<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</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">We will be chatting with James Slotta in two weeks and engaging with his new book, Anarchy and the Art of Listening.<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">He has asked us to read 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;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PLEASE NOTE:  The reading group meets from <b>12-1 pm EST<br></b></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">on the last Friday of the month.<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;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:11pt">The reading can be found here:</span><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"><br></p>Chapter 1</div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zZ81PgzN-Pl1panCaS_Ai0Wv_AXFvFnZ/view?usp=drive_link">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zZ81PgzN-Pl1panCaS_Ai0Wv_AXFvFnZ/view?usp=drive_link</a></div><div><br><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 <b>12-1 pm</b>  EST on August 25th, 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" 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" 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><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">Current virtual reading group schedule: </span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Garamond,"Hoefler Text","Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.615em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74)">August 25th – James Slotta, Anarchy and the Art of Listening</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Garamond,"Hoefler Text","Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.615em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74)">September 29th – Frank Cody, The News Events</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Garamond,"Hoefler Text","Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.615em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74)">October 27th – Matthew Rosen, Tirana Modern</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Garamond,"Hoefler Text","Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.615em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74)">January 26th — Eitan Wilf, The Inspiration Machine</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Garamond,"Hoefler Text","Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.615em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74)">February 23 – Mike Prentice, Supercorporate</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Garamond,"Hoefler Text","Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.615em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74)">March – Liz Rodwell, Push the Button</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">Press blurb: </span>

</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:FreightSans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.27px"><span style="font-weight:700"><em>Anarchy and the Art </em></span><span style="font-weight:700">of Listening is an ethnography of politics as it is practiced on the other side of the spoken word, in the act of listening.</span> James
 Slotta explores how people in the Yopno Valley of Papua New Guinea 
cultivate their listening to exercise power, shape their futures, and 
sustain their communities in the face of ambitious leaders and powerful 
outside institutions.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:FreightSans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.27px">As
 in many parts of the global south, missionaries, NGO workers, 
educators, mining companies, politicians, development experts, and 
others have sought to transform life in and around the Yopno Valley. But
 as this book makes clear, people there have not been a passive and 
pliable audience for these efforts. They have brought their skills as 
"anarchic listeners" to these encounters, advancing political agendas of
 their own.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:FreightSans,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.27px">To
 understand political life in the Yopno Valley, we need to look not only
 at political speech but at the practices that lie on the other side of 
the word in the act of listening. This, Slotta suggests, is also true 
well beyond the bounds of the Yopno Valley.</p>

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