Monday, September 24, 7pm
Anna Many Lounge

Please come to Newcomb's Town Hall meeting to hear about the many fantastic programs all of the Newcomb Organizations are planning. Each Newcomb organization and affiliate must send at least one representative. Everybody is invited though to hear about the events and enjoy delicious food.

 

Women in Politics Voter Registration

Thursday, September 27, 11:30am-4:30pm
LBC

Forms will be provided so students just stop by and register. The deadline for voter registration is on October 9th.

Take Back the Night 2012

Next Planning Committee Meeting:
Thursday, September 27, 5pm

Newcomb College Institute




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 Thursday, September 27, 5 pm, at Tulane’s Newcomb College Institute building. Meetings will alternate Wednesday/Thursday every week.
•    If you are a survivor of sexual assault and would like to find out more about being the keynote speaker at this year’s event, please email smcallis@tulane.edu
•    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.
 

 

Film Screening: "Soraida: Woman of Palestine"

Tuesday, September 25, 8pm
Norman Mayer 200A

Women in Politics is screening a film in conjunction with Students for Justice in Palestine called "Soraida: Woman of Palestine". There will be a brief discussion before the film to help students understand the context in which the film was made. Afterwards we will spend some time discussing the film, Israeli-Palestinian Relations, and women of Palestine. The film was made by Women Make Movies, which is a multicultural, media-arts collective run by women, for women. Students interested in joining Students for Justice in Palestine can e-mail mhijazi@tulane.edu

 

Tech Day 2012: Digitizing History

Friday, September 28, 10am-3pm

Tech Day is an opportunity for the Tulane community to come together and celebrate the technology that makes life on our campus what it is.  There will be academic and technical presentations as well as games and door prizes.  Come learn about the new trends in technology and education with presentations from Tulane faculty and the vendors that provide us with the technology you use every day.  You can also visit the Collat Media Lab table at the LBC and learn more about internships, lab resources and more. Tech Day is free and open to the public.  Make sure to register at http://techday.tulane.edu for a chance to win some amazing door prizes. Visit the event at any of the three locations: Uptown at the Lavin-Bernick Center, Health Sciences Center Campus in the Tidewater Building Lobby, or Northshore on the Primate Center Breezeway.

Love and Sex in Islamic Africa Conference: A Workshop at Tulane University

Thursday, September 27 and Friday, September 28

Caroline Richardson Building,  Anna Many Lounge

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.

Fridays at Newcomb: "Women in Science Policy"

Friday, September 28, 12pm-1pm

Caroline Richardson Building, Anna Many Lounge

 Hosted by two student groups -- Women in Science and Women in Politics -- this panel will feature three professionals within the science policy and decision-making fields.  Each panelist will speak about her experiences in the world of science policy and how undergraduates can work toward similar careers.  Students and professionals alike may attend the panel to learn about applying scientific and health training toward policy work. For more information, contact Meagan Knowlton at mknowlto@tulane.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
Woldenberg Art Center
, Freeman Auditorium  

 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.


 

Film "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights"

Monday, October 8,  7-9pm
Richardson Building, Room 117


The Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race & Politics in the South will be screening the new documentary “Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights.” This documentary focuses on the marginalization of black women between the intersections of Black Power and Feminist ideologies from Civil Rights up to present day. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's creator and producer, Nev Nnaji. For more information on the film, check out the Yellow Kat Productions website at http://yellokatproductions.com/category/reflections-unheard/ or contact Sarah Kugler at http://skugler@tulane.edu. Sponsored by The Newcomb College Institute





 


Green Corps Early Application

Deadline September 30th, 2012



Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the 
biggest environmental challenges of our day. 

In Green Corps¹ year-long paid program, you¹ll get intensive training in the skills you¹ll need to make a difference in the world. You¹ll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems ‹ global warming, deforestation, water pollution, factory farming and many others ‹ with groups such as Sierra Club and Food and Water Watch. And, when you graduate from Green Corps, we¹ll help you find a career with one of the nation¹s leading environmental and social change groups. 

For more information, visit our web site: www.greencorps.org. 


 

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