justice who prosecuted the first case brought under the US human trafficking act, and Dr. Laura Murphy, head of the New Orleans Human Trafficking Working Group, will speak. This portion will include discussions about both human trafficking around the globe and suggestions for individuals on how to combat the problem.The symposium closes with a dinner reception featuring representatives from local organizations working to end human trafficking. Audience members will have the opportunity to talk with these representatives about ways to help in the global fight against human trafficking.

To purchase tickets, visit our ticket link below. Members, remember that you MUST click REDEEM BENEFITS on the payment page when purchasing tickets to receive the member price. No refunds will be given after purchase, so be sure to check that your discount has been applied before confirming payment. Visit http://goo.gl/NmzUDS to purchase. For more information on this event, contact Flora Williams at director@wacno.org.


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