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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Forwarding on behalf of Alfonso Gonzales, Director of the newly established Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center at UC Riverside.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/01/13/mellon-foundation-awards-29-million-latinx-futures"><span style="color:black">https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/01/13/mellon-foundation-awards-29-million-latinx-futures</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">More Info and to Register:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues, Students, and Community Partners, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am writing to invite you to two events that will inaugurate our new Center for Latino and Latin American Studies Research at UCR.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The first is a soft-launch for the Center on Tuesday, February 23 from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. This brief event is aimed at our faculty, graduate students and community partners to give them a sense of what the Center will have to offer them.
At the launch we will go over the Center's vision, structure, research projects, and funding opportunities for faculty and students. We will also introduce the new board. Assuming that we open up in the Fall of 2021, we will have a larger and public inauguration
ceremony with food and entertainment to celebrate this achievement for our University.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Secondly, I also want to invite you to our inaugural event on "Precarious Work, Covid-19, and Latino Immigrant Workers" in the United States on Thursday, February 25, 2021 from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM. This bilingual event will bring together
leading experts on Latino migrant labor and contemporary neoliberalism from UCR, USC, UNAM, and the London School of Economics.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please share fliers for both events with your students and colleagues.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I look forward to building our new Center with your support.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely yours, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Alfonso Gonzales Toribio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Director, Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Associate Professor <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Department of Ethnic Studies <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">University of California Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Author, Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State (Oxford, 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">Soft Launch- Center for Latino and Latin American Studies Research<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">Tuesday, February 23 at 6:00pm <span style="background:white">to</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red;background:white;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">7:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color:black">Help inaugurate our new Center for Latino and Latin American Studies Research at UC Riverside. In this soft launch, we invite faculty, graduate students and community partners to learn about the Center. We will go over the Center's
vision, structure, research projects, and funding opportunities for faculty and students. We will also introduce the new board. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Dial-In Information</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckd--urjwoHtI8kh7Ze0nKV1jvgboi4Zqu"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckd--urjwoHtI8kh7Ze0nKV1jvgboi4Zqu</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">Precarious Work, COVID-19, and Latino immigrants in the United States<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<b><span style="color:red">Thursday, February 25 from 11:00am <span style="background:white">to </span>1:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">This bilingual event will bring together leading experts on Latino migrant labor and contemporary neoliberalism from UC Riverside, University of Southern California, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, and the London School of Economics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">This event is the first public event to help inaugurate UCR's Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center. The event is free and open to the public. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Dial-In Information</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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