Community and School Event Calendar

The Tulane School of Social Work partners with numerous community organizations to offer its students community outreach opportunities along with public lectures and even community education efforts. Below is a listing of upcoming events both at TSSW as well as in the community that focus or address a social need or offer a social service or learning opportunity.

To submit a calendar event, please contact Joseph Halm via e-mail or at (504) 836-3483. The school will run listings as far in advance as they are submitted, and they will be taken down the day after the event. Please provide contact info with your calendar submission. Thanks!

May 2013 Events

Saturday, May 18 -- 9 a.m. to noon

Tulane Unified Commencement Ceremony

Mercedes-Benz Superdome

The School is very excited to announce that the University-wide unified commencement ceremonies will be held on Saturday, May 18 beginning at 9 a.m. We hope you will be present to welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama as commencement speaker.  Because of the many activities beginning on Thursday, May 16 through Saturday, May 18 associated with HHDL’s visit, the School has scheduled the School of Social Work separate commencement for Sunday, May 19 from 10:30 a.m. to noon.  While the University will confer your degree, the School's separate ceremony will present you with the actual “piece of paper” and includes MSW, Ph.D. (Social Work) and DRLA-M.S. students.  We hope you will attend both ceremonies.

For more details about the unified ceremony and its ticket requirements, please click here -- http://tulane.edu/grads/.

If you have any other questions, please contact Ms. Vivian Smith at 800-631-8234

Sunday, May 19 -- 10:30 a.m. to noon

School of Social Work Commencement Ceremony

Qatar Ballroom on the second floor of the Lavin-Bernick Center

The School is very excited to announce that the University-wide unified commencement ceremonies will be held on Saturday, May 18 beginning at 9 a.m. We hope you will be present to welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama as commencement speaker.  Because of the many activities beginning on Thursday, May 16 through Saturday, May 18 associated with HHDL’s visit, the School has scheduled the School of Social Work separate commencement for Sunday, May 19 from 10:30 a.m. to noon.  While the University will confer your degree, the School's separate ceremony will present you with the actual “piece of paper” and includes MSW, Ph.D. (Social Work) and DRLA-M.S. students.  We hope you will attend both ceremonies.

The social work ceremony will be held in the Qatar Ballroom on the second floor of the Lavin-Bernick Center located on Tulane's Uptown Campus. The ceremony will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 19 and will last about an hour. A celebratory reception with cake and refreshments will immediately follow in the same room. The social work ceremony is an open event, and seating is filled on a first come, first serve basis.

If you have any other questions, please contact Ms. Vivian Smith at 800-631-8234.

Thursday, May 30 -- 12:20 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.

Compassion Fatigue, Empathic Discernment, and Self Care for Social

Workers with Dr. Kathy Figley

Room 103 in the Social Work Building

Trauma Thursdays is a monthly discussion of trauma and its consequences with Dr. Charles Figley and his guests. The events are held in Room 103 of the School of Social Work Building from 12:30 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.

The May 30 discussion will feature Dr. Kathleen Regan Figley, who is as adjunct member of the Tulane University faculty both in Social Work and in the Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy. She is executive editor of the 2012 Encyclopedia of Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Guide and a leading world expert on compassion fatigue and self care among those who care for the traumatized. This brief session involves discussing the most important tools for professional social workers and others to prevent compassion fatigue and promote human development and thriving a long career of human services.

Lunch will be provided for attendees, so if you want to attend, please RSVP to Kathy Smith at krshiv@tulane.edu or 504.862.3489.

June 2013 Events

Thursday, June 27 -- 12:20 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.

Magical Treatment Methods for the Traumatized: Advanced Workshop Overview

with Charles Figley and guests.
Room 103 in the Social Work Building

Trauma Thursdays is a monthly discussion of trauma and its consequences with Dr. Charles Figley and his guests. The events are held in Room 103 of the School of Social Work Building from 12:30 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.

In 1994, Dr. Figley invited four teams of clinical innovators to his laboratory at the Marriage and Family Therapy Center at Florida State University as part of the “Active Ingredient Project” that featured popular and apparently effective traumatic stress treatment methods to desensitize clients to their traumatic memories. These and other methods will be discussed, including hypnotherapy and Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). They are remarkable in their speed in affecting stress reduction as reported by clients and research participants. With sufficient interest the Traumatology Institute may offer a weekend workshop for practitioners.

Lunch will be provided for attendees, so if you want to attend, please RSVP to Kathy Smith at krshiv@tulane.edu or 504.862.3489.