Newcomb Institute Events
February 13, 2025
Join us for the third annual Audre Lorde-Bayard Rustin QTBIPOC Luncheon!As we break bread, share community with one another, and honor our queer and trans BIPOC ancestors who uplifted justice and liberation in their lifetimes. We celebrate Audre…
February 14, 2025
Dr. Amanda Johnson is the 2024-2025 Bonquois Postdoctoral Fellow in women’s history for the Newcomb Institute of Tulane. Before arriving at Newcomb, Dr. Johnson earned her Ph.D. in Native American and Women and Gender Histories at Oklahoma State…
February 20, 2025
Newcomb Institute and the Newcomb Alumnae Association invite you to attend a special panel event in honor of Black History Month. Caroline Kennedy, Mary Shaffer, and Connie Nelson -- members of the Newcomb Class of 1974 and some of the first…
February 21, 2025
Sarah M. Hedgecock is the Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral fellow at Tulane. Her work engages the fields of religious, childhood, and gender studies, and she is completing a book project about nostalgia, relationality, and white American evangelical…
March 14, 2025
- Deon Haywood is an activist, human rights advocate, mother and grandmother, and community leader from New Orleans. For more than 30 years, she has advocated for the rights of Black women and girls, poor and working class folks, sex workers,…
March 18, 2025
Career Lessons You Can’t Learn in Class: Candid and practical discussions about careers, success stories, challenges, and lessons learned.
This event will bring together students and alums from all professions to discuss best practices…
March 21, 2025
Dr. Michelle Manno (she/they) is the Interim Chief Diversity Officer at Northwestern University. In this role, Dr. Manno oversees The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (OIDI) including The Women’s Center and Native American Indigenous…
March 21, 2025
A one-day symposium featuring research on Puerto Rican studies in relation to colonialism. The event will feature four research presentations by guest speakers with student moderators and one poetry reading.
March 25, 2025
Conceiving Equity will feature poster presentations by Newcomb Institute’s Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health interns, followed by the annual Roe v. Wade lecture with Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer, authors of The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a…
April 11, 2025
Cosponsored by Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research. Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, “Black Maternal Health – We can do better, we must do better,” cosponsored for Black Maternal Health Week by the Social, Behavioral, and Population…
