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SUMMARY:Weaving Generations Together: Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Powell Library for the opening reception to Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas.\n\nThis exhibition explores cultural transmission and learning through children’s play weaving and apprenticeship in the Maya Highland community of Zincantán\, Chiapas\, Mexico. The exhibition sho \nws over one hundred textiles from Zincantán drawn from a research collection spanning from 1943 to the present\, including hand-woven and embroidered ponchos\, shawls\, and huipils in vibrant colors and metallic threads as well as looms and weavings made by children. Maya people wear traditional clothing today and the exhibition demonstrates both continuity and change through the expression of weaving and embroidery. \nThis exhibition is based on a book by Patricia Marks Greenfield. \nMore information on the exhibition’s run can also be found HERE. \n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by:\n\nCenter for the Study of Women\nUCLA Library\nOffice of Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion\nAmerican Indian Studies Center\nChicano Studies Research Center\nLatin American Institute\nCenter for Mexican Studies\nFiat Lux\nOffice of Instructional Development
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/weaving-generations-together-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Powell Library Main and East Rotundas\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171014
DTSTAMP:20260508T165258
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SUMMARY:Disability Awareness Week
DESCRIPTION:October 9-13 is Disability Awareness Week at UCLA! The week’s events include:\nCenter for Accessible Education Open House\nLearn about accessibility resources available through CAE and CAPS\nDATE: Monday\, October 9\nTIME: 11 AM – 1 PM\nLOCATION: A255 Murphy Hall \nUCLA Committee on Disability Open Meeting\nMeet the committee and discuss your accessibility concerns\nDATE: Tuesday\, October 10\nTIME: 2 PM – 4 PM\nLOCATION: 5628 Math/Sciences \nAdaptive Recreation Demos\nExperience wheelchair basketball and hand cycles!\nDATE: Tuesday\, October 10\nTIME: 4 PM – 7:30 PM\nLOCATION: Wooden Center\, Collins Court #1 \n Contact mgarafola@recreation.ucla.edu for accessibility needs \nFilm Screening: SWIM TEAM\nDATE: Tuesday\, October 10\nTIME: 6 PM\nLOCATION: Semel Institute Auditorium\nRSVP: http://tinyurl.com/uclaaslaswimteam \nContact bwilkinson@college.ucla.edu for accessibility needs \nKeynote talk by Jerry Kang\, UCLA Vice-Chancellor of Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion\nDATE:Wednesday\, October 11\nTIME: 12 PM – 1 PM\nLOCATION: Founders Room\, James West Alumni Center \nRoyce and Powell Lights\nEvenings\, Monday\, October 10 to Friday\, October 13\nAll week long Royce and Powell will be lit up to raise awareness! Drop by at night to see the blue and white lights! \n  \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/disability-awareness-week/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T153000
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SUMMARY:Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries
DESCRIPTION:Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries\nCSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag\nWednesday\, October 11\, 2-3:30 p.m.\, Rolfe 2125\nRSVP Here: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/93276/free-registration-democratizing-research-access\n  \nStay afterwards for the CSW/Gender Studies Fall Reception in the Rolfe Courtyard at 4pm! Reception Details: https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fall-welcome-reception/\nFor a growing number of scholars\, gaining access to adequate library resources–both books and digital– has become increasingly challenging. The problem of unequal research access is exacerbating larger problems of inequity across academia\, by creating barriers for those working outside of large\, well-resourced universities. This group includes independent scholars\, faculty at under-resourced institutions\, and others occupying positions of “career diversity\,” a contingent likely to expand in the coming years. At this brown bag\, Becky Nicolaides will lead a discussion that explores the nature of the problem and possible pathways toward solutions\, based on her advocacy on this issue as an elected member of the American Historical Association – Research Division. \nBecky Nicolaides is a historian who works as an independent scholar and consultant in Los Angeles. She specializes in U.S. urban and suburban history\, and the history of Los Angeles. She serves as co-editor of the “Historical Studies of Urban America” series published by University of Chicago Press and is co-coordinator of the L.A History and Metro Studies group at the Huntington Library. She is a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West. She is currently serving a three-year term in the AHA Research Division. http://tinyurl.com/NicolaidesUCLA
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/democratizing-research-access-overcoming-exclusion-well-resourced-university-research-libraries/
LOCATION:Rolfe 2125
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T165258
CREATED:20170821T221633Z
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SUMMARY:For those walking to the border for dear life\, and for those seeking a place of kinship in resistance: A performance and conversation with Merlinda Bobis
DESCRIPTION:Through performance and conversation with Distinguished Professor Sherene Razack\, award-winning poet\, novelist and dramatist Merlinda Bobis reflects on Philippine indigenous values of kinship and the intertwined journey of writer-and-characters in her novels Locust Girl. A Lovesong (2016 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) and Fish-Hair Woman (2014 Philippine National Book Award)\, and in her new poetry book Accidents of Composition (Spinifex 2017). \nMerlinda responds to the growing climate of conflict in our compromised planet. She hopes that in the border\, there could be accidents of kindness. \n\nFor those walking to the border for dear life\,\nand for those seeking a place of kinship in resistance\nPlease have no fear and\nTake this offered hand\nYour thirst\, your thirst\nIs my only affliction\n—Locust Girl. A Lovesong\nSponsored by \n  \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/walking-border-dear-life-seeking-place-kinship-resistance-performance-conversation-merlinda-bobis/
LOCATION:Humanities 193\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T180000
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SUMMARY:CrossCheck Live: "Campus Speech: A Right to Speak? A Duty to Listen? An Obligation to Learn?"
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, both the left and the right have raised concerns about free speech\, censorship\, and academic freedom on college campuses. And media outlets—from the Atlantic to the New York Times to the Chronicle of Higher Education—have weighed in\, offering a range of  views on whether academic institutions are failing their core mission to facilitate the robust exchange of ideas while simultaneously providing a learning environment free of violence\, intimidation\, and harassment.  The standard arguments are loud and well-rehearsed\, but they obscure real tensions—between liberty and equality\, between legality and propriety\, between the right to speak and the right to learn\, and between safe spaces and brave spaces. And our unwillingness or incapacity to address these genuine tensions seriously\, without soundbites or cheap shots\, have made difficult the wise governance of the University. \nA reasoned debate from multiple perspectives is sorely needed. Thus the UCLA Office of Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion offers the Fall’s CrossCheck Live: \nCrossCheck Live\nCampus Speech: A Right to Speak?\nA Duty to Listen? An Obligation to Learn? \nWednesday\, October 18\, 2017\nRoundtable Discussion: 3 pm – 5 pm\nReception: 5 pm – 6 pm \nPauley Pavilion Club\n301 Westwood Plaza\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nRSVP HERE \nPlease join us and our distinguished panelists for a stimulating discussion as we navigate the complexities of free speech and institutional governance\, and ponder the best route forward for college campuses and beyond. Other panelists and commentators to be announced. \nModerators: \n\nJerry Kang\, Vice Chancellor for Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion; Professor of Law and Asian American Studies\, and Korea Times Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair\, UCLA\nDevon Carbado\, Associate Vice Chancellor for BruinX – Office of Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion; Harry Pregerson Professor of Law\, UCLA School of Law\n\nPanelists: \n\nErwin Chemerinsky\, Dean | Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law\, UC Berkeley School of Law; Co-Author of the Forthcoming Book\, Free Speech on Campus\nSafiya Noble\, Assistant Professor of Communication\, Annenberg School of Communication\, University of Southern California\nGary Segura\, Dean | Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy\, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\nEugene Volokh\, Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law\, UCLA School of Law\nZev Yaroslavsky\, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Initiative\, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Department of History; Former Member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/crosscheck-live-campus-speech-right-speak-duty-listen-obligation-learn/
LOCATION:Pauley Pavillion Club\, UCLA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T160000
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SUMMARY:Kathleen Sheldon\, "African Women: Early History to the 21st Century"
DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Sheldon will discuss her recently published book\, African Women: Early History to the 21st Century\, a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day.  Her book provides a rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems.  She profiles elite women\, as well as those in leadership roles\, traders and market women\, religious women\, slave women\, women in resistance movements\, and women in politics and development.  The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women’s roles in the history of Africa. \nKathleen Sheldon is an independent historian who is a Research Affiliate with the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.  Dr. Sheldon received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 1988 and her M.A. in African Area Studies in 1977.  She is a historian who has primarily written about African women and Mozambique.  Her most recent book is African Women: Early History to the 21st Century.  She also wrote Pounders of Grain: A History of Women\, Work\, and Politics in Mozambique and edited Courtyards\, Markets\, City Streets: Urban Women in Africa. \nOther publications include the second revised edition of the Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016; first edition\, 2005) and a special two-part forum on Women and Gender in Africa for the African Studies Review\, co-edited with Judith Van Allen\, that appeared in December 2015 and April 2016. Dr. Sheldon was the editor for women’s entries for the Dictionary of African Biography (2011).  She wrote the articles on Women and African History and Women and Colonialism for Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies\, and is also a senior editor for the online resource\, Oxford Research Encyclopedia in African History. Other publications include “From Frenzied Mobs to Savvy Businesswomen: Researching the History of Market Women in Africa\,” in Changing Horizons of African History (2017); and “Creating an Archive of Working Women’s Oral Histories in Beira\, Mozambique” in Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources (2010). She is an editor on the H-Luso-Africa network\, https://networks.h-net.org/h-luso-africa\, which focuses on the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa. In addition to her work on African women she published “‘No more cookies or cake now\, “C’est la guerre”’: An American Nurse in Turkey\, 1919 to 1920\,”Social Sciences and Missions 23\, 1 (2010)\, based on a diary kept by her great-aunt\, Sylvia Thankful Eddy. \n  \nCo-sponsored by: \n\nUCLA African Studies Center\nUCLA Department of History\nUCLA Center for the Study of Women\nUCLA Department of Gender Studies\n\n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/kathleen-sheldon-african-women-early-history-21st-century/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275\, UCLA Bunche Hall\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T200000
DTSTAMP:20260508T165258
CREATED:20170914T183119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T210109Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Queens of Syria
DESCRIPTION:Queens of Syria tells the story of sixty women from Syria\, all forced into exile in Jordan\, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women\, Euripides’s tragedy about the plight of women in war. What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia\, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen\, princesses and ordinary women like them\, uprooted\, enslaved\, and bereaved by the Trojan War. \nView the trailer: \n\nCo-sponsored by:\n\nUCLA Center for the Study of Women\nUCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television\nUCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\nPromise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law\nUCLA First Year Experience
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/film-screening-queens-syria/
LOCATION:Northwest Campus Auditoriium\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171024T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171024T160000
DTSTAMP:20260508T165258
CREATED:20170705T211021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171010T173828Z
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SUMMARY:Breaking the Silence on Hooking Up: A Facilitated Discussion
DESCRIPTION: \nWhat are the risks and rewards of hooking up? Who hooks up\, and when and why? How does hookup culture shape attitudes towards sex and desire? How ubiquitous is hookup culture on campus–and how does it shape the lives of UCLA students? \nCSW invites students\, faculty\, and staff to explore these kinds of questions through a facilitated discussion on Hookup Culture. \nJoin the Conversation\nJoin students from across campus and all walks of life for an open conversation on how sex and power shape your lives. This will be a setting to explore and discuss your concerns and perspectives\, and to find allies and resources to develop strategies for dealing with the complexity of sexual relationships in college. \nAdd your voice to the discussion! Join us as we work together to make sex on campus safer for all. \nHookups and Diversity\nMuch of the conversation around hookup culture on college campuses has focused on students who are heterosexual\, white\, and relatively affluent. We seek to broaden and expand the discussion to represent and include the diverse and realistic composition of college campuses. Together\, we will explore how hookup culture resonates in UCLA’s LGBTQ community and among students of color. In doing so\, we hope to reveal the way intersectional oppressions shape how students experience hookup culture and sex on campus\, and also how some aspects of hookup culture perpetuate heteronormativity and racist beauty standards. \nHow Can You Contribute?\nWe encourage attendees to participate in an open and safe forum to discuss experiences\, research\, and thoughts about hookup culture. Below are initial questions for discussion. We welcome attendees to think about them and share/discuss with friends in advance: \n\nIs hookup culture a feature of the communities within which you associate?\nHow would you characterize some of the reasons hooking up works for your community?\nHow would you characterize some of the challenges of hooking up?\nIs hookup culture good for relationships?\nHow does hookup culture relate to the information that you have learned about consensual sex and the law?\n\nFacilitators\nWe are thrilled to have two distinguished faculty faciliators to guide the conversation: \nLisa Wade is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College. She is the author of American Hookup\, which explores the emergence and character of the culture of sex that dominates college campuses today. Read an excerpt at TIME. \nVictoria Marks is a Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance\, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of Arts and Architecture\, and Chair of the Disability Studies minor at UCLA. In 2015\, she taught “Desire on Campus\,” a class that invited undergraduate sorority and fraternity members to use Action Conversation methods to explore the social codes of hooking up. As part of the class\, she co-created the short film Unhooked\, a UCLA documentary on hookup culture. We will screen parts of the film as part of the event! View the trailer below: \n\nRSVP Online to attend:\nhttp://www.csw.ucla.edu/hookup-rsvp\nRegistration is free and refreshments will be provided! \nAccessibility Information\nTHIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees\, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes\, hair products\, deodorants\, detergents\, etc. For more information\, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility. \nCSW EVENTS ARE ACCESSIBLE! If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g.\, sign language interpretation\, large print materials\, etc.)\, please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. \nCo-sponsored by:\n\nBacked by Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion\nDepartment of Sociology\nUCLA Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE) Program\nLGBTQ Studies Program\nHealthy Campus Initiative\nDivision of Social Sciences
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/hookup
LOCATION:Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
CATEGORIES:CSW originated,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T134500
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Dudley\, "Trusting Mustangs: Feral Ontologies\, Trans-Species Affects"
DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Dudley’s research focuses on embodied knowledge and social trauma under regimes of labor that are marginalized by transformations in global capitalism. Her books The End of the Line: Lost Jobs\, New Lives in Postindustrial America and Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland are community studies\, respectively\, of deindustrialization and the demise of family farm agriculture. Her documentary film Black Land Loss examines African American farmers’ class action lawsuit against the USDA. Guitar Makers: The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America chronicles the rise of a countercultural lutherie movement in the United States and Canada. Her current work tracks the affects\, materialities\, and temporalities that subtend the postindustrial imaginary. Among other honors\, Dudley received the Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology for writing that reaches broadly concerned publics.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/kathryn-dudley-trusting-mustangs-feral-ontologies-trans-species-affects/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171028
DTSTAMP:20260508T165258
CREATED:20170828T220431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T210250Z
UID:7079-1509062400-1509148799@csw.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:QGrad 2017\, Radical Imaginaries: Scholar-Activism Dismantling the Politics of Hate
DESCRIPTION:UCLA’s QGrad is the oldest\, interdisciplinary queer research conference in the United States. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of LGBTQ Studies at UCLA\, the 2017 QGrad Conference will focus on how LGBTQ Studies and trans and queer art and activism have transformed the world in the last 20 years. How have undocumented\, Black and Brown\, Indigenous\, Afro-Latinx\, Muslim\, Fat\, Disabled\, incarcerated\, Transgender and Gender Non-conforming communities/scholar- activists impacted LGBTQ studies? How are all of us systematically attacked and disempowered under the 45th presidential administration? \nHow have our radical imaginaries fueled everyday resistance and survival? What kinds of problems and paradoxes arise when LGBTQ individuals and communities attempt to bring these imaginaries into being? What is the relationship between\, what theorist Jose Esteban Munoz called in Cruising Utopia\, the “here and now” and the “then and there”– the restrictive present and the expansive future? What utopias can we imagine for our daily dystopia? What tools have Queer scholar activists developed to dismantle the politics of hate? \nFeaturing Keynote Duet: CeCe McDonald and Dr. C. Riley Snorton in conversation!\nMore details and online registration: www.qgradconference.com.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/qgrad-2017-radical-imaginaries-scholar-activism-dismantling-politics-hate/
LOCATION:Bruin Reception Room\, Ackerman Union\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171027T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171027T170000
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CREATED:20171017T205307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T205307Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion: Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers
DESCRIPTION:This filmed stage play highlights the perspectives of women activists of Gerwani (Indonesian Women’s Movement) who were political prisoners from 1965\, suffered sexual violence\, and were stigmatized for decades as immoral women in Indonesia. During that time hundreds of thousands of members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) or those considered close to the PKI were murdered and tens of thousands also also imprisoned. Out of this upheaval came the military backed New Order regime\, under General Suharto. \nScholars have argued that the New Order regime legitimized itself through the demonization of female sexuality used to evoke fear of communism in society. The myth of Gerwani as a monster was not only a justification for the mass slaughter and dictatorship but also the removal of women from the political realm. During the New Order era\, women’s role in public areas was allowed as long as it was within the structures defined by the state\, which positioned women as obedient to and dependent on men. Gerwani had been an organization that fought for women’s rights in all areas. The regime’s black slander has erased Gerwani’s real role from our memory. The play offers a counter-discourse by depicting the experience of the five former political prisoners. \nFaiza Mardzoeki is an Indonesian playwright\, director\, producer\, and activist. Since 2002\, she has initiated and produced fourteen theatre productions\, some of which she wrote herself. Of these dramas\, three were published as books in 2017. These are her adaptations of Ib-sen’s A Dolls House\, (Nora) and An Enemy of the People (Subversif!) published by Djaman Baroe and her original play Nyanyi Sunyi Kembang-Kembang Genjer (Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers) published by Ultimus. In addition to theatre\, Faiza is also active in women movements. Between 1997 and 2002 she worked for Solidaritas Perempuan- Women’s Solidarity for Human Rights. She has participated and presented in many international forums of art and women.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/film-screening-discussion-silent-song-genjer-flowers/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Divisional Publish
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