<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div>Check out these great events happening today!</div><div><br></div><div>Two films about Congo - one this afternoon on campus, and the other, with a filmmaker visiting in person at UCR Arts tonight!</div><div><br></div><div>These will be very much worth your time and energy!</div><div><br></div><div>jt</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">—</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">James Tobias, Ph.D.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Professor <br>Chair, Department of English</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div>https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95465985946?pwd=Z1A4Yk1UZDhBTjY5UkJ5R1VQTWUvQT09<br><br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 9px;">"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands."</span></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>
<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Courtney R. Baker via Englishfaculty" <englishfaculty@lists.ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>[Englishfaculty] TODAY: Bonus screening @ 2:30 in ARTS 335& at 7pm Congo screening & filmmaker talkback @ UCR Arts</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">April 18, 2025 at 10:49:53 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GSEA English <englishgrad@lists.ucr.edu>, "English Faculty (englishfaculty@lists.ucr.edu)" <englishfaculty@lists.ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Courtney R. Baker" <courtneb@ucr.edu><br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">I’m sharing a reminder about now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px;">two</b> screening and filmmaker/activist events happening today with delegates from the Friends of the Congo organization. This will be a fascinating event for all interested in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>indigenous ecologies, activism, environmentalism and climate justice, global blackness, Afro-futurism and Afro-speculation, genocide, ecocide, and antimperialism.</b></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;"><b><br></b></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;"><b>Today at 230 pm in Arts 335: Screening of MATATA and discussion hosted by film professor Christophe Katrib with filmmaker Petna Ndaliko Katondolo and Friends of Congo.</b></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;"><b><br></b></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;"><b>Today at 7pm in UCR Arts: Screening of LWANZO and talkback hosted with Katondolo and professor Kim Yi Dionne (Political Science, UCR).</b></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><p class="airmail_on" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">On April 14, 2025 at 1:09:06 PM, Courtney R. Baker (<a href="mailto:courtneb@ucr.edu">courtneb@ucr.edu</a>) wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span><div><div></div><div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;">I wanted to alert folks to a screening and talkback that I have organized, in partnership with the William Grant Still Arts Center (Los Angeles), of the short film<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Lwanzo (Cobalt) (2025)</b> to be held at UCR ARTS this<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Friday, April 18th at 7pm.</u> Admission is free. UCR professor of Political Science Kim Yi Dionne will be in conversation with the director, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, following the screening.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">This event is of interest to those interested in African Indigineity, mineral and resource extraction, climate justice, and liberation politics.<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>Contact<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:courtneb@ucr.edu">courtneb@ucr.edu</a> for more details.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><b><i><br></i></b></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/lwanzo-cobalt/">https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/lwanzo-cobalt/</a><b><i><br></i></b></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><i>Please spread the word.</i></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><i><img class="composer_internal_attach" alt="Petna Screening 4-18 Poster.jpg" src="cid:CEA44BE1-DA48-41FD-9AF9-F01BB6D6837A"><br></i></div><div id="bloop_sign_1744660824947172096" class="bloop_sign"><img class="composer_internal_attach" alt="Lwanzo poster.jpg" src="cid:0607AF25-ABF0-45DD-980E-82425802CD5B"></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div id="bloop_sign_1744998256855960832" class="bloop_sign" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(59, 56, 56);">Dr. Courtney R. Ba</span><span style="color: rgb(59, 56, 56);">ker (</span></span></font><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">she/her)</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: rgb(59, 56, 56);">Associate Professor </span><span style="color: rgb(59, 56, 56);">| </span><span style="color: rgb(59, 56, 56);">Department of English</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; color: rgb(59, 56, 56);"><font face="Times New Roman">Director of Graduate Placement</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#0433ff"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://forms.gle/zwrqYUk6JcvqrzTH7">Placement/virtual mock talk/interview appointment request form</a></font></b></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://calendar.app.google/x6LjND9iyfff4KUn8"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Spring 2025 Office Hours</b></font></a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#ae910c"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#ae910c">University of California, Riverside</font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(59, 56, 56); font-size: 12px;"><font face="Times New Roman">College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences</font></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(59, 56, 56); font-size: 12px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1/1" dir="ltr" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(131, 124, 124, 0.38);">Riverside, CA</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tongvaland 92521</font></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#1b7cc1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://english.ucr.edu/" target="_blank" style="word-break: break-word;">http://english.ucr.edu</a> | <span style="word-break: break-word;"><a href="http://courtneyrbaker.com/" target="_blank">http://courtneyrbaker.com</a></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font>Co-editor of <a href="https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/fc/issue/328/info/">Black film feminisms special issue of Film Criticism</a> </font>(Winter 2025)</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Author of <a href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/68xry7ts9780252039485.html" target="_blank">Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death (Illinois, 2015)</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Co-editor of <a href="https://uscpress.com/Cultures-of-Resistance">Cultures of Resistance series at University of South Carolina Press</a></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(69, 90, 100);"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><i>We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.</i></font></span></span></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Englishfaculty mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:Englishfaculty@lists.ucr.edu" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Englishfaculty@lists.ucr.edu</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/englishfaculty" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">https://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/englishfaculty</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>