[GWAMIT] Announcements - Week of 4/1/13

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,

Remember to register for next week’s GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference!
See details below. If you have any events or announcements to share with
the GWAMIT membership, please email us at gwamit-sec at mit.edu.

*The GWAMIT Board*
Send your ideas to: gwamit-exec at mit.edu
Send your announcements to: gwamit-sec at mit.edu
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*GWAMIT:*
1. Registration is now open for the 2013 GWAMIT Spring Empowerment
Conference (Apr. 9-11)

*MIT: *
2. [SAAM] April Tabling (Tuesdays 11am-1pm and 4:30-6:30pm)
3. [SAAM] Clothesline Project T-Shirt Making (Thurs. Apr. 4, 4:30-5:30pm)
4. [GCWS] Clash Zones: Identities in (R)evolution (Apr. 5-6)
5. [SAAM] Project Unbreakable & Take Back the Night (Thurs. Apr. 11, Photo
Exhibition 9am-5pm, Reception 5-6pm, TBTN 6pm)
6. [GWIS] Operation Epsilon (Thurs. Apr. 11, 7:30pm)
7. Legatum Lecture - Shahnaz Husain: Pioneer and Entrepreneur (Wed. Apr.
24, 5:30-6:30pm)
8. [SAAM] Movie Night: “Flirting with Danger” (Wed. Apr. 24, 7-9pm)

*Outside MIT:*
9. Mujeres / Women: 7 Short Films (Tues. Apr. 2, 7-10pm)
10. Women 2.0 Boston Founder Friday (Fri. Apr. 5, 6-9pm)
11. Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Walk for Change (Sun. Apr. 7, 9:30am)
12. Documentary Screening: “It Was Rape” (Mon. Apr. 8, 8pm)

To see more events beyond this week's digest visit
http://bit.ly/gwamitevents and http://bit.ly/gwamitinterest

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*1. Registration is now open for the 2013 GWAMIT Spring Empowerment
Conference (Apr. 9-11)
When:* Tuesday, April 9 – Thursday, April 11
*Where:* MIT Campus
*Register:* http://bit.ly/EmpowermentConf

Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) is pleased to announce the annual GWAMIT
Empowerment Conference will be held at MIT from April 9 - 11, 2013. The
Spring Empowerment Conference, started in Spring 2010, seeks to provide
resources for and promote discussion of issues relevant to the personal
development and life choices of graduate women.

Registration is now open. Come to any or all of our Empowerment Conference
events at no cost! (Events requiring an RSVP may fill up quickly). Events
include:

*How to Communicate to Establish Credibility and Authority
When:* Tuesday, April 9, 5-6:30pm, reception to follow.
*Where:* E25-111
*Speaker: *Michele Souda, Founder and President of WORDPOWER Communications
and Cambridge Communications, LLC

For the best and brightest women scientists -- that's you. How you must
communicate to establish credibility and authority – whether on the podium,
in a meeting, or in everyday exchanges with your colleagues. Catered
reception from 6:30-7:00pm.

*Career Paths, Life Paths
When:* Wednesday, April 10, 12-1pm, lunch reception at 11:30am.
*Where:* 32-D463 (Star conference room)
*Panelists: *Professor Muriel Medard (MIT), Dean Christine Ortiz (MIT),
Professor Evimaria Terzi (BU), Professor Katrin Wehrheim (MIT)

Four accomplished professors at different stages of their careers and
personal lives discuss the challenges that women in academia may face in
their paths to success and share their own stories with the audience.
Refreshments and light lunch available from 11:30am.

*Why is a Network for Women Scientists Valuable to You?
When:* Wednesday, April 10, 5-6pm, reception to follow.
*Where:* 32-144
*Speakers:* Julia Tartaglia, Christina Tartaglia, Scientista Foundation

Julia and Christina will discuss why you should be in a network for women
in science and the value of community for female scientists. They will also
reveal how they came to found their organization, The Scientista
Foundation. Catered reception from 6:00-6:30pm.

*Keynote: Empowering Yourself and Other Women on the Road to Success
When:* Thursday, April 11, 5-6pm, reception to follow.
*Where: *46-3310
*Speaker:* Dr. Beth Lange, Mary Kay Chief Scientific Office

We are not born leaders, but must learn how to lead along the road to
success.  Dr. Beth Lange will discuss the importance of taking
responsibility for your own career and success, of embracing your
uniqueness as a female leader, and of being a positive female role model.
Catered reception from 6:00-6:30pm.

We look forward to seeing you there!
-The GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference Planning Committee


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*2. [SAAM] April Tabling (Tuesdays 11am-1pm and 4:30-6:30pm)
When:* Tuesdays in April, 11am-1pm and 4:30-6:30pm
*Where:* Lobby 10 (11am-1pm), Z Center Johnson Lobby (4:30-6:30pm)
*Info:* http://whiteelephant.scripts.mit.edu/saam/tabling/

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Stop by the SAAM table in Lobby 10
for information, materials and friendly faces every Tuesday between 11am –
1pm or the Johnson Lobby of the Z Center from 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm, every
Tuesday in April.

Drop by one of our tables to pick up information, talk to committee
representatives, see the Clothesline Project, pick up a Sexual Assault
Awareness Month event schedule, get a t-shirt, or send a friend a White
Ribbon.


*3. [SAAM] Clothesline Project T-Shirt Making (Thurs. Apr. 4, 4:30-5:30pm)
**When: *Thursday, April 4, 4:30-5:30pm
*Where:* 3-310 (Cheney Room)
*Info:* http://whiteelephant.scripts.mit.edu/saam/mit-clothesline-project/

The Clothesline Project was started in Cape Cod, MA in order to provide a
visual display of the prevalence and severity of violence against women.
Since its inception, it has been used around the state, and groups across
the country have started their own version of the Clothesline Project.

The MIT Clothesline Project allows us to display shirts created by the MIT
community, including survivors, those who know survivors, or those who wish
to help end sexual violence at our tables throughout the month. Shirt
designs vary widely and can be brief stories of sexual violence, reactions
to sexual assault by survivors or others, or calls to end sexual violence
(or anything you might think of!); we just ask that no identifying
information is included on any of the shirts. The community involvement and
individual creativity around the issue of sexual violence is really at the
core of what makes this project so great. Supplies are provided. Stop by to
make a shirt!


*4.  [GCWS] Clash Zones: Identities in (R)evolution (Apr. 5-6)
When:* Friday, April 5 – Saturday, April 6
*Where:* Bldg. 32
*Register:*
http://web.mit.edu/gcws/news+events/conference-registration2.html

The borders and boundaries where political, ethnic, religious, racial,
national, and other factions meet are hotbeds for ideological and
psychological tensions that affect marginalized gender and sexual
identities. Within these "clash zones," anything from eruptive
transformations (revolutions) to gradual modifications (evolutions) might
occur.

This interdisciplinary Women's and Gender studies conference will
investigate how frictions produced in these "clash zones" impact individual
and communal bodies and alter the identity categories by which we define
those bodies. Conference is free and open to the public.


*5. [SAAM] Project Unbreakable & Take Back the Night (Thurs. Apr. 11, Photo
Exhibition 9am-5pm, Reception 5-6pm, TBTN 6pm)
When:* Thursday, April 11, 9am-5pm (Project Unbreakable Photo Exhibition),
5-6pm (Project Unbreakable Reception), 6pm (Take Back the Night)
*Where:* Stata Balconies
*Info:*
http://whiteelephant.scripts.mit.edu/saam/project-unbreakable-and-tbtn/

We are honored to once again host Grace Brown’s Project Unbreakable at MIT
for Sexual Assault Awareness Month on April 11th, 2013. Project Unbreakable
was created in October of 2011 by Grace Brown. Grace works with survivors
of sexual assault, photographing them holding a poster with a quote from
their attacker. Grace has photographed over four hundred people and has
received over a thousand submissions. TIME magazine has also named it one
of the top 30 Tumblr blogs to follow.

Grace will not be taking photos at MIT this year, but there will be a photo
exhibition on display April 11th from 9am – 5pm in the Stata Balconies
followed by a reception from 5pm – 6pm. The evening will end with the
story-sharing and witnessing of Take Back the Night starting at 6pm.


*6. [GWIS] Operation Epsilon (Thurs. Apr. 11, 7:30pm)
When:* Thursday, April 11, 7:30pm
*Where:* Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
*Tickets:*
http://www.centralsquaretheater.org/season/12-13/operation-epsilon.html

It’s the close of World War II – the dawn of the atomic age. The Allies
have captured Germany’s top ten nuclear scientists and sequestered them at
Farm Hall– a lavish estate in England – keeping them under surveillance to
learn what they know about the American nuclear program and to gauge how
close the Nazis are to making an atomic bomb. Nine of these men, including
Nobel Prize winners Otto Hahn and Werner Heisenberg, are known as Hitler’s
“Uranium Club.” Based on actual transcripts of secretly recorded
conversations, playwright Alan Brody illuminates the ethical complexity of
pursuing scientific discovery at the risk of wreaking catastrophic
consequences.

Join GWIS at Operation Epsilon presented by The Nora Theatre Company, a
project of Catalyst Collaborative at MIT. Following the performance on
April 11 will be a Post-Performance Talkback with Janet Conrad,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics.


*7. Legatum Lecture - Shahnaz Husain: Pioneer and Entrepreneur (Wed. Apr.
24, 5:30-6:30pm)
When:* Wednesday, April 24, 5:30-6:30pm
*Where:* E62-223
*Info:* http://legatum.mit.edu/content/1281

Shahnaz Husain's revolutionary business model and marketing approach is
well-known throughout Asia. On April 24th, Shahnaz Husain will be at MIT to
share the experiences and views of a female entrepreneur who has seen the
growth of entrepreneurship in India, the increased role of female
entrepreneurs, and the changing opportunities for people living at the
bottom of the pyramid.

While creating commercial success, Ms. Husain faced and overcame obstacles
commonly encountered by female entrepreneurs working in low-income
countries - experiences that provide her with a wealth of advice for female
entrepreneurs. And in creating her business model, Ms. Husain offered
employment opportunities to thousands of women who, for the first time,
experienced the benefits of earning a wage. The empowerment of these women
demonstrates the broad-based and positive impact of innovative
entrepreneurship.


*8. [SAAM] Movie Night: “Flirting with Danger” (Wed. Apr. 24, 7-9pm)
When:* Wednesday, April 24, 7-9pm
*Where:* 3-133
*Info:* http://whiteelephant.scripts.mit.edu/saam/big-movie-night/

Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the
line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at popular
culture and the ways real girls and women navigate their heterosexual
relationships and hookups.

Featuring dramatizations of interviews that Phillips conducted with
hundreds of young women, the film examines how the wider culture’s
frequently contradictory messages about pleasure, danger, agency, and
victimization enter into women’s most intimate relationships with men. The
result is a refreshingly candid, and nuanced, look at how young women are
forced to grapple with deeply ambivalent cultural attitudes about female
sexuality.


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*9. Mujeres / Women: 7 Short Films (Tues. Apr. 2, 7-10pm)
When:* Tuesday, April 2, 7-10pm
*Where: *Paramount Center at Emerson College, 559 Washington Street, Boston
*RSVP:* http://mujereswomen-es2.eventbrite.com/

UNA-GB is partnering with Emerson College to screen seven short films that
tells us stories of how and why women built the city of Medellín in their
own words and images. After the screenings, participate in a live video
discussion with the storytellers in Colombia.

In these 7 short films, women community leaders, grandmothers, daughters
and students tell stories they want you to know about how they built the
City of Medellín and why. Their documentary stories invite us into their
neighborhoods, their homes, and their family albums. Come join us for an
eye opening night and learn more about City of Medellín!


*10. Women 2.0 Boston Founder Friday (Fri. Apr. 5, 6-9pm)
When:* Friday, April 5, 6-9pm
*Where:* PayPal Headquarters, 1 International Place, Boston
*RSVP:* http://founderfridayboston040513-es2004.eventbrite.com/

Founder Friday is a Women 2.0 event to promote the creation of new networks
among aspiring entrepreneurs, current entrepreneurs and investors in
innovative cities globally. Both men and women are invited to attend
Founder Friday.

Hosting this month’s Founder Friday Boston is Shereen Shermak, Co-founder &
VP Product – BuysideFX. Host introductions begin at 7:00 pm. Come hear her
speak, share, and support the burgeoning female tech community!


*11. Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Walk for Change (Sun. Apr. 7, 9:30am)
When:* Sunday, April 7, 9:30am
*Where: *Canal Park, Cambridge (near Cambridgeside Galleria)
*Register: *http://barcc.org/join/events/walk

Join us for the 8th Annual Walk for Change to be held Sunday, April 7th!
This incredible event brings together survivors, family members, and the
community to raise awareness and provide much needed funding for BARCC’s
free services!

For more detailed information about the Walk for Change, please visit
barcc.donorpages.com/wfc2013. Be sure to check back often to follow our
progress and to receive tips and updates about the Walk!


*12. Documentary Screening: “It Was Rape” (Mon. Apr. 8, 8pm)
When:* Monday, April 8, 8pm
*Where:* Sever Hall 310, Harvard University, Cambridge
*Trailer:* http://vimeo.com/53027180

Rape is wrong, illegal, reprehensible—and yet still tragically common. In
this film, eight women tell their diverse personal stories of sexual
assault, from a Midwestern teenager trying alcohol for the first time to a
Native American woman gradually coming to terms with her abusive childhood.

Gripping and emotional, this film is an opportunity to empathize with
people—not just absorb faceless statistics—and to puncture the silence and
denial that allow sexual assault to thrive. Ultimately, these stories shed
light on how this epidemic affects us all.


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