WINGS Every Friday 8-8:30 a.m. on WTUL 91.5 FM
In cooperation with WTUL 91.5 FM, the Newcomb College Center for Reserach
on Women makes possible the weekly New Orleans area broadcast of the
Women's International Newsgathering Service (W.I.N.G.S). Tune in every
Friday from 8-8:30 p.m. to hear provocative interviews with and talks by
all sorts of women from all sorts of places about all sorts of topics.
"The Politics of the 21st Century: Global Feminism"
A lecture by Robin Morgan
6 p.m.
Wednesday 15 September
Room 407 Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans
Book signing and reception to follow
An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist,
journalist and editor, Robin Morgan has published 14 books, including the
now-classic anthologies _Sisterhood is Powerful_ and _Sisterhood is
Global_. A leader in the U.S. feminist movement since the 1960s, she has
also been active in the international women's movement for the past 20
years.
Newcomb College Center for Research on Women is a co-sponsor of
Morgan's talk.
The 6th Annual Adele Ramos Salzer Lecture on Women and Higher
Education
"From the Drawing Room to the Lecture Hall: Changing Models of
Education for Women"
A lecture by Gillian Sutherland
3 p.m.
Sunday September 19
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb College
Reception to follow in Woodward Way
Gillian Sutherland was born and raised in South Wales. Educated at
Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls and at St. Hugh's College,
Oxford, she read History at Nuffield College, Oxford from 1963-1965 and
completed her D.Phil in 1970. Since 1965 she has taught and directed
studies in History at Newnham College, Cambridge.
The lecture will be grounded in Sutherland's extensive work on the social
and political history of education in the UK, including studies of the
first state provision for working class education, early intelligence testing,
and the higher education of women. In addition to the forthcoming book
_Notions of Duty: A.J. Clough and B.A. Clough, 1820-1960_, Sutherland's
works on the higher education of women include "'Nasty forward minxes':
Cambridge and the higher education of women" and a number of other
essays, all of which are available on reserve in the Nadine R. Vorhoff
Library on the first floor of Caroline Richardson Hall.
Newnham College was founded in 1871 to allow women to fulfill their
intellectual potentials. The college continues as a women's college, but
is fully integrated into the University.
Adele Ramos Salzer was a member of the Newcomb College Class of 1940.
She and her family established this annual lecture to further the
education of women.
"Women Scientists and Feminist Methodologies in Louisiana's 'Chemical
Corridor'"
A talk by Barbara Allen, NCCROW Visiting Scholar
Friday 8 October
4:00 p.m.
Anna E. Many Lounge
Allen will first lay out the basics of the "standpoint theory" feminist
critique of mainstream science as advanced by Sandra Harding in her
concept of "strong objectivity," and discuss the relationship between
citizens and experts in the production of scientific knowledge. She will
them turn to an analysis of the work of 4 or 5 feminist "Chemical
Corridor" scientists who are involved with the production of a citizen
science that empowers residents and appears to be "working" in terms of
the changes that have happened in this area. Note that one of the women,
Wilma Subra, has recently been awarded a MacArthur Foundation
fellowship, recognizing on a national level the importance of this kind of
science work.
Barbara Allen has recently completed her Ph.D. in Science and Technology
Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Trained
originally as an architectural engineer, she is a visiting scholar from the
University of Southwestern Louisiana, where she is the Contractors
Educational Trust Fund Associate Professor of Architecture. She is also the
editor of the _Journal of Architectural Education_ published by MIT Press.
Her most recent articles examine the conflicts that have occurred in
Louisiana's Chemical Corridor and will be published in: _Technology and
Landscape_ (U.Mass Press, 1999), _Centuries of Change: An Environmental
History of the Lower Mississippi River_ (U. Pittsburgh Press, 1999).
October 15 - December 6
The Tulane/Newcomb Clothesline Project
Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room
Nadine Vorhoff Library
From 15 October to 6 December, the Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room on
the first floor of Caroline Richardson Hall will be home to the
Newcomb/Tulane Clothesline Project. Newcomb College Center for
Research on Women invites everyone in the extended Newcomb/Tulane
community whose lives have been affected by violence against women to let
their voices be heard.
The Clothesline Project began in 1990 when members of the Cape Cod
Women's Agenda hung a clothesline across the village green in Hyannis,
Massachusetts with 31 shirts designed by survivors of assault, rape and
incest. Women viewing the clothesline came forward to create shirts of
their own and the line just kept growing.
Since that first display the Project has grown to 300+ local Clothesline
Projects nationally and internationally, with an estimated 35,000 shirts.
The Clothesline Project has become a distinctive resource for healing from
violence and creating social change. Lines have been displayed at schools,
universities, State Houses, shopping malls, churches, and women's events.
The first National Display took place April 8-9, 1995 in Washington D.C.
in conjunction with NOW's Rally For Women's Lives.
Similar to the AIDS quilt, the Clothesline Project puts a human face on
the statistics of violence against women. The Project increases awareness
of the impact of violence against women, celebrates a woman's strength to
survive, and provides an avenue for her and her friends to break the
silence. Family members and friends of women who have died as a result
of violence are invited to make a shirt to express their deep loss.
One of the beauties of this project is its simplicity. Survivors, family
and friends need not be artists to participate. Whether you choose to use
paint, magic markers, or elaborate embroidery, et cetera, to create a
shirt is up to you. Shirts need not be brand new. The design may be as
anonymous as you like. Please be mindful of safety issues.
The Clothesline Project is about direct, personal violence against women
and, traditionally, shirts are color-coded for different types of
violence:
White - for women who were murdered
Yellow or beige - for women who have been battered or assaulted
Black - for women who have been stalked
Red, pink, or orange - for women who have been raped or sexually
assaulted
Blue or green - for women who are survivors of incest or child sexual
abuse
Purple or lavender - for women attacked because they are or were
perceived to be lesbian
(These colors are not mandatory if a different color has special
significance.)
Shirts may be dropped off or mailed to the Center starting October 1.
Shirts will be accepted until November 15. For more information, please
contact Crystal Kile @ 504.865.5238.
1999 Zale Writer-in-Residence Ann Patchett
October 24-29
Ann Patchett is the Nashville-based author of the critically and popularly
acclaimed novels _The Patron Saint of Liars_, _Taft _ and _The Magician's
Assistant_. An accomplished short-story writer and essayist, her work has
has appeared in a diverse lot of popular and literary publications from
_Seventeen_ to _The Paris Review_.
The following Zale Writer-in-Residence events are free and open to the
public:
"Meet the Author"
Ann Patchett will sit for a public interview with Tulane Associate
Professor of English Molly Travis. Reception and book signing to follow
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday 26 October
Anna E. Many Lounge
2nd Floor Caroline Richardson Hall
Newcomb College, Tulane University
"An Evening With Ann Patchett"
A reading with reception and book signing to follow
7:30 p.m.
Thursday 28 October
Freeman Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center
Newcomb College, Tulane University
The Zale Writer-in-Residence Program was established by Dana Zale
Gerard upon her graduation from Newcomb College in 1985, and is
supported by a generous annual gift from the M.B. and Edna Zale
foundation of Dallas, Texas.
In addition to sitting for a public interview and delivering a reading,
the Zale Writer visits creative writing, literature and other liberal
arts classes, and meets one-on-one with advanced student writers.
The Zale Writer-in-Residence Program is coordinated through Newcomb
College Center for Research on Women, and is facilitated by a committee
composed of Newcomb and Tulane students, faculty and staff.
"Reasonable Person v. Me: Envisioning Feminist Legal Standards"
A talk by Dana Raigrodski
Friday 5 November
4 p.m.
Anna E. Many Lounge
Caroline Richardson Hall
This presentation will examine the role of one of our main social
institutions Ð the Law Ð in reflecting and perpetuating patriarchy. In
particular, the lecture will focus on the "reasonable person" standard,
which is used in many areas of law, including police searches and seizures
under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It will be
argued that this standard perpetuates patriarchy on several levels: First,
as utilized, the reasonable person standard represents a particular voice
Ð mostly that of educated, upper-class, white men Ð while excluding voices
of women, ethnic and racial minorities, and the poor from the legal
system. Second, from an ideological theoretical stance, this standard
perpetuates a dichotomous normative structure, which is both gendered and
hierarchical, in that it privileges "masculine" norms, such as
objectivity, universalism, and logocentrism, over "feminine" norms, such
as subjectivity, contextualism, and connectedness. Consequently, these
normative preferences perpetuate the social devaluation and subordination
of women and other disempowered members of society.
Dana Raigrodski earned her law degree from Tel-Aviv University, Israel, in
1995, then served for two and half years as a Lieutenant and a Military
Prosecutor in the Israel Defense Forces. In 1998, Ms. Raigrodski earned a
Master's Degree in Law from Tulane University Law School, where she is
currently working on her dissertation towards the degree of Doctor of
Juridical Science. Focused on advancing civil liberties and improving the
lives of women, she researches and writes at the intersections of
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Feminist Legal Theories.
Perspectives on Binge Drinking Among College Students
A presentation by Henry Wechsler
Monday 8 November
1:30 p.m.
Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel
Henry Wechsler is a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. He
has published widely on alcohol and tobacco use on college campuses,
including the team-authored article "A gender-specific measure of binge
drinking among college students" in the American Journal of Public Health
(July 1995).
Wechsler has a long-term interest in alcohol and drug abuse among young
people and in the development and evaluation of programs and policies to
reduce substance abuse and the harm it may produce. He has recently
completed a survey at 140 colleges and universities, selected to provide a
representative sample of American institutions of higher learning. The
results, based on a sample of over 17,000 students in 40 states, have
focused national attention on the pattern of heavy episodic or "binge"
drinking characteristic of college students. Major findings of this study
indicate the need for a gender-specific measure of binge drinking; a high
rate of binge drinking among college students and a high rate of problems
associated with this behavior; a wide variation in binge drinking levels
at
the participating schools, with "secondhand" binge effects negatively
impacting non-binging students at schools with large numbers of binge
drinkers. Dr. Wechsler is examining programs on individual college
campuses and evaluating their impact on the problem.
Dr. Wechsler's visit to Tulane is sponsored the Office of the President,
Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, the Department of
Psychology and the Robert Flowerree Psychology Fund
Inaugural Florie Arons Poetry Forum (public event)
Reading by Kate Daniels
The First Florie Arons Poet
7:30 p.m.
Thursday 11 November
Freeman Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center
Newcomb College, Tulane University
Reception to follow in Woodward Way
Kate Daniels is the Author of three volumes of poetry: _Four Testimonies_
(1998), _The Niobe Poems_ (1988), and _The White Wave_ (1984). She
has also edited or co-edited two other books, _Out of Silence: Muriel
Rukeyser's Selected Poems_ (1992) and _Of Solitude and Silence: Writings
on Robert Bly_ (1982). She is the recipient of a Bunting Fellowship, the
Agnes Lynch Starrett Award for a first book of poetry, the Crazyhorse
Prize for Poetry, and the Louisiana Literary Prize for Poetry.
Kate Daniels was born in Richmond, Virginia. She earned her B.A. and
M.A. in English from the University of Virginia in 1975 and 1977,
respectively, and received her M.F.A. in poetry writing from the Columbia
University School of Arts in 1980. She has taught English at the
University of Virginia, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
Louisiana State University, and Bennington College, and was
poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University from 1992 until 1994. Since
1995, she has taught at Vanderbilt University.
The Arons Poetry Program was established 1999 in celebration of the 70th
birthday of Florie Gale Arons, a Newcomb College alumna, by her three
daughters. In deciding on a way to honor their mother, Lisa, Gina and
Andrea focused on their mother's love of poetry and the ways poetry has
enriched her life. They intend that the Arons Poetry Program shall be "an
annual event to bring to campus a distinguished poet whose visit will
benefit students, faculty, alumnae and community members through
activities such as public readings, workshops, and class visits."
A Program of Films by Pratibha Parmar: _Wavelengths_, _Jodie: An
Icon_ and _The Righteous Babes_
Wednesday 1 December and Friday 3 December
7:30 p.m., Anna E. Many Lounge
_Wavelengths_ (1997/15 minutes)
Wavelengths explores the time-honored quest for love and human intimacy
in the polished world of computers and the Internet. Set in gay bars,
dreams and cyberspace, this perceptive and highly visual film contemplates
one woman's search for emotionally safer sex. Mona's girlfriend has left
Mona with a broken heart, an empty goldfish tank, and - in her altered
state - the ability to pick up other people's conversations. Stuck in the
post-relationship blues, Mona just can't seem to move on ...that is until
she discovers "cybersex." The film features photographs by Nan Goldin and
music by Everything But The Girl.
_Jodie: An Icon_ (1996/24 minutes)
Jodie: An Icon is a fast-paced, breezy look at the transatlantic
phenomenon that has made Hollywood actress Jodie Foster an icon for
lesbians who identify with, adore and celebrate the screen personas
of her remarkable career. Fans and queer cultural critics share their
favorite 'iconic' moments giving illuminating lesbian readings of Foster's
key films which trace the actress' progression from early tomboy parts as
a child to mature performances depicting active, strong-willed women with
attitude. The film is a funny, fascinating take on the role of popular
audiences.
_The Righteous Babes_ (1998/50 minutes)
In this documentary, Parmar explores the intersection of feminism with
popular music, focusing on the role of female recording artists in the
1990s and their influence on contemporary women. Intercutting performance
footage with interviews with some of the most outspoken female musicians,
feminist theorists and journalists in the UK and US, she argues that far
from being dead, feminism has thrived and expanded its reach through the
direct, aggressive and revolutionary medium of rock music and through
the role models of performers like Madonna, Ani di Franco and Tori
Amos. _The Righteous Babes_ offers a searing and timely critique of the
commercialization of feminism through "Girl Power" Spice Girl style,
Ally McBeal and her UK counterpart Bridget Jones.