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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 12, 2025 12:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sherryl Vint <sherrylv@ucr.edu>; Phoenix Alexander <phoenix.alexander@ucr.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> SFCS and Eaton Collection x Narrative Conference '25</span>
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<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been a while! I hope you're doing well despite the craziness of these times, when what we research and teach may be appropriately considered current affairs, rather than spec fic..... </div>
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I'm reaching out with some updates and opportunities for collaboration. T<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his spring the Lab is hosting the
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40th Annual International Conference on Narrative</a>, April 2 - 5. The theme is<b> Storytelling and Climate Transformation</b>, and Amitav Ghosh will keynote. We've combined the conference with the Third Annual Science & Fiction Confab: spec fic authors
Pedro Cabiya, Premee Mohamed, and Brenda Peynado will be participating in both (we're also waiting to hear back from Jeff VanderMeer)! </span></div>
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co-sponsoring</a> the conference in any capacity? </li><li style="direction: ltr; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Do either of you have connections at institutions / orgs / corporations / universities / programs / presses with whom you could share the sponsorship page,
or to whom you could introduce me so that I may make contact? </span></li><li style="direction: ltr; margin-left: 15px;">Check out the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dco3c7979w9w1zaxf2jrs/Narrative-25-Program.pdf?rlkey=myv5vyirubvrl8wkdjyamhzq8&st=f861b89r&dl=0" id="OWA910ec77c-d9cb-3307-e543-3a44d60879db" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
conference program</a>, particularly p.3. We still have some breakout rooms available during sessions B, C, D, E, K, L, N, and O; would you like to use one or more of them for a cohort of your team and/or fellows and/or students to publicize your work and
mission to the Narrative Conference's particular audience? </li><li style="direction: ltr; margin-left: 15px;">Another way to get involved is for you to sponsor the attendance of UCR faculty or students--either as observers or participants. Re the latter, we have some open slots in existing panels (i<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">n
the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16Itko1vChBMFIMTxuwUWt7MlQkK7Emb0h1SyLwvKqUk/edit?usp=sharing" id="OWA77f7603a-759d-98a4-2985-e34d1911e643" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
Sheets version of the program</a>, open slots appear as cells highlighted in yellow, e.g., column H, row 20)</span>; I'd be happy to include any of your people who'd like to present on a subject relevant to the open panels. </li></ul>
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