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- Posted July 8, 2008
“Educating Women for a World in Crisis” was the Newcomb College Institute's 2007 Inaugural Summit.
The event was held February 8-11, 2007, at the Lavin-Bernick Center at Tulane University.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Gender and Disaster
Maureen Fordham presents her speech Learning from Women for a World in Crises
Friday, February 9, 2007
Global Warming
Azadeh Tabazadeh presents her speech Causes and Effects of Climate Change in the 21st Century.
A question and answer session followed.
Women in Post Conflict Zones
Nancy Mock introduces the speakers.
Wenona Giles presents her speech The Gendered Globalization of Exile: From New Orleans to Afghanistan.
Jennifer Hyndman presents her speech Gendering Disasters: Loss, Survival and Change in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka.
Art and Social Change I
Kim Berman presents her speech Can Art Change Lives? Paper Prayers, an Example of an HIV/AIDS Action Project in South Africa.
A question and answer session followed.
A Roundtable Discussion
On the Move: Student Activists on Scholarship and Service
War, Peace and Activism
Andrea Buffa presents her speech 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 presents her speech The Women Soldier: American Servicewomen: Their Army, Our War.
A panel discussion followed.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Gender and the Environment
Irene Dankelman presents her speech Women Worldwide Countervail Environmental Crises.
A question and answer session followed.
A Panel Discussion
Art and Social Change II
Our Cities: Urban Crises/Teachers/Healers
A Panel Discussion in Five Parts
Holly Bendtsen
Shana Griffin
Cherice Harrison Nelson
Tracy Rubenstein
A question and answer session followed.
Using Your Education to Create Change
Carol BeBelle disusses her work with the Ashe Cultural Arts Center.
Citzens for 1 Greater New Orleans members Ruthie Frierson and Stephanie Haynes discuss the beginnings of their organization.
Preserving Women's History in the Face of Ruin
Susan Tucker introduces the panel.
Phyllis Holman Weisbard presents her speech The Undergraduate Quest for Resources Documenting Women's Experiences in Disasters.
Sherrill Redmon presents her speech Preserving Women's Stories of Disasters.
Nancy Cott presents her speech In the Rubble: Women's History as a Bulwark.
A question and answer session followed.
Keynote Speaker
Lisa Ling's speech is unavailable and we are working to bring it to you soon. Read her biography here.
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