2021-2022 Events
MIT has an opportunity to advance a scientific approach to public policy affecting abortion access and funding. Join us at a hackathon to collect empirical and rights-based research in support of reproductive freedom. We will spend 4 hours learning together, gathering research, and generating ideas.
Cathy Park Hong, poet, writer, and professor, visits MIT to discuss representation and identity in the context of her award winning book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. The book, a series of essays depicting her life growing up as Korean American in the United States, focuses on the Asian American experience of being both invisible and lauded as a "model minority". As a hybrid event, you can tune in at home virtually, or in-person where food will be provided.
The MIT American Indian Science & Engineering Society presents a screening of Somebody’s Daughter to raise awareness during the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Week of Action.
Monday May 2nd, @ 7 PM in 4-270.
Email wgs@mit.edu for accommodations. The film will have closed captions.
Join the MIT Libraries for an evening with cultural critic, celebrated sociologist, and award-winning writer Tressie McMillan Cottom.
Join us for some tips and tricks when it comes to negotiating your salary! This event will take place in the Green Living Room in McCormick Hall, April 27 at 6 PM. RSVP: tinyurl.com/Salary101 There will be cookies & boba :)
A Black History Month - Media Experience, Practice and Conversation.
Clap When You Land was chosen in collaboration with Global Languages and Women’s and Gender Studies. More details to come.
A half-day symposium featuring speaker Professor David Treuer (Ojibwe), who will frame a conversation on the history of Indigenous land dispossession behind the national parks. It will create space for scholarly and personal reflection on this past and how it shapes the present. Registration required.
Join us for a conversation with author Jayne Allen in the SPXCE Lounge on April 14th at 12 PM. Jayne will speaking about her two books Black Girls Must Die Exhausted and Black Girls Must Be Magic. MIT student Mercy Oladipo will moderate a fireside chat and allow participants to join in.
PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights.
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/PaSMIT
Please join us for a virtual book discussion and conversation with author Marita Golden, as she presents The Strong Black Woman How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/MITGolden
Writing with Fire follows the women journalists of India’s all-female newspaper as they risk it all, including their own safety, to cover the country’s political, social, and local news from a women-powered perspective.
3/15 6:30 PM Bartos Theater RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/WWFMIT
Join us in screening the film Ma Belle, My Beauty as part of the annual Women Take the Reel Film Festival. This film follows once polyamorous lovers reuniting in the idyllic stretches of rural France. Watch as complex feelings of love and grief transform what once was.
3/10 6:30 PM Bartos Theater RSVP: tinyurl.com/mabelleMIT
Join us for a screening of "A Reckoning in Boston," in conjunction with "Sreshta Rit Premnath: Grave/Grove."
Afghanistan: Traditional & Non-Traditional Security Issues & Regional Implications
This event will be virtual. Please RSVP: tinyurl.com/mcmillandec1
From women’s rights to occupation, Dr. Anila Daulatzai traces the history and lasting effects of US presence in Afghanistan. This event will be hosted virtually. Please RSVP: tinyurl.com/mcmillannov16
During this session you will learn and practice strategies you can implement during the negotiation process.
Hear from MIT alumnae about what happens behind the scenes during a company’s process when offering you a compensation package.
RSVP for this MIT Reads in person small group discussion. Open to all in MIT’s Covid Pass system. Masks required
RSVP for this MIT Reads virtual small group discussion. Open to all.
MIT students will moderate this discussion with the authors of Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan.
La Borinqueña book exhibition and talk with author, creator, graphic novelist, and illustrator, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez.