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Monday, June 9
Tuesday, June 10
Wednesday, June 11
Thursday, June 5
Friday, June 6
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Monday, June 9, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter Head Resident Suite.
Come to the Jewish Students Alliance first meeting of the year and hear about the club's traditions and plans for the year, including a Shabbat Dinner, discussions, and a Tikkun Olam (Healing the World) project. Come connect with other Jewish students and allies, and offer new ideas for club programming. JSA meetings and events are open to anyone interested in participating in or learning about Jewish religion and culture.
Monday, June 9, 1:00-1:30 pm, Cutter Living Room.
All final summer students are strongly advised to attend this meeting.
Monday, June 9, 7:30 pm, Leo Weinstein Auditorium - Wright Hall.
Kyle Pruett, M.D., Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center. Thanks to the Decade of the Brain and a host of new non-invasive research techniques, we need to hold tight to climb today’s steep learning curve enlightening the growth and maturation of even the youngest children. Gene and environment interaction studies are featured weekly in major print media outlets, while co-parenting struggles entertain talk-show audiences. This lecture will highlight the more useful and clinically applicable findings of this wave of new research to bring the student of behavior up to date about what makes understanding child development our most powerful harbinger of human relationships.
Dr. Pruett has been a distinguished educator at the graduate, undergraduate and distance-learning level for three decades and has served the Yale Child Study Center as Director of Medical and Undergraduate Studies and member of the School of Medicine’s Curriculum Committee. He is an international expert and forensic consultant on child, parental and family development, paternal involvement, children’s mental health, creativity and the effects of trauma, media and divorce on young and very young children. He is the founder of the Yale Conference on Fatherhood, and the Harris Professional Development Network for Training in Early Intervention and Research, and was co-chair of the Child Custody Conflict Placement Committee of the Child Study Center and the Yale Law School.
Wednesday, June 11, lunch, Ziskind Living Room.
Please join Student Org at this week's General Meeting to hear Josh Miller present on activities (related to student feedback) that he and Ann Marie Garran are spearheading to further the SSW's Anti-Racism Mission Statement.
Wednesday, June 11, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Seelye Hall 307.
This workshop will present techniques for beginning writing assignments, overcoming writer’s block, and dealing with writing anxiety. Feel free to bring your lunch!
Thursday, June 12, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Seelye 307.
This workshop will provide tips for how to manage a lot of coursework in a very short semester. Specifically, we will offer strategies for prioritizing your assignments, reading more efficiently, planning your time, and writing more easily and effectively. Feel free to bring your lunch!
Thursday, June 12, 7:00 - 9:00 pm, Nielson Browsing Room.
Council for Students of Color Symposium 2008: Eli Painted Crow, A Native Woman's Veteran perspective on Women of Color in the Military. Eli Painted Crow is a Native American woman from the Yaqui Nation who served in the U.S. Army for 22 years and is retired as SFC Sergeant First Class, after serving her last tour of duty in Iraq. She is working with the Women of Color Resource Center on an initiative to build the leadership of military women and veterans of color. She has also worked with Iraq Vets Against the War and Code Pink, and is the co-founder of SWAN- the Service Women's Action Network. Eli is the mother of two sons who served in the military and a grandmother of eight. Eli currently lives in Merced, CA and has traveled around the U.S. speaking for peace.
Friday, June 13, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, Cutter Living Room.
If you missed her on Thursday, or would simply like another opportunity to listen and speak to Eli Painted Crow, please join us for what should be an interesting and stimulating conversation.
Friday, June 13, 4:00 pm, Mwangi House.
Join us for light refreshments at Mwangi and get to know or reconnect with fellow students of color.
Friday, June 13, 4:00 - 8:30 pm, Smith College Museum of Art.
Come celebrate the special exhibition opening of "Jerome Liebling: Seeing Real Things" at the Museum’s Special Second Friday. From 4:00 - 6:00 pm learn about the photography process by making your own “slide” transparency, inspired by Jerome Liebling’s work on view (Ages 4+ with adult). Also from 4:00 - 6:00 pm, The Cunningham Center will be open so please stop by. At 6:00 pm is the Artists on Art Lecture at Leo Weinstein Auditorium in Wright Hall. Influential photographer and filmmaker Jerome Liebling will speak about his work, as seen in the exhibition "Jerome Liebling: Seeing Real Things". From 7:00 - 8:30 pm attend the opening reception in the Museum Atrium. All galleries open. Everyone welcome. Free to all.
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Rev. H. Ryumon Gutiérrez Baldoquín is a Cuban-born and Harlem-raised Soto Zen priest in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. She is the founder of the People of Color Sitting Group at the San Francisco Zen Center and co-founder of the Buddhist Meditation Group for the LGBTQ community at The Center, also in San Francisco.
Rev. Ryumon will be joining the Student Meditation Group for the following:
Four morning Sitting Meditations to be held in Chase House Living Room from 6:30 to 7:30 am on Monday, June 16th through Thursday, June 19th. No sign-up required.
An evening Meditation & Talk on Wednesday, June 18th from 6:45 to 8:15 pm in the Neilson Browsing Room; no sign-up required.
Formal Spiritual Exchanges with students- 1/2 hour times available between 10 am to Noon and 2 to 4 pm on Monday, June 16th through Thursday, June 19th. Please contact Jensey at ext. 7977 to sign up for a time to speak with Rev. Ryumon.
Tuesday, June 17, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter Living Room.
All SSW students are invited to a Career Development Office workshop,"Writing Effective Resumes and Cover Letters for Social Workers." No advance sign-up needed; feel free to bring your lunch!
Wednesdays, June 18, 25 and July 2, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Seelye 307.
This three-session workshop will review common errors and stylistic dilemmas encountered by graduate-level writers through discussion and exercises. Each participant should try to attend all three sessions. Feel free to bring your lunch!
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7:30 - 8:30 am, Wednesdays 5:40 - 6:15 pm, Chase House Living Room.
We are a non-denominational group that meets to practice mindfulness-awareness meditation together. Please join us! If you have any questions, would like to be added to our email list, or would like meditation instruction, please email Simone at: simonelichty@gmail.com.
Tuesdays, 12:30-1:30 pm, Beau Ziskind Parlor.
Tuesdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
The ARTF is composed of faculty, students and other members of the SSW community. The purpose of the ARTF is to propose initiatives and take action to further the anti-racism mission of the SSW. This includes, but is not limited to, campus-wide activities, exhibits, awareness-raising, training, dialogues and coalition building. The group is open to all members of the Smith community and works with other organizations on campus to coordinate anti-racism initiatives. Fred Newdom, Joan Lesser and Josh Miller are the faculty conveners, but leadership of the ARTF is shared with students. This is an open group and all are welcome to attend.
Tuesdays, 5:45 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Beau Parlor.
Join us, Tuesdays at dinner, for the Unlearning Racism Group. Bring your dinner– and it’s OK to be late! The Unlearning Racism Group is an informal student group where we come willing to listen to any story, testimony, trouble or concern about racism, white privilege or racial identity development. As we speak and hear about what is difficult, painful, hidden, or challenging today with regards to racism, we have the potential to take the next step towards unlearning racism. All students are welcome.
Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
A gathering for all students, faculty and staff of color.
Wednesdays, June 11, June 18, June 25 and July 2, 7:00-9:00 pm, Seelye 101.
This year, pedagogy and diversity will offer some didactic content as well as providing the usual space to process what is going on in the classroom. Some of the possible areas of discussion are working with social identity in the classroom, microaggressions and how to respond to them, managing intragroup processes, use of self to further issues of diversity and ways of centralizing issues of diversity in all classes. Participants and the facilitators will together determine which topics will be covered. The series will build on this year's Spring Faculty Meeting and the on-line course offered about successful teaching at an anti-racism school for social work, although it is not necessary to have participated in these events. The first semester seminars will be taught by Dr. Joshua Miller and Senior Bertha Reynolds Fellow Dr. Edith Fraser.
Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:00 pm, Berenson Dance Studio 2.
Come learn salsa in a relaxed and friendly environment. No partner or previous experience required.
Thursdays, 9:00 pm, Chase House Piano Living Room.
No agenda, just men- talking, listening, and supporting one another. All SSW men (msw, phd, faculty and staff) are invited and welcome.
Sundays, 6:00 pm, Chase House Lounge.
Sunday evening yoga classes are starting this week! Come unwind from the past week and weekend, and get ready for the upcoming week. Please bring your own mat, or bring a towel if you don't own a mat.
Second Year Students: Worried about conducting the lit. review for your thesis? Sign up for one of the required thesis research sessions offered by the Libraries. (Sign-up sheets are located in Neilson Library, behind the reference desk). Dates/times:
Tues 6/10/08 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Tues 6/10/08 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Wed 6/11/08 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Wed 6/11/08 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Thurs 6/12/08 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Tues 6/17/08 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Wed 6/18/08 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Thurs 6/19/08 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Questions? Contact Neilson Reference staff, x2960 or neilref@email.smith.edu.
Limited seats are available for free to students and adjunct faculty interested in attending morning lectures, but you MUST reserve tickets, which are available now, in order to attend. Lectures include: The Deployment Cycle: Expectations and Implications (Thurs 6/26); The Trials of Homecoming: Odysseus Returns from Iraq/Afghanistan (Fri. 6/27); and Secondary Trauma and Caregivers (Sat. 6/28). For tickets and more information, see the flyer in your mailbox or contact Bevely Maldonado at x7976 or swstaff@email.smith.edu. (See http://www.smith.edu/ssw/admin/academics_combat_conference_2008.php for full conference details.)
To the Class of 2008 with Thesis Submissions from Laurie Wyman, Research Sequence Administrative Assistant. For the week beginning Monday, June 9, I will be available to receive your submissions Monday (6/9), Wednesday (6/11) and Friday (6/13), 8:30 am – 12:30 pm, and Tuesday (6/10) and Thursday (6/12) from 1:30 - 4:00 pm. Please contact me at x7974 or lwyman@email.smith.edu if you have a conflict with these times. Also, please contact me if you did not receive a packet in your mailbox containing information from Dr. LaTerz on Dissemination Plans and Research Advisor On-Line Evaluations. Please attend the Dissemination Meeting Today June 9th, in Cutter Living Room from 1:00-1:30 p.m. Thank you.
We will be hiring student workers to help out with the 90th anniversary celebration. The pay is $10/hour and the jobs include videotaping sessions (training provided), assisting older alumni with their needs, assisting at registration, etc. If you would like to be considered for these opportunities, please fill out an application and submit it to Tonya Dixon in Lilly Hall Room 202.
As part of an overall college policy emphasizing sustainability, Smith has moved away from purchasing plastic water bottles and is encouraging all students, faculty and staff to bring a refillable water bottle to campus. In keeping with these efforts SSW has purchased stainless steel water bottles for the community, which were distributed at check in day. They are imprinted with the School’s name and the logo for our 90th anniversary celebration. Please use these bottles around campus to support this effort.
Please note that the Anti-Racism Symposium will be held on June 16, 2008 from 7:00-9:30pm. (*The date listed on the inside cover of the 2008 Summer Planning Guide is incorrect.) Watch for more information on the Anti-Racism Symposium in next week's Luncheon Notices.
The exhibition “African Beaded Art: Power and Adornment”, on view through June 15 at the Smith College Museum of Art, features 140 exquisite objects from West, Central, and Southeast Africa. This exhibition is one of the first to survey beaded art work across a spectrum of African cultures and includes apparel and furniture for kings and rulers, clothing and costumes for dancers and ritual use, necklaces, sculpture, tools and more!
Smith has formed a partnership with Zipcar, Inc. that gives program members the use of two cars located on campus. Members can have access to a car 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and can rent by the hour or the day. Reservations can be made online. To enroll or obtain more information go to http://www.zipcar.com/smith/
The following health care resources are available to students this summer.
The Neilson Library heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems (HVAC) are undergoing a major upgrade and/or replacement this year. Unlike the first phase where most of the work was concentrated in the basement mechanical room and Alumnae Gym, the Phase 2 work is concentrated in the core building (the original building). Consequently the amount of noise and disruption will be much more apparent to the building occupants. Temperature control will also be affected and many spaces will run warm. Some tasks have been and will be scheduled off hours but for the most part the contractors will be working from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM Monday through Friday until the project is complete in January of 2009. Until then please be patient with the disruption this project will bring. When finished, occupants will experience improved indoor air quality, better temperature control, improved archival materials storage conditions and better lighting. The building performance in terms of energy consumption and maintenance frequency will also improve.
Here is a calendar of SSW events this summer. Please check this calendar for periodic updates.
The SSW Alumni Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Thesis Grants. The Alumni Association Thesis Grant has been awarded to Brianne Goodman for her thesis entitled: The Strength of Muslim Couples in the Face of Heightened Discrimination from September 11 and the Iraq War. The Thesis Grant for Students of Color has been awarded to Anastasia McRae for her thesis entitled: A Survey of Clinicians’ Use of Touch and Body Awareness in Psychotherapy. The Thesis Research Grant has been awarded to Joanna Vaughn for her thesis entitled: What were the Changes that Occurred in the Establishment of the Smith College School for Social Work’s Adoption of the Anti-racism Commitment? The 90th Anniversary Thesis Grant has been awarded to Mary Fisher for her thesis entitled: The Use of Psychoeducation in the Treatment of PTSD with Military Personnel and their Family Members: An Exploratory Study from a Clinician’s Perspective. Congratulations to the recipients and thank you to all those who submitted their work.
There is a lost and found bin in the SSW main office, Lilly Hall Room 101. Items can be retrieve from, or contributed to, the bin from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, M-F.
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