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 GWAMIT Newsletter - Week of Sept 18, 2017
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Dear GW at MIT Members,

Welcome again to the new cohort of graduate women at MIT! We're looking
forward to engaging with the dynamic community of graduate women at MIT at
our (many) upcoming events. Watch out for this newsletter to stay updated!

Take a break from the rush of the semester at the *GWAMIT Ice Cream Social!*
Get to know more about GWAMIT and your fellow women classmates over a
delicious ice cream break. More details below!

Make sure to follow us on the links above.
- The GW at MIT Board
Events In Brief
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*GW at MIT:*
1. GWAMIT Ice Cream Social (Oct 6)
2. GSC Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee
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*MIT:*
3. MIT Graduate Women of Excellence 2017
4. AMITA Event: Health Insurance for women (Sept 19)
5. GCWS Feminisms Unbound: Black. Body. Art (Sept 20)
6. Cheney Room Fall Mixer (Sept 21)
7. List Visual Arts Center: Let the Fire Burn (Sept 21)
8. Technology, Leadership, and the Courage of Conviction (Sept 21)
9. WGS Intellectual Forum: Gender and Computational Poetry (Sept 27)
10. MIT Women's League Events
11. List Visual Arts Center: Citizenfour (Sept 28)
12. MIT GE|CD Career Events
13. MIT Work-Life Center Fall Seminar Series (Fall '17)
14. Fellowship Opportunity (Fall '17)
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*Outside MIT:*
15. Brown University Fall Young Scholars Conference (Oct 6-7)
Women in History Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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*Elizabeth Cady Stanton * (1815 – 1902) was an American suffragist, social
activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights
movement. Her *Declaration of Sentiments*, presented at the Seneca Falls
Convention held in 1848 in New York, is often credited with initiating the
first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United
States. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association
from 1892 until 1900.
GWAMIT Events

*1. GW at MIT Ice Cream Social*
*When:* October 6, 1:30PM - 3:00PM
*Where: *Twenty Chimneys @ Student Center, W20-306
*Register:* Link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gwamit-ice-cream-social-tickets-38021041960?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_button>

Come hang out with your fellow women at our very first GWAMIT First Friday
Event Series! We will have ice cream for everyone, whether it's
gluten-free, dairy-free, low-calorie, vegan, or sugar-free.
*2. Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee*
The GSC has recently created a Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee to
explore ways for underrepresented groups at MIT to work together to achieve
common goals. The women's constituency representative works with GW at MIT to
discuss women's issues on the subcommittee. This year's rep is Jane Heyes (
jeheyes at mit.edu), and if you're interested in contacting the committee
chairs and the women's rep with any ideas or concerns, please send an email
to gsc-diversity-women at mit.edu.
MIT Events
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVZzS5poCI&t=7s%29>

*3. MIT Graduate Women in Excellence 2017*
The MIT Office of the Dean for Graduate Education is pleased to announce
the honorees of the 2017 biennial celebration of *Graduate Women of
Excellence*. The honorees were nominated and selected based on their
leadership and service contributions at the Institute, their dedication to
mentoring, and their drive to make changes to improve the student
experience.

*4. AMITA Event: Health Insurance for Women*
*When:* September 19, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
*Website: *link
<http://amita.alumgroup.mit.edu/s/1314/2015/club-class-main-start.aspx?gid=20&pgid=61>
The Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) is dedicated to providing a means
for former women students to maintain contact with each other and MIT. We
also support current women students at MIT with our various on-campus
activities, giving them a chance to interact and form relationships with
alumnae.
*5. GCWS Feminisms Unbound: Black. Body. Art*
*When: *September 20, 5:30 PM
*Where:* E51-095
Join GCWS for the first Feminisms Unbound event of the semester!
With Dell M. Hamilton (Harvard University), Anique Jordan (Whippersnapper
Gallery, Toronto, ON), Amanda Russhell Wallace (Smith College), moderator
Kimberly Juanita Brown.

*"Black. Body. Art. Feminist articulations of Race, Gender, and
Geography”   *
*6. Cheney Room Fall Mixer*
*When: *September 21, 12 PM
*Where:* 3-310
*7. MIT List Visual Arts Center: Civil Disobedience (Let the Fire Burn)*
*When: *September 21, 6:00PM - 7:30PM
*Website:* link
<https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/list-projects-civil-disobedience>
*List Projects: Civil Disobedience* is a program of documentaries, news
footage, citizen journalism, artist’s films and videos focusing on moments
of political resistance and public demonstration from the early 20th
century through today.

*Let the Fire Burn (2013) *
Directed by Jason Osder, 95 min

*Let the Fire Burn *presents, via television proceedings and news footage,
the events leading up to and surrounding an underreported 1985 stand-off
between the black liberation group MOVE and the Philadelphia Police
Department.

All programs are free and open to the general public. RSVP
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-let-the-fire-burn-2013-dir-jason-osder-tickets-35431444404>
required.
*8. Technology, Leadership, and the Courage of Conviction (Dr. Hector Ruiz)*
*When: *September 21, 10:00AM - 11:00AM
*Where:* 4-237
*Register:* Link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-hector-ruiz-technology-leadership-and-the-courage-of-conviction-tickets-37865204847>
As an immigrant from humble beginnings, Hector Ruiz believes that
technology and education open doors for people. Rising to lead Advanced
Micro Devices in the fight for innovation against the forces of the status
quo, Hector shares his life story— the people who impacted his life
immeasurably, his education, the doors of opportunity, and the challenges
faced throughout his career. Hector discusses our shared responsibility for
the future and helping open doors for new generations.

Join us for a 45 minute conversation followed by time for audience
questions and answers. Questions? Contact emillign at mit.edu
*9. MIT WGS Intellectual Forum: Gender and Computational Poetry*
*When: *September 27, 12:00PM - 1:30PM
*Where: *E51-095
*Website:* link <http://wgs.mit.edu/events-all/montfort>
Prof. Nick Montfort will present *Gender and Computational Poetry*. He will
read from and discuss 2x6 (a multilingual collaboration with six others),
Sea and Spar Between (written with Stephanie Strickland), The Truelist, and
other computational poetry. Looking beyond how computers have reinforced
rigid gender models, we will take up how computing can participate in a
poetics that questions our cultural and individual stereotypes and
assumptions.

Montfort invites humanists and artists to explore computer programming in
this way, offering the work he has done as free/open-source software -- for
instance, for use in other literary and artistic projects or as examples
for learning and for work in other directions.
*10. MIT Women's League Events*
*Website: *link <http://web.mit.edu/womensleague/>
The MIT Women's League is a social and service organization founded in 1913
to foster connections among women at the Institute.

*September 25*
Fall Reception for New MIT Women


* September 27*
Brown Bag Lunch with Boston Lyric Opera Artistic Director
*11. MIT List Visual Arts Center: Civil Disobedience (Citizenfour)*
*When: *September 28, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
*Website:* link
<https://listart.mit.edu/events-programs/public-program-film-screening-citizenfour>
*List Projects: Civil Disobedience* is a program of documentaries, news
footage, citizen journalism, artist’s films and videos focusing on moments
of political resistance and public demonstration from the early 20th
century through today.

*Citizenfour (2014) *
Directed by Laura Poitras, *114 min*

*Additional Screenings*
October 5, 6 PM
October 12, 6 PM

Laura Poitras’s 2014 documentary takes its point of departure in the
filmmaker receiving encrypted emails from someone with information on the
government’s massive covert-surveillance programs. Poitras and reporter
Glenn Greenwald meet the informant in Hong Kong to learn the alias
“CITIZENFOUR” belongs to Edward Snowden, a high-level former CIA analyst.
What unfolds is the handing over of classified documents providing evidence
of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National
Security Agency (NSA) and eventually, Snowden’s current asylum in Russia.
All programs are free and open to the general public. RSVP here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-citizenfour-2014-dir-laura-poitras-tickets-35430944910>
.
*12. MIT GE|CD Career Events*
*When:* Various dates, Fall 2017
*Website: *link <https://gecd.mit.edu/>
Global Education & Career Development (GECD) guides all students as they
explore and prepare for careers, global opportunities and health
professions. Visit their website above for a detailed listing of events.
*13. 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.
*14. 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

*15. Brown University Fall Young Scholars Conference*
*When:* October 6-7, 2017
*Where*: Brown University, Providence, RI
*Website:* lin
<https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/institutional-diversity/initiatives/young-scholars-conference>
k
<https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/institutional-diversity/initiatives/young-scholars-conference>
Brown University's Office of Institutional Diversity & Inclusion and GWiSE
invite you to apply for our annual *Fall Young Scholars Conference *(YSC).
YSC is a career and networking conference to empower female graduate
students and postdoctoral researchers in STEM as they prepare for the job
market. The YSC showcases the attendees’ own research while providing them
with practical experience in job interviews and presentations for different
career tracks and settings.

The Fall 2017 YSC theme, *'Atoms, Axons, and Asteroids: Big Data in STEM'*
will focus on computation in the biological, cognitive, and physical
sciences. It will take place on Friday, October 6th and Saturday, October
7th at Brown University.

To encourage participation throughout the greater New England area, travel
and accommodations will be reimbursed up to $500. Space is limited and
selection is competitive. To receive full consideration, we encourage you
to submit an application by September 8th. Please fill out the application
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCypboKJ_GNKk7LHO1yqXWYkb4vUImB8B7AOn-devWgZfnjQ/viewform>
here and visit our website for the most up-to-date schedule.

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