<div dir="ltr">Please see attached call for papers.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Visual Studies Conference</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ucivisualstudiesconference@gmail.com">ucivisualstudiesconference@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM<br>Subject: CFP - Memento Mori: Death, Mourning, Decay (April 10th, 2026)<br>To: <<a href="mailto:shjacks@berkeley.edu">shjacks@berkeley.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:complitga@berkeley.edu">complitga@berkeley.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:rubyl@ucsc.edu">rubyl@ucsc.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:sklynn@ucsc.edu">sklynn@ucsc.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:iselda.salgado@ucr.edu">iselda.salgado@ucr.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:brittany.fraser@ucr.edu">brittany.fraser@ucr.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:griselda.rodriguez@ucr.edu">griselda.rodriguez@ucr.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu">arthistory@humnet.ucla.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:ana@english.ucla.edu">ana@english.ucla.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:ann@history.ucla.edu">ann@history.ucla.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:mgossiaux@humnet.ucla.edu">mgossiaux@humnet.ucla.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:traceyma@college.usc.edu">traceyma@college.usc.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:studentaffairs@cinema.usc.edu">studentaffairs@cinema.usc.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:kguevarr@usc.edu">kguevarr@usc.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:vis-grad@ucsd.edu">vis-grad@ucsd.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:vkoc@ucsd.edu">vkoc@ucsd.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:hclark@ucsb.edu">hclark@ucsb.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:whitneylater@ucsb.edu">whitneylater@ucsb.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:brian.trimble@csulb.edu">brian.trimble@csulb.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:Jose.Rivera@csulb.edu">Jose.Rivera@csulb.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:emwong@fullerton.edu">emwong@fullerton.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:hpartid2@calstatela.edu">hpartid2@calstatela.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:mmcao@email.unc.edu">mmcao@email.unc.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:jhe3@duke.edu">jhe3@duke.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:jlocke3@binghamton.edu">jlocke3@binghamton.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:arthistory@gc.cuny.edu">arthistory@gc.cuny.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:amanley1@saic.edu">amanley1@saic.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:claudiaswan@wustl.edu">claudiaswan@wustl.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:juggarci@stanford.edu">juggarci@stanford.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:uaskart@uw.edu">uaskart@uw.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:iwallace@uga.edu">iwallace@uga.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:jordan.pickett@uga.edu">jordan.pickett@uga.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:lnadir@ur.rochester.edu">lnadir@ur.rochester.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_1107223623215787301gmail-docs-internal-guid-8ad3973b-7fff-5a75-807b-7c8cf767c0ae" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Good morning, </span></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I hope your year is off to a great start! My name is Hannah Grissom, a second-year Visual Studies PhD student at the University of California, Irvine. On behalf of the second-year cohort, we warmly ask that you share our CFP with your graduate students: </span></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">UCI Visual Studies Conference 2026 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Papers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Memento Mori: Death, Mourning, Decay</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Presented by the Second-Year Cohort</span></p><div dir="ltr" align="center" style="margin-left:0pt"><table style="border:medium;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="296"><col width="296"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:50.25pt"><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract Submissions Due:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, February 13th, 2026</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference Date</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, April 10th, 2026</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:0.084pt;margin-top:1.864655pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This one-day conference gathers graduate students to present and discuss topics related to death, mourning, and decay broadly speaking. Above and beyond the inevitability of our own death, we are confronted with the ever present image of death from genocide to ecological destruction. In our own field of Art History, from Ancient to Contemporary, questions of death, mourning, and decay permeate both visual materiality and constructed histories. We encourage proposal submissions from current or recent graduate students (MA, MFA, and PhD) and independent scholars alike whose work intertwines, augments, interprets, and addresses questions of death, mourning, decay, and their images. We hope to foster a transdisciplinary place of learning and are interested in applicants from any background including, but not limited to, Art History, Visual Studies, English, Anthropology, Archeology, Comparative Literature, Anthropocene Studies, and Medical Humanities. Further, we welcome and encourage non-normative presentations such as, but not limited to, poetry and creative writing, performance art, and short film. </span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Depictions of death and violence </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Memory, monuments, and mourning </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Destructions of societal systems and anarchy </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Death drive, the uncanny, and psychoanalysis </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Death of the art object</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Decay, defacement, destruction </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The archive & conservation </span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">History writing at the end of the world </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scientific approaches to death and rebirth </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eroticism and taboo associated with death</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The macabre, profane, sacrificial </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Handling of corpses and ethics of displaying human remains</span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notions of the body, deterioration, abject</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Death & afterlife as boundary or aporia </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">War, genocide, extinction, discplacement </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rehabilitation as an aspect of death:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Art therapy and reconstruction</span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></li></ul></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Keynote Speaker: Suzanne Hudson </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are pleased to welcome renowned scholar, critic, and art historian Suzanne Hudson as our keynote speaker. Suzanne is a Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. Further, Suzanne was the co-founder of Contemporary Art Think Tank and the Society of Contemporary Art Historians and has recently served on the Advisory Board of the Archives of American Art Journal, and as a member of the editorial board of CAA.Reviews. Currently, Suzanne is the Consortium Scholar and a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute. Privileging theory, history, and conventions of painting, Suzanne stakes her claims in art, art-making, institutional spaces, and spaces of care across the 19th and 21st century. Adding to an impressive list of publications, she recently published a groundbreaking volume entitled </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Modernism, Art, Therapy</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Yale University Press, 2024) with another forthcoming volume entitled </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Art and Psychotherapy</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Oxford University Press).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">APPLY HERE: </span><a href="https://forms.gle/Vf2DRf8NBZuSiyAz6" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://forms.gle/Vf2DRf8NBZuSiyAz6</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Potential contributors should submit a CV, an abstract (max 300 words) and a bio (max 100 words) to the form above. 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