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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Dear Members of the UCR Community,</span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">We write to let you know about a multi-year research initiative at UCR, entitled “<b class="ContentPasted0">Health Humanities and Disability Justice”</b>
(HHDJ), part of a multi-UC-campus grant, “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice” with collaborators at UCI, UCLA, UCSF, and UCSC. </span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">We’d like to gauge your interest in learning about events and/or becoming involved. Perhaps you might like to to present work in progress, join a reading
group, host or come to a workshop, test or learn about new pedagogical methods, partner with us to build bridges across campus initiatives and communities, or simply talk with us (or one of us) about how your own research, teaching or program building may
intersect with the health humanities and/or disability studies and activism. Joining an email list only is an option.</span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></p>
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We're hoping that you’d be willing to participate or direct us to potential partners in this work. In addition to departmental and larger institutional partners, we’re looking for early-career graduate students whose research interests align with the scope
of this project.</span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">The first annual conference,<b class="ContentPasted0">
</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/csw.ucla.edu/event/oral-histories-of-environmental-illness-ohei-symposium/__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5Q-nXhdOQ$" target="_blank" id="OWA0030be20-6f6c-4388-aa5c-83f136746634" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“Oral
Histories of Environmental Illness,” </span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">will be hosted at UCLA on November 17th & 18th, 2023.</span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">If you are interested at all, please</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCJx7fxg2XK9f_bvzUaiT4oEghdmJqJIs2XQFGj1-XLpelfQ/viewform__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5QXMVj-3g$" target="_blank" id="OWA7d56cca5-34d7-936b-9bc4-165f7284d084" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<b>click here for project goals</b></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> and/or here to
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCJx7fxg2XK9f_bvzUaiT4oEghdmJqJIs2XQFGj1-XLpelfQ/viewform__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5QXMVj-3g$" target="_blank" id="OWAca8df2a2-83bb-88dd-bda0-19f3de3dea25" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">signal
your degree of interest</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> (joining email list only is fine!).</span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Yours Sincerely, </span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/fusonw__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5RNJzz1_w$" target="_blank" id="OWA2cd3e204-2aff-0c9c-8476-9e8ed2b418c7" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fuson
Wang</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">, Co-Director, UCR Medical & Health Humanities Minor</span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/carlam__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5RE-RnK-Q$" target="_blank" id="OWAaabec468-c64e-51b3-64c2-c3de03a58d18" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Carla
Mazzio</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">, Co-Director, Medical & Health Humanities Minor </span><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/mking__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5TUVhBFcQ$" target="_blank" id="OWAcf655125-3f22-7947-5b69-f8eb59e50a5e" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Matthew
King</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">, Director, PhD Designated Emphasis in Medical Humanities
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/cup.columbia.edu/book/in-the-forest-of-the-blind/9780231555142__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5RkSsMlIA$" target="_blank" id="OWAd17b144b-77f7-3d06-aee1-e96351ad9700" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><i>In
the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist K</i></a><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/cup.columbia.edu/book/in-the-forest-of-the-blind/9780231555142__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5RkSsMlIA$" target="_blank" id="OWAd7599df6-7b05-7e29-1c87-0fcd4c36a987" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><i>ingdoms</i></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">(Columbia University Press, 2022)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/cup.columbia.edu/book/ocean-of-milk-ocean-of-blood/9780231549226__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5TCztNY7Q$" target="_blank" id="OWA97d94eab-c32b-c887-69b3-f3a3fd6eed1e" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><i>Ocean
of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire<br>
</i></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">(Columbia University Press, 2019)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Director</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0"> of Asian Studies</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Director of Medical Humanities DE Graduate Program</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Professor in Transnational Buddhism</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Department of Religious Studies</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">University of California, Riverside</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">2024 (meetings by appointment)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.tandfonline.com/toc/caet20/current__;!!OLyWHuc!Qfc3rSFkIQfE3r6DgFiusHsD6IzFgmXHws1dCMIfG4ZfZIuVNoKgo2JjFbDrTRRVdvGIG6Bm-5QIeryv0A$" target="_blank" id="OWA5f938741-a276-b2de-9207-ca226b7aeeb8" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><i>Asian
Ethnicity</i></a> (Taylor & Francis)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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