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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">This session of
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/events/events/waterloo-womens-wednesdays-invisible-stories-lai-tze-fan-and">
Waterloo Women's Wednesdays</a> features talks by two faculty members whose research explores women's use of writing machines and bilingualism in narratives to navigate against invisibility and marginality.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/lai-tze-fan">Lai-Tze Fan</a> will uncover how writing machines (typewriters, word processors, and computers) have been associated
with women's invisible labour since the late 19th C and will briefly discuss how women have since used them as communication tools to empower themselves through creative output, community building, and critical intervention.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/french-studies/people-profiles/nicole-nolette">Nicole Nolette</a> will talk about women in Franco-Ontarian literature and their often invisible use of
French and English. She will focus on a seminal work of Franco-Ontarian literature, the bilingual poetic narrative L’Homme invisible/The Invisible Man by Patrice Desbiens.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">W3 events for the 2019-20 year are sponsored by Faculty Association of UW, Staff Association, the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Department of English Language
and Literature, Department of Communication Arts, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Department of French Studies, Faculty of Engineering, and the Office of Research.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Vegetarian/vegan lunch from Copper Branch provided. Please bring a donation for the Period Purse (newly updated wish list includes: disposable or sustainable tampons/pads/cups, granola
bars, washcloths, bar soaps, and wipes). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">See you there!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/drama-speech-communication/people-profiles/kim-nguyen">Kim Hong Nguyen, Ph.D.</a> (she/her, they/them)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Waterloo (ML 236A)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Canada</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">519.888.4567 X39152</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:kim.h.nguyen@uwaterloo.ca">kim.h.nguyen@uwaterloo.ca</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">I acknowledge that I live, work, and play on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand
Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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