[Ucrea] Join the Livestream on 10/21: Conrad Rudolph Dickson Presentation on “Signature Rocks”

[Cristina Otegui]

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October 20, 2025



To:           UCR Emeriti and Retirees

From:      UCR Retirees’ and Emeriti Associations

Re:          Join the Livestream on 10/21: Conrad Rudolph Dickson
Presentation on “Signature Rocks”

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The UCR Emeriti (UCREA) and Retirees’ (UCRRA) Associations invites you to
attend the upcoming Edward A. Dickson Emeritus/a Lecture Talk Series. Each
year three retired UCR faculty are awarded Edward A. Dickson Professorships
to support their research, teaching, or public service activities. In the
year following their awards, Dickson Professors give public presentations
of their work.

*“Signature Rocks: Emigration and the Signed Landscape in Indian Country
1830-1869"*

*Presenter*: Dickson awardee Conrad Rudolph | *Date*: Tuesday, October 21,
2025

*Time*: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. | *Location*: In-person at University Extension
Building 1101 in the University Village and Livestreamed via Zoom

*Description*

Signature Rocks is the first systematic study of the surviving "signatures"
inscribed by the emigrants, as they called themselves, on both the famous
and not so famous rock formations that line the overland trails through
Indian Country from the Missouri River to the Pacific from the 1830s to
1869. Once numbering in the hundreds of thousands, only several thousand
have survived. Following the overland crossing, we read these
inscriptions--an unrecognized and vanishing American archive--in light of a
number of motivations to signing culled from the over two thousand emigrant
journals and other accounts that have come down to us. The result is a new
understanding of this completely overlooked aspect of one of the most
iconic episodes in the history of the United States.

* Refreshments will be provided*



*Event Registration*

Thank you to those who have registered! To join *in-person* or through
*livestreaming* the event, please register to receive the event details on
the Retirement Center webpage at:

https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6gRBzF3yv09Muhw

*A Special Thank You to Our Co-Sponsor *

UCR Osher

UCR Office of Gift Planning


Please find the invitation flyer attached. We welcome you, your family and
friends to join us!



Sincerely,


UCR Emeriti and Retirees’ Associations

retirees at ucr.edu
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