[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: anti-war colloquium planning meeting

[Charles Whitney]

>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:32:47 -0800
>From: <navarro at ucr.edu>
>Subject: anti-war colloquium planning meeting
>To: alfredo.mirande at ucr.edu, adalberto.aguirre at ucr.edu,
>         thomas.patterson at ucr.edu, 
> chuck.whitney at ucr.edu, juan.herrera at ucr.edu,
>         shaun.bowler at ucr.edu, gloria.gonzales at ucr.edu, robert.patch at ucr.edu,
>         june.oconnor at ucr.edu, 
> katherine.kinney at ucr.edu, georgia.warnke at ucr.edu,
>         david.herzberger at ucr.edu, alicia.arrizon at ucr.edu
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>February 13, 2007
>
>From:  Professor Armando Navarro,
>         Department of Ethnic Studies
>
>To: Department Chairs, Faculty, Student Program Directors,
>Graduate/undergraduate students, and staff
>
>Subject: Planning Meeting for UCR Colloquium on Peace in
>Iraq
>
>This is a cordial invitation to attend a planning meeting
>for a “Peace Colloquium” on the escalating Iraq War.  I am
>proposing that it be held at UCR sometime before the end of
>the current quarter.  As a professor in the Department of
>Ethnic Studies; a human rights activist; and as a former
>officer in the United States Army, I am extremely concerned
>about the escalating Iraq War Crisis that increasingly seems
>to be expanding into a wider regional conflagration that
>could involve Iran and the rest of Middle East.  I have
>spoken about the matter to various faculty members, graduate
>undergraduate students, and community people and all concur
>that the timing is propitious for UCR, as an intellectual
>community, to hold such a colloquium where the Iraq War
>issue and its divergent points of view can be debated.
>
>I urge you to attend this very important meeting.  It will
>be held this coming Friday, February 15 at 1:30 pm at
>Humanities 1500 at UCR.  Please inform and invite those you
>think are interested in participating in such an event to be
>with us.  More specifically, for department chairs please
>inform and invite your faculty, graduate and undergraduate
>students.  For Student Program Directors, I urge you to
>notify the various student organizations.  And for all
>others, please take the initiative and invite others as well.
>
>In closing, these are difficult and challenging times, our
>UCR intellectual community, has a responsibility to provide
>the intellectual setting and space to debate the issues that
>impact society.  If you have any questions pertinent to the
>meeting, I can be reached at either 827-1826 or my cell
>number (951) 333-6819.  My e-mail address is:
>armando.navarro at ucr.edu.
>

D. Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair, Creative 
Writing; Professor of Sociology
Department of Creative Writing, 1607 HMNSS,
University of California , 900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA  92521-0118 951.827.6076 / Fax 951.827.3619
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