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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 Gathering (Oct 2)
3. NE GWiSE: Join our group!
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*MIT:*
4. MIT Women's League Lunch (Sept 27)
5. WGS Intellectual Forum: Gender and Computational Poetry (Sept 27)
6. List Visual Arts Center: Citizenfour (Sept 28)
7. The Future of Title IX (Oct 3)
8. Hispanic Heritage Month (Oct 3)
9. From Stud to Stalled: Social Equity and Public Space (Oct 3)
10. MIT GE|CD Career Events (Fall '17)
11. MIT Work-Life Center Fall Seminar Series (Fall '17)
12. Fellowship Opportunity (Fall '17)
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*Outside MIT:*
13. Harvard Radcliffe Institute: Struggling toward Coeducation (Oct 3)
14. University Fall Young Scholars Conference (Oct 6-7)
Women in History Mary Wollstonecraft
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*Mary Wollstonecraft * (1759 – 1797) was an English writer, philosopher,
and advocate of women's rights. Wollstonecraft is best known for *A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)*, one of the earliest works of
feminist philosophy, in which she argues that women are not naturally
inferior to men, and should received education and the same fundamental
rights. She is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and
feminists often cite both her life and work as important influences.
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 Gathering*
*When:* October 2, 6 PM - 8PM
*Where: *Muddy Charles Pub in Walker Memorial
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.

Come meet your Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee constituency
representatives! There will be free pizza at the Muddy Charles Pub in
Walker Memorial, and the constituency representatives will be there to chat
informally and hear about your experiences and concerns at MIT. The event
is co-sponsored by GW at MIT and other organizations, and all MIT grad
students are invited. For the Muddy, you'll need to be at least 21 years
old with a government ID to get in.
*3. NE GWiSE: Join our group!*
*Deadline:* October 2nd
*Register*: Interest in Board Positions and Committees
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSda12RLIyiP7c99g_qyg9eXNXJcx4jDCQwvlbb5ml1O6q8emQ/viewform>

New England Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (“N-E-G-wise”) is a
new alliance between groups of graduate women in STEM from universities in
Boston and across New England. We’re joining forces to address the issues
facing graduate women in STEM.

We are going to have our first executive board and committees! If you're
interested in joining the board, read through the position descriptions here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ii8hMRrHaHFyoG_3nMAk5aw5ezE0E6mBvvDlGr_88yA/edit>.
We plan to have monthly meetings, likely weekday evenings around 6pm, which
will be hosted at each of the member schools throughout the year. If you
don't want to commit to being on the board but still want to be involved,
there's also the option of joining a committee or just joining the email
list. Either way, we'd love for you to be involved! Just fill out the
google form at the link above.

Contact: If you'd like more information before filling out the form, email
us at new.england.gwise at gmail.com
MIT Events

*4. 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 27*
Brown Bag Lunch with Boston Lyric Opera Artistic Director
*5. 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.
*6. 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>
.
*7. The Future of Title IX*
*When: *October 3, 4 PM - 6 PM
*Where:* Walker Memorial
*Website:* Link <http://www.rle.mit.edu/anita-hill/>

THE GENDER/RACE IMPERATIVE—A Series of Presentations and Workshops
moderated by Anita Hill

Tuesday October 3rd, 2017
Doors open at 3:30PM
Presentation starts at 4:00PM
Walker Memorial – Building 50

*Hosted by:*
Muriel Medard - Cecil H. Green Professor in the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science Department, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT

Anita Hill - MIT Martin Luther King Fellow, University Professor of Law,
Public Policy and Women’s Studies, Heller Graduate School of Policy and
Management, Brandeis University

*Guest speakers: *
Catherine Lhamon, Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Former
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
Deborah Slaner Larkin, Chief, Advocacy Officer at the Women’s Sports
Foundation
Fatima Goss Graves, Director of the National Women’s Law Center

*8. Hispanic Heritage Month*
*When: *October 3, 12 PM - 1:30 PM
*Where:* NE49-5000
The MIT Latino ERG invites you to celebrate the Hispanic Heritage Month
with  Jennifer De Leon. She is the Editor of Wise Latinas which is a
collection of personal essays addressing the varied landscape of the Latina
experience in higher education. Jennifer will discuss the power of
storytelling in our current climate.

To register, please go to this website
<https://beta.doodle.com/poll/6n7aecgzhviktpds>. Lunch will be served

All ERG Events are open to all members of the MIT Communit
*9. From Stud to Stalled: Social Equity and Public Space*
*When: *October 3, 6 PM - 8 PM
*Where:* Long Lounge 7-429
This interdisciplinary lecture will address a proposed shift to make
multi-stall bathrooms on campus accessible to people of all genders, ages,
sizes, and abilities. Professor and architect Joel Sanders, will situate
this issue in a cultural/historical context, charting the evolution of his
thinking about the bathroom as an overdetermined space that registers deep
seated cultural conceptions about gender, abjection and embodied
difference. Then he will present design prototypes for inclusive restrooms.
Lawyer Shiona Heru, will address both the legality and cost affectedness
involved with implementing gender neutral bathrooms on campus. This is a
joint event between MIT’s Architecture Department, the City Design and
Development group, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Sonny Oram,
Founding Editor of Qwear, will moderate the discussion to follow.

Appetizers will be served.
*10. 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.
*11. 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.
*12. 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

*13. Harvard Radcliffe Institute: Struggling toward Coeducation*
*When:* October 3, 2017
*Where*: Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
*Register:* link
<https://radcliffe-nenmf.formstack.com/forms/nancy_weiss_malkiel>
Struggling toward Coeducation: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going?
Lecture by Nancy Weiss Malkiel AM ’66, PhD ’70, author of *"Keep the Damned
Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation *(Princeton University Press, 2016)

“Struggling toward Coeducation” will focus on the flood of decisions for
coeducation at highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United
States and the United Kingdom in the period 1969–1974, exploring the
hurdles that had to be overcome to open such institutions' doors to women.

Free and open to the public. Please register and join us.
*14. 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>
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<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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