<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi Postdocs,</div><div><br></div><div>the GWAMIT (Graduate Women at MIT) is organizing a Spring Empowerment Conference, with some events happening tonight and tomorrow. The events are open to all at MIT of any gender. Below is the information about the events.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>The MIT PDA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Empowerment Conference website: <a href="https://gwamitempowerment.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://gwamitempowerment.wordpress.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><font size="4">1.<b> <a href="http://goo.gl/gAzQ9u" target="_blank">Film Screening: Pray the Devil Back to Hell</a> @7pm in 26-100 TONIGHT</b></font></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This documentary chronicles social unrest in the West African Republic of Liberia, where civil war has torn the nation apart and left hundreds of thousands dead or displaced. The film reconstructs the way this tragedy galvanized a coalition of Christian and Muslim women to rise up and put pressure on their government to pursue peace talks. Schedule: Talk begins at 7 PM, reception at 7:30 PM, film screening starts at 8 PM (runtime 72 minutes).<br></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><font size="4">2.<b> <a href="https://gwamitempowerment.wordpress.com/events/women-politics-and-the-world/" target="_blank">Women, Politics, and the World </a>@12 pm in 3-270 Friday May 1 (TOMORROW)</b></font></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The presence of women in government is important not only to secure the equal rights of women, but for the nature of governance itself. This discussion will explore why women’s political participation is essential to building and sustaining democracy globally. Tanya Henderson, the speaker, is an international human rights and gender lawyer whose work has focused on women’s rights and empowerment; the role of women in conflict resolution and peace-building; and women’s political participation through U.S. policy, international multi-lateral agencies and civil society, and coalition building among global women political leaders.</div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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