<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks!<div class="">I am likely going to focus on gender representations and “rebuilding" the Black woman in A/F through atonement and adornment in art so maybe if folk haven’t read it: "Princess Steel.” This feels a bit foundational, almost ekphrastic.</div><div class=""><a href="https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b236-i001" class="">https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b236-i001</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 24, 2020, at 7:53 AM, John Jennings <<a href="mailto:johnj@ucr.edu" class="">johnj@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I am definitely interested.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">J</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 6:22 PM Sherryl Vint <<a href="mailto:sherrylv@ucr.edu" class="">sherrylv@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Hi everyone,<br clear="all" class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Cathy Thomas, a post-doc current at UCR working with Professor Hopkinson, was wondering if there is interest to schedule a time to have a zoom conversation about Afrofuturist art. Right now on our every two weeks schedule we are booked through August 25, but I could set this up for September 8th if people would like.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I attach here a couple of documents shared by Cathy that will give you some context.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">thanks everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Sherryl</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class="">Sherryl Vint</font><div class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class="">Professor</font></div><div class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class="">Director, Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science</font></div><div class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class="">Editor, <i class="">Science Fiction Studies</i></font></div><div class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class="">Editor, <a href="https://www.palgrave.com/in/series/15760" target="_blank" class=""><i class="">Science and Popular Culture</i> book series </a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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