<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Just a reminder of the next science fiction talk, by N. Katherine Hayles, this Wednesday at 3 PM in the English Department seminar room (2212 HMNSS). Light refreshments will be served.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""><b>SPRING 2009 CHASS SPEAKER SERIES
ON SCIENCE FICTION<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""><b>N. Katherine
Hayles</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""><b>“Vernor Vinge’s <i>Rainbow’s
End</i></b></span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""><b>
and the Macropolitics of Global Spatialization”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman Bold""><b><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype
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<div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Wednesday, May 6<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>3:00 PM</b><span style="font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>English Department
Conference Room<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Humanities and
Social Sciences Building, Room 2212<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">N.
Katherine Hayles, Professor at Duke University, is the author of <i>The Cosmic
Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (1984), <i>Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in
Contemporary Literature and Science</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
(1990), <i>How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature
and Informatics</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (1999), <i>Writing
Machines</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (2002), and <i>My Mother Was
a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts </i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(2005). She is currently at work on a book entitled <i>How
We Think: The Transforming Power of Digital Technologies</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For
information, please contact: Rob Latham (951-827-1966; <a href="mailto:rob.latham@ucr.edu">rob.latham@ucr.edu</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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