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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="">"Smith, Trixie" <<a href="mailto:smit1254@MSU.EDU" class="">smit1254@MSU.EDU</a>><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style=""><b class="">Language Diversity Speaker Milu on Feb 20th</b><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="">February 7, 2020 at 4:46:37 PM EST<br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">To: </b></span><span class="" style=""><a href="mailto:DEANDIRCHAIR@LIST.MSU.EDU" class="">DEANDIRCHAIR@LIST.MSU.EDU</a><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span class="" style="">"Smith, Trixie" <<a href="mailto:smit1254@MSU.EDU" class="">smit1254@MSU.EDU</a>><br class="">
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<span class="" style="font-size:11pt">The next guest in The Writing Center’s Language Diversity Speaker Series will be here Feb 20<sup class="">th</sup>.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:11pt">Dr. Esther Milu, Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida, will be talking on “Transnational and Immigrant African Students’ Language Identities: Complicating the Image of Black Students
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<span class="" style="font-size:11pt">Talk: 6:30 pm</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:11pt">Opening Reception: 6:00 pm</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:11pt">Location: Snyder C20, RCAH Theater</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In this talk, Milu will bring attention to transnational and immigrant</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">three transnational African students from Angola and Rwanda and the</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">African students’ particular and peculiar literacy needs and</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">their complex colonial histories with racialization and marginalization</span>.</div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Helvetica">Dr. Trixie G. Smith<br class="">
Director, The Writing Center<br class="">
Director, Red Cedar Writing Project<br class="">
Assistant Director, Graduate Studies, MA in CSLP</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Helvetica">Associate Professor, Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Helvetica">Faculty, Center for Gender in Global Contexts</span></div>
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