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23, 2025</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">To: UCR
Emeriti and Retirees</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Re:<b> </b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>“Signature Rocks: Emigration and
the Signed Landscape in Indian Country 1830-1869” Dickson Presentation of
Conrad Rudolph</span></p>
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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. <br>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">“Signature Rocks: Emigration and the Signed
Landscape in Indian Country 1830-1869"</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 0in;line-height:110%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Presenter</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">:
Dickson awardee Conrad Rudolph | <b>Date</b>:
Tuesday, October 21, 2025</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in;line-height:110%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Time</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. | <b>Location</b>: In-person at University Extension
Building 1101 in the University Village and Livestreamed via Zoom<br>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">Description</span></b></span></p>
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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.<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">Refreshments
will be provided</span></i></b></span></p>
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Registration</span></b></p>
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seating is given to members of the UCR Emeriti and Retirees’ Associations who
must register by September 21, 2025.</i> <br>
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To join <b>in-person</b> or through <b>livestreaming</b> the event, please
register to receive the event details on the Retirement Center webpage at:</span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">A Special Thank You to Our Co-Sponsor </span></b></span></p>
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Please find the invitation flyer attached. We welcome you, your family and
friends to join us!</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">UCR
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