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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Sending on behalf of Dr. Toni Serafini, Chair of the Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies Department.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#1F497D">Thank you,</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Laura Charland</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Administrative Assistant to the Vice President Academic and Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(519) 884-8111 x28211<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:lcharland@uwaterloo.ca"><span style="color:#0563C1">lcharland@uwaterloo.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">St. Jerome’s University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Federated with the University of Waterloo, since 1960<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">290 Westmount Road North,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Waterloo, ON N2L 3G3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">www.sju.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">This year marks the 7<sup>th</sup> SMF Research Symposium! The call for proposals is out (and attached). Student (undergraduate and graduate) form the foundation of the research presentations at this symposium, so please
circulate this CFP widely and encourage your students to submit a proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I will be sending out more information about the day’s events (e.g., keynote speaker) in the coming weeks. For now, please save the date: April 6, 2017!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">All my best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Toni<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">____________________________________</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Toni Serafini, Ph.D.</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Associate Professor and Department Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies (SMF)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">290 Westmount Road, North<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">519-884-8110 x28293<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Office: SJ1, Room 1013A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="mailto:tserafini@uwaterloo.ca">tserafini@uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Adjunct, School of Public Health and Health Systems (SPHHS), University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Special Graduate Faculty, Family Relations and Applied Nutrition (FRAN), University of Guelph<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">"No one is born fully formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are."</span></i></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">~Paolo Freire</span></i></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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