<div dir="ltr">Happening in a few hours! </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:36 AM Summer Sutton <<a href="mailto:ssutt004@ucr.edu">ssutt004@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></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"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I hope the final weeks of your spring quarter are not too harrowing and that you have some fun summer plans to look forward to! </div><div><br></div><div>As a *hopefully* spirit-lifting event for the last week of classes, the GSEA is hosting queer theory & fandom scholar Alexis Lothian on June 2nd via Zoom from 12-1:30 p.m. Dr. Lothian will be giving a talk based on her current research on queer speculation and social justice fandoms, which builds on her work in her (wonderful) first book, Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session open to all attendees. </div><div><br></div><div>The event should be of interest to anyone working in fandom studies, queer theory, utopian studies, and/or speculative fiction/SF studies. </div><div><br></div><div>Zoom Link: </div><div><div><br></div><div>Topic: Alexis Lothian Guest Lecture</div><div>Time: Jun 2, 2021 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)</div><div><br></div><div>Join Zoom Meeting</div><div><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/98442140017?pwd=UGFQN2hmOEZSYUV6S2R6cDNuS1pPQT09" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/98442140017?pwd=UGFQN2hmOEZSYUV6S2R6cDNuS1pPQT09</a></div><div><br></div><div>Meeting ID: 984 4214 0017</div><div>Passcode: 882651</div><div><br></div></div><div>Hope to see you there,</div><div>Summer </div></div></div>
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