<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div><div class="AppleOriginalContents"><div style="text-align: center;" class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b><b class=""> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><i class="">The Soul as the Seat of Aspiration: A Philosophical-Historical Approach<o:p class=""></o:p></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class="">Prof. Melvin Rogers, Brown University<o:p class=""></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class="">Wednesday, April 13<o:p class=""></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b><b class="">4 pm PST (via Zoom)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b class="">To register: </b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); background-color: white;"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(14, 113, 235);"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvc-muqTktGd3j0_8ePQ9zGThgPrPrOYRE" target="_blank" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(14, 113, 235);">https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvc-muqTktGd3j0_8ePQ9zGThgPrPrOYRE</span></a></span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Melvin L. Rogers is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University </span><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Professor Rogers has wide-ranging interests located largely within contemporary democratic theory and the history of American and African-American political and ethical philosophy. His first book,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy</em>, explored these issues through an interpretation of John Dewey's writings and the theme of human responsiveness central to his work. His second book--<em class="">The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i class=""> </i></span><em class="">in</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i class=""> </i></span><em class="">African American Political Thought</em>--is devoted to figures within American and African-American political thought; it combines close readings of figures and historical contextualization to think through the themes of democratic responsiveness, redemption, and faith amid racial injustice. Professor Rogers’ </span><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">lecture will recover and trace the importance of the soul in early African American political thought.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><i class="">Questions? Contact Prof. Farah Godrej at <a href="mailto:godrej@ucr.edu" class="">godrej@ucr.edu</a><o:p class=""></o:p></i></b></p><p class="" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""> </b></p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></div></body></html>