College of Arts and Sciences

Please join us on Thursday, September 6 from 4:30 – 6:30PM at The Jolly Scholar (11111 Euclid Ave.) for a department meet and greet! This event will give students an opportunity to learn more about the sociology program at CWRU. We will discuss the sociology concentrations and courses. Sociology majors, graduate students, and faculty will be available to talk with first year students. Free dinner provided!

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The Department of Sociology invites you to join us this semester for Abolade Oladimeji’s Works in Progress, “Spatial Patterns of Sleep Disorders in Cleveland: Residential Segregation a Fundamental Cause?” on Monday, September 16 from 10:30-11:30 AM in Mather Memorial, Room 201.

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Please join us for Colette Ngana’s dissertation defense “Burned in Cuyahoga County: Fundamental Cause and the Geography of Vulnerability” in Mather Memorial, room 201.

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Please join us for Lacey Caporale’s dissertation defense “Displaced and Situated in Place: A Critical Study of Relational Space in a Gentrifying Neighborhood” in Mather Memorial, room 201.

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Please join us for E Phelps’s dissertation defense, “Instrumentation of Queer Graduate Students of Color Persistence: An Exploratory Analysis” at Clark Hall, room 309.

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Please join us for Dr. Erin Hatton’s colloquium, “Working for Rehab: Addiction, Salvation, and Labor Expropriation” on Friday, February 9 from 10:30 to 12:00 PM at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center, room 108. Refreshments will be provided!

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Please join us on Wednesday, January 31, from 10:30 to 12:00 PM at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center, room 108, for Xing Sherry Zhang’s job talk, “Parent-Adult Child Relationships, Health, and Social Inequality over the Life Course”. Refreshments will be provided!

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Please join us on Monday, January 22 from 3:00 – 4:30 PM at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center, room 108 for Dr. Rebecca Anna Schut’s job talk, “Immigration Policy and Racialized Legal Status Inequalities in Well-Being Among Precarious Workers”. Refreshments will be provided!

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Please join us on Wednesday, January 17 from 10:30 to 12:00 at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center, room 108, for Dr. Omri Tubi’s job talk, “Morbid Conflict: A Bio-Territorial Theory of Colonialization”. Refreshments will be provided!

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The Senior Capstone Experience (SOCI 392) is a culminating experience in the Sociology Major where students design, conduct, and present an original research project. Please join us for the Fall 2023 Undergraduate Capstone Presentations on Wednesday, December 13 at Mather Memorial, Room 201 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM. Lunch will be provided.

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The Department of Sociology invites you to join us this semester for Colette Ngana’s Works in Progress, “Burned in Cuyahoga County: Fundamental Cause and the Geography of Vulnerability” on November 20 at 11:30PM in Mather Memorial, Room 201.

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Please join us for Dustin Kidd’s virtual colloquium, Disability Media Studies and Cultural Sociology, on Friday, November 17 from 11:30 to 1 PM. While this event will be held over Zoom, there will be a banquet lunch and watch party for those interested at the Jack, Joseph, and Mandel Center, room 108, starting at 11:15 AM. Dustin Kidd, Professor of Sociology at Temple University is an expert on both popular culture and the sociology of disability. His research examines film, television, fiction, social media, comics, video games, music, and the arts, focusing on both inequalities and the ways marginalized groups use media to challenge those inequalities.

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Please join us for the Sociology Colloquium with Dr. Anette Lareau on Friday, September 22 at 10:00 AM in the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 108. She will deliver her talk titled “Cultural Logic of How Wealthy Families Manage Their Wealth.” Annette Lareau is the author of three award-winning books: Listening to People, Unequal Childhoods, and Home Advantage. In 2023, University of California Press published Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau’s ethnographic study, “We Thought It would be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America.” Annette Lareau is a past President of the American Sociological Association.

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Please join us for the Sociology Colloquium with Dr. Zophia Edwards on April 28, 2023 at 10:00 AM in the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 108. She will deliver her talk titled “Labor and Liberation.” Zophia Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines the impacts of colonialism and multiracial labor movements on state formation and economic and social development in the Global South. Her work has been published in The Sociological Review, Political Power and Social Theory, among others.

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Please join us for the 2023 Achievements Ceremony on Friday, April 21 at 3:00-4:00 PM in Mather Memorial 201. Guests are welcome, and refreshments will be served! For all attendees, RSVPs are required.

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Please join us for the Sociology Colloquium with Dr. stef shuster on April 7, 2023 at 10:30 AM in the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 115. They will deliver their talk titled “Managing Uncertain Expertise in Trans Medicine.”

stef m. shuster is an assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and Sociology at Michigan State University. Their current research in gender and medicine considers how evidence is constructed, mobilized, and weaponized, which is the subject of their book, Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender (NYU Press). In Trans Medicine,

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The Department of Sociology invites you to join us this semester for Polina Ermoshkina’s Works in Progress, “Caregiving Experiences and Expectations of Middle-Aged Russian Women” on March 20 at 1:00PM in Mather Memorial, Room 201.

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Please join us for the LGBTQ+ workshop, hosted by the CWRU LGBTQ+ center, at Tink Senior Classroom from 12:00 to 1:30PM.

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The Senior Capstone Experience (SOCI 392) is a culminating experience in the Sociology Major where students design, conduct, and present an original research project. Please join us for the Fall 2022 Undergraduate Capstone Presentations at Mather Memorial, Room 201. Lunch will be provided.

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Join us for Tim Black’s book talk, “It’s a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins” at the Mandel Center, Room 115. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Please join us for Casey Albitz’s dissertation defense “Evicted in Cleveland, Ohio: A sociology of Displacement and the Role of the Court” at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 108.

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Please join us on November 21st for Dr. Jessica Kelley’s graduate proseminar, “The Peer Review Process Demystified” in Mather Memorial, Room 201. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Please join us for Mike Slone’s Works in Progress, “The ‘Hidden Abode’ in the 21st Century: An Examination of the Labor Process in the Platform Economy” on November 14th at 2:15PM in Mather Memorial, Room 201.

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Please join us for Dr. Jingwen Zhang’s Works in Progress, “Couple migration strategy, gender power relationships and later-life health outcomes in China” on November 10th at 1:00PM in Mather Memorial, Room 201.

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Please join us on October 27th for Dr. Cassi Pittman Claytor’s graduate proseminar, “Becoming an Academic Professional” in Mather Memorial, Room 201. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Please join us for Chengming Han’s Works in Progress, “Policy-Driven Life – The educational experience during the Cultural Revolution and health in later life” on October 17th at 2:15PM in Mather Memorial, Room 201.

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Please join us in welcoming the Fall 2022 semester at the Department Luncheon on Thursday, 8/25/22 at 12:30-1:30 PM in Mather Memorial, Room 201. Please contact the department for the zoom link.

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Please join us for Danielle Sabo‘s dissertation defense “The Weight of Trauma: Exploring the Relationship Between Intimate Body Trauma and Disordered Eating Across the Early Life Course.” Tuesday, 5/31/22 at 10 AM via zoom. Please contact the department for the zoom link.

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Please join us for Kaitlyn Barnes Langendoerfer’s dissertation defense “Aging in Place through Urban Decline in Cleveland: How and Why Older African American Women Stayed.” Tuesday, 5/17/22 at 2 PM via zoom. Please contact the department for the zoom link.

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The Sociology Department’s 2022 Student Achievements Ceremony will be held on Friday, April 22, 2022 at 3:30-5 PM in Mather Memorial 201. At this year’s ceremony, recipients of undergraduate department awards and new initiates of Alpha Kappa Delta, the Sociology Honor Society, will be recognized. Alicia Smith-Tran (PhD, CWRU ‘18), Assistant Professor at Oberlin College, will be the guest speaker. The title of her talk is “Private Troubles, Peer-Reviewed: On Personal Growth and Writing Sociologically.”

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The Western Reserve Abolitionist Project (WRAP), a new student group that emerged out of Professor Timothy Black’s course, Racial Inequality and Mass Imprisonment in the US, launched in Spring 2022. The group is hosting their first event on April 11, 2022. The event, entitled Eroding Mass Incarceration: Pursuing Abolitionism in Ohio, will center on a panel discussion with representatives from five local and state organizations who will speak about their work to dismantle the carceral state. The panelists will include Malika Kidd of Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, Chazidy Bowman of Opportunities People’s Justice Leaders, Melekte Melaku of ACLU of Ohio,

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Please join us for the Sociology Colloquium with Dr. Beth Richie  on April 8, 2022 at 10:30 am in the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 115. She will deliver her talk titled “Anti-Violence Scholarship and Racial Justice Activism: Reflections on Abolition Feminism.” For a preview, watch her interview on Democracy Now during which she, Angela Davis, and Gina Dent discuss their recently-released book, Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Dr. Beth Richie is Head of the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice and Distinguished Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Please join us for the Sociology Colloquium with Professor Kamesha Spates on February 25, 2022 at 10:30 am in the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 115. Professor Kamesha’s talk will be “Built for Pressure?: A Closer Look at Suicide in the Black Community.” Professor Kamesha Spates is an Associate Sociology Professor at Kent State University (KSU) and the founder and director for the Racial Justice and Health Equity Research and Education Collaborative (RJHEREC) which trains KSU undergraduate and graduate students on conducting health-related research from a racial equity and transdisciplinary standpoint. Her specializations include the intersections of race,

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Please register here for the zoom link. Please join us next week for Sherri Brown’s dissertation defense “Does Long-Term Stress Contribute to Racial Disparities in Health?“ Monday, 1/31 at 2:30 PM. Please register for zoom link.

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Please join us next week for Minzhi Yi’s Works in Progress. She will be discussing “Differences in Long-Term Health Trajectories between Older Cancer Survivors and Older Adults without Cancer” on January 24th at 11:30 AM. Please register for zoom link.

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Welcome back! The Department of Sociology hopes you all had a happy and healthy winter break and enjoy some well-earned rest.

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On Monday, October 25, 2021, the Department of Sociology will host the fall colloquium in person. Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield will deliver her lecture “Professional Work in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era: Black Health Care Workers in the New Economy” at 10:30 AM in the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 115. Professor Wingfield’s research examines how racial and gender inequality persists in professional occupations. Please RSVP to Michelle Corcoran.  Read more…

The pandemic has exposed the abhorrent and deadly conditions inside our prisons. Join us as a panel of scholars and activists discuss the history of prison movements and their prospects for addressing the crisis today.

Join the Department of Sociology Friday, Oct. 9, from 12:45 to 2:15 p.m. for its first virtual colloquium of the semester, “Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: History, Theory, and Lessons for the Present,” with Charisse Burden-Stelly of Carleton College and the University of Chicago. The event is co-sponsored by African and African American Studies and the Department of History.

You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Friday, April 26 for “Food Schemas and the Psychic Differential of Eating” presented by Kara Young, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University. The lecture will be held in Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 108 from 12:00 – 1:30 PM. Lunch will be provided. RSVP is required. Please RSVP to Michelle Rizzuto at mrr5@case.edu by April 23.

You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Thursday, April 4, 2019 for “Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century” presented by Tey Meadow, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University.

NOW ACCEPTING SPRING 2019 INDUCTION APPLICATIONS for membership in Alpha Kappa Delta, Iota Chapter of Ohio, International Sociology Honor Society!

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 19, 2019.

You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Monday, March 4, 2019 for “Never-Aging Masculinities Give Way to Aging Masculinities” presented by Edward H. Thompson, Jr.

You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Monday, October 15, 2018 for “W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement, to Black Lives Matter” presented by Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University.

Eva Kahana and Jeffrey Kahana, authors of the 2017 book “Disability and Aging: Learning from Both to Empower the Lives of Older Adults” will be delivering an evening lecture on August 7, 2018 at the Siegel Beachwood Facility.

The 2018 Department of Sociology Achievements Ceremony  will be held on Friday, April 27th from 3:30 – 5:00 PM in Mather Memorial Room 201. At this year’s ceremony, 15 students are being initiated into Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society and 11 students are recipients of Undergraduate awards.

Save the date! The Department of Sociology is excited to announce a colloquium scheduled for Monday, April 16th. The colloquium will feature Kenneth F. Ferraro, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University. The talk is entitled “Early Social Origins of Adult Health: Evidence of Pluripotent Influence?” and will take place from 1:30 – 3:00 PM in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 115.

About the speaker…

Ferraro’s recent research focuses on health inequality over the life course.

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The Department of Sociology is excited to announce a luncheon colloquium on Monday, March 26th featuring Arthur Frank, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Calgary and Founder, International Network for Social Network Analysis. The talk is entitled “A Conversation with Arthur Frank About Sociology, Illness Narratives and Modern Healing” and will take place in Clark Hall, Room 206 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM.

Save the date! The Department of Sociology is excited to announce a colloquium scheduled for Monday, March 19th. The colloquium will feature Peggy A. Thoits, Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. Professor Thoits is a sociologist whose research examines the unequal social distributions of stress experiences, social support, and physical and mental health problems in the general adult population. She focuses especially on “identity-relevant” stressors — major life events and ongoing problems that threaten personal identities. The colloquium is entitled “We Know What They’re Going Through”: Social Support from Similar Versus Significant Others” and will take place at the Jack,

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You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Friday, January 19, 2018 for “Networked Individualism and the Digitization of Older Adults” presented by Barry Wellman, S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, Co-Director, NetLab Network. Professor Wellman is a leading figure in the sociology of digital technology and the internet. His acclaimed 2013 book, Networked: The New Social Operating System elaborates his timely concept of “networked individualism.” The lecture will be held in Tinkham Veale University Center, Senior Classroom 134, from 2:00 – 3:30 PM. Refreshments will be provided.

Social Justice Institute Research Lunch Series
The SJI Research Lunch Series are monthly discussions of innovative social justice research. Reservations are requested for these informal conversations, held from12:30-2:00 pm in Crawford Hall.  Drinks and dessert are provided; participants are invited to bring lunches.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016: Visiting Researcher Áine Ní Léime, Sociology – Living Longer, Working Longer in the USA: A Gender Perspective

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You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on March 16, 2016 for “Promises and Pitfalls of Integrating Biological Data into Social Science Studies” presented by Pamela Herd, Professor of Public Affairs & Sociology, University of Wisconsin. The lecture will be held in Tinkham Veale Center, Senior Classroom, from 3:00 – 4:30PM. Question & answer | reception to follow | refreshments will be provided. This event is sponsored by the Department of Sociology & ACES + program. 

 
About the Speaker:

Pamela Herd is Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.

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The Department of Sociology is hosting a user workshop on March 16, 2016 from 9:00 – 10:30AM with Pamela Herd on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), a long-term cohort study of the high school graduates of 1957 and their siblings. Now, as those one-time high school seniors – known as the ‘Happy Days’ cohort, after the popular TV sitcom about Milwaukee’s Class of ’57 – become senior citizens, the WLS is refocusing itself, seeking to understand more specifically how a person’s entire life influences, and can improve, the aging process. The study focuses on how experiences in childhood,

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Social Justice Institute Research Lunch Series
The SJI Research Lunch Series are monthly discussions of innovative social justice research. Reservations are requested for these informal conversations, held from12:30-2:00 pm in Crawford Hall.  Drinks and dessert are provided; participants are invited to bring lunches.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016: Associate Professor Mary Patrice Erdmans, Sociology – Blaming, Shaming and Explaining Teen Moms

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The Department of Sociology will feature Gunhild Hagestad, Professor Emerita, Agder University College, Norway on January 20, 2016. Her talk entitled “How does a lifelong life-course researcher respond to a call for personal perspectives on aging?” will take place in Mather Memorial room 201 from 9:00 – 10:30 AM.

Come meet the Social Justice Institute Research Fellows, hear presentations about their research, and congratulate the new 2015-2016 Fellows on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm in Crawford Hall, room A13.

Tim Black – Masculinities, Fatherhood and Marginalized Urban Communities

Faculty Research

Suneil Kamath – Hip-Hop Education and Learning (HEAL)

Undergraduate Student

Daniel Lacks – Interdisciplinary Engineering-Focused Capstone

Faculty Course Redesign

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Undergraduate sociology major, Jazmine Kirkland, will be honored with the Mather Prize for Professional and Academic Achievements, Leadership and Service at the Women of Achievement Luncheon held on October 23 from 12:30 – 2:00pm. RSVP required by October 19. Click here to RSVP! Open to public, complimentary lunch.

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“The Aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis: Is the ‘New Normal’ either New or Normal?”

Social Justice Institute Brown Bag Series

12:30 – 2:00

Crawford A13

Continue reading… Social Justice Institute features Kathryn Lavelle

Dr. Ridgeway, Professor in the Sociology Department at Stanford and former President of American Sociological Association (ASA), will be giving a presentation on “The Framing Effects of Gender in the Workplace” on Monday, September 21st, 2015 in the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women.

Faculty Presentation Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Please RSVP at http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50786/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=83277

Student Presentation Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Please RSVP at http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50786/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=83278

For more information please contact the Women’s Center Program Administrator, Danielle Sabo at dnb31@case.edu.

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To Braid or Not to Braid: Cultural Constraints at Work

Continue reading… Cassi Pittman Diversity Speaks Lecture

Living the “Forgetting” Experience: An Exploratory Inquiry of the Lived Experience of Mild Cognitive Impairment Among the VA Population in Cleveland

Continue reading… Christine Schneider Public Prospectus Defense

“I’m sorry to have to ask you this”…Heterosexism and Institutionalized Homophobia in Tissue Donation

Continue reading… Michael Flatt Dissertation Defense

Waiting on Others: Performing Gender in Medical Waiting Rooms

(Refreshments at 4:00pm)

Continue reading… Margaret Waltz Doctoral Showcase Lecture

Living Longer, Working Longer: Gender implications of policies to extend working life in Ireland

Áine Ní Leíme Colloquium Flyer

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Dressed for Success?: Middle-Class Blacks’ Use of Goods to Negotiate Race and Racial Stigma in the Workplace

Cassi Pittman Colloquium Flyer

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