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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Reminder<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Susan Brown<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Management Services Officer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>(951)827-1456<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Professor Lindon Barrett has organized a talk for the
department and campus. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please join the Department of English for a colloquium
in African American <font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>Literature</span></font>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=7
color="#333399" face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:35.0pt;
color:#333399'> Lisa Ze Winters<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt'>Assistant
Professor<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=5
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt'>English &
Africana Studies<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
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18.0pt'>Wayne</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font size=5><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=6
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:24.0pt'>“The
Traipsing Mulatta and Economies of Blackness”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>This paper
focuses on 18<sup>th</sup>- and 19<sup>th</sup>-century visual and written
representations of the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>signares</span></i>
of the Senegalese islands Gorée and <st1:City w:st="on">Saint-Louis</st1:City>
in order to consider how the mulatta’s synchronic iterations across the <st1:place
w:st="on">Atlantic</st1:place> disrupt the coherence of race and belonging in
the African Diaspora.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=7
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:36.0pt'>Thursday, March
6th<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=7
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:36.0pt'>4:00-5:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=7
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refreshments will be available.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=5
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:16.5pt'>Lisa Ze Winters completed
her Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley in September 2005.
She was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine before joining <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wayne</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> in August
2006. She is working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Sleeping with the Enemy: Reading the Mulatta
Concubine across the Black Transatlantic</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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