[GWAMIT] GW@MIT Special Announcements, February 4th, 2020

Tue Feb 4 11:33:50 EST 2020

Dear GW at MIT members,
Events and opportunities have been flooding in! We don’t want you to miss out, so here are the ones with short upcoming deadlines. Check back in next week for more events in our regular biweekly newsletter.
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1.              Galentine’s Day Movie with GW at MIT!
When: Feb 13 (Thursday), 6-8 pm.
Where: Cheney Room (3-310) (Note: the Cheney room is open to self-identified women, transgender women, and non-binary individuals.)
Sign up here: http://signup.mit.edu/1885603858
Choose your movie here: https://forms.gle/Gr7KWpps2QkQQFL56
Join GW at MIT for a celebration of female friendship and grit this Galentine's Day! We will be screening a movie in the Cheney Room. Help us decide which one by making your choice in the poll above! GW at MIT will provide movie snacks. Bring along a friend who hasn't been to the Cheney Room yet (and ask them to sign up and fill in the poll as well so that we have an accurate headcount)!

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2.             GW at MIT & Intel Event – Save the Date

Intel will be visiting MIT to speak with GW at MIT members. The event is planned for February 19th, more details to follow.

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3.             AR Action Summit – Call for Female Speakers

This year’s AR in Action Summit is taking place at the Media Lab on February 12th. They are eager to have more female presenters. If interested, please contact Khahlil here<mailto:Khahlil%20Louisy%20%3ckhahlil.louisy at gmail.com%3e>.

Members can register to attend the summit for free here<http://arinaction.org/>.

4.             Graduate Women Reading Group
Join a monthly reading group for graduate women at MIT!
Do you like to read books? Would you like to read more and discuss the books you read with others? Then the Graduate Women’s Reading Group is for you! We are taking new members this semester and would love to have you join in!
The Graduate Women's Reading Group consists of around 15 members who meet monthly to discuss a book. The books are provided by Dean Staton, but the titles are chosen by the members democratically once every six months.  All members are allowed to nominate and vote on books we read. Some of the books we read last semester included: Bad Blood, Educated, Maybe you should Talk to Someone, Homo Deus, and Wild Game.
We meet Tuesdays at 5pm in room 3-310, which is the Margaret Cheney Room.  Meetings are mostly the first Tuesday of each month, but not always.
The upcoming meetings are:
Feb 4 - Talking to Strangers
March 3 - Uncanny Valley
If you are interested, please email Maha Haji at mhaji at mit.edu<mailto:mhaji at mit.edu> with the following:
(1) What month you would like to start. We may have an extra copy of Talking to Strangers for you, but you’re still welcome to come to the February meeting to see what it’s like.   Otherwise, you can start at our next meeting in March.
(2) If you can come to the March meeting, let us know if you need a copy of Uncanny Valley.  (You should only be getting a book if you plan to attend the meeting for that month.)
(3)  If you have a Kindle-compatible e-reader and would prefer to get books that way, please send the preferred email address.
Happy reading!

5.             MLK Celebration
You are warmly invited to join other members of the MIT community at the 46th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration on February 12, 2020 from 11:00AM to 1:00PM, at Morss Hall, Walker Memorial (MIT Building 50)<http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=50>. Please share this invitation with others!

Seating is limited for the program and luncheon, please REGISTER NOW<https://cvent.me/bVMbAk>.

Program Information
We gather each February as a community to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and to honor Dr. King's dual emphasis on global and local issues.
Due to student feedback, this year's keynote speaker will be Kevin Richardson, one of the Central Park Five. We know he has some timely wisdom to share with us. Graduate student Candace Ross (Computer Science) and undergraduate student Kelvin Green (Physics) will also share brief remarks.
Please visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration homepage<http://diversity.mit.edu/> for more information.

Questions regarding the program should be directed to the Planning Committee via email to mitmlkcelebration at mit.edu<mailto:mitmlkcelebration at mit.edu>.
Accessibility
To request disability accommodation, please contact conferences-www at mit.edu<mailto:conferences-www at mit.edu>.
Registration Questions
Contact MIT Conference Services
Email: conferences-www at mit.edu<mailto:conferences-www at mit.edu>
Phone: 617-253-1700
We hope you will join us!

6.             “The Luxury of Supposing”: Black Power & US History
MLK Visiting Scholar Luncheon with Dr. Rhonda Y Williams
Thursday, February 13th
11:45am – 1:00pm
Stratton Student Center, Room 307 (W20-307)
"The Luxury of Supposing": Black Power & U.S. History
The celebrated novelist, essayist, and activist James Baldwin wrote in 1968 that “Americans” allowed “themselves the luxury of supposing” that Stokely Carmichael “coined the phrase ‘black power’” in June 1966. In actuality, maintained Baldwin, Carmichael "simply dug it up again from where it’s been lying since the first slaves hit the gangplank.”
This lunchtime presentation emerges out of Dr. Williams’ book-in-progress titled A Black Power History of the United States, which treats struggles over black power (or lack thereof) and white power as a dialectic.
Focusing on the centuries before the United States formally existed, Dr. Rhonda will discuss how white power and race, class, and gender oppression are not aberrations or mere flaws of the country; they are in its DNA. Indeed, the early colonizing imperatives and building blocks of white power in the “New World” – racial capitalism, patriarchal privilege, and the dehumanization of human beings – provided the economic, political, and social foundations for the nation. The tyrannical state of affairs, set in motion before the 19th century (and still with us even today), not only compelled, but also necessitated, black people’s struggles for self-determination.
Please join us as Dr. Rhonda invites us to release our own luxury of supposing in order to think more intentionally about how U.S. history is told and how that impacts us now.
**Please be advised that we will be serving vegetarian and seafood dishes at this event, and feel free to let us know if you have any dietary restrictions by emailing Rachel Ornitz in the ICEO (rornitz at mit.edu<mailto:rornitz at mit.edu>) **
To RSVP, follow this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/90804694285

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7.             Volunteer to help host the Northeast Regional Middle School Science Bowl

Sign up here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXISJ78btwTRsA5SkPK9uKTx_QCqahNWtcYnvtHWR5M6jcyg/viewform>!
The Northeast Regional Middle School Science Bowl will take place on February 22, 2020 at MIT, and we need your help to make it happen! Last year our regional champions made us proud at the national competition, taking home first place against all of the US and US territories! Last year’s event was only possible with the 50+ volunteers that made it happen.
We are looking for volunteer moderators, science judges, scorekeepers, rules judges, timekeepers, and general administrative helpers on the day of the competition. We will need volunteers for both the full day (approximately 8 A.M. to 5 P.M.) and for just the early competition rounds (8 A.M. to 2 P.M.). There will be a training event at MIT before the competition on February 8, 2020 at 1pm to help you learn your roles at the competition. Also, you will get a free t-shirt and lunch for helping out!
If you’d like to volunteer and will be available on February 22, please fill out the form below so we can figure out your time constraints and which roles you prefer: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXISJ78btwTRsA5SkPK9uKTx_QCqahNWtcYnvtHWR5M6jcyg/viewform
If you have any questions about volunteering, please email sciencebowl at mit.edu<mailto:sciencebowl at mit.edu>.

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