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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Four experts from UCR's departments of History and Political Science will discuss how the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine could
escalate into a full-blown war of historical dimensions. Why does Putin take such a gamble? What are the historical reasons behind Russia's claims on Ukrainian territory? Which economic and political interests are involved? How do Ukrainian and Russian cultures
differ, what do they have in common? And: Are there ways out of this war - before it spreads?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">REGISTER:
</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://bit.ly/ukraine_Mar3" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/ukraine_Mar3</a><strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Uncommon Emergency: A Roundtable on the Invasion of Ukraine, Border Violence, War, and (Un)Shared Suffering</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Roundtable conversation with
<a href="https://essaysmythe.com/" target="_blank">SA Smythe</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#191919"> (African American Studies, UCLA) and
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://theintercept.com/staff/harsha-walia/" target="_blank">Harsha Walia</a> (Activist, Writer). Moderated by
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#191919">Crystal Baik (Gender & Sexuality Studies, UCR) and Dylan RodrÃguez (Media & Cultural Studies, UCR).</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">REGISTER:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> <a href="https://bit.ly/ukraine_Mar9" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/ukraine_Mar9</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jessica<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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University of California, Riverside</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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