<div dir="auto">Good afternoon, everyone. This program is a good opportunity to learn about the resources and opportunities for research at the nearby Huntington Library, whose collections include the papers of author Octavia E. Butler. I hope you'll participate at the event.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">James Tobias</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jtobias@ucr.edu">jtobias@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 12:10 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: The Huntington at UCR! Save the date, Oct. 1, 3 PM, The Stable<br>To: Courtney R. Baker <<a href="mailto:courtneb@ucr.edu">courtneb@ucr.edu</a>>, Chris Berardino <<a href="mailto:cberardi@ucr.edu">cberardi@ucr.edu</a>>, Heidi Brayman <<a href="mailto:heidib@ucr.edu">heidib@ucr.edu</a>>, andré carrington > <"andré carrington <andre.carrington"@<a href="http://ucr.edu">ucr.edu</a>>, Jalondra Davis <<a href="mailto:Jalondra.davisbrown@ucr.edu">Jalondra.davisbrown@ucr.edu</a>>, Andrea Denny-Brown <Andrea Denny-Brown > <<a href="mailto:andrea.denny-brown@ucr.edu">andrea.denny-brown@ucr.edu</a>>, Jennifer Doyle <<a href="mailto:jennifer.doyle@ucr.edu">jennifer.doyle@ucr.edu</a>>, Armando Garcia <<a href="mailto:garciaar@ucr.edu">garciaar@ucr.edu</a>>, Magda García <<a href="mailto:magda.garcia@ucr.edu">magda.garcia@ucr.edu</a>>, Weihsin Gui <<a href="mailto:weihsin.gui@ucr.edu">weihsin.gui@ucr.edu</a>>, Keith Harris <<a href="mailto:keith.harris@ucr.edu">keith.harris@ucr.edu</a>>, Jacobo Lezra <<a href="mailto:jacques.lezra@ucr.edu">jacques.lezra@ucr.edu</a>>, Roberto Macias <Roberto Macias > <<a href="mailto:rmacias@ucr.edu">rmacias@ucr.edu</a>>, Carla Mazzio <<a href="mailto:carlam@ucr.edu">carlam@ucr.edu</a>>, Mark Minch-de León <Mark Minch-de Leon > <<a href="mailto:mark.minch@ucr.edu">mark.minch@ucr.edu</a>>, Vorris Nunley <<a href="mailto:vorrisn@ucr.edu">vorrisn@ucr.edu</a>>, Timothy Petete <<a href="mailto:timothy.petete@ucr.edu">timothy.petete@ucr.edu</a>>, Michelle H Raheja <<a href="mailto:michelle.raheja@ucr.edu">michelle.raheja@ucr.edu</a>>, Padma Rangarajan <<a href="mailto:padmar@ucr.edu">padmar@ucr.edu</a>>, Ricky Rodriguez <Richard T Rodriguez > <<a href="mailto:rickyr@ucr.edu">rickyr@ucr.edu</a>>, Sarita S. <<a href="mailto:saritas@ucr.edu">saritas@ucr.edu</a>>, Emma Stapely <<a href="mailto:emma.stapely@ucr.edu">emma.stapely@ucr.edu</a>>, James Tobias <<a href="mailto:jtobias@ucr.edu">jtobias@ucr.edu</a>>, Carole-Anne Tyler <<a href="mailto:caroleanne.tyler@ucr.edu">caroleanne.tyler@ucr.edu</a>>, Sherryl Vint <Sherryl Vint > <<a href="mailto:sherryl.vint@ucr.edu">sherryl.vint@ucr.edu</a>>, Fuson Wang <<a href="mailto:fuson.wang@ucr.edu">fuson.wang@ucr.edu</a>>, Traise Yamamoto <<a href="mailto:traise.yamamoto@ucr.edu">traise.yamamoto@ucr.edu</a>>, Susan Zieger <<a href="mailto:susanz@ucr.edu">susanz@ucr.edu</a>>, GSEA English <<a href="mailto:englishgrad@lists.ucr.edu">englishgrad@lists.ucr.edu</a>><br>Cc: Monica Cardenas <<a href="mailto:monica.cardenas@ucr.edu">monica.cardenas@ucr.edu</a>>, Gene Gray <<a href="mailto:gene.gray@ucr.edu">gene.gray@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Drs. Steve Hackel and Jeanette Kohl at Center for Ideas and Society will be bringing Susan Juster, Director of Research for the Huntington, along with two curators, for an orientation to the Huntington and its fellowship application process.</div><div><br></div><div>The event will be held at the Stable on October 1 from 3 - 5 PM. The fellowship application deadline is November 15.</div><div><br></div><div>There will be food and drinks and good company; they are hoping to see as many of you as possible! Please consider attending - the archival collections there are extraordinary, both very broad as well as very in depth. </div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div><div><br id="m_8174904072101471536lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Susan Juster, Director of Research at the Huntington, and her team as well as two curators will be coming to UCR for what we are calling an Open House. Susan will talk about the Huntington and hopefully demystify the application process for fellowships. We think that this is going to be of interest to many graduate students and faculty in English given the breadth of the Huntington’s collections and the large number of fellowships the HEH gives out each year.</span></div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Susan and her team will also talk about programming and research at the Huntington.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">We wanted to hold this Open House before the 11/15 application deadline for fellowships, and we landed on 10/1. We realize that this does not allow much time to spread the word so we are hoping that you can push this out to all of your colleagues and students in CHASS. (I also realized late in the game that 10/1 is the first night of Yom Kippur, but we should end by around 5:00. I will head home after the program myself.)</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Here is a link to the event registration, which would be appreciated but is not required.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><div><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a href="https://events.ucr.edu/event/HuntingtonUCR" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://events.ucr.edu/event/HuntingtonUCR</a> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Let me know if you have any questions.<span style="font-size:11pt"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Looking forward to seeing you all at the Stable on Oct. 1. </div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">There will be food and drinks, so please come and mingle!</div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">All the best,</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Steve</div></div></div></div></div><img alt="Huntington Library at UCR 10 1 2025.jpeg" src="cid:0FFB145E-4D87-4EB9-85D4-0655B948AAED"></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>