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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Thank you for attending the Welcome Event and Reading Rooms; it has been great to chat with you about philosophy and other topics, to build some community on campus. We will have another Reading
Room this Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. in COB2 290. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Next <b>Friday, September 29<sup>th</sup></b>, we will host our first talk of the Philosophy Speaker Series this year from
<b>3:30 to 5 p.m.</b> in <b>COB2 290</b>: <b>Dr. Brenda Lara</b> (UC Santa Cruz) will visit us to discuss her work on “</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Epistemic Haunting: Archiving Epistemologies, Chicana Ghosts, and
Haunted Histories” </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E29;mso-ligatures:none">Drawing on Hauntology and Death Studies, this talk highlights </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">epistemic haunting,
a phenomenon I term to describe how knowledge denied to the ghost (as a dehumanized living individual) comes back to reveal itself as</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E29;mso-ligatures:none"> a collective construction that impacts scholars of
color. Through Chicana English professor Lora Romero's life and suicide, I utilize <i>epistemic haunting</i> to argue that </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">queer Latinx knowledge's negation leads to gendered, sexed, and
racialized violence in academia. Romero's legacy unveils institutional oppression at Stanford University, including tenure denial and disproportional policies for women of color faculty. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">A poster is attached. You are all welcome to attend. Please share with other interested students and faculty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Carolyn Dicey Jennings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092F44;text-transform:uppercase;mso-ligatures:none">CAROLYN DICEY JENNINGS</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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