<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Sherryl Vint (she/her)</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Professor and Chair, Department of English</font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="1" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><i>"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our </i><i>responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, </i><i>and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of </i><i>their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this </i><i>meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, </i><i>including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the </i><i>opportunity to live and work on these homelands."</i></font></div></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">STEPHEN TOBIN</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:kiptobin@ucla.edu">kiptobin@ucla.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 at 08:01<br>Subject: upcoming symposium at UCLA: Speculative Fictions from Latin America's Past, Present, and Futures<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:sherryl.vint@ucr.edu">sherryl.vint@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dr. Vint</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">My name is Stephen Tobin, an Assistant Adjunct at the Spanish and Portuguese Department at UCLA. </span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><font size="4">I am writing to inform you of an upcoming </font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">symposium </span><i style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Surviving the Anthropocene: Speculative Fictions from Latin America's Past, Present, and Futures </i><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">on Oct. 14-15.</span><i style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"> </i><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">The event will be hybrid (people in person and participating from afar), with virtual access and live streaming for the public.</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Sessions will be in Spanish and English. </span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Please consider passing this information, along with the two attached flyers, to anyone you feel might be interested. </span></font></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Many thanks in advance.</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Warm regards, </font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">Stephen C. Tobin</font></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>***</div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><h3 style="font-family:Proxima,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:24px 0px;font-weight:500;text-align:center;line-height:1.2em;clear:both"><span style="border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s, roundtables, book presentations, and keynote speeches compose the 10 sessions presented at this symposium (see the online program for details and participants' profiles).</p><p style="font-size:15px;font-family:Proxima,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:1.5em 0px;line-height:25px">Session themes include:<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><span style="font-weight:600">Speculative Ecocriticism; </span><span style="font-weight:600">New Weird and Gothic Horror; </span><span style="font-weight:600">Science Fiction from the Past;<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="font-weight:600">Posthumanism; </span><span style="font-weight:600">Necroliberlism; </span><span style="font-weight:600">Women Authors of Speculative Fiction; </span><span style="font-weight:600">Neoindigenist, Afrolatino, and Chicanx Futurisms; </span><span style="font-weight:600">Less-studied regions/countries: Central America, the Caribbean (beyond Cuba), Paraguay, and Colombia. </span></p></div><div><span style="font-family:Proxima,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:black;font-weight:600">Keynote speakers:<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Proxima,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:black;font-weight:600">Alberto Chimal<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Proxima,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:black">and</span><span style="font:inherit;color:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:Proxima,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:black;font-weight:600">Elizabeth Ginway.</span></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Stephen "Kip" Tobin, Ph.D.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Assistant Adjunct Professor</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Spanish and Portuguese Department <br>Rolfe Hall 5322<br></font><div><div><div></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">University of California, Los Angeles</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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