<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; 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orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="Section1"><br><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 32pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The Prince of Patience<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 32pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">A Chronicle Of Caring<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 32pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 110%; font-size: 19pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 102); "><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 110%; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); ">A reading by Professor Rob Nixon<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 110%; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 110%; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">April 9, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 110%; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">3:oo PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 110%; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">HMNSS 1500<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 15pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); ">Professor Nixon will be reading from his non-fiction book about care giving. The book is shaped around his schizophrenic brother who, in their mother’s dying years, has become her full-time, devoted caregiver. This is a story of male caring that has worked out against the odds; it’s a story of a son returning to a mother (who suffers from vascular dementia) the care she gave him when he was mentally deranged. Years ago, the psychiatrists had urged her to have him permanently committed. Instead, at great physical risk to herself, she took him back into her home.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 15pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); ">Caring knows no guarantees. To friends, to family, to lovers, we typically give (and take) unequally. What Nixon recounts in this story is an arc of improbable reciprocity: how his mother’s refusal to abandon his brother to an institutional fate has spared her such a fate in her dying years. She is dying an intimate, peopled death in the comfort of her own home. He in turn, unusual for a man, has discovered through her a vocation as a caregiver, a stabilizing purpose amidst his unsettled life on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 15pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); ">Professor Rob Nixon<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); ">received his Ph.D. from Columbia University where he worked under Edward Said. Nixon was a professor in the Columbia University English Department from 1987 through 1999. He also held a research professorship at the University of London for three years. Since 1999, he has held the Rachel Carson Professorship of English</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Creative Writing</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he teaches environmental studies, postcolonial studies, and creative nonfiction.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); ">He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and his work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Village Voice, the Atlantic Monthly, the Nation, Outside, Slate, the London Review of Books, the Guardian (UK), Grand Street, and the Times Literary Supplement. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); ">Nixon's travel memoir,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Dreambirds</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Natural History of a Fantasy</i>, was selected by GQ as one of the ten best books of the year, was a New York Times notable book of the year, and was serialized on BBC radio. Nixon will be reading from a new work of nonfiction,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Prince of Patience</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(23, 54, 93); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i><span style="color: gray; ">This event is sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society and is free and open to the public. For further information regarding this or any event sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society, please contact us at 951.UCR.IDEA or visit our website at ideasandsociety.ucr.edu</span></i><span style="color: gray; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: gray; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 110%; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(84, 141, 212); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></i></b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Laura Lozon</span></i></b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Assistant Director<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">UC Riverside</span></i></b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Center for Ideas and Society</span></i></b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">227 C Highlander Hall</span></i></b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Riverside, CA 92521</span></i></b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">951-827-1555 (phone)</span></i></b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">951-827-6377 (fax)</span></i></b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">951-333-4587 (cell)</span></i></b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><b><i>D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair</i></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">U of California, Riverside CA 92521</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">951.827.6076 FAX 951.827.3619</span></font></div></div></body></html>