<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><div><div>In the CaMP virtual reading group, w<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">e
 will be chatting with Abou Farman tomorrow, engaging with his new book,
 On Not Dying. He has asked us to read chapter 5.  Please read as much 
as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to 
read everything. </span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The reading can be found here:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1e97b64l7xg2tiu/farman.On_Not_Dying_Secular_Immortality_in_the_Age_of_Tec..._----_%285._Convergence_Secular_Solipsism_and_the_Mind_of_the_Cosmos%29.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/1e97b64l7xg2tiu/farman.On_Not_Dying_Secular_Immortality_in_the_Age_of_Tec..._----_%285._Convergence_Secular_Solipsism_and_the_Mind_of_the_Cosmos%29.pdf?dl=0</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The meeting will be 1-2 pm  EST on Friday, October 29th, and can be</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br><br><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(14,113,235);box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px">https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698</a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Looking forward to seeing many of you virtually,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ilana</span></p></div></div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb: <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(27,26,26);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px">On Not Dying</em><span style="color:rgb(27,26,26);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"> is
 an anthropological, historical, and philosophical exploration of 
immortality as a secular and scientific category. Based on an 
ethnography of immortalist communities and an examination of other 
institutions involved at the end of life, Abou Farman argues that 
secular immortalism is an important site to explore the tensions 
inherent in secularism.</span></div></div></div></div>