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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">This message has been sent on behalf of Mario Sifuentez,
Director of the Center for the Humanities:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear Colleagues,
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">A belated welcome back to the fall term! Please save the date for our upcoming programs and events (which will also be on our
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://centerforhumanities.ucmerced.edu/" title="http://centerforhumanities.ucmerced.edu/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">'s
calendar of events as more information becomes available for each event).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Oct. 12 at 2 p.m. Medical Humanities Seminar:
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">"Mental Health During the Pandemic: Promoting Healthy Coping Strategies,"</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Yvette Flores,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Professor of Psychology in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Davis</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Zoom Webinar:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;background:yellow"><a href="https://rb.gy/zjvsfx" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">https://rb.gy/zjvsfx</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Oct. 22
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">at 2 p.m.<span style="background:white">
</span></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">Writing OpEds</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">Panel</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">, Whitney Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCM; Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology at UCM,
and Dawn Trook, MWP Lecturer </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Zoom Webinar:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;background:yellow"><a href="https://rb.gy/er9tye" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">https://rb.gy/er9tye</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. Medical Humanities Seminar:
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">"Is Parental Leave Costly for Parents and Co-Workers?"</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Heather Royer, Professor of Economics, UCSB</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Zoom Webinar:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;background:yellow"><a href="https://rb.gy/zlnxal" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">https://rb.gy/zlnxal</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Oct. 30 at 7 p.m.
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">"Singing our Way to Freedom" Virtual Film Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker Paul Espinosa</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Zoom Webinar:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;background:yellow"><a href="https://rb.gy/zfth4p" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">https://rb.gy/zfth4p</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Nov. 5 at 10 a.m.-noon
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">Introduction to Oral History History Methodology</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">
<b>Workshop</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">, Teresa Barnett, Director of the Center for Oral History Research, UCLA</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Zoom Meeting:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;background:yellow"><a href="https://rb.gy/defvmx" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">https://rb.gy/defvmx</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. Medical Humanities Seminar:
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">"A Century of Structural Racism in New York City Health Care"</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> Tanya
<span class="xmarkbr362ayes">Hart</span>, Independent Scholar (formerly Assoc. Prof. of History at Pepperdine)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Zoom Webinar: to be scheduled</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Nov. 13 at 7 p.m.
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">"Songs That Never End" (a film by Yehuda Sharim): Virtual Film Screening</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Zoom Webinar: to be scheduled</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Nov. 20 at 7 p.m.
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">Wild and Scenic Film Festival </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:aqua">
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:aqua"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Zoom Webinar: to be scheduled</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Dec. 4 at 7 p.m.
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">"Letters2Maybe" (a film by Yehuda Sharim): Virtual Community Viewing</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Zoom Webinar: to be scheduled</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxxxxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Dec. 7-11
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0C64C0;background:white">Publishing Workshops</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> with Carole Sargent, Director of Scholarly Publications, Georgetown University
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(dates and times TBD)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We anticipate launching our internal call for grants in late October or early November, with many of the same categories you have seen in the past. You can review our list of grant opportunities
offered last year<span style="background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="http://centerforhumanities.ucmerced.edu/node/188" title="http://centerforhumanities.ucmerced.edu/node/188"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
We also encourage you to regularly check UCHRI's </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://uchri.org/grants/" title="https://uchri.org/grants/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">funding
page</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mario Sifuentez</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Director</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Center for the Humanities </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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