<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>Matthew Rosen will be talking about his book, Tirana Modern, in two weeks --</div><div>October 27th.<br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">He
 has asked us to read chapter 2.  Please read as much as you can, but do
 feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything.</span><br></div><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;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 2:</div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7XZf0hzkI4ODHPCsf5-5wO5Q-6OuLSZ/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7XZf0hzkI4ODHPCsf5-5wO5Q-6OuLSZ/view?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></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 October 27th, 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">Press blurb:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px">Guided by the thesis that literature can transform social reality, </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px">Tirana Modern</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px"> draws on ethnographic and historical material to examine the public culture of reading in modern Albania. As its starting point, this book asks: How has Albanian literature and literary translation shaped social action during the longue durée of Albanian modernity?</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px">Drawing on material collected through fieldwork with a community of readers, writers, and translators attached to the independent Albanian publisher Pika pa sipërfaqe (Point without Surface), </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px">Tirana Modern</em><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.5px"> provides a tightly focused ethnography of literary culture in Albania that brings into relief the more general dialectic between social imagination and social reality as mediated by reading and literature.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p></div></div></div>