Keynote Address
5:30 PM, Carroll Gallery, Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center at Newcomb College
Vanishing Orient: Papa's Harem Is Shifting To Mama's Civil Society

Andrew W. Mellon Lecture in the Humanities
Fatema Mernissi

University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Opening remarks by
Martha Gilliland

Provost, Tulane University
Madeleine Dobie

Department of French and Italian, Tulane University
Hope Glidden

Department of French and Italian, Tulane University

Photo Exhibit
Vanishing Orient
Photography by Ruth Ward
Reception at 7 PM, Woodward Way, Woldenberg Art Center at Newcomb College

Round Table Discussion
10:30 AM, Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center at Newcomb College
Women's Transnational Activism
Panelists
Fatema Mernissi

University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Ruth Ward

Photographer
Greta Tüllman

Editor, Abseits von Vierzig
Leila Chaouni

Editor, Le Fennec Press, Casablanca, Morocco
Moderators
April Brayfield

Department of Sociology, Tulane University
Jessica Zagier

Newcomb College, Tulane University

Round Table Discussion
2:30 PM, Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center at Newcomb College
Beyond Orientalism
Panelists
Marilyn Brown

Newcomb Department of Art, Tulane University
Victoria Cooke

Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Gaurav Desai

Department of English and Department of African

and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University
Madeleine Dobie

Department of French and Italian, Tulane University
Susan Martin-Marquez

Department of French and Italian, Tulane University
Moderators
Hope Glidden

Department of French and Italian, Tulane University
Marta Cuboni

Newcomb College, Tulane University

Plenary Session
5 PM, Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center at Newcomb College
Fasting to Survive: Resisting Consumption, Rejecting Religion and Coping With Globalization
Introduction
Gaurav Desai

Department of English and Department of

African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University
Speaker
Françoise Lionnet

Department of French, Northwestern University

Undergraduate Forum
10:30 AM, Anna Many Loungue, Newcomb College Center for Research On Women
Moderator
Cynthia Lowenthal

Department of English, Tulane University

Plenary Session
2:30 PM, Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center at Newcomb College
Reading from a Forthcoming Memoir, A Border Passage
Introduction
Adeline Masquelier

Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
Speaker
Leila Ahmed

Department of Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Round Table Discussion
5 PM, Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center at Newcomb College
Towards a Feminist Ethnology
Panelists
Katherine Gracki

Department of French, Tulane University
Adeline Masquelier

Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
Jean Rahier

Department of Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Maïr Verthuy

Department of French, Concordia University
Moderators
Felicia McCarren

Department of French and Italian, Tulane University
Jennifer Williams

Newcomb College, Tulane University

Closing Reception
8 PM, 3664 Laurel Street