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Part-time STEM teaching position with MITES (MIT)

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MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science (MITES), one of the nation’s leading pre-college STEM programs for underrepresented students, is currently hiring for the following temporary positions for the Fall semester.

This is the perfect opportunity for graduate students who are seeking part-time teaching positions on Saturdays that help contribute to equity and diversity in STEM. We’re currently seeking out applicants for:

  • Academic Mentoring Seminar (AMS) Instructor, MITES Saturdays
    • Part-time, In-person
    • 10-12 hours per week, $30/hour
    • Timeline: Fall: Sep-Dec; Spring: Feb-May (8 Saturdays and occasional evening virtual meetings)
    • The MITES Saturdays Academic Mentoring Seminar (AMS) Instructor plays a critical role in working towards the program’s goal of developing a cohort of “thinking minds” equipped to be successful in technical fields and at the country’s top colleges and universities. In collaboration with other Academic Mentoring Seminar Instructors, the AMS Instructor is responsible for creating and implementing a comprehensive curriculum focused on leadership, character education, social-emotional skill building, high academic achievement, college and career access, and community/social action. Throughout the program, Instructors are expected to assess student performance/academic needs and provide resources to help promote student success. At the end of the program, Instructors will document course materials and write narrative evaluations of each student. Instructors provide guidance and mentorship, playing a critical role in each student’s experience. View full job description here.

To apply, please go to https://mites.mit.edu/connect-with-us/join-our-team/ and click on the button on the bottom of the page labeled “Start Your Staff Application.” Feel free to Lucas Mitchell (he/him), the Program and Recruitment Assistant, at lmitch@mit.edu or 617-258-6291 for further questions.

Liberating Temporality and Spatiality — GCWS Graduate Student Conference 2023

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March 4-5, 2023

Location

32 VASSAR ST. Cambridge, MA
Join in-person or online: www.gcws.mit.edu

Conference Theme

Time and space, while often seen as linear and confined concepts, can be stretched, altered, and reconfigured. We move through time and space in fits & bursts; some ways of moving and being are deemed normative or “good” and brought to the forefront, while others might be marginalized and cast aside. Here, we instead cast aside normative ideas of time and and space to focus on how liberating the concepts of temporality and spatiality can help us imagine and create new futures, communities, and ways of being. This conference seeks to look at liberatory conceptions of spatiality and temporality, particularly in the contexts of racial justice, abolition, disability rights, queer/trans ecologies, human development, death studies and practices, embodiment, community building, and more.

How might liberation encourage, if not require, new orientations to the concepts of time and space? What is the messiness that exists in these spaces of creation?

Some questions the conference seeks to explore:

  • How can the temporality and spatiality of subcultures be used to assess political and cultural change?
  • How do space and spatiality construct belonging, community and identity? Reciprocally, how do the concepts of belonging, community, and identity impact and construct space and spatiality?
  • What does access and openness look like in truly liberatory spaces?
  • How do subcultures or ideological communities produce alternative temporalities and encourage imagination of how our futures can be different from chrononormativity?
  • How do crises change our understanding of longevity, liberation, and community?
  • What is the interplay between alternative and hegemonic norms of time and space?

We look forward to welcoming our many graduate student panelists, film makers, artists, and presenters!

For more information: https://www.gcws.mit.edu/gcws-events-list/liberating-temporality-spatiality