IAP 2019 Activities by Category - Women's Issues

Herbert (Dick) Schulze '67

Jan/29

Tue

05:45PM-07:00PM

2-142

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29

UPOP Mentor, Herbert R. ("Dick") Schulze ’67 presents an informative and engaging talk about unrecognized women inventors
 
True stories of women inventors who patented their inventions – including such fundamental advances as windshield wipers and spread-spectrum technology – so far ahead of their time that they went unrecognized and unrewarded, sometimes for years and sometimes for their entire lives.

A graduate of MIT, (EE) and the Univ. of Chicago law school, Dick is licensed to practice law in Cal., Col., Nev., and SD, and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Following service as an Air Force JAG and a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Howard Turrentine in San Diego, he engaged in a general law practice in San Diego before specializing in intellectual property matters. He spent 20 years with Hewlett-Packard and its successor Agilent Technologies as managing counsel, Intellectual Property, supervising a staff of company attorneys and legal assistants in California, Colorado, Singapore, and Germany. Following his retirement from Agilent, he became Of Counsel to Holland & Hart LLP in Reno. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Covenant House California. Dick has two grown children and six grandchildren. When not practicing law, he can be found pursuing his second profession as a snowboard instructor at Northstar California ski resort, or cruising the twistiest roads of America on his motorcycle.

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Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU

AMITA, Association of MIT Alumnae

Jan/29

Tue

06:00PM-08:00PM

Twenty Chimneys, W20

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29

The Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) invites undergraduate and graduate students to an informal night of networking with MIT alumnae in Building 9 on the 2nd floor. We'll talk about life choices and share our experiences in selecting grad schools and integrating family life and career. Pizza will be provided. Please pre-register* so we'll have enough food. Student registration is FREE.

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Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Moana Bentin, mbentin@mit.edu

Susan Rosevear, Education Officer

Jan/30

Wed

03:00PM-05:00PM

Room 66-110

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 100 participants

Marie Curie is well known for her pioneering work in the field of radioactivity and for being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.    Her journey from her early years in Poland to her research in Paris included fascinating challenges, struggles, failures, and triumphs.  Join us for a science immersion film portraying Mme. Curie's amazing life.  This award-winning one-woman presentation brings the two-time Nobel Prize winner alive on film as she relays her story. 

Susan Marie Frontczak, an engineer and liviing history scholar, wrote and performs "Humanity Needs Dreamers:  A Visit with Marie Curie."  She will participate in a short discussion and Q&A following the presentation led by filmmaker Jen Myronuk.  

Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsor(s): Materials Research Laboratory
Contact: Susan Rosevear, 13-2050, 617 253-0916, SUSANG@MIT.EDU

Lana Scott, Manager, Media Services, MITx

	Jan/07	Mon	12:00PM-01:30PM	2-146, Bring your lunch
	Jan/14	Mon	12:00PM-01:30PM	2-146, Bring your lunch
	Jan/22	Tue	12:00PM-01:30PM	2-146, Bring your lunch
	Jan/28	Mon	12:00PM-01:30PM	2-146, Bring your lunch

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None

From lady "Ghostbusters" to talk of a female James Bond, Hollywood has taken a shine to remaking classic movies with gender-swapped or race-swapped leads as a way of mixing up a tried and true formula. Gender and race swapping is nothing new in Hollywood. In 1940, Howard Hawks cast Rosalind Russell for His Girl Friday (1940) in a part played by a man in the source movie, The Front Page (1931).Recently it was annouced that High Fidelity will be made into a 10 part series with the lead character played by an African-American actress, even though the book clearly has a white male character lead. The reactions have been mixed.

What do these remakes say about minorites and women? Does it signify that women's movies still need some sort of male appeal to get made? A gender-swapped or race-swapped movie implies that women and minorities aren't important enough to get their own, original stories, and thus must piggy-back on franchises that have already proven to be successful.

With the onslaught of multiple gender and race-swapped movies in the works and those already in the public, this class will take on this phenomeon from a cultural perspective. We'll discuss representation of gender and race in films. You'll be asked to watch different versions of different movies and think critically about what it means to change the gender or race of characters. 

Sponsor(s): Office of Open Learning
Contact: Lana Scott, NE49-2ND FLOOR, 617 253-7896, LMSCOTT@MIT.EDU