Fridays at Newcomb

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.

Spring 2026 Events:

January 23: Jamie Morgan, PhD, "Storytelling as Political Resistance and Gendered Liberation"

January 30: Changwook Ju, PhD, "Gender Under Attack: Gender Equality and Rebel Sexual Violence" 

February 6: Jane Burkhart and Lizzie Harbin, "A Mother-Daughter Story of Resiliency" 

February 27: Anita Raj, Melissa Goldin Evans, Rebecca Zerzan, "The Real Fertility Crisis: The Pursuit of Reproductive Agency in a Changing World" 

March 6: Hope Xu Yan, PhD, "Racial-ethnic Differences in U.S. Mothers' Parenting Stress and Depression" 

April 3: Soojin Pate, PhD, "A Matter of Empire: Critical Adoption Studies and the Legacies of U.S. Militarism in Korean Adoption" 

April 10: Jillian Daniel, PhD, "Estrogens, Menopause, and Brain Aging" 

April 24: Janice McCabe, PhD, "How Gender Shapes Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends in College"