<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>My apologies for posting this again, but I wanted to make sure everyone knew about this final event in the Spring CHASS series on science fiction. Given the current budget disaster, it may be the last for a long, long time....</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; font-size: 27px; font-weight: bold; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman Bold'" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 27px;"><b>
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Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "></span></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><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "> </span></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>“Help Me! A
Short History of <o:p></o:p></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>Science Fiction
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<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">Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. is
managing editor of <i>Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies</i><span style="font-style:normal">, co-editor of </span><i>Science Fiction Studies</i><span style="font-style:normal">, author of </span><i>The Seven Beauties of Science
Fiction</i><span style="font-style:normal"> (Wesleyan, 2008), and co-editor of </span><i>Robot
Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime</i><span style="font-style:normal"> (Minnesota, 2007). </span><span style="font-size:
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