Fridays at Newcomb is a speaker series from noon to 1 pm on Fridays in the Diboll Gallery at Newcomb Institute of Tulane University (43 Newcomb Place, New Orleans, LA 70118). The series features new insights from scholars at Tulane and beyond related to Newcomb Institute’s three main research areas: sexual and reproductive rights and health, gender-based violence, and feminist civic engagement. Each talk is free and open to the public, and lunch is provided. For more information, contact Dr. Clare Daniel, Senior Professor of Practice and Director of Research at Newcomb Institute: cdaniel5@tulane.edu.
Alumnae who are interested in attending should preregister online here.
Fall 2025 Events:
August 29: Anna Mahoney, Clare Daniel, and Grace Riley, “Framing Reproductive Health Policy in a Highly Constrained Political Environment”
September 5: Maybell Romero, "Shamed"
September 19: Ilana Horwitz, “The Unequal Climb: Class, Gender, and the Myth of Going It Alone”
September 26: Lesley Greene and Diana Greene Foster, "Study of the Consequences of Unwanted Pregnancy: Science, Art, and Conversations about Abortion"
October 10: Jami Attenberg, "'Putting your Creativity First"
October 17: Emily Skidmore, “Breastfeeding as Bodily Autonomy: The Politics of Infant Feeding in the Early 20th Century United States”
October 31: Krystal Cleary, “'Some Decks May Be Stacked Against Us, But This Deck is Ours': Justice-Centered Tarot in and Against the New Age”
November 7: Daniel Brook, “Beyond All Binaries: An introduction to the life and thought of German-Jewish physician and queer rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935)"
