[GWAMIT] Announcements

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,

 

Enjoy the week!

 

The GWAMIT Board

Visit us at: http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit

Send your ideas to: gwamit-exec at mit.edu

Send your announcements to: gwamit-sec at mit.edu

 

 

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IN BRIEF

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GWAMIT:

1. GWAMIT is Recruiting New Leaders!

2. GWAMIT Leadership Conference Slides are Now Available on Website

3. Join the GWAMIT Spring 2011 Empowerment Conference Planning Committee!

 

MIT:

4. [Mon 11/29] Session on writing and publishing academic work (E51-191, 2 pm)

5. [Mon 11/29] Women in Mathematics seminar (2-135, 5:30 pm)

6. [Th 12/2] Deadline to Submit Proposals for the Gender, Sexuality and Urban Spaces Conference: December 2

7. [Sun 12/5] AMITA Holiday Pot-luck and Ellen Swallow Richards Birthday Party (Brown Living Rm, McCormick Hall, 1-4 pm)

  

Outside MIT:

8. [Sat 12/4] Film Screening: Anonymously Yours (Brattle Theatre, 5:05 pm)

9. [Sat 1/15] Application Deadline for The 2011 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop: January 15, 2011

 

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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS

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********GWAMIT********


1. GWAMIT is Recruiting New Leaders!

GWAMIT Open Positions:

Executive Board:

•       Co-Chair (2 positions - 1 Fall, 1 Spring) - manage daily operations, attend Exec Meetings

•       Publicity Chair - manage public relations, collaborations across MIT, attend Exec Mtgs

•       Treasurer - keep financial records, attend Exec Mtgs

Planning Committees:

•       Spring '11 Women's Empowerment Conference

•       Co-Chair (2 positions) - manage programming and event leads, maintain contacts

•       Funding chair - meet with potential sponsors

•       Logistics chair - reserve space, catering

•       Publicity chair - design and organize ads, posters, emails

•       Mentoring Program Co-Chair (Fall '10) - co-lead Planning Committee (matching mentoring groups, 2 events)

•       Fall '11 Leadership Conference

•       Co-Chair (2 positions) - manage event leads, maintain contacts

•       Event leads - design and coordinate a leadership event or leverage existing templates

•       Funding chair - meet with potential sponsors

•       Logistics chair - reserve space, catering

•       Publicity chair - design and organize ads, posters, emails

•       Monthly Collaborative Events Leads (Feb, Mar/Apr)

•       2 positions - help run a 1-time event in collaboration with existing MIT offices and services

  

Interested? Contact gwamit-exec at mit.edu

 

2. Resources are Available on the GWAMIT Leadership Conference Website

https://sites.google.com/site/thegwamitleadershipconference/

 

PowerPoint slides for all of the Leadership Conference Events are now available under the Resources tab.  Check back soon for videos from the conference! 

 

3. Join the GWAMIT Spring Women's Week Planning Committee!

Contact: jeanyang at mit.edu

 

Do any of the following describe you?

- You were impressed with our Spring 2010 Kick-Off and want to see more of these events.

- You want to get more involved with GWAMIT.

- You want more leadership experience to further your personal/professional development.

- You want to work with strong, motivated, and passionate women.

- You have an idea for a talk/panel/workshop.

 

If so, you should join our Spring 2011 Empowerment Conference Planning Committee.  Help us bring innovative, provocative, and informative events to campus!



 

To see what we did last spring, take a look here:
               

Event page: http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit/events/spring2010.html
               

Blog post: http://gwamit.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-kick-off-2010-in-review.html


 

Last year we bootstrapped ourselves from having no initial budget/collaborators, so this year can only be even more amazing.  Come be a part of it!



 

There are varying levels of commitment from helping out with specific tasks to leading an event.  No previous event planning/GWAMIT experience required.  We especially encourage students in their early years of grad school to get involved.

 



E-mail jeanyang at mit.edu for more details or to sign-up.

 

 

**********MIT**********

 

4. Session on writing and publishing academic work

When: Monday, November 29, 2 pm

Where: E51-191

Contact: David Duran, dvduran at mit.edu

 

You are invited to an upcoming event specially designed to help graduate students in writing and publishing academic work. This event provides a rare opportunity for graduate students to discuss academic writing and publication with a scholar who has extensive experience in both “doing” and “teaching” in these areas:

 

William Storey, last year’s winner of the Edelstin “best book” Prize of the Society for the History of Technology and author of Writing History: A Guide for Students, will conduct a brownbag lunch on academic writing from noon to 2 PM on Monday, November 29, in the STS Reading Room, E51-191.  Prof. Storey requested the opportunity to meet with MIT and Harvard graduate students for this workshop in connection with his appearance the next day as part of our joint “subway series.”

 

All HASTS students are invited, as well as other graduate students at Harvard or elsewhere at MIT who might be interested please spread the word.

(students from outside the HASTS program should notify David Duran in STS Headquarters if you plan to come: dvduran at mit.edu) ,however, you are welcome to attend even if you do not RSVP in advance.

 

5. Women in Mathematics seminar

When: Monday November 29th  at 5:30 PM

Where: MIT's Building 2, Room 135

 

Speaker: Sarah Koch (Harvard University)

Title: Matings of Polynomials

 

Pizza following the talk.

 

For an abstract, please visit: http://math.mit.edu/wim/events/seminars.html

 

This is a series of generally accessible talks (starting from advanced undergraduates) by female research visitors to MIT's Mathematics Department.

 

6. Deadline to Submit Proposals for the Gender, Sexuality and Urban Spaces Conference: December 2

Website: http://web.mit.edu/gcws/Grad_conference_2011/index_Intro_2011.html

 

The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies is launching it's fourth conference, developed by and for students doing graduate work in the field of Women's and Gender Studies.

 

The 2011 conference is an event organized by graduate students for graduate students and community members working in the field of Women's and Gender Studies. It is a 2-day event (March 11&12, 2011) where students and faculty will gather to present and discuss cutting-edge student work, workshop ideas, and network to share skills and resources and build cross-institutional colleague community.

 

Panels and presentation submissions are encouraged! We are now accepting proposals -- click here for information on the submission guidelines and selection process. Proposal deadline: December 2, 2010.

 

7. AMITA Holiday Pot-luck and Ellen Swallow Richards Birthday Party

When: Sunday, December 5, 1-4 pm

Where: Brown Living Room, McCormick Hall, 320 Memorial Drive

RSVP: AMITA webpage – alumweb.mit.edu/groups/amita

Contact: Julie Schwedock (schwedoc at alum.mit.edu)

 

AMITA invites all women students and all women graduates to celebrate with us at the party for Ellen Swallow Richards (MIT 1873), our first woman graduate.

 

Ellen applied her brilliant mind, chemistry training, and organizing finesse to advancing the science and knowledge of clean water, clean air, pure food and healthy homes. She was dedicated to reducing "the inconvenience of ignorance."

 

There will be balloons and games! MIT Trivia! And juggling!

 

Come meet alumnae, other women students and enjoy some FREE CAKE and ICE CREAM!

 

1 pm: Gathering

3 pm: Cake and Ice Cream

 

Please register, so we’ll have a list for the McCormick reception desk.

 

Link from the AMITA webpage – alumweb.mit.edu/groups/amita

Register through the “without Infinite Connection” right side of the page.

 

**********Outside MIT**********

 

8. Film Screening: Anonymously Yours

When: Saturday - December 4, 2010, 5:05 pm (88 min running time)

Where: Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

 

MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies in collaboration with Women in Film and Video/New England present a CHICKS MAKE FLICKS film screening...

 

ANONYMOUSLY YOURS

a documentary by Gayle Ferraro

 

Deep in the uncharted world of sex trafficking in Southeast Asia, the strikingly different stories from four women are pieced together to reveal an institution that enslaves as many as forty million women worldwide. From the backrooms of teashops and restaurants, to five star hotels, the Far East sex trade thrives on the routine merchandising of women for the sexual escape and pleasure of men from all cultures. Through their shocking, video-taped testimonies, Burmese prostitutes initiate Western audiences to the widespread corruption and staggering poverty that are the status quo in much of the world, and the primary causes behind the fastest-growing industry on earth.

 

Each female in Anonymously Yours shares her own intensely painful experiences as the commerce in this human trade. The documentary builds upon each individual account without introducing the girls’ families—some of which are directly responsible for selling the women into slavery. The lines between perpetrator and victim are blurred as audiences begin to relate to all players and understand their motives rooted in human need. By the end of the film, one can only hope the outcome will be positive as the reformed prostitutes strive to create new and better lives for themselves and their families. However, when the cameras stop, and the girls’ return their appalling realities, it is the audience, made painfully aware of the women’s tragic lives, that is changed.

 

Q &A with Director Gayle Ferraro to follow

 

General Public: $10/ Student Tickets: $7/Non-profit staff: $8

 

This film is part of the Boston Initiative to Advance Human Rights [BITAHR] Human Rights & Sex Trafficking Film Forum 2010, December 2 - 5, 2010.

 For a complete schedule of films, panels, events and speaker bios, visit www.bitahrfilmforum.org

 

9. Application Deadline for The 2011 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop: January 15, 2011

 

Workshop Dates: April 1-2, 2010 in Boston, MA

Website: http://www.cra-w.org/gradcohort

 

CRA-W is announcing the formation of the 2011 Grad Cohort for Women. Cohort activities will kick off with a workshop April 1-2, 2011 in Boston, MA, funded by generous donations from Microsoft and Google. This workshop is the cornerstone of CRA-W's Grad Cohort Program to increase the ranks of senior women in computing by building and mentoring nationwide communities of women during their graduate studies.

 

At the Grad Cohort Workshop, we will welcome new women graduate students in their first year of graduate school into the community of computing researchers and professionals by providing them with a broad range of strategies and role models. Strategies and mentoring for students in their second and third years of graduate school will also be provided. In addition, some of the returning students will be invited to describe their experiences and new insights. All of the students will meet for two days with 10 to 15 senior computing researchers and professionals who will share pertinent information on graduate school survival skills, as well as more personal information and insights about their experiences. The rewards of a research career will be emphasized. The workshop will include a mix of formal presentations and informal discussions and social events. Through this workshop, students will be able to build mentoring relationships and develop peer networks that will form the basis for ongoing activities during their graduate careers.

 

Eligibility:

 

*Women students in their first, second or third year of graduate school in computer science and computer engineering or a closely related field

 

Travel expenses, meals and lodging will be provided for students chosen to participate in this program.

 

For more information and to apply for the Grad Cohort program:

http://www.cra-w.org/gradcohort

 

*Application deadline is January 15, 2011.*

 
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