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Thursday, February 8

12:00 pm–6:00 pm REGISTRATION

2:00 pm–5:00 pm TOUR OF NEW ORLEANS WITH LOCAL HEROINES
Stories from the Storm
Hear our storm stories on the bus
Cherice Harrison Nelson, Guardians of the Flame
Herreast Harrison, Guardians of the Flame
Laura Maloney, LASPCA
Sandy Rosenthal, Levees.org
Becky Zaheri, Katrina Krewe
Sherry Watters, Department of Social Services
La Toya Cantrell, Broadmoor Improvement Association
Liz Sloss, Women of the Storm

5:30 pm–6:00 pm OPENING CEREMONY
Welcome: Rebecca Mark, Interim Executive Director, Newcomb College Institute
Ausettua Amor Amenkum: Moment of Reflection/Remembrance

6:00 pm–7:00 pm DINNER

7:00 pm–8:00 pm PLENARY: GENDER AND DISASTER
Introduction: Amy V. Lafreniere, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University

Maureen Fordham, Senior Lecturer in Disaster Management, University of Northumbria, Divisions of Geography and Environmental Management
Title of Talk: “Learning from Women for a World in Crisis”

Friday, February 9th

8:00 am–11:00 am REGISTRATION

8:00 am–9:00 am BREAKFAST

9:00 pm–10:00 pm PLENARY: GLOBAL WARMING
Introduction: Dr. Denise J. Reed, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans

Dr. Azadeh Tabazadeh, Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics,
Stanford University
Title of Talk: “Causes and Effects of Climate Change in the 21st Century”

10:15 am-11:45 am WOMEN IN POST CONFLICT ZONES
Introduction: Nancy Mock, Director, Center for International Resource Development, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Tulane University

Wenona Giles, School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty, York University
Title of Talk: “The Gendered Globalization of Exile: From New Orleans to Afghanistan”

Jennifer Hyndman, Professor, Department of Geography, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Title of Talk: “Gendering Disasters: Loss, Survival and Change in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka”

11:45 am LUNCH provided

12:15 pm- 1:15 pm ART AND SOCIAL CHANGE I
Introduction: Pamela Franco, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University

Kim Berman, Senior Lecturer, Fine Art, University of Johannesburg; Founding Director, Artist Proof Studio and Phumani Paper
Title of Talk: “Can Art Change Lives? Paper Prayers, an Example of an HIV/AIDS Action Project in South Africa”

1:30 pm- 3:30 pm STUDENT FORUM
Chair: Lauren Magnuson, Tulane University
Corinne DuCre, University of New Orleans, St. Tammany Parish Planning Department
S. Mandisa Moore, Loyola University, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and Women’s Health & Justice Initiative
Frances Olajide, Xavier University, Book Bombing Africa and Children’s Betterment Way
Erica Trani, Tulane University, International New Orleans Exchange (IN Exchange) not-for-profit store
Samantha Vance, Tulane University, Global Youth Connect Human Rights Delegation to El Salvador

An exhibition of student-initiated service projects will follow the panel.

3:45 pm- 5:15 pm WAR, PEACE AND ACTIVISM
Introduction: Susanne Dietzel, Director of the Loyola Women’s Resource Center and member of the New Orleans chapter of CODE PINK, and Crystal Kile, Assistant Director for Programs and Projects, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women

Andrea Buffa, CODE PINK
Title: “Women and War: From the Leadership of Women in the US Peace Movement to the Impact of the War on Women in Iraq”

Erin Solaro, author and expert on women in the military
Title of Talk: “The Woman Soldier: American Servicewomen: Their Army, Our War”

5:15 pm–6:00 pm RECEPTION,
Lavin-Bernick Center at Tulane University
Asali Devan, spoken word poet

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

Saturday, February 10th

9:00 am–10:00 pm GENDER AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Introduction: Laura Murphy, Clinical Assistant Professor, International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University

Irene Dankelman, Women’s Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO); lecturer, University of Nijmegen
Title of Talk: “Women Worldwide Countervail Environmental Crises”

10:15 am–11:45am ART AND SOCIAL CHANGE II - PANEL
Moderator: Amy Koritz, Associate Professor of English, Tulane University; Director, Newcomb Neighbors Program

Kim Berman, Senior Lecturer, Fine Art, University of Johannesburg Founding Director, Artist Proof Studio and Phumani Paper
Title of Talk: “Creating Spaces for Imagination and Transformational Practices in Higher Education: a South African Case Study”

Julie Ellison, Professor, American Culture, English, and Art and Design, University of Michigan, Founding Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Title of Talk: “Teaching the Project: Thriving and Surviving for Women Faculty, Students, and Community Arts Partners”

Jan Cohen Cruz, Associate Professor, Drama and Director, Office of Community Connections, New York University
Title of Talk: “On-stage and Off: Socially-Engaged Performance”

12:00 pm–1:30 pm OUR CITIES: URBAN CRISES/TEACHERS/HEALERS Roundtable
Chair: Marva Lewis, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Tulane University
Tracy Rubenstein, Sexual Assault Response and Assistance Center (SARA)
Cherice Harrison Nelson, Teacher
Holly Bendtsen, Teacher, LaFayette Academy, New Orleans
Shana Griffin, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

1:45 pm–3:30 pm USING YOUR EDUCATION TO CREATE CHANGE
Ruthie Frierson, Citizens For One Greater New Orleans

Stephanie Haynes, Citizens For One Greater New Orleans

Carol BeBelle, co-founder and co-director, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

3:45 pm–5:30 pm PRESERVING WOMEN’S HISTORY IN TIMES OF CRISIS.
LIBRARIES/CENTERS FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN
Chair: Susan Tucker, Curator for Books and Records, Nadine R. Vorhoff Library, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University

Nancy Cott, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University

Sherrill Redmon, Director of the Sophia Smith Collection and Coordinator of Special Collections, Smith College Libraries, Smith College

Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Women's Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin System, Madison

6:30 pm OPENING CEREMONY FOR THE NEWCOMB COLLEGE INSTITUTE
NEWCOMB ALUMNAE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Lisa Ling, Keynote speaker and 2007 Adele Ramos Salzer Lecturer

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm DINNER
Music: Susan Cowsill NCI

Sunday, February 11th

8:00 am–9:00 am Bus Pick up at hotels for Second Tour

9:00 am–11:00 am SECOND TOUR

11:00 am-1:00 pm RIBBON CUTTING
Guardians of the Flame/ Newcomb Neighbors/ Tulane Architecture

CLOSING CEREMONY: Healing of the land: Our Mother, our Earth