<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763">Hi everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763">I already have enough volunteers and so we are set. Thanks for the prompt responses. This community is amazing!!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763">cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763">Sherryl</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, Departments of English and of Media & Cultural Studies</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></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 11:01, Sherryl Vint <<a href="mailto:sherrylv@ucr.edu">sherrylv@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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Dear students,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I hope your summer is going well, and that you are finding the right balance of relaxation and productivity.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I'm writing about a new scholarly society, Speculative Fiction Across Media. I'm one of the board members organizing the first conference.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">You can see our conference program here: <a href="https://sfamla.org/schedule/" target="_blank">https://sfamla.org/schedule/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I'm looking for two volunteers who would be willing to work 4 hours at the registration table in exchange for free conference registration and attendance. This would include the conference meals.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">The times for the registration table are </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">10 am to noon October 17</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">8 am to noon October 18</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">8 am to 10 am October 19</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Within that, I'm open to the two volunteers dividing up the hours in whatever way can work for the individuals involved.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Please let me know if you are willing to volunteer to work at the registration table.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Sherryl</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="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, Departments of English and of Media & Cultural Studies</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></div>
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