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<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">To: MA and PhD students who want to write but need a community to do so</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/hHXTCROND2uGw4r9Ai9mC9k?domain=uj.ac.za">ACEPS</a>) at the University of Johannesburg has been running a regular writing retreat for its
PhD students all of this year. The retreat has been such an awesome success that we opened it to the world two weeks ago! And it worked!!</span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">So we invite Masters and PhD students to join us online again.</span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">When</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">:
<b>Friday, 20<sup>th</sup> October 2023</b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">9:00—16:00</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"> (SAST/ Central Africa Time/ Central European Time)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">12:30—19:30 (India Standard Time)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">2:00—9:00 (Central Time)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">You are welcome to just join us for as many hours as you can. If this experimental session works, we will provide ways of accommodating different time zones.</span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Where</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">: online:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><a href="https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-ivrjwoE9RqELM8xcanju_2sMSFrlrk">https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-ivrjwoE9RqELM8xcanju_2sMSFrlrk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">ACEPS PhDs: Ground floor, UJ on Empire, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">How it works online</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">You log in (with or without camera)</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">You jot down your aim for the day in the chat (e.g., ‘3 000 words of Chapter 3 on…’)</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">You write</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">At the end of the session, you jot down in the chat whether you have achieved your aim.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Looking forward to writing together!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Veli Mitova</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Professor of Philosophy and Director of ACEPS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">University of Johannesburg</span></p>
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