[GWAMIT] Announcements - Registration for Spring Empowerment Conference is open

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,

*Be sure to RSVP for the first GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference, details
below.*

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. Registration is open for GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference! (Wed, Mar
9 - Fri, Mar 11)!
    a. Keynote: "Power, and How to Find it in Places You Didn't Expect" (Wed,
Mar 9, 5:15-7:30p.)
    b. Communications Workshop (*RSVP Required; Wed, Mar. 9, 9-11:30a)
    c. Online Personal Branding Workshop (*RSVP Required; Thur, Mar. 10,
2:15-4p)
    d. Power Couples Panel (Thur, Mar. 10, 5-7pm).
    e. "I'm not a Feminist, but..." - Conversations on What Modern Feminism
Looks Like (Fri. March 11, 4:30-6:30p)
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**MIT Events:*
2. MIT Sloan Women in Management Conference (Fri, March 11)*
*3. D.W.Weeks Women in Math Lecture Series: "An Almost Isotropic Universe"
(Mon. Feb. 28, 5:30p)
4. MIT WGS Screening: Never Perfect (Thu. Mar. 3, 7-9p)
5. Ellen Swallow Richards' Legacy: MIT Alumnae Making a Difference (Sat. Mar
5, 11:30a-8p)
6. $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Price Ceremony (Wed. Mar. 9, 7-9p)
7. MIT150 Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT (Mon. Mar 28-
Tues. Mar. 29)

*MIT Announcements: *
8. Seeking Volunteers for the GCWS Conference: Gender, Sexuality, and Urban
Spaces
9. GCWS is on Facebook
10. Saturday Night @ MIT launched and seeking submissions

*Outside MIT:*
11. [Radcliffe] Driving Change, Shaping Lives: Gender in the Developing
World (Thu. Mar 3-Fri. Mar 4)


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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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*********GWAMIT********
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*1. Registration is open for GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference! (Wed, Mar
9 - Fri, Mar 11)
When:* Wednesday, March 9 through Friday, March 11
*Facebook:* http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169064299808657
*Details:* empowerment.gwamit.org
*RSVP:* rsvp.gwamit.org

Dear GWAMIT Members,

*Registration is now open for the first GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference
March 9-11!*

Come to any or all of our Empowerment Conference events at no cost!  (Events
requiring an RSVP may fill up quickly). Please RSVP at: rsvp.gwamit.org
Events include:

*1a. Keynote: "Power, and How to Find it in Places You Didn't Expect" *
*When:* Wednesday, March 9, 5:30-6:30pm, Refreshments at 5:15pm, Reception
6:30-7:30pm.
*Where:* BCS auditorium (46-3002)
*Speaker:* Cindy Gallop, founder & CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld.com

We all want to be 'empowered' - but what does that really mean?  Provocative
thoughts on how you can leverage your own power in ways you may never have
thought of.
Networking reception with refreshments and hors d'oeuvres from 6:30-7:30pm.

*1b. Communications Workshop (*RSVP Required)*
*When:* Wednesday, March 9, 9:30-11:30am, Breakfast at 9am.
*Where:* 68-181
*Speaker:* Dina Napoli Goode, Communications Coach for Microsoft
Communications Savvy: from MIT to Everyday Excellence--the tools you need to
be clear, concise and compelling in conversation and in talks.

*1c. Online Personal Branding Workshop (*RSVP Required)*
*When:* Thursday, March 10, 2:30-4pm, Refreshments at 2:15pm.
*Where:* 32-D463 (Stata Star Room)
*Speaker: *Nicholas Lamphere - Social Media Consultant and Instructor, &
Tilke Judd - EECS Graduate Student

Learn to promote yourself and your work online through social media and the
creation of a website. No experience required.

*1d. Power Couples Panel*
*When:* Thursday March 10, 5:30-7pm, Reception at 5pm.
*Where:* E51-345
*Panelists*: Include diverse successful partners from academia and industry,
including: Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic, Mildred Dresselhaus and  Gene
Dresselhaus, and Linda Fuhrman and Don Fuhrman.

Dual-career couples discuss their career and family choices, including
fi­nding jobs in the same location and deciding when to start a family.

*1e. "I'm not a Feminist, but..." - Conversations on What Modern Feminism
Looks Like*
*When:* Friday March 11, 4:30-6:00pm, Reception to follow.
*Where:* 32-G449 (Stata Kiva Room)
*Panelists:* Diane Rosen­feld, Jaclyn Friedman, Prof. Pardis Sabeti

Why is feminism relevant to today’s graduate students?  A lawyer, an
activist, and an academic discuss what feminism means to them.  You might be
surprised by how much you can identify with these modern feminist voices.
(Networking reception with refreshments and hors d'oeuvres from 6-6:30 pm.)

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*Please RSVP at: rsvp.gwamit.org  We look forward to seeing you there!*
*-The GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference Planning Committee*


*********MIT Events*********
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2. MIT Sloan Women in Management Conference (March 11)
Where: *the Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge*
When: *March 11, 2011
*More info:* www.sloanwomeninmanagement.com

Hi GWAMIT members,

Tickets are on sale now for the inaugural MIT Sloan Women in Management
Conference!
www.sloanwomeninmanagement.com/conference.html

We have an amazing day lined up with both industry panels (such as
Consulting, Finance and Tech) and non-industry panels (such as Board
Membership, Paths to the C-Suite, and Mentorship), and a wide range of
inspiring panelists.  You can find more information about the whole day on
our website: www.sloanwomeninmanagement.com
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3. D.W.Weeks Women in Math Lecture Series: "An Almost Isotropic Universe"
(Mon. Feb. 28, 5:30p)*
*When:* Monday, February 28 5:30-6:30p
*Where:* 2-139
*Speaker: *Christina Sormani (CUNY GC and Lehman College)
*Title:* An Almost Isotropic Universe

In the Friedmann model of the universe, cosmologists assume that the
spacelike universe has constant sectional curvature: so that it is either
Euclidean, Spherical or Hyperbolic or a related space called a Space Form.
Such spaces all have a Law of Cosines in which the length of the third side
of a triange is determined by two legs and the angle between them. This
assumption is "justified" by saying that locally the universe is isotropic
(looks the same under rotation) by Schur's Theorem. However, the universe is
not exactly isotropic due to the fact that matter is not distributed
uniformly.

(This lecture series is intended for an advanced undergraduate or beginning
graduate student audience. There will be pizza available after each talk.
Mathematicians of all levels, areas, and genders are welcome!)

*4. MIT WGS Screening: Never Perfect (Thu. Mar. 3, 7-9p)*
*When: Thursday, March 3, 7-9p*
*Where: 6-120*
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MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies in collaboration with the Graduate
Consortium in Women's Studies present "WOMEN TAKE THE REEL" - a film
festival celebrating Women's History Month.

In 2006, there were 11 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures performed
in the United States, constituting an $11.4 billion industry. How are ideals
of beauty influenced by race, history, and geopolitics? With a rich
selection of film clips and archival footage, Never Perfect examines the
dramatic rise in popularity of cosmetic surgery among Asian-American
women. Never
Perfect follows the complex journey of a young Vietnamese-American woman -
as she struggles with her decision to undergo a cosmetic procedure known as
double eyelid surgery. In the process, this incisive documentary considers
historical and contemporary examples of beauty, stereotypes and iconography
within Asian and popular cultures in exploring the factors that influence
body image and self-perception - as well as what it means to be an
ever-evolving, multi-faceted woman living in today's global society.

Discussion with MIT Professor Chuong-Dai Vo to follow.

*5. Ellen Swallow Richards' Legacy: MIT Alumnae Making a Difference (Sat.
Mar 5, 11:30a-8p)*
*When: *March 5th, 11:30a-8p
*Contact: *Sarah Simon, sarah.simon at alum.mit.edu
*Register:* http://alumweb.mit.edu/groups/amita.old/ESRLegacy/overview.shtml

On March 5, AMITA invites you to celebrate the diverse accomplishments of
MIT alumnae, the women who have followed in the footsteps of Ellen Swallow
Richards (ESR,1873).  Join us for an exciting day connecting with alumnae,
including some of our pioneers and stars. Our speakers will highlight how
alumnae have met the challenges of changing times and left their mark. Our
foremothers a century ago fought for entrance to the professions and for
suffrage. Alumnae today continue to contribute to progress in the workplace,
family, social and market revolutions of the last 60 years.

*6. $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Price Ceremony (Wed. Mar. 9, 7-9p)*
*When: *Wednesday, March 9, 7-9pm (Reception at 6:15pm)
*Where: *Kirsch Auditorium (32-123)
*Details*:
http://mit150.mit.edu/events/30000-lemelson-mit-student-prize-ceremony

Join us as we begin to recognize the next generation of inventors at MIT and
celebrate this year’s winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize! Awarded
each year to a senior or graduate student, the Student Prize recognizes MIT
students for their portfolio of inventive work.  The Student Prize Ceremony
showcases the winner and finalist’s inventions, and offers an opportunity to
hear them speak about what it means to be inventive at MIT.  A Reception and
Invention Showcase will precede the Ceremony beginning at 6:15pm.

The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Ceremony will also announce the Lemelson-MIT
Collegiate Student Prize winners from CalTech, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champagin and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute via live video feed.  The
Lemelson-MIT Program is proud to join MIT in recognizing the past 150 years
of inventional wisdom and looks forward to celebrating the next 150 years.
 Admission is free and open to the public.

*7. MIT150 Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT (Mon. Mar
28- Tues. Mar. 29)*
*When:* Monday March 28 and Tuesday, March 29
*Where:* Kresge Auditorium
*Register:* http://mit150.mit.edu/symposia/women-of-MIT

"Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT," March 28-29, 2011,
aims to recognize both individual and institutional leadership in the
success of women in science and engineering. MIT has many outstanding women
faculty whose success should encourage more women to enter the pipeline for
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

The symposium has two threads. First, progress and current challenges in
encouraging gender equity will be discussed. Second, leaders in science and
engineering, who are women, will address important and exciting research
topics including neurological disease, space and planetary exploration,
chemical synthesis, novel materials, microbes in the sea, and gravitational
waves. The scientific and policy questions addressed here will be
interesting to a broad audience.

*********MIT Announcements*********
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*8. Seeking Volunteers for the GCWS Conference: Gender, Sexuality, and Urban
Spaces*
*Contact:* Vanessa Vega, vanessa.vega at tufts.edu
*More conference Info:*
http://web.mit.edu/gcws/Grad_conference_2011/index_schedule11.html

This conference has been 9 months in the making and we are looking forward
to a wonderful turnout for the intellectually stimulating weekend. In order
for it to run smoothly, though, we need people to volunteer their time for
various tasks. We are organizing a corps of volunteers to be the effectors
of said smooth-running. We're asking that volunteers lend at least 2-4 hour
chunks of their time so that we've got a semblance of continuity. It's a
great item to add to your CV (I know I will be) and you can congratulate
yourself for a job well done (once we've done it).

We'll be needing assistance with food prep, registration, cleanup (various
clean-ups, really), setting up posters, "chalking" (bring out your artistic
sides for this) and putting up signage. E-mail for more details.

In addition to all of these "less cerebral" tasks, we need people to
volunteer their note-taking and synthesizing skills during panels. We'd like
to create retrospective summaries of the discussions our panels create-- and
since we can't be everywhere at once, we need your help! A short (think 2
paragraph) synthesis (or even just a bunch of bulleted points) of what is
discussed would help us achieve our goal.  We will be publishing these in
the edited online journal that we are creating as a way to document the work
shared at the conference.
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*9. GCWS is on Facebook*
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Become a fan of the Graduate Consortium in Women Studies:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Graduate-Consortium-in-Womens-Studies/166014756783393
Contact:
gcws at mit.edu

We know that you like us already, but we hope that you "like" us on
Facebook, too.  "Liking" us on Facebook allows you to follow the events,
ideas, and opportunities that are available through our program. Once you do
that, you can: Follow us and find out about our latest events, courses, and
research, post events and opportunities on our wall that you think would be
of interest to the community, and connect with other scholars of Women,
Gender, and Sexual Studies.

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10. Saturday Night @ MIT launched and seeking submissions
Site:
http://saturdaynightatmit.blogspot.com
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*Contact:* saturdaynightatmit at mit.edu

We are hoping to raise awareness around sexual and domestic violence, and
stalking by collecting anonymous experiences of violence and sharing them
with the MIT community on the Saturday Night @ MIT website.

We're looking for submissions about or inspired by abuse or violence, and
how it has touched people's lives. Specifically, we want to hear from those
who have experienced, or been close to those who have experienced, any type
of physical or sexual abuse or violence, or stalking. We’re looking for
survivor stories, as well as stories from partners, friends, parents, and
other people close to survivors. We are accepting written stories, art work,
poetry, videos, and other artistic expressions inspired by people’s
experiences
and/or issues of violence more generally. (Identifying information will NOT
be posted on the site, and only the site's editor will have access to the
emailed submissions. Additionally, you can always create a free email address
to submit your story or piece anonymously.) Please email submissions to
saturdaynightatmit at mit.edu.
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***********Outside MIT***********

*11. [Radcliffe] Driving Change, Shaping Lives: Gender in the Developing
World (Thu. Mar 3-Fri. Mar 4)*
*When: *Thursday March 3 - Friday March 4
*Where: *Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
*Registration: *http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/calendar_2011developing.aspx
 (Required by March 1)
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“Driving Change, Shaping Lives: Gender in the Developing World,” a
conference of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will bring together
leading experts from different fields, countries, and perspectives at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to explore the complex roles of
gender in the developing world. Academic scholarship will be interwoven with
practical experience as scholars, practitioners, organizers, and political
leaders engage with one another in panel sessions on health, education,
shifting populations, politics, and technology and media. Discussions will
investigate intersections among these topics, crossing boundaries both
conceptual and geographic.

The conference is presented in cooperation with the Women and Public Policy
Program at Harvard Kennedy School.
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