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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Catalan politics and identity are in the international news again. On Sept. 11, ca. one million people again demonstrated in Barcelona in favor of the referendum on independence still controversially scheduled
for Oct. 1. No matter what happens, it will be interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Since it’s relevant, I’m sending you the link to my recent book from Oxford on Catalan language and identity politics, which I didn’t do when it was first published. Here also is a link to the interview about
the book that Ilana Gershon recently posted on CaMP. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/singular-and-plural-9780190258627?q=woolard&lang=en&cc=us">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/singular-and-plural-9780190258627?q=woolard&lang=en&cc=us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://campanthropology.org/2017/08/14/kit-woolard-singular-and-plural/">https://campanthropology.org/2017/08/14/kit-woolard-singular-and-plural/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Some of you have asked me for media material for teaching about the Catalan situation; here are a few recent links:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Spanish-medium:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A pretty sympathetic report on the 9/11/17 demonstration, despite the anti-independence editorial stance of news source. Includes a short and polished video with a heartstring-plucking soundtrack.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20170911/el-independentismo-presiona-por-el-referendum-6279140">http://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20170911/el-independentismo-presiona-por-el-referendum-6279140</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">English-medium:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Catalan/Catalanist news in English:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.ara.cat/en/">http://www.ara.cat/en/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Book of short pro-Catalan opinions, including by sociolinguists, “What’s Up with Catalonia?” (2013; 2<sup>nd</sup> ed. forthcoming)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://files.cataloniapress.com/files/WhatsupCATcc.pdf">http://files.cataloniapress.com/files/WhatsupCATcc.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The English-speaking media generally have blind spots about facets of the Catalan situation, but here are latest reports from the Guardian and NYT, for some standard views:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/11/catalonia-barcelona-independence-national-day-diada">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/11/catalonia-barcelona-independence-national-day-diada</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/world/europe/barcelona-catalonia-independence-demonstration.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/world/europe/barcelona-catalonia-independence-demonstration.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I hope you find some of these sources useful for your teaching or own work. Thanks for listening!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kit Woolard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Professor Kathryn A. Woolard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Recent book: <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/singular-and-plural-9780190258627?q=woolard&lang=en&cc=us">
<span style="color:#0563C1">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/singular-and-plural-9780190258627?q=woolard&lang=en&cc=us</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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