[GWAMIT] Announcements

Mon Apr 5 00:13:53 EDT 2010

Dear Graduate Women,

Enjoy the Week!

The GWAMIT Board

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IN BRIEF

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Notices:

1. Deadline to apply for Career Transition Group for PhD’s

Events:

2. Mobile Women, Immobile Men? Class, Gender, and everyday mobilities

3. Empowering Women: How to Impress When Interviewing & Networking

4. Developing Your International Career

5. "The Politics of Madonna Icons: The Mother of God and Russian  
National Identity"

6. BARCC Walk 4 Change

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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1. Deadline to apply for Career Transition Group for PhD’s

When: Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Where: http://surveys.myinterfase.com/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=n6LM3o7M

In these four-2 hr small group sessions we will cover career  
transition strategies, self-assessments and help you understand  
yourself better in relation to work- gain awareness of what skills,  
interests and values you want to use in your work and expand your  
knowledge of helpful career development resources.

PLEASE NOTE: This course does NOT deal with direct job hunting,  
resumes, salary negotiation etc. The primary focus is self-exploration  
and strategies for handling your career transition

Space: Space is limited. Only 16-18 PhD students will be accepted

Dates: Thursdays, April 22nd, 29th, May 6th and May 13th

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Application: http://surveys.myinterfase.com/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=n6LM3o7M

By clicking on the attached link you will be asked to fill out the  
following information in order to apply:

- Your Name

- Major/Discipline

- Year in Program/Expected Graduation Date

- Statement on what you would like to get out of the program

- Past self-assessment experience

2. Mobile Women, Immobile Men? Class, Gender, and everyday mobilities  
in Urban Egypt

When: Tuesday, April 6, 6 – 7 pm

Where: 7-338

Speaker:

Farha Ghannam

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Swarthmore College

Looking at urban mobilities as embodied practices and liminal  
encounters, this anthropological contribution explores how the  
intersection between gender, age, and class shape (in expected and  
unexpected ways) the daily movements of men and women in a low-income  
neighborhood in Cairo. It shows that while spatial mobility is  
strongly structured by one’s material, cultural, and social capital,  
it also has the potential to either facilitate or to hinder the  
accumulation and/or conversion of these forms of capital. The lecture  
traces the trajectories of some young men and women to capture how  
their ability to appropriate various urban spaces shift over time and  
how they manage their bodies to fit the proper conduct in their  
neighborhood while passing as cool youth, good citizens, dependable  
workers, and trustworthy clients in other urban areas.

Professor Farha Ghannam is respected urban anthropologist whose work  
has examined how the aspirations of politics, planning and individuals  
translates into the adaptations of physical space - as in her  
acclaimed book, "Remaking the modern: space, relocation, and the  
politics of identity in a global Cairo", and the new 'dream lands'  
imagined on the outskirts of Middle Eastern suburbia. Her most recent  
research investigates how understandings of gender interact with  
individual movement and appropriation of space over their lifetimes  
and will be published in a book later this year.

3. Empowering Women: How to Impress When Interviewing & Networking

When: Thursday, April 8, 3 – 4:30 pm

Where: 4-145

Sign up on CareerBridge: https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student/

Oftentimes women can make missteps when interviewing & networking  
which could ultimately cost you a job. Come hear tips on some traps  
women often fall into when interviewing and networking and ways in  
which to avoid them.

Open to: MIT-only

Sponsor(s): Career Development Center

For more information, contact: Career Development Center,  
617-253-4733, mitco at mit.edu

4. Developing Your International Career

When: Thursday, April 8, 6 – 8 pm

Where: 4-237

Register: https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student/

Join us to explore the numerous paths that can lead to rewarding and  
exciting international careers. A panel of professionals from leading  
international organizations will offer perspectives on goal setting,  
networking, and building the skills you need to thrive in a global  
environment.

Organizations include:  CIA, Chemonics International, Schlumberger,  
TomTom, and others!

Open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as alumni.

5. "The Politics of Madonna Icons: The Mother of God and Russian  
National Identity"

When: Friday, April 9, 12 – 1 pm

Where: E51-095

The MIT Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies (CB/BS) and the  
program in Women's and Gender Studies are pleased to announce a  
brownbag forum:

Amy Singleton Adams (The College of the Holy Cross) will speak on "The  
Politics of Madonna Icons: The Mother of God and Russian National  
Identity"

Russian leaders traditionally use their discovery or possession of  
significant Mother of God icons to advance military, social, and  
political agendas. Church leaders support the link between these  
Madonna icons and Russian self-perception in sermons that describe  
Mary's favoritism toward the Russian nation itself. This talk will  
explore the narrative culture that surrounds Mother of God icons.  
These tales of loss and discovery paint a more complex picture of the  
Madonna image, as political and ecclesiastic power is subtly  
challenged by the power of the icon itself.

Amy is the author of Noplace Like Home: The Literary Artist and  
Russia's Search for Cultural Identity and is currently directing the  
"Framing the Madonna" project.

This event is cosponsored by The MIT Center for Bilingual/Bicultural  
Studies (CB/BS) and the program in Women's and Gender Studies.

6. BARCC Walk 4 Change

When: Sunday, April 11

Where: Canal Park at Cambridgeside Galleria

Walk with "Team MIT" in the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center's (BARCC)  
annual Walk For Change!  The walk will be taking place on Sunday,  
April 11th, beginning at Canal Park at Cambridgeside Galleria.  
Registration begins at 10:00 AM, with a start time of 11:00 AM.

"Team MIT" is a group of MIT community members who are committed to  
raising funds and awareness not just for the Walk For Change but  
throughout the course of the year as well. The "Team MIT" page can be  
found at the following link:

http://www.firstgiving.com/process/teamarea/default.asp?did=2147&TeamId=92190&EventId=71273

For more information on the walk or how to register, please visit http://www.firstgiving.com/barcc 
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If you have any further questions, please contact Greg Baker from MIT  
Medical at 617-253-5770 or baker at med.mit.edu
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