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In This Edition | May 15, 2020
- Congratulations Graduates!
- New Gender Courses
- Fall 2020 Gender Courses
- Other Updates & Opportunities
- Career and Internship Opportunities
- Global Women's Institute
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CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES!
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"Being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who you are and what you mean...I see your life as already artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art." - Toni Morrison -
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We'd like to congratulate all graduates of the GEIA community!
Your accomplishments are especially impressive given the current uncertainty in global affairs, and we are inspired by your resiliency and optimism. We are also grateful for your dedication to gender equality, and we know that you enter this next chapter with the tools and knowledge to be agents of change. While the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted our ability to celebrate your achievements in person, we trust you will continue leveraging your intelligence, resources, and compassion to turn this diffcult time into an opportunity for positive social transformation.
We look forward to your future endeavors and welcome your ongoing engagement with the GEIA community!
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Dear Students, many many congratulations on your graduation today! You began an academic and personal journey two years ago that has changed who you are and how you see the world. With this new knowledge, and with your gender lens firmly in place, you will always see the inequalities in the world, and seek creative solutions to their remedy. With the clarity and confidence you have developed you are poised to take on leadership, and support roles, on the issues that you are most passionate about. My hope for you is that you will not only make a difference in the lives of others but that you will also seek and claim the life you have dreamt of for yourself and make bold steps to achieve that goal. Seek out your support systems, build networks of allies, take care of one another and remain positive. We are all standing on the shoulders of the giants who went before us, and to future generations you will be those giants. Finally, remember you always have a home here at GEIA, and we are cheering you on where-ever you go and whatever you do! - Dr. Shirley Graham, GEIA Director -
Congratulations, you've done well! Although the job search, and everything else going on right now around the world, might seem especially challenging I hope you are able to take a bit of time to appreciate all that you have accomplished as you earned your degree and now reached this new status in your life. And celebrate! - Dr. Jane Henrici -
Congratulations graduates! You are stepping out into the next phase of your lives in an exciting era. The #MeToo movement has brought so much attention to women's rights and gender equality, and many more people today are concerned about social inclusion. Even though the coronavirus pandemic has created terrible suffering, it has also highlighted the deprivations and inequalities around the world that must be addressed. So, take this opportunity to get out there and make a difference. Recognize that, as Elliott School grads, you have what it takes to achieve results. Be creative, be confident, and be collaborative. Know that I, and your other Elliott School professors, and the staff, are always here to support you. We look forward to celebrating your successes! - Dr. Christina Fink -
"It is upon you to increase your virtue, the virtue of courage—it is upon you. You will be challenged mightily, and you will fall many times. But it is important to remember that it may be necessary to encounter defeat, I don’t know. But I do know that a diamond, one of the most precious elements in this planet, certainly one in many ways the hardest, is the result of extreme pressure, and time. Under less pressure, it’s crystal. Less pressure than that, its coal, less than that, its fossilized leaves are just plain dirt.
You must encounter, confront life. Life loves the liver of it, ladies. It is for you to increase your virtues. There is that in the human spirit which will not be gunned down even by death. There is no person here who is over one year old who hasn’t slept with fear, or pain or loss or grief, or terror, and yet we have all arisen, have made whatever absolutions we were able to, or chose to, dressed, and said to other human beings, 'Good morning. How are you? Fine, thanks.'
Therein lies our chance toward nobleness—not nobility—but nobleness, the best of a human being is in that ability to overcome." - From Maya Angelou's 1982 Commencement Address at Wellesley College, shared by Dr. Arturo Sotomayor, SPS Director -
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IAFF 6503: Violence against Women in
Latin America
Professor Carla Maenza will be teaching a new skills course,
Violence against Women in Latin America, in Summer 2020.
Violence against women has been one of the most densely legislated areas in Latin America. Since the 1994 Inter-American Convention of the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women (also known as the Belem do Para Convention), there have been multiple legislations in countries in the region to contain the crisis. In the 1990s, 14 countries in Latin America implemented legislation on domestic or intrafamily violence. A second generation of laws to prevent not only physical violence but also additional forms of violence, such as economic or psychological violence, was enacted in the first half of the 2000s to address women ́s broader cultural and social subordination. The course will address the changes that contributed to this evolution in legal documents and the progression from the Belem do Para Convention to the promotion of the Inter-American Model Law to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate the Violent Death of Women (Femicide-Feminicide). The course will focus on concerns about the institutionalization of Violence Against Women laws as effective practices and problems of implementation to visualize the confines of the law in certain social settings.
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IAFF 6118: Gender and Security
Professor Michael E. Brown will be teaching a new course, Gender and Security, in Fall 2020. The course will examine the gender dimensions of a wide array of traditional and non-traditional security issues – ranging from armed conflict, terrorism, and the roles of women in military organizations to population movements, humanitarian emergencies, development and environmental issues, human rights, and governance in general. The main textbook will be a new book by Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and co-edited by Professor Brown - The Gender and Security Agenda: Strategies for the 21st Century.
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Fall 2020 registration is now open!
IAFF 2190W Women in Global Politics
IAFF 3180 Gender, Conflict and Security
IAFF 3180 Women and Terrorism
IAFF 3183 Human Trafficking (undergraduate)
IAFF 3190 Women, Rights and Gender EqualityIAFF 3190W Masculinities in International Affairs (open to undergraduate and graduate)
IAFF 3210W Migration, Gender and International Developmen
IAFF 6102 Global Gender PolicyIAFF 6118 Gender and Security
IAFF 6118 Research Methods in Global Gender Issue
IAFF 6138 Gender and Development
IAFF 6138 Human Trafficking (graduate)
IAFF 6502 Advocating for Women's Rights
IAFF 6503 Gender Advisor: Roles and Skill
IAFF 6503 Gender Monitoring and Evaluation
Learn more about GEIA's vision and curriculum here.
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OTHER UPDATES & OPPORTUNITIES
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Tuesday, May 19 9:00am-10:30am ETD
This online dialogue is the second in a series coordinated by
MenEngage Alliance on ‘Patriarchy, masculinities and COVID-19’.
This session will build on the previous online discussion on 7 May, that explored practical approaches to confronting men’s violence against women and girls at home during COVID-19. In this second session, we will delve deeper into the links between masculinities and various forms of gender-based violence that are exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, including domestic violence against women and girls, or on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, and other forms of marginalization. We will look at what drives such violence, with a particular focus on ideas and attitudes around ‘being a man’, and how we can engage men and boys in solidarity with women’s rights and other social justice movements during the pandemic to respond to and prevent this violence.
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GW Events:Women in the FBI: Special Agent Panel
Discussion and Information SessionMay 20, 2:00pm EDT - 3:00pm EDT or June 3, 2:00pm EDT - 3:00pm EDT
Hear directly from special agents working in a variety of investigative squads.
Join us to learn more about the FBI's application and vetting process.
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Toward a Feminist Foreign PolicyMay 21, 2020 at 2:00pm ETD
You’re invited to a virtual event as a broad coalition launches a vision for a feminist foreign policy in the United States.
Featuring:
Gayatri Patel - Director of Gender Advocacy, CARE USA
Heather Hurlburt - Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America
Lyric Thompson - Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Serra Sippel - President, Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
Ambassador Bonnie Jenkin - Founder and Executive Director, Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS)
Megan O’Donnell - Assistant Director, Gender Program and Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Global Development (CGD)
Gawain Kripke - Director of Policy, Oxfam America
Susan Markham - SMASH Strategies
Jamille Bigio - Senior Fellow, Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Bridget Burns - Director, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Jenny Vanyu - Associate Director of Global Advocacy, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
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London School of Economics
Fellow in Gender Peace and Security
The LSE Department of Gender Studies, established to address the major intellectual challenges posed by contemporary changes in gender relations, is the largest research and teaching unit of its kind in Europe. Academic staff come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, but we are united in our commitment to mapping and intervening in the gendered nature of social processes, and in our belief that an integrated interdisciplinary and global approach is needed to do so. In our research and teaching we combine theory and practice, with an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective.
We are looking to recruit a candidate at the level of LSE Fellow to teach on our MSc programme in Gender, Peace and Security, as well as contribute to our core course in gender theories. To this end, we require someone with excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to work in close partnership with fellow teachers, including on a one-on-one basis and in small groups.
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CAREER AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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Helpful tips for job searches and networking during the COVID-19 pandemic:
- Maintain a routine for your job search and organize, prioritize, and track communication with potential employers and submitted applications
- Develop expertise about the pandemic, particularly how COVID-19 impacts and intersects with gender issues
- Use this time to develop your social media presence and share timely articles (on LinkedIn and Twitter) about gender policy related to COVID-19 at least once every week
- Reach out to gender experts you'd like to meet - everyone is self-isolating, so it's a great time to schedule a quick, informal interview via Zoom
- Seek opportunities to develop professional skills that can be used in gender analysis, particularly related to quantitative research
- Take time to refine your resume and customize to specific jobs and organizations - for those interested in positions with the federal government, check out Partnership for Public Service's advice for building a federal resume
- When networking, be a giver, not a taker - adopt a problem-solving mentality by supporting and informing classmates and colleagues or offer to connect two people with similar interests
- If you haven't already, sign up for GW Career Connect!
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