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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<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">We
 will be chatting with Sarah Muir in two weeks
about her book, Routine Crisis, <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">She
 has asked us to read the introduction and chapter 1.  Please 
read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't
 managed to read everything.  <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"><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 readings 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/54rm8ld5ha94iix/Warshel.Experiencing.the.Israeli-Palestinian.Conflict.2021.Chapter%209.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">
</a></p><div>Introduction: <br></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/onkygagj02u8cqd/muir.Routine%20Crisis%2C%20Introduction.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/onkygagj02u8cqd/muir.Routine%20Crisis%2C%20Introduction.pdf?dl=0</a></div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 1:<br></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/48b4en6iwmckz73/muir.Routine%20Crisis%2C%20Ch.%201.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/48b4en6iwmckz73/muir.Routine%20Crisis%2C%20Ch.%201.pdf?dl=0</a></div>


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<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, April 29th, and can be </span></p>
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<a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(14,113,235);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px" target="_blank">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 you all 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><div><br></div><div>Press blurb: 
Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a 
long history of economic volatility. In 2001–2002, a financial crisis 
led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic currency 
devaluation, the largest sovereign default in world history, and the 
flight of foreign capital. Protests and street blockades punctuated a 
moment of profound political uncertainty, epitomized by the rapid 
succession of five presidents in four months. Since then, Argentina has 
fought economic fires on every front, from inflation to the cost of 
utilities and depressed industrial output. When things clearly aren’t 
working, when the constant churning of booms and busts makes life almost
 unlivable, how does our deeply compromised order come to seem so 
inescapable? How does critique come to seem so blunt, even as crisis 
after crisis appears on the horizon? What are the lived effects of that 
sense of inescapability?<br><br> Anthropologist Sarah Muir offers a 
cogent meditation on the limits of critique at this historical moment, 
drawing on deep experience in Argentina but reflecting on a truly global
 condition. If we feel things are being upended in a manner that is 
ongoing, tumultuous, and harmful, what would we need to do—and what 
would we need to give up—to usher in a revitalized critique for today’s 
world? <i>Routine Crisis </i>is an original provocation and a challenge 
to think beyond the limits of exhaustion and reimagine a form of 
criticism for the twenty-first century.         </div></div></div>