<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; ">SPRING 2009 CHASS SPEAKER SERIES ON SCIENCE FICTION</span></font></b><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; ">Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.</span></font></b><font size="5" color="black"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; ">“Help Me! A Short History of Science Fiction in Music”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; ">Wednesday, May 27</span></font></b><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; ">3:00 PM</span></font></b><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; ">English Department Conference Room</span></font></b><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; ">Humanities and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Social</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Sciences</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Building</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Room 2212<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black; ">Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. is managing editor of <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies</span></i>, co-editor of <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Science Fiction Studies</span></i>, author of <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction </span></i>(Wesleyan, 2008), and co-editor of <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime </span></i>(Minnesota, 2007).</span></font><b><font size="5" color="black"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="5" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "></span></o:p></span></font></div></body></html>