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<span style="font-family: Times; color: black;">Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Center,</span></div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Welcome back for the spring semester! We will be hosting an exciting lineup of events, with details to follow in our
weekly emails. Please be sure to <b>save the date</b> for the following events, with more to come:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">1/26, <b>"Drawing Deportation: Art & Resistance Among Immigrant Children</b>,<b>"</b> with Silvia Rodriguez Vega, Assistant Professor, Department of Chicano & Chicana Studies</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"> at</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> UC</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">
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</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">2 p.m.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">, on Zoom</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"> (link to follow)</span></p>
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<b>"Digital Accessibility for Academics</b>,<b>"</b> with Bronwen Maxson, Head of Research and Learning Services, Kolligian Library</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"> at</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> UC
Merced, noon, </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">in </span>
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">COB2-295</span></p>
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<b>"The Idea & Concept of the Taco</b>,<b>"</b> with Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"> at</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> Washington
University in St. Louis, 2 p.m., </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">in
</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">COB2-295</span></p>
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<b>"Life & Death at The Ends of The Earth: Burials in Tierra del Fuego, Chile</b>,<b>"</b> with Christina Torres, Professor of Anthropology</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"> at</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> UC
Merced, noon, </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">in </span>
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">COB2-295</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">04/05, <b>"The Creative Lives of Animals</b>,<b>"</b> with Carol Gigliotti, Professor Emerita of Design and Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"> at</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> Emily
Carr University of Arts & Design, t</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">ime TBD</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">, COB2-295</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">04/10, <b>"Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks</b>,<b>"</b> with Wendy Laura Belcher, Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"> at
</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Princeton University, 2 p.m.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> on Zoom.
<b>Free copies of her book will be provided!</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">4/17,
<b>"</b></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Workers Coming of Age in the U.S.</b></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">,<b>"</b> with
Stephanie Canizales, Assistant Professor of Sociology</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"> at</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> UC Merced, noon, COB2-295</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We are also planning to host
<b>workshops</b> on <b>engaging local and regional media</b> and on <b>peacemaking</b>, to be confirmed soon.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The following will be continuing as well in our Public Humanities Design Studio, starting next week:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Weekly Writing Group for Faculty and Graduate Students,</b> Tuesdays, 9 a.m.-noon, COB2-295 </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Weekly Dissertation Writing Group for
</b></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Graduate Students</b></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>,</b> T</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">hursdays</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">,
9 a.m.-noon, COB2-295</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We hope to see you soon at these events! </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Ignacio López-Calvo</span></p>
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