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                            <hr><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><span style="font-size:18px"><font color="#800A00">IN BRIEF</font></span></strong></span>
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                        <div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><font color="#800A00">GW@MIT:</font></strong><br>
                        1. Relax &amp; de-stress social: Hot chocolate and cookie decorating (Dec. 7)<br>
                        <strong><font color="#800A00">MIT:</font></strong><br>
                        2. [Cheneyroom] December @ the Cheney Room (Dec. 2-15)<br>
                        3. MIT Spouses and Partners Annual Skating event (Dec. 5)<br>
                        4. [MIT Museum] How Change Happens: a Book Talk with Oxfam&#39;s Duncan Green (Dec. 7)<br>
                        5. [MITWGS] Vision Reading Series presents Heidi Pitlor (Dec. 7)<br>
                        6. [MITWGS] Pre-screen Hidden Figures (Dec. 8)<br>
                        7. The MIT Women&#39;s Chorale (Dec. 10)<br>
                        8. MIT Women&#39;s League Daniel Chester French Exhibition (Dec. 13)<br>
                        9. MIT Work-Life Center Fall 2016 Seminar Series (now – Dec.)<br>
                        10. [GCWS] spring course announcements (Jan. 4)<br>
                        11. [GCWS] Call for Papers: 2017 GCWS Graduate Student Conference (Jan. 6)<br>
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                        <strong><font color="#800A00">Outside MIT:</font></strong><br>
                        12. [MASS AWIS] Winter Holiday Social &amp; Volunteer Appreciation (Dec. 7)<br>
                        13. Common Purpose leadership programme (Jan. 17-20)<br>
                        14. ART+SCIENCE Field Studies Opportunity (Jan. 2017)</span></div>
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GWAMIT&#39; relax &amp;amp; de-stress social is this Wednesday at Chiney room. Join us in cookie decorating while enjoying some hot chocolate!<br>
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<strong>When:</strong> Wednesday, December 7th, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> Margaret Cheney Room | MIT Building 3-310</span><br>
<font face="georgia, times, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">GWAMIT is preparing a relax &amp; de-stress social before the finals.<br>
We are also collecting winter essentials &amp; gifts for Rosie&#39;s Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women.<br>
Bring your gifts/items to Chiney room and join us in cookie decorating while enjoying some hot chocolate!</span></font></div>

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<strong>When:</strong> December 2nd - 15th<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> Margaret Cheney Room | MIT Building 3-310<br>
Check out what&#39;s going on in the Cheney Room during December!<br>
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<strong>When:</strong> Monday, December 5th, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> ICE SKATING @Kendal Square<br>
Come and meet new friends, enjoy a fun evening of skating, delicious warm soup and bread from Panera, and hot chocolate and coffee!!!<br>
Please bring your MIT ID cards<br>
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                                        <div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><font color="#800A00">4. [MIT Museum] How Change Happens: a Book Talk with Oxfam&#39;s Duncan Green</font></strong><br>
<strong>When:</strong> Wednesday, December 7th, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> MIT Museum | 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
<strong>Register:</strong> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-change-happens-a-book-talk-with-oxfams-duncan-green-tickets-29785903439" target="_blank" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">link</a><br>
Join us for a short book talk and discussion with How Change Happens author Duncan Green at the MIT Museum on Wednesday, December 7 from 6:30-7:30pm. Introduction and Q&amp;A by IDIN Monitoring, Evaluation &amp; Learning Manager Laura Budzyna. Light refreshments will be served.<br>
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Duncan Green is Oxfam Great Britain’s Senior Strategic Adviser. He teaches international development at the London School of Economics, where he is a Professor in Practice. His blog is one of the most widely read on international development, and is named after his previous book to How Change Happens, From Poverty to Power. </span></div>

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<strong>When:</strong> Wednesday, December 7th, 5:30 PM<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> MIT Building 2-105</span><br>
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<strong>When:</strong> Thursday, December 8th, 2:00 PM<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> Kendall Sq. Cinema<br>
Join us for this exciting *FREE* pre-screening of &quot;Hidden Figures&quot; based on the book by Margot Shetterly. <br>
A panel will follow including Margot Shetterly, author of Hidden Figures (other panelists TBA).<br>
Sponsors include Aero Astro, Women&#39;s &amp; Gender Studies &amp; GCWS<br>
Check out the trailer for this little known story of these crucial black women mathematicians at NASA.<br>
Limited seating, first come-first served!!!<br>
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                                        <div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><font color="#800A00">7. The MIT Women&#39;s Chorale</font></strong><br>
<strong>When:</strong> Saturday, December 10th, 5:00 PM<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church | 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Square, Cambridge<br>
Featured works: Two pieces written for women of the 18th century Venetian Ospedali by Baldassari Galuppi: Dixit Dominus  and Nunc dimittis,  performed with string quartet and organ. We also sing music of David Hamilton, Sonya Huang, and, and Kevin Galiè. Free admission, reception after the concert. <br>
The MIT Women&#39;s Chorale is a concert choir sponsored by the MIT Women&#39;s League, and is open to all women of the MIT and Harvard communities and a small number of guests at the discretion of the director.<br>
In October 2008, the Chorale welcomed Kevin Galiè as our Music Director and Conductor. The Chorale welcomes Seoyon MacDonald as our accompanist in September 2016.<br>
Our repertoire covers a wide range of styles, from medieval to contemporary, including both sacred and secular music. The Chorale performs two or more concerts each year.  These include a holiday concert held in December, and a spring concert, usually held in April or May. Rehearsals are held on Wednesday evenings from 7:15 to 9:30pm in the Emma Rogers Room (10-340) at MIT. We work hard to prepare for each concert, so a commitment to regular attendance is expected from our members.<br>
We are enriched by the diversity of our membership, which includes women of a wide age range and women from the international communities at MIT and Harvard.  While our primary focus is singing, we end each evening with conversation over light refreshments.  We also hold a pot luck supper each semester.  The interactions fostered by the Chorale have led to many life-long friendships.<br>
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                                        <div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><font color="#800A00">8. [MIT Women&#39;s League] Daniel Chester French Exhibition</font></strong><br>
<strong>When:</strong> December 13th, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston<br>
<strong>Reserve</strong>: <a href="http://wleague@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">wleague@mit.edu</a><br>
Born in Concord, MA, Daniel Chester French is known to most New Englanders as the sculptor of the Minute Man statue (1875) at Concord&#39;s historic Old North Bridge. Nationally and internationally he is known as the sculptor of the Abraham Lincoln monumental statue (1906) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.. <br>
We hope you will join us to view yet another theme of his work at the Boston Athenaeum&#39;s special exhibition &quot;Daniel Chester French: The Female Form Revealed.&quot; <br>
&quot;It is the goal of this exhibition to help fill that gap in French scholarship. &#39;Daniel Chester French: The Female Form Revealed&#39; will explore French&#39;s career primarily as seen in a group of preliminary models and studies that he made not only for major public commissions but also for a number of his more intimate and personal works.&quot; <br>
Our Athenaeum visit is limited sixteen people. Eight will have a guided tour of the exhibition while the other eight will explore the building&#39;s great artwork and architecture. Then each group will switch and discover what they didn&#39;t see in their first session. <br>
The tour begins at 11:00 am. You may meet a group at the Kendall T station on the inbound platform at 10:15 am and travel together. Or you may choose to go directly to the Athenaeum at 10 l/2 Beacon Street, Boston (across from the State House). The tour cost is $10 per person (no discounts provided). <br>
To reserve your place, please contact the League office at 617.253.3656 or <a href="mailto:wleague@mit.edu">wleague@mit.edu</a>.</span></div>

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                                        <div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><font color="#800A00">9. MIT Work-Life Center Fall 2016 Seminar Series </font></strong></span></div>

<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong>When:</strong> now - December<br>
<strong>Info: </strong><a href="http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">link</a><br>
<strong>Register:</strong> <a href="http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars/" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">link</a><br>
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<strong>Changing How You Respond to Stress</strong><br>
<strong>When</strong>:Tuesday, December 6th, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM<br>
<strong>Where:</strong> Building 76-156 |The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT<br>
Presenter – Bara Litman, Psy.D., CEAP; Program Manager, MIT Work-Life Center<br>
Kids pushing your tolerance? Commuting getting to you? A new project keeping you up at night? Stressful situations can be seen as obstacles in your life that can cause you to be overwhelmed, reactive, sleep deprived, lacking energy, or worse. Your response to stress can make it hard to think or problem-solve at work and at home. In this seminar, you will explore what stress is and isn’t. You will learn about your own ability to identify situations that may increase your stress and, most importantly, you will practice how to monitor your stress response and decrease its negative impact.<br>
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<strong>Obstacles in School: Learning, Attention and Organizational Issues (Webinar)</strong><br>
<strong>When:</strong> Wednesday, December 7th, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM<br>
Presenter – Lori Day, M.Ed.; Educational Psychologist and Consultant with Lori Day Consulting<br>
The majority of students who receive special supports in school are reported to have learning, attention, or organizational challenges. Children may struggle with reading, writing or math, experience an inability to stay on-task or have trouble meeting classroom expectations. Parents often suspect that this isn’t just a child who needs to “try harder.” Topics covered in this webinar include:<br>
An explanation of learning disabilities, ADHD and executive function issues<br>
Organizational skills and effective study habits for students<br>
Strategies for parents to support their child’s success</span><br>
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                                        <div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><font color="#800A00">10. GCWS spring course announcements</font></strong><br>
<strong>Info: </strong><a href="https://wgs.mit.edu/subjects/" target="_blank" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">link</a><br>
GCWS is excited to announce our Spring 2017 courses. Applications are due January 4, 2017. Some more information about the classes below:<br>
WGS.S10 - Marginalized Masculinities<br>
21H.983 - Gender<br>
WGS.101 - Introduction to Women&#39;s and Gender Studies<br>
WGS.190 - Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies<br>
WGS.S10 - Marginalized Masculinities<br>
WGS.111 - Gender &amp; Media Studies<br>
WGS.151 - Gender, Health, &amp; Society<br>
WGS.231 - Writing about Race<br>
WGS.229 - Race, Culture, &amp; Gender in the U.S &amp; Beyond: A Psychological Perspective<br>
WGS.225 - The Science of Race, Sex, &amp; Gender<br>
21L.435 - Queer Cinema<br>
WGS.276 - Cultures of Computing<br>
WGS.275 - Gender in Science, Technology, &amp; Environment</span></div>

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                                        <div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><font color="#800A00">11. [GCWS] Call for Papers: 2017 GCWS Graduate Student Conference</font></strong><br>
<strong>Deadline:</strong> January 6, 2017<br>
<strong>Register:</strong> <a href="https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a9IleHRX4giF0tD" target="_blank" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">link</a><br>
HE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL:<br>
CHALLENGING MARGINALIZATION THROUGH THEORY, ANALYSIS, &amp; PRAXIS<br>
 A Graduate Student Conference on Gender, Culture, Women &amp; Sexuality <br>
March 31 &amp; April 1, 2017<br>
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In the late 1960s, the statement “the personal is political” emerged as a central rallying cry for feminist activists. While salient before, it has become all the more urgent in light of the 2016 United States election results. Given this, the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) is hosting a graduate student conference, The Personal Is Still Political: Challenging Marginalization through Theory, Analysis, &amp; Praxis, to investigate how this slogan has been, can be, or is now being mobilized as a concept for resistance by marginalized groups   theoretically, analytically, and practically.<br>
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):<br>
• How have intersectional approaches to praxis reshaped this concept as a useful tool for counter-hegemonic struggles?<br>
• How do repressed groups and individuals enact or challenge “the personal as political” in their daily, lived experiences?<br>
•  How is this concept relevant to linkages between academia, activism, and practice?<br>
Topics to be explored in papers and presentations may include (but are not limited to):<br>
•  Activism (e.g., Black Lives Matter; the prison abolition movement; the Standing Rock Protective Actions; abortion ban protests in Poland; support for openly queer teenagers kicked out of their homes)<br>
•  Legal policies (e.g., transphobic bathroom laws; work and family policy; sexuality-based discrimination and policy; social welfare policies; labor rights; treaty rights; the “We are All Amina Filali” movement in Morocco)<br>
• Nationhood, globalization, and immigration (e.g., refugees and displacement - Syrian refugee crisis; family and migration; persistent Islamophobia and anti-Semitism; nationalism)<br>
• Environmental issues and justice (e.g., climate change; resource scarcity; pollution/toxic contamination - the Flint water crisis, the BP oil spill)<br>
•  Health issues (e.g., health care access; reproductive rights; (dis)ability and accessibility; food access; the U.S. opioid crisis; global health disparities)<br>
• Theoretical interventions (e.g., intersectionality; queer theory; postcolonial feminism; feminist psychoanalysis; FemCrit; settler colonialism) as explored by scholars such as Butler (2009), Edelman (2004), Evans-Winters &amp; Esposito (2010), hooks (1984), Moraga &amp; Anzaldua (1981), Spivak (1992), Wolfe (1999), among others<br>
We welcome proposals for papers and/or projects (i.e. paintings, sculptures, film, performances, poetry/literature, songs) from graduate students of all disciplines that explore issues of marginality, repression, and resistance through the lenses of gender and/or sexuality.</span></div>

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<strong>When: </strong>December 7th, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM<br>
<strong>Where: </strong>Hong Kong restaurant, 1238 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138<br>
<strong>Register:</strong> <a href="https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07edfil1nk1dd919d6&amp;oseq=&amp;c=&amp;ch=" target="_blank" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">link</a><br>
Eat<br>
Drink<br>
and be Appreciated!<br>
You are invited to join us for a fun-filled evening with games, prizes, and great conversation!! You can also participate in our cookie &amp; cookie recipe exchange! Reunite with fellow AWIS members, meet, and network with the Mentoring Circles Program!<br>
MASS AWIS members $20 · Non-members $30<br>
ACTIVE Volunteers (with coupon from your Committee) $10</span></div>

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                                        <div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><font color="#800A00">13. Common Purpose leadership programme</font></strong><br>
<strong>When: </strong>January 17th - 20th, 2017 <br>
<strong>Where:</strong> The SOCH, Harvard University<br>
<strong>Apply:</strong> <a href="https://commonpurpose.org/gle/boston" target="_blank" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">link</a><br>
The four-day programme is a unique opportunity for students (undergraduate and graduate) to develop their leadership skills and Cultural Intelligence (CQ) – the ability to cross divides and thrive in multiple cultures. Participants are also given the opportunity to meet and network with leaders from the private, public, and non-profit sectors in Boston such as: the Boston Police Department, Microsoft, the Red Cross and the Boston Globe. We are keen to involve some of your students in this year’s programme.</span><br>
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                                        <div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong><font color="#800A00">14.  ART+SCIENCE Field Studies Opportunity</font></strong><br>
<strong>When:</strong> January 10-15, 2017<br>
<strong>Apply:</strong> <a href="http://www.artbiocollaborative.com/island-life" target="_blank" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">link</a><br>
ISLAND LIFE: Tropical Field Studies of Art+Nature in Puerto Rico is a hands-on, immersive, and project-based program that integrates biology and art in the field, at various environments in Puerto Rico. The focus of the program is to learn about Puerto Rico&#39;s diverse wildlife through artmaking and field biology.  We travel to rainforests, dry forests, beach, coastal, coral reef, mangrove, and mountain environments.  The program involves multiple site-specific projects that integrate creativity, art and biology.<br>
There are limited spaces available, and anyone interested in this travel experience is highly encouraged to apply today! Please click on the links for photos and more information, and don&#39;t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for helping us to spread the word about this unique opportunity!</span></div>

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