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Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and Friends of the Center,</div>
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"Making Community-Engaged Research Count," <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
with Anna Song and Iván González-Soto, Mon. Mar. 3, 1:30 PM in COB2-295. RSVP <a href="https://centerforhumanities.ucmerced.edu/form/rsvp-making-community-engaged-research-count" id="OWA8a7e11e1-747d-4cf9-8b98-c32445593655" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://centerforhumanities.ucmerced.edu/form/rsvp-making-community-engaged-research-count" data-auth="NotApplicable">
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<img alt="Event information: “Making Community-Engaged Research Count" is scheduled for Monday, March 3, 2025, at 1:30 PM in COB2-295. Speaker one: Anna Song. Speaker one title: Associate Vice Provost for Academic Personnel & Professor of Psychology, UC Merced. Speaker two: Iván González-Soto. Speaker two title: Assistant Professor of Latinx History, Washington State University Vancouver. RSVP here: bit.ly/40EAqGA. Sponsored by UC Merced Center for the Humanities and Henry Luce Foundation.
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"700 Words at a Time: Lessons Learned from Doing Philosophy in the Newspaper," with Andrew Fiala, Wed. Mar. 5, 12:00 PM in COB2-295. RSVP
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<img alt="Event Information: Public Humanities Speaker Series presents "700 Words at a Time: Lessons Learned from Doing Philosophy in the Newspaper." Speaker: Andrew Fiala. Speaker title: Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. Event date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Event time: 12:00 PM. Event location: COB2 295. RSVP link: bit.ly/3EprETT. Sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Center for the Humanities.
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"Who Has the Right to Charge Genocide? Reclaiming Genocide as a Powerful Justice Tool Requires Moving Beyond the 1948 Genocide Convention," with Keith David Watenpaugh, Thurs. Mar. 13, 1:30 PM in COB2-295. RSVP
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<img alt="Event Information: Merced Seminar in the Humanities "Who Has the Right to Charge Genocide? Reclaiming Genocide as a Powerful Justice Tool Requires Moving Beyond the 1948 Genocide Convention." Speaker: Keith David Watenpaugh. Speaker title: Professor and Director Human Rights Studies, UC Davis. Event date: March 13, 2025. Event time: 1:30 PM. Event location: COB2-295. RSVP here: bit.ly/417VuEe. Sponsored by the UC Merced Center for the Humanities.
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Our <b>Common Read</b> book, <b><i>The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,
</i></b>by Robin Wall Kimmerer will be available for pickup beginning Monday, March 3, at UC Merced's Center for the Humanities and at Merced County Libraries (one copy per person). Community Book Club Discussions will be held in April and May at Merced County
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<b>Graduate Writing Group</b>, Wednesdays from 9:15 AM - 12:00 PM, COB2-295</div>
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<b>Faculty Write-In</b>, Fridays from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, COB2-295</div>
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