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Dear colleagues,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The Department of English Language and Literature is pleased to present the fifth and last speaker in our series, "Emotion and Text":</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><b>Lauren Berlant</b></div><div><b>“After the Good Life, the Impasse: </b><i><b>Time Out</b></i><span style="font-style:normal"><b>, </b></span><i><b>Human Resources </b></i><span style="font-style:normal"><b>and the Neoliberal Present.”</b></span></div><div><span style="font-style:normal"><b>Thursday, March 18th</b></span></div><div><span style="font-style:normal"><b>4pm</b></span></div><div><span style="font-style:normal"><b>Hagey Hall 373</b></span></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><b><i>Lauren Berlant</i></b><span style="font-weight:normal; font-style:normal"> is George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of </span><i>The Female Complaint: the Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture</i><span style="font-style:normal"> (2008), </span><i>The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship</i><span style="font-style:normal"> (1997), </span><i>The Anatomy of National Fantasy</i><span style="font-style:normal"> (1991), and editor of </span><i>Intimacy</i><span style="font-style:normal"> (2000), </span><i>Our Monica, Ourselves</i><span style="font-style:normal"> (2001), and </span><i>Compassion: the Culture and Politics of an Emotion</i><span style="font-style:normal"> (2004).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">For more information, please contact Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (<a href="mailto:rtierney@uwaterloo.ca"><font color="#001ee6" style="color: #001ee6"><u>rtierney@uwaterloo.ca</u></font></a>).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Please join us!</font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></span></span></span></div></div></body></html>