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 GWAMIT Newsletter - Week of Oct 10, 2017
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Dear GW at MIT Members,

Hope everyone enjoyed the extended weekend!

For the incoming MIT women who attended the Orientation Women's Welcome
Lunch (OWWL) on Sept 8, 2017, you have an opportunity to give us feedback
<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8CF5C6S> on your experience so we can
continue to improve the experience for future students!

Make sure to follow us on the links above.
- The GW at MIT Board
Events In Brief
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*GW at MIT:*
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*MIT:*
1. Lavender Reception (Oct 11)
2. Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping
(Oct 12)
3. Black Fire: The Struggle For Racial Justice In Charlottesville And
Beyond (Oct 13)
4. Path of Professorship Workshop Applications Open (Oct 15)
5. Poetry Reading: Fanny Howe & Nicole Terez Dutton (Oct 16 & 17)
6. Film screening: Norma Rae + Clean In (Oct 17)
7. Lecture: State of the Arab Family and the Family of the Arab State (Oct
18)
8. WGS Intellectual Forum: Meral Ekincioglu (Oct 19)
9. Cheney Room Grad Luncheon with MIT GAIN and the Work-Life Center (Oct 20)
10. Work-Life Center Fall Seminar Series (Fall '17)
11. Fellowship Opportunity (Fall '17)
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*Outside MIT:*
12. HubWeek 2017: Salary Negotiating Workshop (Oct 11)
13. Horizons Fellowship Applications Open (now)
Women in History Gerty Cori
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*Gerty Theresa Cori * (1896 – 1957) was a Jewish Czech-American biochemist
who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in
science, and the first woman to be awarded the *Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine*. She received the Nobel jointly with her husband, Carl Cori,
and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, for the discovery of the
mechanism by which glycogen is broken down in muscle tissue into lactic
acid and then resynthesized and stored as a source of energy (known as
the *Cori
cycle*). They also identified the important catalyzing compound, the *Cori
ester*. Six students of the Cori Lab went on to win Nobel Prizes, which is
unmatched in scientific history.
GWAMIT Events
MIT Events

*1. Lavender Reception*
*When: *October 11, 5 PM - 6:30 PM
*Where:* W31-110, the SPXCE Intercultural Center

LBGTQ at MIT and BGLATA invite you to join us in an annual celebration of
MIT's LBGTQ community and National Coming Out Day. Please join us as we
work together to build a stronger, safer community for students through
conversation, light refreshments, and a little fun.
*2. Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping*
*When: *October 12, 9 AM & 3 PM
*Where:* W20-306
*Register*: link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inside-graduate-admissions-merit-diversity-and-faculty-gatekeeping-lecture-with-prof-julie-posselt-tickets-38204986142>


Join OGE Diversity Initiatives and MIT University Center for Exemplary
Mentoring (UCEM) for a book lecture by Professor Julie Posselt on her most
recent book, *Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty
Gatekeeping*. Professor Posselt tailors a powerhouse talk to each audience,
sharing firsthand observations of admission committees and interviews with
faculty from 10 top-ranked doctoral programs in the humanities, social
sciences, and natural sciences. She provides a window into the decision
makers' point of view, highlighting how disciplinary norms shape the
definition of merit, how professor's good intentions around diversity often
don't translate into results, and she provides concrete strategies to
improve the admissions review process and promote transparency and
accountability.
*3. Lavine Lecture: Black Fire - The Struggle For Racial Justice In
Charlottesville And Beyond*
*When: *October 13, 6:00 PM
*Where:* MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames St.
*Register:* Link
<https://listart.mit.edu/events-programs/lavine-lecture-black-fire-struggle-racial-justice-charlottesville-and-beyond-1964>
The List Center is pleased to present Claudrena N. Harold, Professor of
African American and African Studies and History at the University of
Virginia, for the 2017 Lavine Lecture. Dr. Harold’s lecture Black Fire: The
Struggle for Racial Justice in Charlottesville and Beyond, 1964 to the
Present will reflect on the recent tragedy in Charlottesville and the
longer history that precedes current struggles for racial justice. With
filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, Harold is also a participating artist in
the List Center’s current exhibition List Projects: Civil Disobedience.
Their film We Demand (2016) focuses on ten days of unprecedented student
protests against the Vietnam War and racial inequity at the University of
Virginia in 1969, led by James Roebuck, the university’s first black
student council president.

 The Lavine Lecture will be followed by a conversation between Harold,
Everson, and Henriette Huldisch, Director of Exhibitions and Curator, MIT
List Visual Arts Center.
*4. Path of Professorship Workshop Applications Open*
*Deadline: *October 15, 2017
*When: *November 18-19, 2017
*Website: *link <http://odge.mit.edu/development/pop/>
*Apply now:* link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7lzqQJ087OEXAAWOopwkiH0iYowWSezMEVG2x9VldClj3sA/viewform>


Due to the popularity and limited size of this workshop, we are asking that
you apply to participate. Following the October application deadline,
participants will be selected on the basis of predetermined priorities
(time until job search, reasons for wanting to participate, etc.). For
questions contact pop-admissions at mit.edu.
*5. Poetry Reading: Fanny Howe & Nicole Terez Dutton *
*When: *October 16 & 17, 7:00 PM
*Where:* 56-154

Nicole Terez Dutton: October 16, 7:00 PM

Nicole Terez Dutton’s work has appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, 32
Poems, Indiana Review and Salt Hill Journal. Nicole earned an MFA from
Brown University and has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work
Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts. Her collection of poems, If One Of Us Should Fall, was
selected as the winner of the 2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She lives in
Somerville, Massachusetts where she served as the city’s inaugural poet
laureate. She teaches in the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program and is an
editor at The Baffler and Transition Magazine.

Fanny Howe: October 17, 7:00 PM

Fanny Howe’s most recent collection of poetry is Second Childhood from
Graywolf Press. She was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 2014 for
that book and for the International Man Booker Award, 2015, for her
fiction. Her newest book, The Needle’s Eye, was published by Graywolf in
November 2016. She taught at MIT and UCSD where she is Professor Emerita,
and lives in New England.
*6. Film Screening: Organizing Women - Norma Rae + Clean In*
*When: *October 17, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
*Where:* 6-120
1st film in the WGS film series: Organizing Women. Norma Rae introduced by
Moira Weigel and an additional short documentary about the organizing of
hotel workers at the Harvard-owned hotel, with a cameo appearance by Drew
Faust and Sheryl Sandberg, Clean In. Pizza at 6:45.
*7. Lecture: State of the Arab Family and the Family of the Arab State*
*When: *October 18, 5 PM
*Where:* 3-370
Biannual McMillan-Stewart lecture on Women in the Developing World: with *Suad
Joseph* presenting “State of the Arab Family and the Family of the Arab
State”
*8. WGS Intellectual Forum: Meral Ekincioglu*
*When: *October 19, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
*Where:* 14E-304

Dr. Meral Ekincioglu, visiting scholar at the MIT HTC (2014-2016), will
present "The Grand Flirtation: Feminist Operation of Architecture at
Princeton University in the 1960s - the 1970s"

Focusing on some recent scholarly debates on feminist practice in
architecture history and the crucial potential of inclusion, equity and
diversity in architecture education, the profession and practice with a new
urgency under the current political climate, in her presentation, she will
examine the historical context of the admission of women architecture
students to Princeton University, a historically masculine space known as
the “Old-Boy’s School” and its early figures. Keeping the architecture’s
ongoing struggles with diversity, equity and inclusion in spite of an
explosion of scholarship on gender and race in this field in mind, she aims
to invite to rethink about the importance of the feminist practice in the
field as a way of critically constructing the knowledge of gender, race and
ethnicity within a multiple perspective and how to integrate them into
(global and multicultural) architecture history.
*9. Cheney Room Grad Lunch with MIT GAIN and the Work-Life Center*
*When: *October 20, 12:15 PM
*Where:* 3-310


Save the date for the October 20th Graduate Lunch at the Cheney Room,
featuring MIT GAIN and the MIT WORK-LIFE CENTER! All women-identified and
non-binary grad students (and partners/significant others) welcome! Lunch
provided courtesy of Cafe Luna. Partners/significant others welcome!
*10. MIT Work-Life Center Fall Seminar Series*
*When:* Various dates, Fall 2017
*Where: *Koch Institute
*Event link: *link <http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars>
The MIT Work-Life Center’s popular Seminar Series provides research-based
strategies, tips, and information to help you deal with a diverse array of
work-life issues.


Registration <http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars> is required for all
seminars, briefings, and discussion groups. All programs are free of charge
and open to all members of the MIT community, including students, staff,
faculty, and their partners and families.
*11. MIT List Visual Arts Center: Fellowship Opportunity*
*When:* Now
Apply: eagarner at mit.edu

The List Visual Arts Center, MIT’s contemporary art museum, collects,
commissions, and presents rigorous, provocative, and artist-centric
projects that engage MIT and the global art community. The Center is
pleased to offer a fellowship position to assist with all details in
organizing a two-day symposium.

The working topic for the *2018 Wasserman Forum* will be *Future Genders*
and looking at how gender identity is being addressed by artists today. The
List Center is seeking a candidate that has a demonstrated interest in
gender issues as they are presented through contemporary visual arts.  The
Wasserman Forum Assistant will work in conjunction with the List Center
Staff in conceptualizing the panels for the Forum, and undertake
organizational duties such as and not limited to speaker contracts,
obtaining and editing speaker bios, handling travel needs, assisting in all
aspects of hospitality for Forum participants, preparing press materials,
coordinating volunteers for the Forum, and determining and ordering all
amenities for the event. The Wasserman Forum Assistant will also be
expected to be on hand for the entire duration of the forum planned for
November 2018.

*Job Requirements*
Applicants must possess a bachelor’s degree in art history, women’s and
gender studies, or a related field with a preference of being enrolled in a
graduate degree program. Applicants also must be authorized to work in the
US. To apply, please submit a letter of interest, a resume, and the names
of two professional and/or academic references to Emily A. Garner,
eagarner at mit.edu.
Events Outside MIT

*12. HubWeek 2017: Salary Negotiation Workshop*
*When:* October 11, 2017
*Where*: Boston Central Public Library, 700 Boylston St, The Exchange Room
*Register:* Lin
<https://hubweek.org/events/aauw-work-smart-in-boston-salary-negotiation-workshops/workshop-i/>
k
<https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/institutional-diversity/initiatives/young-scholars-conference>
AAUW Work Smart in Boston is designed to help you negotiate for a new job
as well as for earned raises or promotions. In a two-hour workshop, you’ll
gain confidence in your negotiation style through facilitated discussion
and role-play, learn how to identify and articulate your personal value, as
well as how to develop an arsenal of persuasive responses and other
negotiation strategies, including how to get a raise or promotion and how
to conduct objective market research to benchmark a target salary and
benefits.
Hosted by City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement in
partnership with AAUW.
*13. The Horizons Fellowship *
*When:* Now
*Website:* link <http://www.joinhorizons.com/fellowship>
The Horizons Fellowship supports 200 outstanding university students on a
fully-funded experience in San Francisco, in their pursuit to become
leaders in technology. Our programs provide immersive software engineering
and web/mobile development courses geared towards high-achieving college
students. Students need not have a computer science background!

Horizons students have gone on to receive offers from firms such as Google,
Slack, Yelp, Amazon, BCG, Visa, J.P. Morgan, and more. Past Horizonites
have come from a variety of schools and backgrounds. Applicants have hailed
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Princeton, Yale,
UPenn/Wharton, Columbia, Northwestern, Brown, Michigan and more.

Interested students can start an application here
<http://www.joinhorizons.com/fellowship>!

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