September 17, 2012
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The Newcomb Feminist Film Series presents "The Invisible War"
Monday, September 17, 6pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
From Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not
Yet Rated; Twist of Faith) comes "The Invisible War," a groundbreaking
investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best
kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film
paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem - today, a
female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow
soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates
there were a staggering 19,000 violent sex crimes in the military in
2010. "The Invisible War" exposes the epidemic, breaking open one of the
most under-reported stories of our generation, to the nation and the
world. This event will feature remarks by special guest Deborah Love,
Vice President, Office of Institutional Equity and Special Assistant to
the President for Diversity Initiatives. This event is part of the
Feminist Film Series, is free and open to the public, and is
co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters New Orleans. A reception will
follow the screening.
For more information email
newcombleads@tulane.edu or call 504-865-5422. Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/512981508718469/
Take Back the Night 2012 Planning Committee Meeting
Wednesday, September 19, 5pm
Loyola University’s Magis Lounge
There are lots of ways to be a part of this year’s Take Back the Night
event, which is a rally, march, and open mic speak out to raise
awareness and help stop gender-based violence:
• Attend the next weekly planning committee meeting
on Wednesday, September 19, 5 pm, at Loyola University’s Magis Lounge,
located in the basement of the Dana Center, directly below the main
dining room there. We will be leaving from the Newcomb College Institute
at Tulane at 4:45 if you would like to walk over together. Meetings
will alternate Wednesday/Thursday every week.
• Student orgs: Donate a basket! Every year
Tulane student organizations and local businesses donate gift baskets
worth $50 - $100 in value, which are raffled off after Take Back the
Night. Proceeds from the raffle go to Crescent House, Metropolitan
Center for Women & Children, and the SANE nurse program. Email
hlipman@tulane.edu for more info or to sign up to donate!
• Mark your calendar: this year’s Take Back the Night
is on Tuesday, October 23 starting at 6 pm at the Loyola “horseshoe”
drive on St. Charles Avenue, followed by a march to the Qatar Ballroom
in the Lavin-Bernick Center and an open mic speak out and final
nondenominational spiritual ceremony.
If you have questions, please contact Kaitlin Splett at
ksplett@tulane.edu
“The Thief of the Future: The Holocaust-- Women, Reproductive Science, Eugenics and the State”
Thursday, September 20, 7pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, with a reception to follow in Woodward Way
It was not only the lives of Jewish women that were the target of Nazi
genocide, it was the very thought of a Jewish future, carried in the
bodies of Jewish women. Throughout the campaign of
extermination, a second campaign was conducted to prevent reproduction;
women bore the brunt of this campaign. The Nazi “experiments” carried
out in the name of reproductive science were done by the most
prestigious physicians in Germany, as a part of a larger vision of a
future in which eugenics shaped the human future. Thus began an era in
which the scientific and medical control of the human future was the
most critical battleground of all. Join us for a lecture by Professor
Laurie Zoloth, Director of The Brady Program in Ethics and Public Life
at Northwestern University. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please call (504) 865-5422 or email
newcombleads@tulane.edu.
Newcomb Scholars Program Applications Now Available
Applications are due by this Friday, September 21, no later than 4pm in
the Newcomb College Institute (Bldg. #26). Late applications will
not be accepted. Click on the link to access the
Newcomb Scholars Application. Questions may be directed to Sarah McAllister at
smcallis@tulane.edu.
Fridays at Newcomb: Laurie Zoloth “Why be good?: The Care of the Stranger and other Interruptions”
Friday, September 21, noon
Anna Many Lounge in the Caroline Richardson Building
Laurie Zoloth is Director of The Brady Program in Ethics and Public Life
at Northwestern University and this year’s Daspit Women in Science
lecturer.
As we engage in a national debate on the economy and consider
our duties to the poor, the elderly and the ill, we reflect on the call
in the texts of many religions to attend to the needs of the stranger.
When we are interrupted by the needs of others, what ought to be our
response? Lunch is provided for those attending the talk. Email
jmulvihi@tulane.edu with questions.
Love and Sex in Islamic Africa Conference: A Workshop at Tulane University
Thursday, September 27 and Friday, September 28
Anna Many Lounge in the Caroline Richardson Building
A series of panel discussions:
Thursday, September 27
Panel I: In Search of the Meaning of Love and Sex, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Jean Dangler, Tulane University: “Love and Sex in the Medieval Maghrib”
Elisabeth McMahon, Tulane University: “Intimate Cosmopolitanism?: Love and Sex in Colonial Zanzibari Society”
Nadine Beckmann, Oxford University: “The Pains and Pleasures of Love:
Transformations of Romance and Sexual Practice in Zanzibar”
Discussant: Laura Fair, Michigan State University
Keynote by Laura Fair: “Making Love at the Movies: Genre Preferences
& Physical Practices in Tanzania over Generations” 6:00 p.m.,
Freeman Auditorium, Followed by a reception at the Amistad Research
Center, Tilton Memorial Hall
Friday, September 28
Panel II: Representations and Counter-Representations, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State University: “Public Privacies: Reading Queer Muslim Autobiographies in South Africa”
Claudia Boehme, University of Leipzig: “The Negotiation of Love and Sexuality through Video Films in Tanzania”
Corrie Decker, University of California, Davis: “Colonial Prey: The Sexualization of Schoolgirls in Zanzibar”
Discussant: Gaurav Desai, Tulane University
Panel III: Public Health Interventions: In Love & Sex, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Jack Tocco, University of Michigan: “The Mode of Transmission that Dare
Not Speak its Name: Islam, AIDS, and the Public Secret of Homosexuality
in Northern Nigeria”
Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University: “Love and Sex in the Comics: AIDS Education in Niamey, Niger”
Discussant: Sheryl McCurdy, University of Texas
Panel IV: Embodied and Disembodied Experiences, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Katrina Daly Thompson, UCLA: “Learning to Use Profanity and Sacred
Speech: The Embodied Socialization of a Muslim Bride in Zanzibar”
Ivy Mills, University of California, Berkeley: “His body needs to be
thrown away like trash”: Vigilante Exhumations and Homophobia in
Senegal”
Kathryn Rhine, University of Kansas, “HIV, Secrecy, and Inmate Labor in Northern Nigeria”
Discussant: Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University
Sponsored by the Newcomb College Institute. All panels are free & open to the public.
For more information, please contact Elisabeth McMahon at
emcmahon@tulane.edu or Corrie Decker at
crdecker@ucdavis.edu.
Newcomb funding now available for the “Women, Law & Public Policy Seminar” in Washington, DC
Application Deadline: Friday, September 28
The Public Leadership Education
Network (PLEN) will be holding its 23rd “Women, Law & Public Policy
Seminar” November 9-11, 2012 for women students who are considering law
school as a prelude to a career in public policy or for those interested
in seeing how law impacts public policy and public interest
initiatives. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for women students to
learn first-hand about the many different ways an individual can make
and influence public policy with and without a law degree.
Students are taught by Supreme Court Justices or their clerks, Members
of Congress and top legislative staffers, White House officials and
federal agency leaders, nonprofit advocates and corporate lobbyists, and
lawyers with public interest law firms. Funding is available for
conference and hotel fees, but students are responsible for travel and
food expenses. Applications will be available on the NCI website by
Wednesday, September 19 at http://tulane.edu/newcomb/grants.cfm. For more information visit www.plen.org or contact skugler@tulane.edu.
2012 Arons Poet: Sharon Olds
Monday, October 1, 8pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Our 2012 Arons Poet, Sharon Olds, will give a reading on Monday,
October 1, at 8pm in Freeman Auditorium. Sharon Olds is the author
of nine volumes of poetry. Her numerous honors include a National
Endowment for the Arts grant; a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; the
San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first collection, Satan Says
(1980); and the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics
Circle Award for The Dead and the Living (1983). Her poetry has appeared
in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, and
The New York Times. Named New York State Poet Laureate (1998-2000), Olds
teaches graduate poetry workshops at New York University and the
writing workshop she helped found at a 900-bed state hospital for the
severely disabled. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. She lives in
New York City. For more information please email
lwolford@tulane.edu.
Looking for an internship this semester?
Looking for a women-focused organization to intern with this semester?
The Newcomb College Institute wants to help. Schedule an appointment
with Sarah McAllister, Program Coordinator, to find women-focused
organizations in New Orleans. E-mail Sarah at
smcallis@tulane.edu to schedule an appointment.
The Global Service League Presents: "Being Good at Doing Good" Mini Workshop
Session I: Mon Sept. 17th 6-7pm in the LBC Race Room 201
OR
Session II: Wed. Sept. 19th 6-7pm in the LBC Stibbs Room 203
Join us for an interactive session on how to evaluate organizations
with altruistic goals. Great for students looking to support effective
charities, non-profits, and socially conscious businesses, or for
students who one day might start their own! Content will focus on
organizations with an international scope, but may be applied to any
organization with altruistic, human-development-related goals. Snacks
provided. We look forward to seeing you!
Please RSVP at
http://www.doodle.com/h2wt37g2ctauzpee.
Contact
globalserviceleaguetulane@gmail.com with questions.
An Evening with Ellis Marsalis
Tuesday, September 18, 7pm
Dixon Hall
Admission is FREE and open to the public.
As a legendary bandleader, educator, 2011 NEA Jazz Master, and patriarch
of one of New Orleans' most renowned musical families, Ellis Marsalis
is regarded as the premier modern jazz pianist in the city. At
this special concert, presented annually by the Lagniappe Series of the
Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Cocurricular Programs, Marsalis will
perform with his group and participate in an audience Q&A session
following the show. For more information, contact 504-865-5728 or
donuts@tulane.edu.
Get Help With Your Resume
September 19 and 20 from 10am-3pm
Lavin-Bernick Center
The Career Center is hosting “Resumania” on September 19 and 20 from 10
am - 3:00 pm in the LBC. Bring your resume and get on-the-spot resume
review for your convenience! For more information contact Tracey Jackson
via email to
tjacks4@tulane.edu or by phone at 504-314-2251. Additional information may be found at the event website at
http://www.hiretulanegrads.com
