<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.44px"><b>The Health Humanities & Disability Justice Initiative at the </b></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.44px"><b>University of California, Riverside</b></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.44px"><b>Invites you to the following virtual event </b></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.44px"><b></b></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:3.75rem 0px 2.5rem;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0.44px"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;line-height:1.75"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000">Hunger, Meditation, Incarceration</font></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Farah Godrej and Dana Simmons in Conversation</font></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 10:30 am-noon</font></span></span></b></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://events.ucr.edu/event/hunger_meditation_incarceration" target="_blank"> TO REGISTER CLICK HERE</a></font></span></span></u></span></b></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">The Event</span></span></b></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">: A conversation about carceral ‘nutrition’ and carceral ‘wellness’, in which terms meant to denote sustenance, nourishment and health are repurposed by the mass incarceration complex as forms of punishment and behavior control. This conversation will consider the possibilities of building anti-carceral movements through practices of nourishment (such as mutual aid and hunger striking) and liberatory forms of yoga and meditation. It will also consider questions, concerns, and worries about how to confront carcerality as scholars and as responsible humans.</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/godrej" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Farah Godrej</span></span></u></span></b></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. Her areas of research and teaching include Indian political thought, Gandhi’s political thought, cosmopolitanism, globalization and comparative political theory.  She also studies contemporary issues such as environmental justice, food politics and mass incarceration. Her research appears in journals such as </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Political Theory, Political Research Quarterly, Theory & Event, The Review of Politics,</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> an</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">d Polity</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, and she is the author of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice, Discipline</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Her new book</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-inside-9780190070090?cc=us&lang=en&" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State</span></span></u></i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> (</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Oxford University Press, 2022) is the winner of the 2023 Charles Taylor Book Award from the American Political Science Association, and received honorable mentions for the 2023 American Association of Publishers (AAP) PROSE award for scholarly excellence and the 2023 Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence from the American Political Science Association.</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/danasim" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Dana Simmons</span></span></u></span></b></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, </span></span></b></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">a historian of science and technology, is Acting Chair of the Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity at the University of California, Riverside. Her research interests include hunger, nutrition, the human sciences, feminist theory and technopolitics. Her book, </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo20069271.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Vital Minimum: Need, Science and Politics in Modern France</span></span></u></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">,</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> traces the history of the concept of the "vital minimum"--the living wage, a measure of physical and social needs. Dana’s essays appear in books and journals such as </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Engaging STS</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Journal of Modern History</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Representations,</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> and</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> Osiris</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">. Her current book project, upon which this conversation draws, is about an enduring pattern in United States history: the production of hunger. On multiple occasions, from the nineteenth through the twentieth century, state agents and private (settler) citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing and political control by deprivation. Food sources were destroyed, blocked, denied, altered or substituted in order to force people to obey, move, clear lands, accede to white power, and make way for new regimes of land and labor. Hunger served as an instrument to consolidate the modern United States. Central to this conversation will be a chapter of that book in progress (</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Fight, Don’t Starve: Hunger Made in U.S.A</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">) entitled, “Carceral Hunger.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">This event is co-sponsored by UCR’s </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/177OwB0dj9xiv6pO6dwzaOUm2LI-oEVer/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107509772935754601643&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Health Humanities and Disability Justice Initiative</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> and the </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/decolonizinghumanism/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Decolonizing Humanism(?) Initiative</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> at the Center for Ideas and Society.</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></p></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1" color="#000000"></font><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/carlam/update" target="_blank">Carla Mazzio (she/her/hers)</a></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Associate Professor, Department of English</font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">C0-Director, <a href="https://hhdj.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Initiative</a></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Co-Director,<a href="https://english.ucr.edu/mhhs" target="_blank"> Medical and Health Humanities Minor </a></font></div><div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">University of California, Riverside </font></div></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><i>"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our</i></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><i>responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water,</i></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><i>and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of</i></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><i>their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this</i></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><i>meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world,</i></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><i>including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the</i></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><i>opportunity to live and work on these homelands</i>."</font></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dana Simmons</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Acting Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and Health Equity</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Riverside</span></div></div></div></div></div>