[GWAMIT] Announcements 3/12/12
GWAMIT
gwamit at mit.edu
Mon Mar 12 13:38:49 EDT 2012
Dear GWAMIT Members,
The GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference is this week! Don't forget to
register for events at empowerment.gwamit.org.
Enjoy the week!
*The GWAMIT Board
*Send your ideas to: gwamit-exec at mit.edu
Send your announcements to: gwamit-sec at mit.edu
Visit us: http://gwamit.org
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IN BRIEF
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GWAMIT: *
1. GWAMIT 2012 Spring Empowerment Conference (March 12-16; RSVP Open Now!)
*MIT:*
2. MIT SWE Mason Magellan Program (Tues. Mar. 13, 3:30pm)
3. WGS Presents "Being Sexual in Iran: A Sometimes Contradictory History"
(Wed. Mar. 14, 4-6pm)
4. Women Take the Reel Film Festival: *!WOMEN, ART REVOLUTION* (Thu. Mar.
15, 7pm)
5. Bon Appétit Management Company Talk on Sustainable Food and Business
(Wed. Mar. 21, 11:30am-12:30pm)
6. Cheney Room Movie Night: *Saving Face* (Wed. Mar. 21, 6:30pm)
7. Study on Service Utilization for Survivors of Sexual Violence,
Relationship Abuse, Stalking, or Harassment
*Outside MIT:*
8. Cartier Women's Initiative Awards - Call for Applications (Applications
due Tues. Mar. 13)
9. [Sense About Science] Standing up for Science Media Workshop
(Applications due Wed. Mar. 14)
10. [AWIS-MA Chapter] Speed Networking with Diane Darling (Wed. Mar. 21,
5:30-8pm)
11. [Harvard] 5th Annual Latina Empowerment and Development Conferences
(Sat. March 24, 11a-6p)
12. [Harvard] Light at the End of the Tunnel: Job Opportunities After a
Postdoc (Mon. Mar. 26, 2-4pm)
To see more events beyond this week's digest visit
http://bit.ly/gwamitevents and http://bit.ly/gwamitinterest
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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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*1. GWAMIT 2012 Spring Empowerment Conference (March 12-16, RSVP Open Now!)
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*When:* March 12 - 16
*Where*: MIT Campus
*RSVP:* empowerment.gwamit.org
Registration is now open for the second GWAMIT Spring Empowerment
Conference March
12-16!**
Come to any or all of our Empowerment Conference events at no cost!
(Events requiring an RSVP may fill up quickly).
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Events include:****
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Facing Challenges, Overcoming Obstacles (*RSVP Required)*
*When: *Monday, March 12, 5:00-6.30pm, Reception to follow.****
*Where: *Sidney-Pacific Multi-purpose room****
*Panelists: *Almaris Alonso (FDA), Shari Loessberg (MIT), Dana Moshkovitz
(MIT), & Suzanne Oakley (MIT)
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*Designing with Her in Mind*****
*When: *Tuesday, March 13, 5:00-6:00pm, Reception to follow.****
*Where:* 10-105 (Bush Room)****
*Speaker:* Susan Fabry, Senior Strategist,
Continuum<http://continuuminnovation.com/>
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*High Performance Work-Life Balance*****
*When:* Wednesday, March 14, 5:30-6:30pm, Reception to follow.****
*Where: *32-G449 (Stata Kiva Room)****
*Speaker:* Paul English, CTO and Cofounder, KAYAK <http://www.kayak.com>****
*Women, Communication, and Power*****
*When: *Thursday March 15, 12:00-1:15pm, Lunch served at 11:45am.****
*Where: *32-G449 (Stata Kiva Room)****
*Speaker: *Dr. Barbara Tannenbaum, Senior Lecturer, Brown University****
*Keynote: Digital Empowerment for the Real World: Using Social Media,
Creating Social Change*****
*When: *Thursday March 15, 6:30-8:00pm,Reception to follow.****
*Where: *32-123****
*Speaker: *Latoya Peterson, Founder and Editor,
Racialicious<http://www.racialicious.com/>
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*Climbing the Career Ladder: Gender and the Workplace*****
*When: *Friday March 16, 12:00-1:30pm, Lunch served at 11:45am.****
*Where:* 32-G449 (Stata Kiva Room)****
*Panelists: *Pamela Benkert (Philips Healthcare), Leah Buechley (MIT),
Aditi Garg (Tesla), Hilda Tang (Oliver Wyman)
Please RSVP at: RSVP link <http://tinyurl.com/87yjfe2>****
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We look forward to seeing you there!****
-The GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference Planning Committee
***********MIT***********
*2. MIT SWE Mason Magellan Program (Tues. Mar. 13, 3:30pm)*
*When:* Tuesday, March 13, 3:30 pm
*RSVP:* swe-off-campus-outreach at mit.edu
The Mason Magellan Program is an after-school science program for grades
1-3 at Mason Elementary School. Sessions are held once every week on
Tuesday afternoons, starting at 3:30pm. On 3/13, we will be exploring the
wonders of magnetism as we levitate a paperclip and hunt for treasure!
Students will understand what sorts of materials magnets can "magically"
attract and how a magnet can defy gravity.
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*3. WGS Presents "Being Sexual in Iran: A Sometimes Contradictory History"
(Wed. Mar. 14, 4-6pm)*
*When:* Wednesday, March 14, 4-6pm
*Where:* 4-163
*RSVP: *heidy at mit.edu
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The speaker will be Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, who received her B.A. from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead
Scholar <http://www.moreheadcain.org/>. She completed her M.A., M.Phil.,
and Ph.D. in history at Yale University. Her book, Frontier Fictions:
Shaping the Iranian Nation,
1804-1946<http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6738.html> (Princeton
University Press, 1999) discusses Iranian nationalism and analyzes the
significance of land and border disputes, with attention to Iran's shared
boundaries with the Ottoman Empire (later Iraq and Turkey), Central Asia,
Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf region. Her book was translated into
Persian by Kitabsara Press, Tehran, Iran and has been released in paperback
by Princeton in 2011.
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Dr. Kashani-Sabet has finished a book entitled, *Conceiving Citizens: Women
and the Politics of Motherhood in
Iran<http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/MiddleEastern/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTMwODg3Nw==>
* (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, Spring 2011). She is also
completing a book on America's historical relationship with Iran and the
Islamic world entitled, *The Making of the 'Great Satan': A History of US -
Iranian Relations *(under contract to Princeton University Press). In
addition to her academic work, Professor Kashani-Sabet has written several
fictional pieces. Her first novel, *Martyrdom
Street<http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2010/martyrdom-street.html>
*, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2010.
*4. Women Take the Reel Film Festival: !WOMEN, ART REVOLUTION (Thu. Mar.
15, 7pm)
When:* Thursday, March 15, 7pm
*Where:* 6-120
Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video
footage, !WOMEN, ART REVOLUTION reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused
free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and
culture of our times. For over forty years, Director Lynn Hershman Leeson
has collected hundreds of hours of interviews with visionary artists,
historians, curators and critics who shaped the beliefs and values of the
Feminist Art Movement and reveal previously undocumented strategies used to
politicize female artists and integrate women into art structures.
!WOMEN, ART REVOLUTION elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art
Movement to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements and explains how
historical events, such as the all-male protest exhibition against the
invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions
against major cultural institutions. The film details major developments in
women’s art of the 1970s, including the first feminist art education
programs, political organizations and protests, alternative art spaces such
as the A.I.R. Gallery and Franklin Furnace in New York and the Los Angeles
Women’s Building, publications such as Chrysalis and Heresies, and landmark
exhibitions, performances, and installations of public art that changed the
entire direction of art.
83 minutes. Discussion with acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Faith
Wilding to follow.
*5. **Bon Appétit Management Company Talk on Sustainable Food and Business
(Wed. Mar. 21, 11:30am-12:30pm)
**When:* Wednesday, March 21, 11:30am-12:30pm
*Where:* Maseeh Dining Hall, Flowers PDR
Maisie Greenawalt, the Bon Appétit National VP of Strategy, will be joining
us for a luncheon to discuss how Bon Appétit has used, and is using, its
purchasing power to create a more sustainable food system. Bon Appétit has
been rolling out sustainability
initiatives<http://bamco.com/sustainable-food-service> since
1999, when we created our local food sourcing program, Farm to Fork. Since
then, we have gone on to address everything from farmworker rights and
climate change, to humane treatment of animals and sustainable fishing
practices. Maisie has been a key player in the creation of these
initiatives, and is largely responsible for Bon Appétit’s success as a
company.
*6. Cheney Room Movie Night: **Saving Face** (Wed. Mar. 21, 6:30pm)
**When:* Wednesday, March 21, 6:30pm
*Where: *The Cheney Room, 3-310
In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is
surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her
apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father
discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal
life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital,
the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother
would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an
immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.
*7. Study on Service Utilization for Survivors of Sexual Violence,
Relationship Abuse, Stalking, or Harassment
Contact: *Kelley Adams at adam at med.mit.edu or (617) 253-1318
This study will examine the service utilization pathways survivors of
sexual violence, relationship abuse, stalking or harassment take following
an incident at the institution. Specifically, I'm interviewing survivors
about what services they have used on and off campus, their experiences
with those services, recommendations for improvement, and on what it's like
to be a survivor of violence or abuse at MIT. The information obtained
through the study will be used to improve services at MIT, and measures
have been built into the study design to ensure participants'
confidentiality.
One of the eligibility criteria is a connection to MIT, but this is
defined loosely:
employees, students, post-docs, researchers, spouses of any of the above,
etc. all fall into this category.
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***********Outside MIT***********
*8. Cartier Women's Initiative Awards - Call for Applications (Applications
due Tues. Mar. 13)*
*When: *Applications due Tuesday, March 13, 10am CET
*Information: *http://www.cartierwomensinitiative.com/
The Cartier Women's Initiative Awards are a business plan competition for
start-ups led by women organized by Cartier in partnership with McKinsey
and INSEAD business school. This social entrepreneurship competition aims
at supporting creative, financially sustainable and responsible women-led
start-ups, in all countries and industries.
We are currently in the call for applications phase for our contest and are
looking for women leading for-profit responsible enterprises between 1 and
3 years old. The Award will be given to six laureates who will receive a
comprehensive support package comprising a year of coaching, US $20,000 in
funding, valuable networking opportunities, as well as media exposure. The
final stage of the competition, consisting in a presentation in front of an
international Jury, will take place in France during the Global Meeting of
the Women’s Forum.
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*9. [Sense About Science] Standing up for Science Media Workshop
(Applications due Wed. Mar. 14)*
*When:* Tuesday, April 24; Applications due Wednesday, March 14
*Where: *The Broad Institute, Cambridge
*Apply: *Send a CV and short cover letter to Leonor Sierra (
international at senseaboutscience.org) by Wed. Mar. 14
*Information:*
http://www.senseaboutscience.org/data/files/VOYS_workshop_2012_Apr_24_Cambridge_flyer.pdf
- Are you PASSIONATE about your RESEARCH?
- Do you think it is important for GOOD SCIENCE and EVIDENCE to be
communicated to a wider audience?
- What can you do to address SCIENTIFIC MISCONCEPTIONS and
MISINFORMATION?
This full day event is FREE and open to early career researchers in all
sciences, engineering and medicine (PhD students, post-docs or equivalent
in first job)
- Science in the media: What happens when research announcements go
wrong; statistics are manipulated; risk factors are distorted; or
discussions become polarized?
- What journalists are looking for: How do journalists approach stories
and balance the need for news and entertainment with reporting science? And
deal with accusations of polarising debates and misrepresenting facts?
- Standing up for science; the nuts and bolts: This session offers
practical guidance for early career researchers to get their voices heard
in debates about science; how to respond to bad science when you see it;
and top tips for if you come face-to-face with a journalist!
The Standing Up for Science workshops have been held in the UK since 2005.
This will be the first full-day workshop in the US and participants will be
invited to join the newly formed Voice of Young Science USA network.
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*10. [AWIS-MA Chapter] Speed Networking with Diane Darling (Wed. Mar. 21,
5:30-8pm)*
*When:* Wednesday, March 21, 5:30-8pm
*Where:* Amgen Kendall Square, 1 Kendall Sq, Cambridge
*Register:* http://www.acteva.com//ttghits.cfm?EVA_ID=23807
*Fee:* $25 for students
Please join the Massachusetts Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
chapter for an evening of Speed Networking led by Diane Darling, a dynamic
speaker and the author of the book “The Networking Survival Guide.” Dinner
will be provided and a free copy of Diane’s book will be given to the first
50 registrants. Remember to bring your business cards! This event is open
to everyone. This will be a fun, informative, and interactive event. This
event was a huge success last time with nearly 100 people in attendance. We
have arranged for a larger and more accessible venue. The discounted
registration fee is available only for AWIS members and students
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*11. [Harvard] 5th Annual Latina Empowerment and Development Conferences
(Sat. Mar. 24, 11a-6p)*
*When: *Saturday, March 24, 11a-6p
*Where:* Double Tree Hotel Cambridge, MA
*Register: *http://www.wix.com/latinasunidas/lead#!register
*More info: *http://www.wix.com/latinasunidas/lead#<http://www.wix.com/latinasunidas/lead>
LEAD is an all-day event that exposes individuals in the community at large
to the achievements of Latinas in the world today. Every year we have a
prominent Latina as our keynote speaker who shares her experience, wisdom
and advice with those present. The Conference aims to encourage the
professional endeavors of Latinas everywhere. Latina undergraduate and
graduate students will connect with successful Latina role models who
radiate positive ideals and represent the larger Latino community. Our
speakers will address the social, political, and economic issues that
Latinas face today and motivate them toward excellence in their future
careers. Your students will have the opportunity to participate in
pre-professional workshops to improve skills such as resume building,
interviewing and networking.
The LEAD conference will be taking place in the Double Tree Hotel
Cambridge, MA on Saturday March 24, 2012* from 11:30 AM-6:00 PM.
The theme for this year's conference is "Strengthening our Communities in
the Face of Adversity."
Please Register for the LEAD conference at:
http://www.wix.com/latinasunidas/lead#!register
*12. [Harvard] Light at the End of the Tunnel: Job Opportunities After a
Postdoc (Mon. Mar. 26, 2-4pm)*
*When:* Monday, March 26, 2-4pm
*Where:* Yenching Auditorium, Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
*Registration:* https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Jobs_After_Postdoc
Adam Stein, the CEO of a newly formed nanotechnology company in Pasadena,
CA, is coming to share his perspectives on careers for postdocs and grad
students outside of the academic world. The aim of this program is to
provide an understanding of industrial science and careers in industry as a
whole. Don’t miss this opportunity to better equip yourself with the
knowledge of the many options for your future career!
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