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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:
 

October 28, 2013



Newcomb College Institute-affiliated events:


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.
 

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:
http://tulane.edu/newcomb/grants.cfm.

Fridays at Newcomb: "Motherhood in Patriarchy" with Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve

Friday, November 1, Noon
Anna Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Building
This talk considers the argument that the current Western understanding of motherhood - pointed out by empirical findings for Austria and Germany - is in spite of its modernisation, a persisting patriarchal one based on a long historical tradition of subjection and institutionalization. Dr. Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve is a professor at University of Applied Sciences MCI Innsbruck.

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.

Gender and Incarceration Panel Discussion, moderated by Melissa Harris-Perry

Wednesday, November 6, 6pm
Kendel Cram Lecture Hall in the LBC
Free and open to the public
Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC host, Anna Julia Cooper Project director, and professor of political science, will moderate a panel on the impact of the increasing incarceration of women. Panelists include Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project; Deon Haywood, executive director of Women With a Vision; Tina Reynolds, founder of Women on the Rise Telling Her Story (WORTH); and Beth Richie, director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as the author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America's Prison Nation. Sponsored by the Tulane Reading Project, Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Cocurricular Programs,  and Newcomb College Institute. For more information, contact the Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Cocurricular Programs at 504-865-5728 or donuts@tulane.edu.

 

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. 

Lecture: "Breaking the Line" with Samuel G. Freedman

Tuesday, October 29, 7pm
Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, LBC
Samuel G. Freedman, an award-winning author, New York Times columnist, and professor at Columbia University, will speak about college sports, civil rights, American history, and the choices that defines one's life. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs at 504-565-5181.

Diversity Convocation with Joy DeGruy

Wednesday, October 30, 7pm
Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, LBC
The Office of Multicultural Affairs presents its 15th Annual Diversity Convocation featuring Dr. Joy DeGruy, who will speak about her new book, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Free and open to the public, with a book signing and reception to follow the Q & A. For more information, call 504-865-5181, or click here
 

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.

Lecture with Tim Wise

Monday, November 4, 6pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Free and open to the public
Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racism writers and educators in the United States. Named one of “25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World” by Utne Reader, Wise graduated from Tulane in 1990. He has since written several books about racial and social justice, and is a regular contributor to discussions about race on CNN and hundreds of TV and radio programs. He has been featured in several documentary films, including Vocabulary of Change, a public dialogue with legendary activist and scholar, Angela Davis. His newest film, White Like Me, uses his personal biography and political analysis to explore race and racism through the lens of whiteness and white privilege, and features Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow), Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, legal scholar Imani Perry, and others. More information: http://tulane.edu/calendar/event-details.cfm?uid=CC12AFBE-9479-50EA-D27739AFF6518945
Sponsored by the Tulane Reading Project, Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Cocurricular Programs, the Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT), and the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Tulane University. For more information, contact the Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Cocurricular Programs at donuts@tulane.edu or (504) 865-5728.


Southern Smash NOLA

Monday, November 4, 11am-2pm
LBC Quad
SmashTALK 5:30-7:30pm, location TBD
Whether it is the number on the scale, calories, grades, miles, speed or anything in between…we allow so many exterior things weigh us down. Sadly, most American women (and men) feel trapped by the number on the scale. ... Join Southern Smash in breaking those bonds in an afternoon of empowering activities including a BeYOUtiful Photo Booth, Let it Go balloons, Dare to Love Yourself cards, and SCALE SMASHING from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
SmashTALK 5:30-7:30 p.m. - An open discussion with leading body image and eating disorder experts. (Location TBD)  Visit www.southernsmash.org or our Facebook page to learn more about everything SMASH!!!

 

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.


A Newcomb-Tulane College Grant Deadline

Deadline: November 1, 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 November cycle is November 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.
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