October 2023 - HGSA

by Bohm, Lauren

Hello all! I write in order to request your help with this fall's HGSA book sale, which will be held November 6-10. As usual, the book sale will take place in Robinson Hall's Great Space. The book sale is a great opportunity to get used books donated by faculty, not to mention that it helps fund HGSA programming for the year to come. That being said, we need your help! The job is a very light lift - you would take students' payments for the books, remind them of pricing (details forthcoming), and periodically replenish books as they sell out. Volunteers who help with the book sale during the week will be compensated with one book of their choice/hour. Volunteers who help with set up on Sunday, November 5 will be compensated with two books/hour and LUNCH! Please consider helping with one of HGSA's most important events!! Sign up to volunteer here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Yf4e-q1qGOGSmO7f-TU-hfG6Kqge4pE75Xc… Thank you in advance! All the best, Lauren

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REMINDER: Lunch/Job Talk Afro-Latin Search Candidate this Monday: Miguel Valerio

by Orozco Herrera, Dinah

Dear AAAS Graduate Students, Queridas, Queridos, Querides My name is Dinah Orozco-Herrera, a Graduate Ph.D. student and a Teaching Fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies and Romance Languages & Literatures. I am the Graduate Student Representative for the Afro-Latin American Studies Tenure-Track Faculty Search Committee ( Fall 2023). This *Monday, October 16, 2023, from 4:00-5:00* will be the first of four Job Talks in the Afro-Latin American Studies faculty search. The first candidate is *Miguel Valerio.* *GRADUATE STUDENT LUNCH* I’ll be facilitating the graduate student lunch meeting with Miguel Valerio on Monday from 12:00-1:15 PM. at Raines Library. Please plan to attend, if possible, so you can personally meet, evaluate, and compare the candidates and provide your feedback to the Search Committee. I’ll be collecting feedback anonymously. (If you have any dietary restrictions or allergies please contact Giovanna Micconi (micconi(a)fas.harvard.edu) asap so he/she can alert the Raines Library in advance.). *JOB TALK* The Job Talk will be held at *Sever Hall 103, *Harvard Yard (If you’re unable to attend in person, a hybrid option is available). Recordings will also be made available in the days following the talks, however, the Search Committee kindly requests that you plan to attend the talks in person or on Zoom if at all possible, to do so. We encourage everyone to attend in person, but you can also participate via Zoom (linked below) for those who cannot make it. Join Zoom meeting https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97163011830?pwd=MUp5MWdsNlQyTkFEN1J2d0hsTmxqUT09 Password: 252802 Join by telephone (use any number to dial in) +1 301 715 8592 +1 305 224 1968 +1 309 205 3325 +1 312 626 6799 +1 646 931 3860 +1 929 436 2866 +1 564 217 2000 +1 669 444 9171 +1 669 900 6833 +1 689 278 1000 +1 719 359 4580 +1 253 205 0468 +1 253 215 8782 +1 346 248 7799 +1 360 209 5623 +1 386 347 5053 +1 507 473 4847 International numbers available: https://harvard.zoom.us/u/acwT6l8TjV One tap mobile: +13017158592,,97163011830# US (Washington DC) Join by SIP conference room system Meeting ID: 971 6301 1830 97163011830.252802(a)zoomcrc.com *CANDIDATE CV & MATERIALS* Below is the visit date with the candidate's names and their application materials for you to review prior to meeting them. It will be helpful for us to know a bit about their research and teaching before we meet them in person. The search committee requests your discretion with the names of the candidates and that their application materials be treated with confidentiality. Monday, October 16, 2023 – Miguel Valerio Monday, October 23rd, 2023 – Amber Henry Monday, October 30, 2023 – Margarita Rosa Monday, November 6, 2023 – Daniel Ruiz-Serna Do not miss each candidate's job talk and the meetings with us as graduate students. These meetings will offer a good opportunity to give feedback. I encourage everyone to attend irrespective of if your work is related to Afro-Latin American Studies. If anyone has any questions or concerns, please contact me. Thank you & Ashé pa´nos! Nos vemos prontito! A jpeg poster for Miguel Valerio´s talk is below and a pdf is also attached Candidates Files AfrolatinAmerican.zip <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1990CbvXhzxy2QkXO96iDXoayjEDBzoRf/view?usp=…>

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HAPPY HOUR, TONIGHT, GRAD LOUNGE

by Wilkerson, Kabl

Hi all, don't forget Happy Hour it's tonight!!! @ 6:00

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bagels!

by Bohm, Lauren

what else is there to say?

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Faculty Coffee Chat on October

by Sanjay K. Paul

Dear Everyone, The History Department and HGSA are excited to announce that the first Faculty Coffee Chat event of the year will be held on Monday, October 23 between 1 PM and 2:30 PM in the Graduate Lounge. All graduate students are welcome to attend. There will be coffee, tea, and pastries from Flour Bakery. Our guest this month is the Department Chair, Dr. Sidney Chalhoub. Dr. Chalhoub is the David and Peggy Rockafeller Professor of History and African and African American Studies. Before he arrived at Harvard in 2015, Dr. Chalhoub taught history in Brazil for over thirty years. He is a historian of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Brazil and has published widely on subjects ranging from slavery to epidemics to working-class culture. Most recently, he is the author of *A Força da Escravidão: Ilegalidade e Costume no Brasil Oitocentista* about illegal enslavement in nineteenth-century Brazil. If you are interested in the social history of Brazil, the history of slavery, or simply would like to hear about Dr. Chalhoub's career and professional experiences, we urge you to join us next Monday! We look forward to seeing you there! Sanjay

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HAPPY HOUR, TONIGHT @ 6

by Wilkerson, Kabl

It’s @ 6!!!!! B there or b square!

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Happy Hour, Grad Lounge, TONIGHT!!

by Wilkerson, Kabl

Hi all, don't forget Happy Hour it's tonight!!! @ 6:00

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HGSU General Membership Meeting TONIGHT 10/19 6pm

by Catey Boyle

Hi HGSA, *TONIGHT, Thursday 10/19 at 6pm on Zoom* is the *HGSU October General Membership Meeting.* Important votes on the benefit funds and the legal fund, and discussion regarding proposed bylaw amendments are on the agenda. Register for Zoom link here <http://tiny.cc/hgsuGMM> GMM Agenda <https://url1005.email.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/CMxF4nARlf6wAFa1PSfv0pxLN8zuXd…> I want to highlight how one of the many important agenda items tonight - the vote re: the benefit funds - *has particular implications for social sciences student workers like us, including the potential reduction of *benefit fund <https://harvardgradunion.org/benefits/>* eligibility. *Please see the attached document for the full details. Here’s the short story: Harvard has denied HGSU-UAW’s proposed 2023-24 benefit fund rules due to a disagreement over how we determine eligibility. As such, *the Union cannot process current benefit fund applications, *including for our October 13th childcare and dependent insurance deadline, until there is a set of fund rules approved by membership and the University (with the exception of the Emergency Fund which can still be processed). The University argues that student workers, both salaried and hourly, should earn access to the benefit funds in 6-month windows. For example, a student worker who works a salaried position in the fall (July 1-December 31) would become eligible for benefits for expenses that occur the following spring (January 1-June 30). In contrast, for all funds except for childcare, the Union’s existing system allows student workers who work during either part of the year to gain access to the funds for the entire fiscal year. ******This could have a big impact on History student workers who work in the spring (or fall) and then the following semester register as a traveling scholar. It is possible that we could have earned a semester of benefits that we then may not be able to access (for example, if we’re not on the student health insurance plan while a traveling scholar).**** Please come to learn more and make your voice heard. GMM votes are only open to union members. If you have not yet signed a card to become a member of our union, please go to harvardgradunion.org/join to sign up. Please reach out with any questions and hope to see you tonight. All best, Catey HGSU Steward, Social Sciences

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Global Environment Workshop first meeting

by Moses, Nathaniel

Dear all, I am pleased to share that the Global Environment Workshop will hold its first meeting on Monday, October 23, 5:45 - 7 at 9 Kirkland Place. We will discuss Mark Chen's paper, "Profitable Waste: Chemically Engineering the Anthropocene." Please RSVP by emailing me (nathanielmoses(a)g.harvard.edu) to receive a copy of the paper. Attached is our schedule for the rest of the fall semester. We look forward to seeing you there! Abstract: Much of the discourse on environmental sustainability in the Anthropocene revolves around the “circular economy” and eliminating all emissions and waste. However, one may be surprised to learn that the chemical engineering industry, which refines petroleum for modern conveniences and produces some of the most threatening pollutants of the last century, stems from a piece of environmental legislation aimed to reduce acid rain in Victorian Britain. In this paper, I trace how “waste” was tied to “profit” with the promulgation of the 1863 Alkali Act in the UK, as government inspectors worked with chemical factories to reduce their emissions by recycling side products into lucrative chemical processes. In the US, chemical engineer Arthur D. Little founded the first corporate consulting business, advising firms on maximizing profit by reducing waste and improving operational efficiency while projecting a utopic image where ultimate waste reduction leads to maximal efficiency and economic growth. Nevertheless, in practice, increased industrial developments merely produced more waste whose unprofitable nature became more of a forgotten or hidden liability rather than a resource for growth. The chemical engineer’s pipedream for environmentally friendly growth backfired to produce a profit-centered discipline contributing to the crises of the Anthropocene. Best wishes, Nathaniel

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bagels and an FYI

by Bohm, Lauren

bagels are here! also, most gates will be closed today for unspecified reason - closest open gates will be science center and lamont. Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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