[GWAMIT] GWAMIT Newsletter - Week of March 27, 2017

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 GWAMIT Newsletter - Week of March 27, 2017
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March 27, 2017
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*IN BRIEF*

*GW at MIT:*
1. Fill out GWAMIT Graduate Student Childcare Survey (now)
2. Come to GWAMIT Empowerment Conference 2017: Be Bold, Be Heard!
(Apr. 10-14)
3. Apply to the next GWAMIT Executive Board 2017! (now)

*MIT:*
4. [MIT Museum] Nautical Night (Mar. 30)
5. GCWS Conference - The Personal Is Still Political: Challenging
Marginalization through Theory, Analysis, and Praxis (Mar. 31-Apr. 1)
6. Making It All Add Up – Part II: The Big Financial Decisions (Apr. 4)
7. MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Conference 2017 (Apr. 8)
8. [MITWGS] The Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies
(Apr. 15)
9. Think Big: Identify Goals and Set Priorities for Success (Apr. 19)
10. Developing Your Emotional Intelligence: Improving Personal and
Professional Relationships (Apr. 25)

*Outside MIT:*
11. New England Future Faculty Workshop at Northeastern University (now)
12. MOTHER TONGUE: Pan-Asian Boston-Area Women Artists BHCC Art Gallery
(now-Apr. 14)
13. Scientista Symposium 2017- Call for Abstracts (Apr. 8-9)
Dear GW at MIT Members,

Happy Spring break!

Graduate Women at MIT is hosting our annual Spring Empowerment Conference
April 10-14, 2017! This year, the theme is Be Bold, Be Heard
<https://gwamitempowerment2017.wordpress.com/>, and we’ll be hosting events
centered around helping you find and amplify your unique voice.

ODGE is gathering feedback from the Quality of Life survey now, and
the data will be used to learn about important facts of our life. Please
find the link of the survey in your emails!

GWAMIT has also started a Graduate Student Childcare Survey
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMVyhVVfDwp8I6ZWiF790UIGFZ0u27VOh1Nb8ZdLWgKHX9qQ/viewform?c=0&w=1>
to better understand the needs of graduate students with children.

The GWAMIT Board
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*FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS*
************ GW at MIT ************

*1. **Fill out GWAMIT Graduate Student Childcare Survey*
*When:* now
*Link:* link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMVyhVVfDwp8I6ZWiF790UIGFZ0u27VOh1Nb8ZdLWgKHX9qQ/viewform?c=0&w=1>
GWAMIT has been working with the administration to provide better support
for graduate students with children. If you have children or want to have
children in grad school, please fill out this survey to give us more
information.
The survey is designed for any MIT grad student or their spouses and
partners.
*3. Come to GWAMIT Empowerment Conference 2017: Be Bold, Be Heard!*
*When:* April 10-14
*Where: *various
*Info*: link <https://gwamitempowerment2017.wordpress.com/>
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” -Virginia Woolf
It’s time for us to stop being anonymous. Graduate Women at MIT is hosting
our annual Spring Empowerment Conference April 10-14, 2017! This year, the
theme is “Be Bold, Be Heard”, and we’ll be hosting events centered around
helping you find and amplify your unique voice. Whether that’s about
improving your written communication, learning the best way to handle
confrontations or tricky conversations, or becoming more politically
involved – the world needs your voice, and we want to hear it.

A quick look to some of our events are:
*Keynote Speech by Victoria Kennedy*
When: Monday, April 10, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Where: MIT Building 32-141
RSVP: link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/keynote-speech-by-victoria-kennedy-tickets-33128168243>
Victoria Reggie (Vicki) Kennedy is both an accomplished attorney and a
non-profit leader. She is senior counsel in the corporate and securities
practice group at Greenberg Traurig LLP, as well as President of the Board
and co-founder of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States
Senate, a non-partisan, non-profit organization in Boston that educates the
public about the unique role of the United States Senate in our democracy.
The Kennedy Institute has won international awards for its innovative and
interactive design and approach to encouraging participatory democracy,
invigorating civil discourse and inspiring the next generation of citizens
and leaders to engage in the civic life of their communities.
In addition to her law practice, board service and non-profit leadership
roles, Kennedy has been a leading voice on the empowerment of women and
girls in our society and is an advocate for expanding medical research and
for access to health care to all Americans.

*Effective Communication In Your Hardest Conversations - Workshop*
When: Tuesday, April 11, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Where: MIT Building W20-206
RSVP: link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/effective-communication-in-your-hardest-conversations-workshop-tickets-33127593524>
Survey: link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwLLEJvPUl2apygEMTAiSnKQgnIXxPBvpwjG1IV6eBSzC3QA/viewform?c=0&w=1>
Many graduate women at MIT have expressed concerns about talking to
friends, family members, co-workers and acquaintances about controversial
or taboo topics. This 2-hour workshop is intended to provide practical
advice on how to effectively communicate in the midst of some of the
hardest conversations we have.
Your input on this survey will help us to ensure that the workshop is both
relevant and engaging. Responses will be shared only in the aggregate and
without attribution.
This workshop will be led by Stacy Heen Lennon. Stacy is a Consultant with
Triad Consulting Group. As a negotiation and conflict management trainer,
facilitator and coach with experience in Asia, the Middle East, Europe,
sub- Saharan Africa, and North America, Stacy's work spans contexts from
supporting consensus building processes to using "sports diplomacy" to
foster warmer relations between the United States and Iran.
*3. Apply to the next GWAMIT Executive Board 2017!*
*When:* now
*Apply:* link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZcyeeUisIjh_4yDlKIcAjLnwKCIdaaZqTywA1nrwh49Nj9A/viewform?usp=sf_link>
Interested in being more involved in GWAMIT?
Have you attended or helped plan a past GWAMIT activity, and would you like
to become a member of the Executive Board?
Would you like to be active in supporting graduate women and engaging with
the Institute?
Apply now for a GWAMIT Executive Board position!
Before applying, please take a look at our website, and email
gwamit-exec at mit.edu to schedule a brief, 1:1 interview with a current
Executive Board member.
************** MIT **************


*4. [MIT Museum] Nautical Night Where: *March 30, 6:ooPM - 8:00PM
*Where: *Fri March 24, Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger in
6-120
*Info:* link <https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/program/nautical-night>
Our annual Nautical Night event celebrates the sea, and MIT’s rich history
in nautical design and research. We’ve planned interactive demonstrations,
short talks, and a rare chance to view plans and prints from our renowned
collection. Visit from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. for this free event. Here’s a
sampling of what you’ll find:
Plot Your Course!
The Art of Traditional Boat Design
Hart Nautical Collections Display
The Magic of Good Knots!
Constructing "Old Ironsides" (presented by the USS Constitution Museum)
Draft a Boat
MIT Pappalardo Lab Herreshoff Steam Engine Project
*5. GCWS Conference - The Personal Is Still Political: Challenging
Marginalization through Theory, Analysis, and Praxis*
*When: *March 31st - April 1st
*Where: *MIT Building 32
*Info*: link
<http://web.mit.edu/gcws/news+events/2017-thepersonalisstillpolitical-Home.html>
*Register*: link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciFbRCSSMHKd3rDcQ0JjUjiMnvOyS77n-IOH4YHbCu0HIuNw/viewform?c=0&w=1>
The graduate students from nine universities of the Boston-area Graduate
Consortium in Women's Studies present a biannual interdisciplinary
conference entitled "The Personal Is Still Political: Challenging
Marginalization through Theory, Analysis, and Praxis" to be held at MIT on
March 31st and April 1st, 2017.
Thirty years ago, Audre Lorde remarked that “the absence of [race,
sexuality, class, and age] weakens any feminist discussion of the personal
and the political.” We build upon this inclusive declaration to examine the
diverse reach of state oppressions, violence, hegemonic intervention, and
marginality in the contemporary moment. We also aim to explore modes of
resistance to such repression. Some of the questions this conference seeks
to address include (but are not limited to):
- How have intersectional approaches to praxis reshaped this concept as a
useful tool for counter-hegemonic struggles?
- How do repressed groups and individuals enact or challenge “the personal
as political” in their daily, lived experiences?
- How is this concept relevant to linkages between academia, activism, and
practice?
*6. Making It All Add Up – Part II: The Big Financial Decisions*
*When:* Tuesday, April 4, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
*Where:* MIT Building 46-3189
*Register:* link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-it-all-add-up-part-ii-the-big-financial-decisions-registration-31289628120>
Presenters –
Steven Dimitriou, B.A., AIF, PRP; Co-Founder and Managing Partner,
Mayflower Advisors
Lawrence Glazer, AAMS; Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Mayflower Advisors
Dinner will be available beginning at 5:00 p.m. and the seminar
presentation will run from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Do you feel like your finances control the decisions you make, instead of
the other way around? Do you ever wonder how you’ll manage to pay your
loans, your rent, and your bills, and live your life on your salary?
Steve Dimitriou and Larry Glazer will continue their conversation from this
fall’s Making It All Add Up-Part I seminar and will address important
financial decisions and essential factors to consider when making them.
This session will focus on life’s big investments, including the decision
to go back to graduate school, buy a home, or start a family. Come learn
about the small decisions that can add up to make a big impact. It is never
too early to start being prepared.
*7. MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Conference 2017*
*When: *Saturday, April 8th, 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM
*Where:* MIT Media Lab | 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
*Register*: link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-sloan-africa-innovate-conference-2017-tickets-32279109686>
The annual MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Conference is a unique forum that
brings together the strengths of MIT and leading entrepreneurs and
change-agents from across the African continent. The conference attracts
over 400 business leaders, entrepreneurs, students, professors, and alumni,
all with strong interests in Africa. The theme for this year's conference
is “Africa Innovate Conference: Ideas to Impact” and discussions will focus
on how to transform promising ideas into sustainable businesses in Africa.
Our closing keynote speaker this year will be Her Excellency Dr. Ameenah
Gurib-Fakim, President of the Republic of Mauritius.
*8. [MITWGS] The Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies*
*Deadline: *Friday, April 14th, 5:00PM
*Info:* link <https://wgs.mit.edu/kampf-prize/>
The $500 prize, sponsored by The Program in Women's and Gender Studies
(WGS), was started in 1995-96 to honor Louis Kampf, distinguished professor
emeritus of Literature and Women's Studies, and to reward high quality
undergraduate writing in women's and gender studies. The Prize is judged by
faculty from WGS. It also includes a luncheon in May with committee members
and a guest of your choosing.

*9. **Think Big: Identify Goals and Set Priorities for Success*
*When:* Wednesday, April 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
*Where: *MIT Building NE49-5000
*RSVP*: link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/think-big-identify-goals-and-set-priorities-for-success-registration-31296889840>
Presenter – Anna Robinson, M.A., WLCP®; Work-Life Projects Administrator,
MIT Work-Life Center
In this workshop, you will gain knowledge and insight to help you set goals
for success in work and life. You will have the opportunity to define and
explore the core values that motivate you. Working together with others,
you will start to prioritize and set goals for the next steps in your
successful and enriching career and life.
*10. **Developing Your Emotional Intelligence: Improving Personal and
Professional Relationships*
*When:* Tuesday, April 25, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
*Where:* MIT Building 46-3189
*Register:* link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/developing-your-emotional-intelligence-improving-personal-and-professional-relationships-registration-31289770546>
Presenter – Wendy Wollner, M.S., M.B.A.; Founder and CEO, Balancing Life’s
Issues
Dinner will be available beginning at 5:00 p.m. and the seminar
presentation will run from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is one of the many kinds of intelligence we use
every day. One difference is that we can actually improve our EQ, which
research has shown can enhance our careers and relationships. Learn how
identifying, understanding, and actively using our own and others’ emotions
can help make or break interactions with others, professionally and
personally. This seminar provides skills, tools, and interactive exercises
to give you a sense of why self-awareness and awareness of others have huge
value in all areas of your life.
************** Outside MIT **************

*11. New England Future Faculty Workshop at Northeastern University*
*Deadline:* May 26
*Register:* link
<http://www.northeastern.edu/advance/recruitment/future-faculty-workshop/>
*12. MOTHER TONGUE: Pan-Asian Boston-Area Women Artists BHCC Art Gallery*
*When: *March 9 – April 14
*Where*: 250 New Rutherford Ave., Boston, MA  02129
Experience this multi-media group exhibit that explores the complex
relationship between personal identity, storytelling and cultural
expectation.
With special featured screenings of videos from the Media Literacy Course,
Asian American Studies Program/UMass Boston
The Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery at Bunker Hill Community College is free
and open to the public.
Gallery hours: M/W/F 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; T/Th 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.
– 2 p.m.
*12. Scientista Symposium 2017 - Call for Abstracts*
*When: *Saturday, April 8 - Sunday, April 9
*Where: *11 Times Square, New York, New York
*Register:* link
<https://scisymp2017.splashthat.com/?utm_source=Scientista+Foundation+Newsletter+A&utm_campaign=7c4b21a808-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7719591846-7c4b21a808-341266265>
If you're a college student, graduate student, or recent grad in STEM
looking to for a little motivation, inspiration, and looking to find out
about a wide breadth of career opportunities at your fingertips, you're not
going to want to miss this!
This year's conference theme is "Scientistas, Stand Up! Become a Leader in
STEM" and it is more jam-packed with opportunities than ever.
Come find your new job, present your research or apps, or simply attend to
hear some of the most prominent women in STEM.
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