<div>Dear Richard,</div>
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<div>Would you forward this info to the poetry group? I think somebody may be interested. Thank you very much. Isabel.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">You are welcome to join us for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Patrick Colm Hogan</b>'s talk, </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
"Laughing Brains: On the Cognitive Mechanisms and Reproductive Functions of Mirth," which will be followed by a round table discussion on Emotion and Literature.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Whitney</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
Humanities Center</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">, room 116</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Patrick Colm Hogan is </span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
Professor in the Department of English, Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and Program in Cognitive Science </span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">of the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
University</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> of Connecticut, Storrs, and </span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">one of the leading scholars in the field of Cognitive Literary Theory.
</span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">He will be a plenary speaker at the first
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</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">conference, forthcoming April 2006. <a href="http://www.conferences.uconn.edu/cog">http://www.conferences.uconn.edu/cog</a></span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
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</span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <a href="http://www.cognitivecircle.org/ct&lit/LTCatYale/LTC_ScheduleSpring06.htm">http://www.cognitivecircle.org/ct&lit/LTCatYale/LTC_ScheduleSpring06.htm
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